films like PERSUASION

[Renee Lee]

I recently saw PERSUASION and I fell in love with it. What can I say?
I'm a sap. My question is: Can someone recommend some near-tragic,
romantic period pieces similar to Persuasion? I'll soon be having a film
fest with a friend who's almost as sappy as me. Thanks.

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Renee M. Lee
Psycholinguistics Lab
UC Davis

[Celee96]

ez06...@rocky.ucdavis.edu (Renee Lee) writes:

>I recently saw PERSUASION and I fell in love with it. What can I say?
>I'm a sap. My question is: Can someone recommend some near-tragic,
>romantic period pieces similar to Persuasion? I'll soon be having a film

>fest with a friend who's almost as sappy as me. Thanks.

Renee,

You might check out some movies based on other Jane Austen novels, such
"Sense & Sensibility" starring Emma Thompson & Hugh Grant (this one should
still be in some theaters), and "Pride & Prejudice" starring Greer Garson
& Laurence Olivier. Recently, A&E also did an excellent 6-hour television
series "Pride & Prejudice" starring Colin Firth & Jennifer Ehle.

Also "Jane Eyre" based on Charlotte Bronte's novel of same name.

Also "Wuthering Heights" starring Laurence Olivier.

Enjoy!!

Julia

[Cheryl Dragel]

ez06...@rocky.ucdavis.edu (Renee Lee) wrote:
>I recently saw PERSUASION and I fell in love with it. What can I say?
>I'm a sap. My question is: Can someone recommend some near-tragic,
>romantic period pieces similar to Persuasion? I'll soon be having a film
>fest with a friend who's almost as sappy as me. Thanks.

Try some of these:

˜ "Sense & Sensibility" (now playing at your local $1-$1.50 theatre)
˜ "Tess" (Roman Polanski's adaptation of Hardy's novel _Tess of the
D'Urbervilles_) [NB: this one actually *is* tragic]
˜ "Howards End" (excellent performances all around)

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Cheryl Dragel * dra...@beatty.slip.netcom.com * Austin, TX

[Kenneth Hackney]

>I recently saw PERSUASION and I fell in love with it. What can I >say? I'm a sap. My question is: Can someone recommend some >near-tragic,romantic period pieces similar to Persuasion? I'll soon >be having a film fest with a friend who's almost as sappy as me. >Thanks.

Try "Magnificant Obsession" with (1935) Robert Taylor. Remake (1954)
Rock Hudson. Both set current year.

Also "Portrait of Jenny" and "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" to add a
supernatural note.

For a Tragic Period piece there is "Wuthering Heights."

There must be lots of others.

[irina.bondarenko]

In article <4p3mp6$l...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, Celee96 <cel...@aol.com> wrote:

>
>ez06...@rocky.ucdavis.edu (Renee Lee) writes:
>
>>I recently saw PERSUASION and I fell in love with it. What can I say?
>>I'm a sap. My question is: Can someone recommend some near-tragic,
>>romantic period pieces similar to Persuasion? I'll soon be having a film
>
>>fest with a friend who's almost as sappy as me. Thanks.
>

>Renee,
>
>You might check out some movies based on other Jane Austen novels, such
>"Sense & Sensibility" starring Emma Thompson & Hugh Grant (this one should
>still be in some theaters), and "Pride & Prejudice" starring Greer Garson
>& Laurence Olivier. Recently, A&E also did an excellent 6-hour television
>series "Pride & Prejudice" starring Colin Firth & Jennifer Ehle.
>
>Also "Jane Eyre" based on Charlotte Bronte's novel of same name.
>
>Also "Wuthering Heights" starring Laurence Olivier.
>
>Enjoy!!
>
>Julia

If you haven't seen it, "A Room With A View" fits your bill.

[Sylvia Heisler]

Renee,
Here's a few more suggestions to keep you busy on a rainy weekend:

The Flame is Love (Linda Purl, Timothy Dalton)
Middlemarch (Rufus Sewell, Juliet Aubrey)
Chanel Solitaire (about Coco Chanel - Marie-France Pisier, Rutger Hauer)
Young Catherine (about Catherine the Great of Russia - Julia Ormond)

Re: the Jane Eyre that was recommended - be sure to watch the one with
Timothy Dalton as Mr. Rochester. The other versions are nothing
compared
to this one.

Enjoy!

[Joseph E. Cribb]

Renee Lee (ez06...@rocky.ucdavis.edu) wrote:
: I recently saw PERSUASION and I fell in love with it. What can I say?

: I'm a sap. My question is: Can someone recommend some near-tragic,
: romantic period pieces similar to Persuasion? I'll soon be having a film
: fest with a friend who's almost as sappy as me. Thanks.

You might try "Age of Innocence". IMO, it is a great film.
jc

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: Renee M. Lee
: Psycholinguistics Lab
: UC Davis

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[big chief]

EMMA will be out soon, another Jane Austen adaptation, starring Gwyneth
Paltrow and Ewan McGowan. It comes out Aug. 9 I belive. You can see
more at the MIramax site http://www.miramax.com/movies/emma_.html