#bbc emma 2009

[guccigarantine]

“it’s a little poorly done, emma” be good and rewatch it continues to be foundational

#to fully understand Star Wars you need to understand BBC Emma 2009 #amca

[blogjaneeyre]

#emma (2009) #jane austen #period drama #George Knightley #jonny lee miller #romance #love #favourite adaptation #bbc #regency

[jagzii]

I caved under the pressure of Valentines day and made a historical romance recommendation list. Fuck. 

Here’s some Mr. Thornton for you.

Read the rest here: https://open.substack.com/pub/ananyajagoorie/p/romance-is-in-the-air?r=7dcr2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#historical romance #recommendations #movies #tv shows #north and south #north and south BBC #pride and prejudice #Emma 2009 #emma #wives and daughters #most of these are BBC productions

[thatscarletflycatcher]

The Jane Austen BBC Radio Drama Masterpost

(a radio drama adaptation is a dramatization of the source material, with voice actors, music, and sound effects. It differs from a full cast audiobook in that it is an adaptation of the book and not just a reading. For this reason, then tend to be much shorter than an audiobook)

Northanger Abbey

2005: starring Amanda Root (Persuasion 1995, Jane Eyre 1996) and Julia Mackenzie (Agatha Christie's Marple, Cranford 2007). 3 1 hour episodes.

This one is part of a release the BBC did titled "Jane Austen: the BBC radio drama collection", which includes one adaptation of each novel. You can find it for purchase or stream at the usual places (audible, Kobo, Hive, Libro.fm, Apple Books, Google Play, Xigxag), and there's a version on the Internet Archive.

2016: starring Georgia Groome and Luke Thompson. 10 15 minute episodes. Available for free on BBC Sounds.

Sense and Sensibility

1991: (BBC radio 7) starring Jean Leonard and Abigail McKern. 4 1 hour episodes. Available on the Internet Archive.

2010: (BBC radio 4 extra): starring Amanda Hale (Persuasion 2007) and Blake Ritson (Mansfield Park 2007, Emma 2009). 2 1 hour episodes. Available for free on BBC Sounds. Included in "Jane Austen: the BBC radio drama collection"

Pride and Prejudice

2014: starring Pippa Nixon and Jamie Parker. 3 1 hour episodes. You can find a stream-only version of an untrimmed radio recording on the Internet Archive (1,2,3) Included in "Jane Austen: the BBC radio drama collection"

Mansfield Park

1997: (Radio 4) starring Amanda Root and Robert Glenister. 3 1 hour episodes.

2003: (Radio 4 extra) starring Felicity Jones (Northanger Abbey 2007), David Tennant, and Benedict Cumberbatch. Included in "Jane Austen: the BBC radio drama collection"

2022: (Radio 4) starring Lydia Wilson and Bryan Dick. 2 1 hour episodes. Available for free on BBC Sounds.

Emma

2000: (Radio 4) Starring David Bamber (Pride and Prejudice 1995), Robert Bathurst (Emma 2009) and Tom Hollander (Pride and Prejudice 2005). Available for free on BBC Sounds. Included in "Jane Austen: the BBC radio drama collection"

Persuasion

1986: starring Juliet Stevenson and Sorcha Cusack (Jane Eyre 1973). 3 1 hour episodes. Included in "Jane Austen: the BBC radio drama collection"

#jane austen #radio dramas #bbc radio dramas #pride and prejudice #sense and sensibility #persuasion #northanger abbey #mansfield park #emma

[recycledmoviecostumes]

This necklace has been used at least eight times over the years. It was first seen in the 1974 adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express, where Jaqueline Bisset wore it as Countess Andrenyi. In 1979 it appeared on Sarah Jane Curran as Princess Augusta Sophia in The Prince Regent as well as on Clare Higgins as Kitty Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. It was not used again until 1997 when it appeared on Greta Scacchi as Juliana in The Serpent’s Kiss. In 2005 it was seen on the BBC production Beethoven, worn by Holly Radford as Eleonore Wegeler, and in 2007 it appeared in Love in the Time of Cholera adorning the neck of Giovanna Mezzogiorno as Fermina. In 2009 it was recycled by Laura Pyper as Jane Fairfax in Emma, and finally in 2022 it was spotted being worn by Gwendoline Christie as Principal Larissa Weems in Wednesday.

