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	Vanity Fair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray that satirizes society in early 19th-century England.
		Vanity Fair was the first work that Thackeray published under his own name, and was extremely well-received at the time.
		The term "vanity fair" originates from the allegorical novel The Pilgrim's Progress, published in 1678 by John Bunyan where there is a town fair held in a village called Vanity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vanity_Fair (2302 words)

	Movieman's Guide to the Movies - Vanity Fair (2004) - Widescreen Edition
		Vanity Fair is the latest adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's popular 19th century novel.
		The film certainly had potential to be much better, but in the end, it seems to be poorly executed from a storytelling standpoint.
		Nevertheless, she discusses the influences of the novel in the film as well as her own interpretations of what she thinks certain themes in the film are.
	www.moviemansguide.com /reviews/DVD/vanityfairDVD_gladiator.php (1332 words)

	Vanity Fair (2004) - A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
		When “Vanity Fair” was first published in 1847-48, author William Makepeace Thackeray subtitled his classic “A Novel Without A Hero.” In serial installments, the Indian-born writer satirized the universal human folly of seeking after the treasures of Vanity Fair – money, prestige and social status – as the primary aim in life.
		In an era when Hollywood screenwriters study the hero’s journey as a common framework for successful films, it was perhaps inevitable that ruthlessly determined Becky Sharp would be cast as a hero, rather than as someone who achieves her ambition at tremendous cost to the lives of those around her.
		Vanity Fair is the type of story for which words like “chicanery” and “conniving” were invented.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /vanity_fair.htm (792 words)

	Filmtracks: Vanity Fair (Mychael Danna)
		Vanity Fair: (Mychael Danna) Modern moviegoers may not realize the lengthy history of the Vanity Fair story in film; the classic novel by William Makepeace Thackeray has been translated to the big screen six times, but four of those films were produced in the silent era and the two others were viewed in the 1930's.
		In case you are unfamiliar about the story, Vanity Fair follows the ambitions of Rebecca (Becky) Sharp, a clever girl born into the lower classes of London circa 1820.
		Vanity Fair is a strong score, and despite unexplored artistic avenues, Danna should be commended for this effort.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/vanity_fair.html (1067 words)

	Vanity Fair (2004 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vanity Fair is a 2004 drama/romance film, directed by Mira Nair.
		It is based on the William Makepeace Thackeray novel entitled Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero but with substantial changes, including a happy ending (see Thackery article for plot summary).
		The film was nominated for "Golden Lion" Award in 2004 Venice Film Festival.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vanity_Fair_(2004_film) (104 words)

	Vanity Fair (2004) - About the Production
		Day notes, "Vanity Fair had to be huge and lavish and funny and moving in terms of characters and storylines all having to interconnect and it had to have a real truth and humanity to it.
		In the process of making films, we immerse ourselves in whatever the culture and subject matter are, live it a little bit, and then bring it all in front of the camera.
		William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair - written in serialized form in 1847 and 1848 - is often cited as the most intelligent and amusing critique of early 19th-century society.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /vanity_fair_about.htm (7147 words)

	Vanity Fair (2004)
		Born to a painter and an opera singer, Becky is looked upon as lower class and she's not about to stand for being pooped upon by the upper crust.
		And what's happening?" The novel on which the film is based is pretty hefty, so it's no surprise that there's a lot of material to get through.
		The film has a great look to it, thanks in large part to the work of DP Declan Quinn (brother of Aidan).
	www.moviepie.com /rent/vanity_fair.htm (659 words)

	Vanity Fair (2004) Movie film locations - 1000s of Famous Locations of movies, film stars, sites, actors & events from ...
		Vanity Fair: Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in Adam's Rib, 1949
		Apart from a brief location shoot in India, Vanity Fair was filmed in the U.K. for eleven weeks in the spring and summer of 2003, all around Southern England and briefly at Elstree Studios.
		The production filmed at a number of other stately homes, including Ditchley Park in Oxfordshire (the interior of the Crawley house), Wrotham Park in Hertfordshire (the interior of the Gaunt House), West Wycombe Park in Buckinghamshire (the interior of the Sedley House), and Luton Hoo in Bedfordshire (were several interiors were filmed).
	www.famouslocations.com /movies/vanityfair2004.php (1077 words)

	Vanity Fair film movie trailer review at The Z Review
		Vanity Fair will be released in the U.K. on R2 DVD on the 16th May 2005.
		Vanity Fair will be released in the US on R1 DVD on the 1st February 2005.
		“Vanity Fair” is a 1820's period piece, where I play Becky Sharp (a lower-class girl who uses her wit and guile to make it through 1820's London society, as the effects of the Battle of Waterloo are felt by her adopted family, the parents of Amelia, her best friend from boarding school.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/v/vanityfair.shtm (2175 words)

	AboutFilm.com - Vanity Fair (2004)
		Vanity Fair concerns plucky Becky Sharpe, the orphaned child of a starving artist and a French chorus girl.
		Vanity Fair is the work of social satirist William Makepeace Thackeray, who subtitled his 1847 book, “A novel without a hero.” Consider that fair warning.
		When a woman is surprised to encounter Amelia with her son late in the film, and spies on them, you might find yourself desperately rifling through your memory banks to remember that this is Maria Osborne (Sophie Hunter), George's sister.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/v/vanityfair.htm (1474 words)

