Jane Austen Streaming Videos on Netflix

I've become addicted to watching streaming videos from Netflix on my TV or computer. Films that I like take turns in the "Watch Instantly" categories. The following Jane Austen film adaptations can be streamed at present:

Emma, 1972

Pride and Prejudice 1980

Sense and Sensibility 1981

Mansfield Park 1983

Sense and Sensibility 1995

Lost in Austen 2009

Keep checking! The movies take turns, as I found to my utter delight.

Austen Shopaholic – Sense and Sensibility featured in ‘The Books on Film Collection’

Need a great holiday gift or treat for yourself? Barnes and Noble Booksellers have just released The Books on Film Collection featuring six great classic movies paired with a new edition of the classic novel that it was adapted from. The highlight of the collection for me is of course director Ang Lee’s 1995 film Sense and Sensibility staring Emma Thompson (Elinor Dashwood), Kate Winslet (Marianne Dashwood) and co-staring Alan Rickman (Col Brandon), Hugh Grant (Edward Ferrars) and Greg Wise (John Willoughby). The DVD of the movie and a new edition of the book are presented in a beautifully designed box set and would make the perfect Janeite holiday gift.

Also included in the collection are such literary and movie classics as Kenneth's Branagh's 1994 film Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Gillian Armstrong’s 1994 film Little Women, Sidney Lanfield's brooding and atmospheric 1939 adaptation of The Hound of the Baskerville and Martin Scorsese’s 1993 powerfully romantic film The Age of Innocence.

For a limited time each boxed set in the collection is $13.48, or if you can’t choose just one, then buy the entire collection as a set for $53.95. Such a deal for six classic movies and novels that will supply many hours of enjoyment.

Cheers, Laurel Ann, Austenprose

Lost in Austen DVD available April 14th

Good news for Lost in Austen fans!

The widescreen DVD of the television mini-series will be available for purchase in North America on April 14th. This British ITV production aired in the UK and Canada last fall and in the US in January on the Ovation network.

If you were lucky enough to see Lost in Austen, you know that it is a time travel parody of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice where Amanda Price (Jemima Rooper), a contemporary London bank clerk is transported back in time to her favorite novel, Pride and Prejudice where she lives with the Bennet family at Longbourn and meets Mr. Darcy (Elliot Cowan). Her experience there is oddly out of step with the book and her attempts to fix things to match the novel are hilarious.

If you missed the Ovation broadcast in January, buying the DVD in April may be your only chance to view it this year. If taken as a pastiche, it is immensely enjoyable and I recommend pre-ordering it for your Austen movie library. If you order it by February 3rd at Barnes & Noble, you can take advantage of their buy two DVD’s and get the third free special. What a deal!

You can read reviews of the production at Jane Austen's World and Austenprose.

Cheer, Laurel Ann, Austenprose

Austen Shopaholic: Buy Two Jane Austen DVD’s – Get the Third Free

Here’s you chance to fill out your Jane Austen movie library from over 25 Austen DVD’s to choose from while they last at Barnes & Noble. Buy two and get the third free until February 3rd. The complete details are available here.

Choose from all of The Complete Jane Austen series which aired last year on Masterpiece Classic: Persuasion (2007), Mansfield Park (2007), Northanger Abbey (2007), Sense and Sensibility (2008), the bio Miss Austen Regrets (2008) and the classic versions of Pride and Prejudice (1995) and Emma (1996). Don't forget to add on my Austen inspired favorites: You've Got Mail (1998), Clueless (1995) and Bridget Jone's Diary (2001).

The selection available includes all 35,000 of their titles, so have fun.

Cheers, Laurel Ann, Austenprose

Twelve Gifts of Christmas: Gift Number Two

Miss Bennet? Mr. Santa Darcy says all truly accomplished young ladies of his acquaintance choose Austenflix for the holidays!

Did you know that Netflix offers 32 Jane Austen inspired movies available to subscribers? Some of the great titles include all seven of this years The Complete Jane Austen series on Masterpiece Classic: Persuasion 2007, Northanger Abbey 2007, Mansfield Park 2007, Miss Austen Regrets 2008, Pride and Prejudice 1995, Emma 1996 and Sense and Sensibility 2008. You can also see the classic 1970’s-1980’s adaptations of Jane Austen including one of my favorites, Pride and Prejudice staring David Rintoul and Elizabeth Garvie. They also offer the three part documentary Jane Austen: Life, Society and Works if you want to brush up on all things Jane.

Netflix is offering a great deal on gift subscriptions at reduced rates. You can create your own unique plan by selecting the number of DVD’s you prefer each month and how many months you want to give. Subscriptions start as low as $4.99 for two DVD’s per month up to $16.99 a month for unlimited selections.

I am totally hooked on my Netflix subscription. Their selection is incredible and I have seen so many Austen inspired movies, great Masterpiece Theater productions and BBC movies that I had been longing to seen for eons that I can think of no better gift to give the movie fan in your family or of your acquaintance.



Cheers, Laurel Ann, Austenprose