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#wednesday #gwendoline christie #emma #laura pyper #love in the time of cholera #giovanna mezzogiorno #beethoven #holly radford #greta scacchi #the serpents kiss #clare higgins #pride and prejudice #sarah jane curran #the prince regen #jaqueline bisset #murder on the orient express

[wipbigbang]

Round One Of The WIPBB 2023 Art Claims Is Open!

We currently have 174 fic summaries ready to choose from! More information is at https://wipbigbang.dreamwidth.org/171689.html.

Claims are open until June 24th, then we start a new round of claims. A partial list of the fandom is as follows:

9-1-1 (TV)

A Song of Ice and Fire

American Idol RPF

Arcane: League of Legends

Avatar: Legend of Korra

Batman/Harry Potter

BBC Sherlock

Bleach

Buffyverse

Bungou Stray Dogs

Bustafellows

Criminal Minds

Criminal Minds/X-Men

Critical Role (Mighty Nein)

DC Comics

Dead Poets Society

Disney Fairies (Pixie Hollow)

Dragon Age 2

El Goonish Shive

Elementary (TV 2012)

Emma (2009)

Encanto

ER

ER/Star Trek: The Next Generation

Final Fantasy

Generation Kill (TV)

Good Omens (TV)

Grand Theft Auto

Harry Potter

Harry Potter/CSI: LV/Hocus Pocus

Hermitcraft

Hockey RPF

How to Get Away with Murder

It

Jujutsu Kaisen

Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016 film)

Knives Out

Kuroko no Basuke | Kuroko’s Basketball

Law & Order

Lord of the Rings

Mandela Catalogue

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Mass Effect

Merlin (TV)

Miraculous Ladybug

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

Nope (2022)

#wip big bang #signal boost #fanart #looking for fanart #fandom event

[carolinebingley-wouldve-hated-me]

Emma 2009 BBC

#emmaedit #emma gifs #emma 2009 #emma #perioddrama #perioddramaedit #jane austen emma #emma woodhouse #emma x knightley

[thelastofthebookworms]

P&P adaptations' poll

#polls #jane austen #emma #emma jane austen #emma 1996 #emma 2009 #the emma agenda #emma approved #emma 2020 #clueless #adaptations #gwyneth paltrow #kate beckinsale #romola garai #sellis maria vargas #anya taylor joy #alicia silverstone #joanna sotomura

[justzawe]

Zawe Ashton, the star of new must-see period drama Mr Malcolm’s List, is the October cover

Wowee, Zawe! Miss Ashton is ripping up the Regency rule book in Hollywood’s Austen-esque Mr Malcolm’s List. Just don’t ask her about her own A-list Mr Darcy…

By Louis Wise

On a sweltering Friday night in London, The Soho Hotel is a surprising hive of big names. While the Booker Prize-winning author Howard Jacobson is in the doorway, Aquaman – aka Jason Momoa – passes around the back in a jaunty white beret. And, sitting in a corner of the restaurant, there’s Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey, whom Zawe Ashton waves to giddily when she walks in. ‘I do actually know Jonathan,’ says the 38-year-old actress once she’s plonked herself on the banquette next to me, ‘in case you think, “Oh! She’s bold!”’ She is wearing a black wrap dress, her hair simple and straight – all very low-key, except for the enormous ring, liberally encrusted with gems, on her wedding finger. This comes, I assume, courtesy of her equally starry fiancé – and father of her soon-to-be-born baby – actor Tom Hiddleston.

I had wondered which Ashton I’d get tonight – panicked that, what with an A-list partner, a superhero franchise job and a Broadway stint under her belt, she had been ironed out by the Tinseltown machine. But the smiley, huggy woman who has just swept across the restaurant, starting to say ‘Hiiiii!’ from a full 10 metres away, hardly seems to be some Garbo-like recluse. To be honest, the Hackney-raised star is always hard to miss. She can be monosyllabic, like Vod, her gloriously deadpan character in the cult sitcom Fresh Meat, or angsty like her ‘gallerina’ Josephina in Netflix’s Velvet Buzzsaw. Or she can be just a normal, serene, very adult adulterer, like her Emma in the recent West End and Broadway revival of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal – yes, the one where she met Hiddleston. But large-eyed, large-laughed, larger-than-life, she certainly can’t be ignored. Even less so when you consider that she is an actor-writer-director-activist – everything but the kitchen sink.

