on netflix, new version of persuasion, the jane austen novel, directed by carrie cracknell, who i know as a theatre director. big fan, yes. so, dakota johnson and cosmojarvis are the perfect couple who were persuaded to part after she was told "he's not really good enough for you" some years ago. since then, they've been pining for each other. now, they're brought back together but they are unable to declare their love for each other. this is thought to be austen's most heartfelt novel and the tone of it is often very interior. the tone of the film is much more flippant. there's lots of — you can even see this from the clip — lots of post—flea bag looking at the camera... yeah! i thought of that! ..doing monologues to camera — i don't mind that, because when so much of it is to do with interior thought, you have to find a way of doing that on film. i could have lived with a little less of the... "0k, just cheeky!" it's got the kind of diverse casting that made david copperfield so exciting and the performances are all really good. cosmojarvis is, i think, a fantastic actor. dakota john

very different for number two. 0n netflix, new version of persuasion, the jane austen novel, directedt you're familiar with. big fan of as a theatre director. big fan, yes. so, dakota johnson and cosmojarvis are the perfect couple who were persuaded to part after she was told "he's not really good enough for you" some years ago. since then, they've been pining for each other. now, they're brought back together but they are unable to declare their love for each other. this is thought to be austen's most heartfelt novel and the tone of it is often very interior. the tone of the film is much more flippant. there's lots of — you can even see this from the clip — lots of post—fleabag looking at the camera... yeah! i thought of that! ..doing monologues to camera — i don't mind that, because when so much of it is to do with interior thought, you have to find a way of doing that on film. i could have lived with a little less of the... "0k, just cheeky!" it's got the kind of diverse casting that made david copperfield so exciting and the performances are all really good. cosmojarvis is, i thin

it's very jane austen and this gown belongs to elizabeth monroe and she wore this overseas and this would have been more during the second diplomatic mission after the turn of the 1800s turn of the 19th century. and so you can see it's very slick. it's very straightforward. you know, it's a lot different than those gowns that were coming out just a couple decades beforehand there were much more lavish they were much more, you know had the bonuses and they had, you know, they're much wider and bigger and everything like this. this is more sleek more streamlined right? it's more i don't know at least for back then if you could imagine it have been more modern. you know what? i mean like nowadays it looks right back then this would have been modern. this would have been news sort of been the styled aware and it is actually made out of believe it or not. it's actually made out of velvet. and what's really interesting about this just sort of a side tangent nerd tangent here. is that velvet, you know, how they make velvet. well, they actually they have two pieces of material right that are sort

"persuasion" is coming out july 15th on netflix it's a jane austen adaptation. jimmy: "i really likes it because i do -- >> accents >> jimmy: yeah dude, how'd you know >> that's really good, 'cause yeah >> jimmy: "is it is it though is it -- is it good? [ laughter ] >> i don't know. >> jimmy: "is it all right?" >> not really. >> jimmy: "yeah, not really. >> no. >> jimmy: "i do accents every now and then i can do a different one and i'm just saying, i could audition i could be in the next movie that you want to be in." [ laughter ] >> are you okay? [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah that's -- that's the reaction i want from people >> yeah. >> jimmy: "are you okay? >> yeah. >> jimmy: yeah >> he's transformed. >> jimmy: are you great -- but are you good with accents? do you love doing them >> i love doing them i had an amazing vocal coach for "persuasion," though jill mccullough. and then, her assistant, helen simmons was on set with me >> jimmy: yeah >> and then we would do, like, crazy warmups in the mornings at, like, 5:00 in the morning. >> jimmy: whoa >> which would

there is the last of shakespeares and jane austen and the quote bore is chose was from the terminator? i mean i guess that shows you pot we are of american culture. even the prime minister of the united kingdom is like farewell and god speed orksz-kurrrr. the most ridiculous thing ever. and i don't know if you saw t the speech was weird, the whole thing. in the middle i started giving random advice about driving, focus on the road ahead, always check the rearview mirror and remember it is not a hit and run if you drive away slowly, all right? you know, it is also like normally when are you giving a speech, especially about resigning or being fired like surely you want to make people regret, like when you give the speech i want people to go oh, man, we made the wrong choice, they are leaving, remember with obama, when he gave his farewell speech, even racists in america were like maybe he was one of the good ones. but this guy, this guy gives a speech he's like yo, how did he get the job. did he win a contest or something? who is this person? anyway let's move on to some news about ame

that what would have been behind these pavilions would have been leisure gardens, you know think a jane austen novel that you stroll through in, you know, as you're afternoon leisure and so that's when they were all put in what's interesting about them now is they are now historically important. because they are a really important document about colonial revival taste. right and about a really important colonial revival garden designer. so there are many layers of history at uva as there would be at any historic site that's been around for a long time. question. yes. well firstly thank you professor for this because i know there is a huge conversation, especially in classrooms about the contention of speaking about the past and a lot of times people take it as oh well, why are you blaming the students? why are you trying to cause the spirit of guilt? do you believe that using art was an easier segue into having that conversation and like using the visual aspects instead of just lecturing about it? yeah. great question. i mean, i i myself am a visual learner right? so when i was like you a stud

it's called play on jane austen. sense and sexuality. how girls can get real protection in a hooked up world and as much as i like to moralize, this is medical and real scientific. it's about the differences between men and women when it comes to intimacy. even just kissing a and hugging. we have as women of hormone that comes up with intimacy that the same one when we're nursing our babies. we tend to bond, to fall in love whereas most momen are ready to move on and this is something that often that's use to tell their daughters. they don't tell us about this, just do whatever it feels like but it's very different between men and women. but we try to do with this booklet written by a distinguished former counselor college who said you know, come december or january these incredibly talented young women, healthy athletic from good families would be terribly depressed or ready to kill t themselves because they got caught up in this hookup culture and they just and the boys would move on and therethey were . promiscuity starting at college

on netflix, new version of persuasion, the jane austen novel, directed by carrie cracknell, who i knowood. cosmojarvis is, i think, a fantastic actor. dakota johnson does fine, wrestles with the accent a little bit. it feels very surface—y. and jane austen fans got very cross when they saw the trailer, and the trailer is pretty much the tone of the film. the trailer is even more flippant than the film itself but it's kind of passably entertaining for what it is, with some great performances, but it really doesn't have any depth at all. although, that said, put it next to thor: love and thunder and it's war and peace. it's a masterpiece! i mean, it looks beautiful but i felt i didn't — yes, didn't know what to say much more, apart from that. that's the thing. when what you say about it is, "it looks beautiful." what that means is... 0k. brian and charles, i have not seen, and i'm so interested, because i'm kind of intrigued by this. so, touchingly absurdist comedy about a lonely man living in a cottage in the welsh valleys. he makes inventions, and one day, he finds a mannequin�*s head