PRIDE AND PREJUDICE 2005 to premiere at Toronto Film Festival in September
It looks like Ontario Janeites will get a jump on the rest of the world. Paul of KeiraWeb.com sent us a note to say that PRIDE AND PREJUDICE 2005 will make its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, which takes place from September 8-17th. We really hope that some kind AustenBlog reader in Toronto will take pity on the rest of us and send us a review! Here is some information about other films that will be shown at the festival.
Paul also invited AustenBloggers to take the polls at KeiraWeb, one of which is about the Keira film you are most looking forward to seeing. Let’s show those PotC people how Janeites behave! (Sorry, having a Hornblower moment–channeling Mr. Bush there.)
The Editrix also had a Proofreader’s Cringe Moment at the P&P3 official site…see if you spot it. 
July 13th, 2005 at 3:57 am
Oh oh. Why do I think that the chance of seeing P&P one month before everybody will be so great that I will go AWOL to Toronto?
July 13th, 2005 at 12:04 pm
I’m sorry, but am turned off by the first poll question that lumps everyone over age 27 into one big old category. And the other questions don’t have the button I needed to click (but I’m mature enough to know that it would be impolitic to say what that button is). Now back to my knitting.
July 13th, 2005 at 1:35 pm
Here, here, Debs! I’m 27+! How depressing.
July 13th, 2005 at 2:57 pm
I am also hoping to drop all responsibilities and visit the TO Film Fest. We should form an AustenBlog coalition and all go together! Tee hee… In Regency dress! Tee hee…
July 13th, 2005 at 4:15 pm
What a brilliant idea Sophia J!!! Let’s do it!!!
July 13th, 2005 at 9:43 pm
Chyeah. Regency dress all the way!
*shakes head*
Am I the only one under 27 here? Ah, well. At least it proves Austen’s works aren’t lost on us pimply faced teenagers.
July 14th, 2005 at 9:01 am
Well, I am “not seven and twenty”. Yet.
July 14th, 2005 at 10:21 am
I want to say the second “be” and I would probably put a comma after a few of the words, but I don’t want to commit to anything for fear of showing my ignorance.
I’d like to see “can’t do without” - but that’s just me! Also, since it’s based on a Jane Austen novel, I think they ought to have used “can not”.
July 14th, 2005 at 10:50 am
It would be nice to have a comma after sometimes, but I think that’s just a simplicty thing, so the blurb doesn’t look broken up. I also would have liked to see “cannot” - which would be more properly Austen. However, the biggest problem I saw was that there appeared to be an extra space in the word “ratings”, which was typed “rating s”. But knowing me, I’m probably missing something huge and obvious.
July 14th, 2005 at 11:09 am
Maybe I’m too much of a Grammar Stickler (Sticklers unite!), but the sentence ends with a preposition: without. Faux pas! A person has to be with/without someONE or someTHING.
July 14th, 2005 at 11:16 am
Hint: check your task bar (or tab if you use a tabbed browser).
It is a very obvious error and not a matter of arcane grammar usage. Proofreaders at my place of employment have been fired over this sort of thing.
(Still there as of the time of this posting.)
July 14th, 2005 at 11:24 am
Arcane? Ouch!
July 14th, 2005 at 11:39 am
Ouch! That’s an embarrassing one.
July 14th, 2005 at 11:53 am
Sorry, Sophia! We Word Nerds have those kind of discussions all the time at work. I didn’t mean it as an insult, believe me! But the error I’m talking about is not subjective in any way.
(And I have a screencap of it for later.)