Ashton’s first ever job was on the kids’ TV show Jackanory when she was six. Since then, she has written several plays, including For All the Women Who Thought They Were Mad; she has directed short films and developed TV series; she had a phase of doing performance poetry (‘before it was cool’); and she has inevitably published her own book, Character Breakdown, which details her many travails in the showbiz industry. This summer, you’ll have spotted her in Maryland, a harrowing BBC drama by Lucy Kirkwood, exploring violence against women. And next year sees her in her biggest role to date, playing the (as yet unnamed) villain in the ultra-feminist new Marvel instalment, The Marvels. If she doesn’t always take the easy route, if she’s always fought to get her voice heard, you get the impression she generally tends to win.

‘I’ve been saying no to work that I didn’t feel was right for me, or right for the world, since I was about 12,’ she says, halfway through a dinner of fish and chips with mushy peas followed by a summery posset. This seriousness is offset by a very daffy and Tiggerish enthusiasm: ‘Excuse me,’ Ashton later says over the posset, beckoning a waiter. ‘I’m just triple-checking that I can eat the flowers on this.’ ‘Oh yes,’ replies the waiter happily – a relief for all of us, as Ashton has already scoffed them. ‘Do you see how I asked that after eating them?’ she sighs. ‘Other personality types would wait for that guy to come along first. I’m like, “Er, am I gonna die shortly?”’ It would obviously have been awful if Ashton had died, mid-interview, done in by a decorative flower garnish – but I rather think she would have relished the drama.

We’re here first and foremost to discuss Mr Malcolm’s List, which has clearly benefited from the Bridgerton effect. An adaptation of Suzanne Allain’s 2009 novel, it’s an Austen mash-up, where the two main romantic leads – Sope Dirisu’s Jeremy Malcolm and Freida Pinto’s Selina Dalton – have a Darcy-and-Lizzie-style romance, while Ashton’s character, Julia, comes across as a particularly hoity-toity post Emma Woodhouse, whose machinations and manoeuvrings end in a sweet self-reckoning. The familiarity of the tropes is offset by the casting, which, as in Bridgerton, is exhilaratingly diverse. Julia is, Ashton smiles, ‘a little Regency terroriser’. She is also, for long stretches of the movie, the baddie, as she strives to punish Jeremy for cold-shouldering her.

Is Ashton on a villain trip right now? She cocks her head. ‘I think that’s probably a phase I’ve always been in – certainly the outsider phase.’ She then tweaks her answer: ‘I’ve always played outliers, and that’s great. I think it’s where you can move the needle the most.’ Yet when pressed as to why she tends to play an outsider, or outlier, she demurs. Perhaps it’s too on the nose.

Zawedde Emma ‘Zawe’ Ashton was born in Hackney, to teachers Paul and Victoria: Paul from Britain, Victoria originally from Uganda. She is the eldest of three and her first name means ‘princess’ in Swahili. The young Zawe sounds particularly precocious, always encouraged to read and express herself; she recalls devouring Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride aged 11, which, she admits now, was probably far too young. (‘Is there arson? I remember there being arson.’) During her teenage years, Hackney rapidly gentrified. She does not view herself as part of that wave. ‘I remember when it happened,’ she says. ‘When lots of people who looked like they worked on The Big Breakfast descended on your postcode. They’d be knocking on people’s doors, looking through windows, asking when they were thinking of moving. We called them the Shark Fins because they all had that little shark-fin haircut – remember?’ (The capital remains her true home, although she’s light on current specifics, settling on the description: ‘I’m London-ish.’)

