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Who's the next Maid Marian ?

26 January 2009

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as Maid Marian in Robin, Prince of Thieves.
We’ve been following quite attentively the Nottingham movie project by Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott. If the script remains more or less a mystery (is Russell really playing the Sheriff and Robin?!) we already knew some cast members, like Sienna Miller who was selected for [...]

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How Hard Can it Be?

9 April 2008
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Did you ever wonder how hard could it be to be part of an historical serie?
Last year, ITV decided to adapt to the small screen three novels by Jane Austen – Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park and Persuasion – and they were aired in the US not so long ago. In all of them adjustments were made [...]

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And the Oscar Goes to…

24 February 2008
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The 80th Academy Awards edition will take place today and many great movies are in the run for an award (some more than one!). In this post will we mention only the historical ones, since it’s the main theme of this blog but, of course, we cannot resist to discuss the other contestants. ;-)

One of [...]

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Top 10 Historical Heroines: Who Are They?!

19 February 2008
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After our Top 10 Favourite Historical Heroes in series and movies, we felt that we needed to do our Top 10 Heroines also. This list doesn’t have a particular order, these are just those heroines we cannot resist, even if we do have a little weakness for Lizzy. ;-)

Elizabeth Bennett / Jennifer Ehle in BBC’s [...]

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Top 10 Historical Heroes: Who Are They?!

11 December 2007
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After some discussion, we all thought it would be fun to make a Top 10 of our Favourite Historical Heroes in series and movies. At first we were aiming for a Top 3 until we finally admitted it was an impossible task, as it is we still struggled to choose just 10. Who are those [...]

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How Old Does it Have to Be…

29 October 2007
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… to be considered historical?
With the proliferation of movies set in the first half of the 20th century this question becomes more and more frequent. For instance, Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot are among our favourite series, Agatha Christie’s famous characters who lived in around 1920/1930. Can those be considered historical adaptations? We’d like to [...]

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