More BECOMING JANE news
An article in the TOMB (Time Out Movie Blog) headlines with information that is old news to most of us, but a little further reading provides us with some new information: that Julian Jarrold as directing.
A quick IMDB search shows that he’s done mainly what seem to be made-for-TV movies and miniseries, but what gives us hope is that he’s done period films like GREAT EXPECTATIONS and comedy such as THE CANTERBURY TALES (which this particular reporter finds less funny after having been made to read it in Old English and write a term paper on it).
From the looks of it, I think he just might think Empire dresses are pretty, which gives him plenty of brownie points with me.
March 2nd, 2006 at 10:38 am
Psst. I posted about Dame Maggie and Julie Walters a while back.
March 2nd, 2006 at 11:26 am
Oops! Changed it!
This is what I get for using posting as a form of procrastinating on my paper about Shakespeare’s sonnets.
March 2nd, 2006 at 2:13 pm
The Canterbury Tales are in middle English. If they were in Old English you could not read them without translation. I hope this guy did not direct the supposedly almost pornographic version of Cantebury Tales from the 1960s or 70s. I’ve never seen it, but my Chaucer professor said it made Chaucer seem interesting to people for awhile.
March 3rd, 2006 at 9:22 pm
The Canterbury Tales are rather bawdy, however.
March 4th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
“Empire dresses, Empire dresses, Empire dresses,” chant the rioting Janeites.