Her parents always supported her artistic ambitions. She signed up for acting classes at the illustrious Anna Scher Theatre in Islington and was soon working professionally alongside her school studies. But the standout family tidbit is a nugget on the internet that says her grandfather Paulo Muwanga was the president of Uganda. ‘Oh gurl, don’t go there,’ she mugs, full Drag Race-style. ‘He was actually acting president [for a few weeks]. I’m not like one of the Obama girls.’ Ashton mostly remembers him as ‘a very old, lovely grandpa’, who died when she was young. But, as a child, Ashton spent many summers in Uganda and still feels close to her heritage. ‘There’s a lot of strength in having a duality,’ she muses. ‘We’re finally seeing that more and more now as something to be celebrated. When I was younger, that wasn’t the case.’

Ashton has spoken about being ‘badly bullied’ at school when acting work gave her a profile. ‘I was this tall, skinny misfit who was unapologetic about the things I was passionate about. I had a sense of who I was and what I was into – and you’re not supposed to have that. You’re just supposed to blend in,’ she told The Daily Telegraph in 2019. The feeling of being targeted as an outsider continued when, as a young adult, she signed up for drama school in Manchester. ‘It was rough,’ she says. ‘They break you down.’ Why? ‘I think they saw my keenness, my enthusiasm…’ Her fashion sense, for starters, was ‘experimental’, she grins. ‘Carrie Bradshaw on acid. I remember, for one of the first club nights I went to in Manchester, I found this long, oversized, stripy silk dress with a massive bow on the side, and I had a huge yellow visor with another bow. Basically like I was going to Ascot in the 1980s.’ It went down ‘amazing’, she promises. ‘Sometimes I’d go to college dressed as a cheerleader.’ A pause. ‘Did I go as Snow White one time?’

She sighs. ‘I don’t know why, but sometimes they really want to wash you out.’ This continued even when she started working full-time. Right after Fresh Meat, Ashton had in mind to create a show similar to HBO’s Girls, which Lena Dunham wrote, starred in and directed, but instead she got lost in ‘developmental hell’. ‘There was just this weird resistance. And bullying. Bullying, demeaning, gaslighting… I was yelled at by one producer because I was questioning something about my own work.’ I venture cautiously that, to some, Ashton might just have been too much of a multi-hyphenate. ‘Yep,’ she says immediately. ‘We didn’t do that kind of thing here until the success of things like I May Destroy You or Fleabag.’

All this has made her extra eager to help others. During one episode of Fresh Meat, she struck up a conversation with a young bit-part actor. ‘I could see he was committed, clear-eyed about what he wanted to do,’ she says. ‘And so I gave him my number.’ Not long after, the actor texted Ashton to ask if she would write him a recommendation letter for his American visa, which she did. ‘And then, 10 years later, I turned on Bridgerton and…’ The actor was Regé-Jean Page. Ashton doesn’t take any credit for that (and she has texted him to check he’s OK with her telling the story) but she does think people should give each other a hand. ‘We don’t fuel the fire of genuine enthusiasm in the UK,’ she sighs. ‘It’s like, “Don’t get ideas above; stay calm; it’s not that good.” I appreciate that, because I’m London through and through – I love that acerbic quality and I love that edge. But it can be really damaging.’

Six years ago, Ashton moved to Margate to focus on her book, Character Breakdown, which is a play on words: a ‘character breakdown’ is the short description of a part an actor tends to get with a script – but it also means, obviously, a bit of personal disintegration. Unsurprisingly, during more than 30 years of pretending to be other people, Ashton has experienced both, as she details grimly and hilariously in the book, listing encounters with lecherous directors, callous agents, scary celebrity stylists and more. We laugh several times about how miserable she makes the industry sound. She also calls the book her ‘novel’ a lot, which I raise my eyebrows at a little sceptically. ‘Well, it’s a fictionalised memoir,’ she admits. ‘“Unconventional memoir” is what the publishing house recommended we call it.’

Margate was, she says, a conscious step back from acting, a way ‘to write myself out of the toxicity’, as she puts it. ‘I didn’t want to audition, I didn’t want to have lattes with people that went nowhere. I just thought, “I have to go and live by the sea and see what all the people who don’t act have been doing for a long time, and how they’ve been making themselves happy.” And then of course it didn’t work out, because I got bloody Velvet Buzzsaw.’ Dan Gilroy’s art-world horror satire, where Ashton’s Josephina ends up in a twisted romance with Jake Gyllenhaal’s cold-fish art critic, is exactly the kind of offbeat work Ashton wanted to do. So she went to LA to film it, published the book, and then got offered Betrayal, which came about after ‘Tom and I had done a reading together of the central scene, at a gala for Harold Pinter’s birthday’. Cut to four-or-so years later: here she is, engaged to Hiddleston and pregnant, too. But that’s pretty much the only time she’ll say his name.

