Sense and Sensibility (2008 TV): Part 1
What can I say after watching just half of a movie? But First Impressions last, and the notion has multi-layered meaning. …
Monthly Archives: March 2008
CBC Disbands Radio Orchestra
Update April 1: Reader Tom has alerted me to the site for online petition to save the CBC Radio Orchestra. http://www.savecbcorchestra.com Please …
CBC Cutting Classical Music Programs
What a shock it is for me to learn that our national radio station CBC Radio 2, is choosing to …
Emma: Miss Woodhouse Regrets
UPDATE: To read my posts on the new BBC production of Emma (2009, TV), Episode 1 CLICK HERE.… Episode 2 CLICK …
The Easter Message
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of …
Enchanted (2007, DVD)
I consider myself a rational person. As an armchair critic, you have to, right? Analytical, critical, not easily moved… But when it …
In Praise of Austen: Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own is based on a series of lecture Woolf delivered at the two women’s colleges in Cambridge University on the …
The Jane Austen Centre Online Magazine
I’m excited to see my three posts on PBS’s Pride and Prejudice (1995 TV, Parts 1 to 3) have been selected …
In Praise of Austen: Emma Thompson’s Acceptance Speech
I’ve a video tape of Sense and Sensibility (1995) for a long time. A few days ago I bought the DVD …
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: The Memoir
This is one book that should be read after watching the film. Without visualizing what Jean-Dominique Bauby had gone through …
August Rush (2007)
In a fairy tale, you could throw all the right ingredients up in the air, and everything will fall in …
Jane Making The List of Best Movies Ever Made
With January to April being Jane Austen Season on PBS where The Complete Jane Austen is being aired on Masterpiece, …
