‘Sanditon’ – Andrew Davis’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s final unfinished novel – launches on PBS this Sunday, January 12th with a two hour special made up of the first two episodes capturing the themes and characters Austen was just starting to explore before her death with a fresh energy and style. If the past is […]
The New York Times has an in-depth look at Sanditon and Jane Austen with end thoughts courteousy yours truly… https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/arts/television/sanditon-jane-austen-pbs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Sanditon Episode 2 does indeed contain a gruesome luncheon party, a few more things to excite and delight… find out at 9pm on ITV…. https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/jmf4gr/sanditon–series-1-episode-2/
Drop what you’re doing — ploughing the field, cleaning the cistern — and feel free to lose yourself in the ravishing style and mischevious society of early nineteenth century Britain…
I directed the pilot/ first three episodes, and was lucky enough to work with the incredibly brilliant and talented Grant Montgomery, Sam Perry, Ruth Barrett and David Raedeker creating a beautiful, vivid, intense, energetic Regency world and it’s all right here in this damn fine trailer:
The 1st half of this epic thriller series was directed by the fantastic Sam Donovan. The 2nd half by me. And it drops on Amazon Prime this Friday., March 1st. Yep, this:
And let’s celebrate with a strong analysis of how social media was inspired by lefty utopians only to become the best friend of authoritarians. Check Tim Wu, he saw this coming ages ago. https://harpers.org/archive/2019/01/machine-politics-facebook-political-polarization/ “ Social-media technologies have spawned enormous corporations that make money by mapping and mining the social world. Like the extraction […]
A film-making titan from cinema greatest era, one of the few left of that particular breed. So many masterpieces, so much to answer for. He transformed film language and put spiritualism and philosophy into cinema using cinema and among many others…. he made two of the most important films in my life — Performance and […]
50% of my early VHS viewing was made up by Burt Reynolds films. RIP
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