Ashton and Hiddleston rarely speak publicly about their relationship, and reports suggest they got together during the play. Their first red carpet as a couple was last September, then in March this year to signal their engagement. But for the Mr Malcolm’s List premiere in June, Ashton appeared alone, visibly pregnant, and glittering in an embellished tulle dress by Sabina Bilenko. Recently, Hiddleston offered a full three words on the subject: ‘I’m very happy.’ Today, Ashton offers a few more, to the same effect. I congratulate her on her big news. ‘Thanks,’ she beams. ‘It’s wonderful.’ I’d read somewhere that she’d always wanted children. ‘I know,’ she acknowledges, grimacing. ‘I used to talk about it all the time in interviews – it was really unsuitable.’ Has she learnt the art of discretion now? ‘I’ve got to learn it,’ she says, with a groan.

Having a baby is another knotty decision in the life of an actress. ‘You’re told, “Don’t get pregnant” but also “Don’t leave it too long” because then you’re going to be an old maid. I’ve been prehistoric in this industry since I was 25,’ she says drily. ‘The mixed messaging is rough and has to be addressed.’ She hadn’t felt stressed by her biological clock ticking: ‘It was just suddenly this self-permission comes over you that goes against all that messaging.’

I ask about her red carpet announcement, but the drawbridge comes up. ‘I don’t want to talk about my personal life,’ she says, politely but firmly. ‘I didn’t feel like I had to do anything,’ she clarifies, but ‘it felt like [the pregnancy news] happened in the right way. [It is a] really, really, vital moment where we’re talking about women and their autonomy when it comes to their bodies.’ The Roe v Wade reversal had been announced just days before, and she had no desire to ‘be cute’ about it. ‘I’m not into “announcements” or “reveals”,’ she adds. ‘I’m into trying to carry the narrative as much as possible myself, rather than anyone else feeling like they have an exclusive on my body.’

At Anna Scher, Ashton says, ‘you were never allowed to use the words “fame” or “star”. They were swear words.’ She plainly approves – so she’s not a star in any way? ‘Gimme a break!’ Is she a bit like Adele, who has famously kept her privacy quite well? ‘I cannot put myself in the same privacy conversation as Adele. But…’ She pauses. ‘I think it’s like any choice. You make it and then do it as much as you can.’ I conclude by complimenting her ring. ‘Thank you,’ she smiles again. ‘And the wedding plans?’ I tease. She cringes. ‘Please don’t.’

On Broadway, Ashton pursued what she jokingly calls her ‘Zawessance – which no one asked for, by the way’, she honks. She signed with new acting reps she felt more aligned with. ‘I said, “Look: just send me the names of fledgling directors who are from under-represented backgrounds.” I felt that’s where I’d be of most use.’ And she has apparently followed that to the letter, with Maryland, The Marvels and, yes, Mr Malcolm’s List.

Growing up, Ashton loved Austen but there was always an assumption that she would never feature in those stories. ‘You just accept the status quo,’ she muses. ‘There’s this very strange acceptance that is definitely tinged with sadness.’ It’s weird, she says. ‘You don’t necessarily realise how long you’ve been locked out until you see the pendulum swing.’ There is certainly a swing now, though – and when I ask if she worries it could be a trend, she is categorical: ‘This is where Bridgerton comes in – because the language this industry understands is money.’

She recently went back to her old drama school in Manchester to address the students. ‘I can see that opportunities for so many under-represented students are suddenly there. I don’t worry about them the way I worried for myself – and that’s really lovely. Systemic racism isn’t going anywhere fast. But they can imagine themselves in huge franchises, in the new Netflix show, in the lead in West End theatres.’

