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"THE BARCHESTER CHRONICLES" (1982) Review

Back in 1982, the BBC turned to 19th century লেখক Anthony Trollope for a seven-part miniseries called ]b"THE BARCHESTER CHRONICLES"[/b]. The miniseries was based upon the author’s first two Barchester novels about the Church of England.

Directed দ্বারা David Giles and written দ্বারা Alan Plater, "THE BARCHESTER CHRONICLES" is an adaptation of "The Warden" (1855) and "Barchester Towers" (1857). The novels focused upon the the dealings and social maneuverings of the clergy and gentry literature concern the dealings of the clergy and the gentry that go on between...

"THE ILLUSIONIST" (2006) Review

Neil Burger wrote and directed this loose adaptation of Steven Millhauser's story called "Eisenheim the Illusionist". This story about a magician in turn-of-the-century Vienna starred Edward Norton, Jessica Biel, Paul Giamatti and Rufus Sewell.

The movie’s plot focused upon the romance that had first formed between the magician Eisenheim (Norton) and his childhood friend, the socially superior Sophie, Duchess von Teschen (Biel) – a romance that ends up threatening the political plans of Crown Prince Leopold of Austria-Hungary (Sewell) and Chief Inspector Uhl’s...

"POLDARK" SERIES ONE (2015): EPISODES FIVE TO EIGHT

Within the past year, I had developed a major interest in লেখক Winston Graham's 1945-2002 "POLDARK" literary saga and the two টেলিভিশন adaptations of it. Series One of the সেকেন্ড adaptation produced দ্বারা Debbie Horsfield, premiered on the BBC (in Great Britain) and PBS (in the United States) last year. Consisting of eight episodes, Series One of "POLDARK" was an adaptation of 1945's "Ross Poldark - A Novel of Cornwall, 1783-1787" and "Demelza - A Novel of Cornwall, 1788-1790".
Whereas Episodes One to Four adapted the 1945 novel, Episodes...

"PERSUASION" (1971) Review

This adaptation of Jane Austen’s 1818 novel turned out to be the first of the old Jane Austen টেলিভিশন adaptations that the BBC aired during the 1970s and 80s. Produced and directed দ্বারা Howard Baker, and adapted দ্বারা Julian Mitchell; this two-part miniseries starred Ann Firbanks and Bryan Marshall.

As many অনুরাগী of Austen’s novel would know, "PERSUASION" told the story of Anne Elliot, the middle daughter of a vain and spendthrift baronet, who finds herself reunited with her former finance, a Naval officer of lesser birth named Frederick Wentworth. Eight years before...

"BLANCHE FURY" (1948) Review

I suspect that many অনুরাগী of costume dramas would be fascinated to know about the series of period dramas released দ্বারা the British film industry during the post-World War II era. A good number of those films were released দ্বারা a British film studio known as Gainsborough Pictures. But not all of them were released through this particular studio. Some were released through other studios অথবা production companies . . . like the 1948 period drama, "BLANCHE FURY".

Based upon the 1939 novel written দ্বারা Marjorie Bowen (under the pseudonym of Joseph Stearling), "BLANCHE FURY" told...

"THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO" (1934) Review

I have seen only two versions of Alexandre Dumas père's 1845 novel, "The Count of Monte Cristo" in my past - the 1975 টেলিভিশন version with Richard Chamberlain and the 2002 ডিজনি film with James Cavielzel. While পাঠ করা a good number of প্রবন্ধ about the movie versions of the novel, I came across numerous praises for the 1934 adaptation that starred Robert Donat. And since I happened to like Dumas' story so much, I decided to see how much I would like this older version.

Set between the last months of the Napoleonic Wars and the 1830s, "THE COUNT...