Jane Austen series to air on Masterpiece Theater

In the coming weeks, PBS will be airing Masterpiece: The Complete Jane Austen. They will show film adaptations of ALL SIX of Jane Austen's novels (*drool) on a weekly basis beginning on Sunday, January 13th. According to my local PBS station's schedule, the first one to air will be Persuasion and the second one will be Northanger Abbey. I have never seen a film version of Northanger Abbey before, so I'm particularly excited about that one.

The Hollywood Librarian movie

The library community is all in a froth over the upcoming release of The Hollywood Librarian: A Look at Librarians Through Film, a documentary film about librarians and what they really do. According to the site, it is "the first full-length documentary film to focus on the work and lives of librarians." It will chronicle the profession through commentary and clips of American movies that have portrayed librarians, as well as showing interviews with several real-live librarians in the trenches. Exciting stuff.

The trailer has been making the rounds among the various librarian listservs and blogs lately and, as a 30-something librarian, I feel compelled to point out that the clip doesn't seem to show a whole lot of folks in my age-bracket. I personally know a lot of other young librarians in their 20's and 30's, so I truly hope that the film makes an effort to show the broad range of ages and backgrounds of people drawn to this profession.

The Hollywood Librarian is set to premiere this summer at the American Library Association annual conference held in Washington, DC. (wish I was going...)

Kickass movie: Hot Fuzz

Hot Fuzz

We went to see it for my birthday and it was great! Laughed. Our. Asses. Off. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost were both excellent. And Timothy Dalton was ohso smarmy. We'll definitely be buying this one when it comes out on DVD.

foto from: imdb

Coming Soon: Hot Fuzz

I can't wait to see Hot Fuzz. It's brought to us from the folks who gave us the great zombie flick Shaun of the Dead (one of my top 10 favorite movies of all time EVER). Simon Pegg stars as one of London's finest, a supercop who takes down the bad guys with a real John Woo flair. He gets somehow transferred from the big city to serve in a tiny little podunk town out in the sticks where nothing much happens and gets paired off with a somewhat incompetent partner. And then these murders start happening in the town and hijinks ensue. Looks pretty funny. Opens in the US on April 20th, but sadly, only in limited release. Which means I'm going to have to truck my ass clear down into Dallas to see it at some cheesy movie grill type place.

"It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage."

Not that you can call CNN.com a reliable source, but according to this article (which is actually probably fairly accurate) the new Indiana Jones movie is in the works this year! The article says it's due out in spring of 2008 - we shall see...

Marie Antoinette!!!

So I'm superjazzed about the new Marie Antoinette movie. Big hair. Big dresses. Fans. Pretty Pretty Pretty! And a killer soundtrack!

Official Site: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/marieantoinette/index.html
IMDB Site: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0422720/

I hear they based it on this biography written by Antonia Fraser. Think I'll try to read it before I go see the movie...

Netflix gives you feeds!

Did you know that you can get RSS feeds from Netflix letting you know when new movies are released? Get the feed at: http://www.netflix.com/RSSFeeds?lnkctr=mfRSS

It updates several times a week.