Posts Tagged ‘Emma Thompson’

Rash Behavior: Can Writerly Antics Past Predict This Year’s Oscar Shenanigans?

Screenwriters are often overlooked when it comes to potentially polarizing Oscar speeches. But not on Word & Film’s watch.

Battle of the Book-to-Screen Queens: Cate Blanchett vs. Emma Thompson

In our study of the art of adaptation, we’ve noticed that some actors are more bookish than others, regularly popping up as characters first imagined on the page. And rising to the head of this literary class are Cate Blanchett and Emma Thompson. But which of these Oscar-winning actresses has better perfected the art of adaptation? Here, we bring you a friendly head-to-head competition to crown one of these literary ladies as the Queen of Book-to-Screen.

How ‘Brave’ Accidentally Became One of 2012′s Most Socially Relevant Films

It’s exciting to see that what could have been yet another lazy retread of familiar fairy tale ideas instead became one of the year’s most forward-thinking family dramas.

Before Diary of a Wimpy Kid: 6 Children’s Book Series on Film

Looking for movies to entertain your kids on summer vacation? Here are six books for kids — some old and some new — committed to film.

Not Your Grandma’s Estate: Downton Abbey and 6 English Country Houses on Film

The soapily addictive English period drama “Downton Abbey” is back this weekend. (Oops, let’s skip the word “soap.” And “weekend.” You know why.) Written by Julian Fellowes, who won a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for “Gosford Park” (a murder mystery in an English country house), the miniseries follows the lives of the residents, upstairs and [...]

Born to an Extraordinary Fate: Sense and Sensibility Turns 200

October 30 marks the bicentenary of the publication of Sense and Sensibility — and thus our enduring love affair with Jane Austen. Drafting a manuscript called Elinor and Marianne around 1795, Austen returned to it at some point in the next decade and completed the version we know now in 1810. At her expense, the Military Library publishing house printed the book, in the era’s traditional three volumes, in 1811 — her first published work. Modestly attributed to “a Lady,” the novel sold well, beginning a remarkable literary legacy …