I Can't Wait For...Anna Karenina

I was working at the video store yesterday and decided I wanted to take home The Young Victoria to watch again, since I absolutely love historical/period romance movies.  Then, of course I started thinking of Pride and Prejudice, because as I said countless times before, it is my all-time favorite movie and love story.  So that then led me to check out what other movies Keira Knightley was working on.

Knightley, Wright, Macfadyen

To my pleasant surprise I discovered that she, Matthew Macfadyen (Mr. Darcy in P&P) and Joe Wright (Director of P&P) would be working together on Anna Karenina.  Yippee! Sadly, Keira and Matthew will be playing brother and sister this time (but hopefully that means a lot of scenes together).  Joining my favorite team will be Saoirse Ronan, who - as I mentioned in my "Movie of the Week" post - starred in Atonement with Keira.  More cast includes Domhnall Gleeson (Bill Weasley from the Harry Potter movies) and Jude Law.

The movie of course is based off the novel by Leo Tolstoy in which Anna is trapped in a loveless marriage and looks for a better life, but finds only a more complicated one.

Filming of the movie will start in September of this year, and the movie has yet to have a release date except for "sometime in" 2012.  I will be waiting on pins and needles!

Movie of the Month...Atonement

Okay, I don't know if I'm going to do this every week, but I just thought...why not give it a try.

I've been making a list of movies I want to catch-up on or re-watch again, as my DVD collection has grown rather large and some of these movies are gathering quite a bit of dust.

Focus Features

I thought to myself today, that it has been so long since I've watched ATONEMENT.

Based on the British romance novel by Ian McEwan and starring Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Saoirse Ronan, and many others, the movie was nominated for seven Academy Awards in 2007, including Best Picture, and won the Oscar for Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score - which I agree was completely well-deserved, as the music was phenomenal.

The movie is about a young writer Briony Tallis (Ronan) who irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

Oh my goodness. I don't think I have ever cried harder in a movie. I think I cried harder watching it today, than I did the very first time I watched it. I absolutely love Joe Wright, the director of the film, who also directed my all-time favorite movie, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. The music, as I said is fantastic, and the actors do a phenomenal job playing such emotional roles. This movie is absolutely a must-see. But just make sure you have a box of tissues nearby.