Persuasion, by the way, is Ashton’s favourite Austen to read. She also adores the Emma film starring Gwyneth Paltrow, and Clueless, its ’90s Californian cousin. But ‘I’m not really a Pride and Prejudice girl’, she frowns. Not into Darcy? ‘No, too austere. People love that. I know friends who are like, “I love how emotionally unavailable you are.” I’m like, “Oh gawd!”’ Those seeking a tidbit could read in that a hint as to what she likes in Hiddleston. But it could also apply to her relationship with the acting industry, which has long been her Mr Darcy: infuriating her, misunderstanding her, undervaluing her worth. She seems to have a handle on it now, although she has said she’ll quit acting a few times. She chuckles sanguinely at this.

‘It’s the same as with marriage, isn’t it? You divorce multiple times in a long marriage: as long as you never want to do it at the same time, you’ll probably be all right.’ She’s clearly in it for the long haul.

#zawe ashton #tatler #interview #article

[kwebtv]

Sir Michael John Gambon CBE (/ˈɡæmbɒn/; October 19, 1940 – September 27, 2023) Film, stage and television actor. Gambon started his acting career with Laurence Olivier as one of the original members of the Royal National Theatre. Over his six-decade-long career, he received three Olivier Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and four BAFTA Awards. In 1998, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama. Gambon enhanced his stardom through his role of Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter film series from 2004 to 2011, replacing Richard Harris following his death in 2002.

For his work on television, he received four BAFTA Awards for The Singing Detective (1986), Wives and Daughters (1999), Longitude (2000), and Perfect Strangers (2001). He also received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Path to War (2002) and Emma (2009). Other notable projects include Cranford (2007) and The Casual Vacancy (2015). In 2017, he received the Irish Film & Television Academy Lifetime Achievement Award.

In 1967, he made his television debut in the BBC television adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing as Watchman No. 4. He also appeared in British programmes such as Softly, Softly (1967), and Public Eye (1968). From 1968 to 1970, he featured in the BBC historical series The Borderers as Gavin Kerr. He also had a recurring role in the Canadian series The Challengers (1972). He also appeared in drama anthology series including Play for Today, Play of the Month, and ITV Playhouse.

His craggy looks soon made him into a character actor. For his lead role in Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective (1986) he won his first British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. He starred as detective Inspector Jules Maigret in an ITV adaptation of twelve of Georges Simenon's books. In 1990, he played Jerry in Harold Pinter's Betrayal for BBC Radio 3. In 1991, he starred as Tommy Hanbury in an episode of the ITV series Minder called "Look Who's Coming To Pinner". He also appeared in the BBC serial Wives and Daughters (1999) based on the Victorian novel by the same name by Elizabeth Gaskell. He portrayed Squire Hamley and received his second BAFTA Award nomination and win for Best Actor. (Wikipedia)

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#Sir Michael Gambon #TV #Obit #Obituary #O2023 #The Singing Detective #Wives and Daughters #Longitude #Emma #Cranford #Path to War #Maigret

[nacediscord]

Today's server event is a Emma-rathon!

Beginning at 12p ET, we'll be watching:

- Emma (1996)

- Emma (2009 BBC mini-series)

- Emma. (2020)

and finishing off the night with Clueless!

#nacediscord

[blogjaneeyre]

#emma (2009) #emma woodhouse #george knightley #romola garai #johnny lee miller #Favourite Adaptation #jane austen #period drama #romance #love #19th century #bbc #Sandy Welch

[tadpal]

anyway. when i finish this edit i might remake it with 2020 emma but i almost don't want to bc ik it will frustrate me when people inevitably like 2020 better... it's not 2009s fault it was made on a shoestring bbc budget and doesn't have the bells and whistles of 2020... please let little baby jonny lee miller into your heart

#tad talks

[lumiereandcogsworth]

hiya! can I get your top recs for period films please? you have such good taste and I'm trying to watch more movies lol

hiya!!! first off i’m so honored you would come to me. i feel like i’ve really made it in the world now. and thank you wow?? i’m touched you think i have good taste 🥺🥺🥺 anyway i myself am always trying to watch more, but here’s a list of ones i enjoy!!

Pride and Prejudice (2005) - in my top 5 favorite movies, top 4 on letterboxd, even! (my letterboxd is “batb2017” hehe, feel free to follow if you’re there!) but yeah just a gorgeous piece of cinema. an absolute work of art your honor.

