Since this Oscar-winning actress and writer reinvented how to make a movie from a classic romantic novel – with her sterling adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility in 1995 – we have seen a ...

Jane Austen’s novels have been on screen a bit longer than Star Trek. Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson in Pride and Prejudice (1940) is an early one that many people will remember, including American ...

In his archly empathic comedies, Whit Stillman has long chronicled the uncertain ways that young people of privilege launch themselves into worlds too in decline to offer them much. The deb-ball life ...

PARK CITY, Utah — Whit Stillman, one of our best chroniclers of the modern leisure class, has gone back to the 18th century in “Love & Friendship,” an effervescent comedy about a deviously ambitious ...

NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (UPI) --Alison Sweeney is not just the lead in the new romantic comedy Love & Jane, she is also a producer who helped develop the movie with writer-director David Weaver. "I got to ...

If I write, It is a truth universally acknowledged that to begin an essay with the words "It is a truth universally acknowledged" marks the writer out as a person of taste and good humor who has read ...