Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility (2008)

Sense and Sensibility (2008) Studio/Network: BBC Drama co-production with WGBH Boston
Producer: Anne Pivcevic
Executive Producer: Jessica Pope
Director: John Alexander
Screenplay by: Andrew Davies
DVD: Available
VHS: Not Available
Run time: 2 hrs 54 mins.
PBS Masterpiece Theatre “The Complete Jane Austen” site

Kandukondain Kandukondain (I Have Found It) (2000)

Kandukondain Kandukondain (I Have Found It) Studio/Network: Kalyani Infotech Production & 'V' Creations
Producer: Kalaippuli S. Thanu
Director: Rajiv Menon
Screenplay by: Rajiv Menon
Soundtrack: Not Available
DVD: Available
VHS: Available
Run Time: 2 hrs. 30 mins.

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Sense and Sensibility (1995) Studio/Network: Columbia Pictures & Mirage
Producer: Lindsay Doran
Director: Ang Lee
Screenplay by: Emma Thompson
Soundtrack: Available
DVD: Available
VHS: Available
Run Time: 2 hrs. 15 mins.

Sense and Sensibility (1980)

Sense and Sensibility (1980) Studio/Network: BBC
Producer: Barry Letts
Director: Rodney Bennett
Screenplay by: Alexander Baron
Soundtrack: Not Available
DVD: Available
VHS: Available
Run Time: 2 hrs. 54 mins.

For Your Consideration...

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

Director Ang Lee called this visually-artistic film “Sense and Sensibility with martial arts.” There are echoes of Jane Austen’s novel in the parallel stories of an older heroine, who lets her head lead her heart, and a younger heroine whose sensibility overcomes her sense, but one suspects the Miss Dashwoods could not wield swords with quite that degree of skill.

Further Reading

A Thoroughly Elinor Sort of Way: Elinor’s Sensibility in Masterpiece’s Sense and Sensibility, by Daniel R. Mangiavellano

Colonel Brandon: Hero in a Flannel Waistcoat, by Mary E. Chiapetta, first place student essay

The Banquet of Desire: A South Indian Sense and Sensibility, by R. N. Simhan

Appropriating Austen: Localism on the Global Scene, by Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield

How Masculinity Plays: Effects of Musicianship in the 1995 Film Adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, by Sarah R. Wakefield

“The Amiable Prejudices of a Young [Writer’s] Mind”: The Problems of Sense and Sensibility, by Joan Ray

Code Word Jane Austen, or How a Chinese Film about Martial Arts Teaches Life Arts, by Joan Ray

What Meets the Eye: Landscape in the Films Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, by Sue Parrill

Jane Austen “Responds” to the Men’s Movement, by Devoney Looser

Mass Marketing Jane Austen: Men, Women, and Courtship in Two of the Recent Films, by Deborah Kaplan

Austen Novels and Austen Films: Incompatible Worlds?, by Patrice Hannon