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]]> 2026-01-28 16:06:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lc5043/brit_cinema/wish/3767935253 Pride and Prejudice (2005) https://padlet.com/lc5043/brit_cinema/wish/3767953962 Production Companies: StudioCanal, Working Title Films (GB), Scion Films, Focus Features

Source Material: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Budget: 28 Million USD (made more than $121 million worldwide)

Director: Joe Wright

Themes: Romance, Domestic Drama, Defiance of Gender Roles / Proto-Feminist, Class Struggles

Heritage Cinema: lavish, shot in period-accurate homes / mansions, romantic tone but style of English history

Keira Knightley in many of Joe Wright's films, Keira Knightley made into the face of these British Period Dramas.

]]> 2026-01-28 16:19:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lc5043/brit_cinema/wish/3767953962 MMJ: A Room with a View (1985) dir. James Ivory https://padlet.com/lc5043/brit_cinema/wish/3767956895 Prod. Merchant Ivory Productions, based off of 1908 novel by English writer E.M. Forster


Genre: romance, coming of age, period drama


Themes:

  • Marriage, gender, masculinity, social hierarchy, and so on and so forth

]]> 2026-01-28 16:20:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lc5043/brit_cinema/wish/3767956895 Emma (1996) https://padlet.com/lc5043/brit_cinema/wish/3767957751 Miramax, Buena Vista International

Budget: 7 Million

Genre: RomCom, coming of age

]]> 2026-01-28 16:21:32 UTC https://padlet.com/lc5043/brit_cinema/wish/3767957751 King's Speech https://padlet.com/lc5043/brit_cinema/wish/3767958319 Production Companies:

UK Film Council, Momentum Pictures, Aegis, Film Fund, Molinare, FilmNation Entertainment, See-Saw Films


Director: Tom Hooper

Writer: David Steidler (Based on a play)

Budget: $15 million

Box Office: $427.4 million


Genre: Historical Drama/Biopic


Based on King George VI who, to cope with a stammer, sees Lionel Logue, an Australian speech and language therapist played by Geoffrey Rush.



]]> 2026-01-28 16:21:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lc5043/brit_cinema/wish/3767958319 MMJ: A Room with a View (1985) dir. James Ivory https://padlet.com/lc5043/brit_cinema/wish/3767958881 Prod. Merchant Ivory Productions, based off of 1908 novel by English writer E.M. Forster


Genre: romance, coming of age, period drama


Themes:

  • Marriage, gender, masculinity, social hierarchy, and so on and so forth

]]> 2026-01-28 16:22:24 UTC https://padlet.com/lc5043/brit_cinema/wish/3767958881 Maurice (1987) https://padlet.com/lc5043/brit_cinema/wish/3767959589 Based on the novel, Maurice, by E.M. Forster

Directed by James Ivory and written by vory and Kit Hesketh-Harvey

  • Homosexuality in the Edwardian Era

  • Ismail Merchant via Merchant Ivory Productions and Film Four International

  • 1.58 million pounds

  • Tone/Theme: Romance, melodramatic (?)

]]> 2026-01-28 16:22:51 UTC https://padlet.com/lc5043/brit_cinema/wish/3767959589 MMJ: A Room with a View (1985) dir. James Ivory https://padlet.com/lc5043/brit_cinema/wish/3767961786 Prod. Merchant Ivory Productions, based off of 1908 novel by English writer E.M. Forster


Budget: £2.3mil

Box Office: £60mil


Genre: romance, coming of age, period drama


Themes:

  • Marriage, gender, masculinity, social hierarchy & order, personal agency, class, what is love vs. passion, and so on and so forth

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