Love & Friendship is a new movie out in select theaters May 13th, which stars Kate Becksinale, Chloe Sevigny, and Stephen Fry. Based on Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, filmmaker Whit Stillman reimagines the story in which Lady Susan achieves vindication. The film is pretty much Carrie bait, given that she adored Jane Austen’s Lady Susan.
So if you like Austen adaptations, check out both the Love & Friendship film, as well as the novelization which was published earlier this month!
The giveaway includes a prize pack courtesy of Roadside Attractions. Standard disclaimers apply: I’m not being compensated for this giveaway. Void where prohibited. Open to U.S. mailing addresses only and where permitted by applicable law. Must be over 18 and up for a good husband-hunting. We will not be held responsible for any lost reticules. Tips for getting stains out of silk brocade is greatly appreciated.
The giveaway will run until Friday, May 13 and comments will close at noon, EST. A winner will be chosen at random that same day.
One (1) winner receives a Love & Friendship Prize Pack:
· $50 Amazon gift card
· T-Shirt
· Bookmark and copy of the Love & Friendship: In Which Jane Austen’s Lady Susan Vernon Is Entirely Vindicated by Whit Stillman
WINNER UPDATE: Congrats to Jennifer Estep!
She recommended Sense & Sensibility with Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman. Jennifer donates a lot of prizes every year for the DABWAHA tournament, so it’s pretty cool that she won!
To enter, comment below with some of your favorite retellings of classic literature!
Does Lamb by Christopher Moore count as a biblical retelling? I’m saying yes either way. Too brilliant, funny, and genuinely touching for words, and one of my all time favorite books.
Does “Bride and Prejudice” count? No wet shirted Darcy scene but there were elephants.
I loved loves The Innocents which retelle Edith Wharton’s Age of Innocence….in a Jewish clannish New York!
I’m thrilled to see Chloe and Kate together again. They were in Stillman’s Last Days of Disco which is a terrific film.
Clueless, Austen’s Emma or 10 Things I Hate About You, Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew.
For all the “faithful” adaptations of Jane Austen’s Emma, the one I feel is best remains Clueless.
I like the adaptations of Jane Eyre. The most recent adaptation was very good, but I have to say, the version staring Orson Wells, is my favorite. jslbrown2009 at aol dot com
One of my favorite adaptations is “For Darkness Shows Ths Stars” by Diana Peterfreund. Dystopian YA version of Jane Austen’s Persuasion. Crazy good.
I wish I remembered the title to a modern day adaptation of Prose and Prejuide. I read it years ago and the details are escaping me!
I loved the BBC version of Sense & Sensibility. How crazy is it where Colonel Brandon later reincarnates into the psycho governor in a zombie apocalypse!
I guess Phantom, by Susan Kay counts. It’s more an expansion of The Phantom of the Opera, but it does retell the events of the book from a slightly different perspective.
I also love Clueless.
Oh gosh, this is tough but I’m going to go with the BBC’s ShakespeaRe-Told TV movies, esp the Much Ado About Nothing version starring Damian Lewis and Sarah Parish as a warring Beatrice and Benedick in a modern newsroom. It is DELIGHTFUL.
Clueless is one of my all-time faves!
I have to say Clueless. This movie sounds delightful!
The Sense & Sensibility movie with Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, etc. is a good adaptation of the book.
Clueless is definitely a favorite.
I’m still a fan of Amanda Bynes’ classical retelling of Twelfth Night, She’s the Man.
I absolutely love Bridget Jones’ Diary as a retelling of Pride and Prejudice. It is funny and relatable and pulls me in.
I don’t know if it actually qualifies as a retelling, but I love Laurie R. King’s Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell series. Sherlock is so much more human in this series than he is in the original books.
10 things I hate about you. Rewatched it the other night and man was it enjoyable.
I love Clueless, and I really liked Val McDermid’s recent adaptation of Northanger Abbey.
I love Clueless or 10 Things I Hate About You.
Clueless is amazing, of course, and She’s the Man is also really fun. Amanda Bynes did some fun adaptations while she was still acting.
Some of my favorites have been based on my favorite Austen: Persuasion. Books only so far which is a bummer – we need a movie! Persuading Annie by Melissa Nathan and Jane Austen in Scarsdale: Love, Death and the SATs by Paula Marantz Cohen are the two at the top of my list!
“The Princess Bride” is one of my favorites.
I’m pretty sure it’s Bride & Prejudice for me too. Though I have to say I rather like Elementary as a take on Sherlock Holmes short stories.
Another vote for Clueless!
I really loved The Lizzie Bennet Diaries as a study in how adaptation can take risks and be better off for it.
I love Bridget Jones’s Diary.
Moonlighting did a Shakespeare episode… I remember being shown it in English class in high school and wondering why the show wasn’t on TV any more 😛
I have always found Pratchett’s Maskerade an adorable retelling; BBC Lost in Austen is genuinely good.
“Apocalype Now” is a fabulous retelling of “Out of Darkness.” Not very romantic, but oh, the feels. [Also tells something about my age…]
The Mormon Pride & Prejudice is a personal favorite :). And I second the need for more Persuasion adaptations!
I am in the Clueless/10 Things I Hate About You group … just love a modern retelling – more creative than just a rehash of the original.
Seconding Bride and Prejudice – because what the original was really missing was musical numbers.
Also it’s probably kind of terrible but I will never stop loving She’s the Man.
So many! Longbourn’s Songbird, of course. I wrote it so it’s definitely my favorite. Suddenly Mrs. Darcy by Jenetta James, The Muse by Jessica Evans. Undecieved by Karen M Cox (Pride & Prejudice during the Cold War! With spies!!)
Suddenly Mrs Darcy by Jenetta James, Longbourn’s Songbird by Beau North, Undecieved by Karen M. Cox, Haunting Mr Darcy by KaraLynn Mackrory, Twixt Two Equal Armies by Gail McEwen & Tina Moncton, and Consequences by C.P.Odom.
Sense and Sensibility with Emma Thompson and Wuthering Heights with Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes are two of my favorites.
There are so many good adaptations already listed! One of my favorites is the 1943 version of Jane Eyre, starring Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles. It’s like a perfect marriage of Gothic and noir style, and Orson Welles’ Rochester is fabulous.
Ooo, that sounds like a great book and film to check out!
Retellings… hmmm… well, I am a sucker for Bollywood versions of Austen, and of course very fond of “Clueless.”