Rosaline (2022) - perfect for your url, this is a comedic take on romeo & juliet. it’s from the perspective of juliet’s cousin rosaline. honestly it’s so funny and has a great romance too. it is fully canon romeo & juliet in my mind now lol

Enola Holmes (2020) & Enola Holmes 2 (2022) - both GREAT movies, highly recommend. romance is a secondary factor for sure, but i think they’re both so wonderful and enola is an incredibly charming main character. (+ henry cavill is absolutely my new favorite sherlock holmes, and this is coming from someone who used to be obsessed with bbc sherlock haha)

Little Women (2019) - also just so stunning!!! i have nothing against the 1994 version, for the record, i simply have not seen it yet lol.

Belle (2013) - a wonderful story & romance, and based on a true story! definitely absolutely worth a watch.

Titanic (1997) - i’m sure we’ve all seen this but hey, it deserves to be here. it’s not among my absolute favorites but it’s a great story.

Outlaw King (2018) - this film is definitely more about the scottish war against england (i’m paraphrasing bc i don’t remember the official name of this war) so if medieval war movies aren’t your thing that’s very valid. BUT!!! there is a sweet romance mixed in there that keeps me coming back for a rewatch <3

Emma (2020) - i didn’t LOVE this one but i did like it a good amount. it’s sweet and fun and certainly worth the watch.

The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017) - i just watched this like two days ago and it’s not a romance, it’s just about charles dickens and how he wrote a christmas carol. but i personally loved it and found it funny/relatable as a writer, so you may enjoy! and perfect for the season!!

AND! here is a list of movies that i have not seen, but are on my watchlist. so i can’t vouch for their quality, this is just to say they have intrigued me (or been recommended to me) and i will watch them some day haha.

Bright Star (2009)

Mr. Malcolm’s List (2022)

The Handmaiden (2016)

A Room With A View (1985)

Marie Antoinette (2006)

Ophelia (2018)

Chevalier (2023)

BONUS you didn’t ask for series but here’s a shortlist of my favorite period drama shows, just for kicks!

Poldark

Call the Midwife

The Crown

Bridgerton

Anne with an E

The Great

Downton Abbey

#feel free to ask about anything i can go into more detail !!! #thank you so much for asking 🥺 #i love making LISTS 🤌✨ #i’m also probably forgetting stuff but i did my best here #romeoandjulietyouwish #answered #period pieces

[recycledmoviecostumes]

This brightly yellow day dress, layered with crowned sleeves, is made from a gorgeous, subtly striped, semi-sheer fabric. It was first seen in the final scenes of the BBC’s 2009 adaptation of Emma, where Romola Garai wore it as Emma Woodhouse. The dress was seen again on heiress Georgiana Lamb, played by Crystal Clarke, in the 2023 third season of Sanditon. A cameo appears to have been added to the trim below the bust line.

Costume Credit: bellcs, carsNcors

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#emma #romola garai #crystal clarke #sanditon #costume drama #jane austen

[thesquireinvictus]

tag 9 people you’d like to get to know better. thanks for the tag @sophiechorus

last song : Currently completely obsessed over Holy Fool’s Queen of the Dead as well as Winter Coat. Holy Fool is the moniker of Lorne MacFadyen, a Scottish actor whose work I’ve followed (sort of) and who just debuted these as singles, his first (and I think smashing) musical foray.

currently watching : The recent Emma., the recent BBC War & Peace, Ladies of Letters (2009), all rewatches.

currently reading : A lot of academic papers and a handful of popular histories about the Ancient Near East and particularly Biblical scholarship; The Tale of Genji (always), comparing two translations of War & Peace (always), Actress (Anne Enright), Martial, Gospel of Mark, Trollope. Henry Vaughan, Robert Herrick, etc!

current obsession : My writing

tagging : @chatwiththeclouds @apesoformythoughts @notmanthelessbutnaturemore @namejanedoe @followingnewhorizons

If you feel like it (I think you’re all each mutuals with me, but if not then sorry for the intrusion; I enjoy having you on my dash all the same)

#peas and thank you