	"Vanity Fair (2004)" / a review and/or comments from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		The characters in the world of “Vanity Fair” are confused and full of fear without the Holy Spirit, The Comforter.
		First John 4:4 declares “Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.” Teach your little ones to go to God with all their worries, problems and human needs through prayer.
		Due to certain thematic elements, I would encourage parents to watch “Vanity Fair,” and then decide if it is appropriate for their younger children to see.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2004/vanityfair2004.html (3216 words)

	Vanity Fair (2004): Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The peculiar quality of Vanity Fair, which sets it aside from the Austen adaptations such as "Sense and Sensibility" and "Pride and Prejudice," is that it's not about very nice people.
		The first part of the film, which introduces Becky and her various run-ins with bachelors and her new home, is well-paced and entertaining.
		I suppose the film is more realistic than others of its ilk because Becky certainly doesn't become one of the most likable people in the world by the end of this bildungsroman.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/vanityfair (1754 words)

	Sissel \| Vanity Fair Soundtrack – 2004
		Focus Features' Vanity Fair, the new film version of the classic novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, unites one of America's most popular stars, Reese Witherspoon (Legally Blonde, Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde, Sweet Home Alabama) with one of the world's most acclaimed directors, Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, Salaam Bombay!).
		The soundtrack was composed by Mychael Danna (Monsoon Wedding, Girl, Interrupted) featuring Scandinavian songstress Sissel, who lends her soaring vocals to the standout track "She Walks In Beauty." The original motion picture soundtrack was released in the USA on Decca/UMG Soundtracks 31.
		Vanity Fair introduces a new audience to the beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating Becky (played by Witherspoon).
	www.sissel.cc /vanityfair04.html (498 words)

	Vanity Fair: Exuberant Exotica
		The treatment of Becky Sharpe in the film is one of its biggest flaws.
		There is nothing wrong in presenting a character filled with contradictory impulses and actions but the script does not provide us heartfelt moments to make us love her now or offer disgusting revelations to dislike her the next moment.
		But what saves the film -- which had a brief shooting stint in India and is filled with considerable amount of Indian music -- is the work of British veterans.
	www.rediff.com /entertai/2004/sep/01mira.htm?headline=Vanity~Fair (756 words)

	Vanity Fair (2004) - Channel 4 Film review
		A shrewd woman who rose through the ranks of British society by playing men at their own game, she is a thoroughly modern figure and a walking advert for female empowerment.
		It is with this in mind that Indian director Mira Nair believes that Sharp's story, the central plot of William Makepeace Thackeray's Victorian epic 'Vanity Fair', is ripe for consumption by 21st century audiences.
		Drawing out the Indian elements of Thackeray's novel (Becky is obsessed with the subcontinent and even proves her mettle by swallowing a chilli whole at the dinner table), Nair even turns an alluring 'slave' dance into a full-blown Bollywood number.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=137521 (388 words)

	Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema: Vanity Fair
		Vanity Fair poster at a bus stop on the corner of Dupont and Spadina in Toronto (August 27, 2004)
		In VANITY FAIR Reese Witherspoon’s Becky Sharp intends to climb the social ladder even if it means trampling others to get higher.
		VANITY FAIR is at its best when the characters are most selfish and selfless.
	reeltimes.blogspot.com /2004/09/vanity-fair.html (428 words)

	Vanity Fair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Vanity Fair is a timeless story about life lived, and a skewering of upper class society.
		Told against a lush and vast canvas, Mira Nair's Vanity Fair is one of the very best movies of the year.
		Instead of a sly critique of hypocrisy and pretense in all social classes, the film is a stodgy, unremarkable costume drama with all the bite of a poodle.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/vanity_fair (1004 words)

	CNN.com - Review: 'Vanity Fair' captivates audience - Sep 1, 2004
		The film is directed by Mira Nair, a native of India and former documentary filmmaker, who is best known for her highly praised independent film "Monsoon Wedding" (2001).
		It's interesting to note that the author of "Vanity Fair" was born in Calcutta in 1811 and was sent to England at the age of six.
		The film's authenticity sweeps viewers away into another time and place, particularly in the London scenes and at the battle of Waterloo.
	www.cnn.com /2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/01/review.vanity.fair/index.html (599 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review VANITY FAIR movie by Mira Nair with Reese Witherspoon, Jim Broadbent, Eileen Atkins, James ...
		"Vanity Fair," full of elaborate costumes and settings, is still a cold exercise in which an overmatched Reese Witherspoon grapples with an empty script.
		While Witherspoon was pluckily perfect as Elle Woods in the "Legally Blonde" films, her Becky Sharp leaves much to be desired (I couldn't help but wonder what Nicole Kidman might have done with this part).
		"Vanity Fair" (the book) demands grandeur, opulent parties and ornate costumes sporting much décolletage, and while these are very much in evidence, "Vanity Fair" (the movie) feels like a sumptuous masque to which nobody bothered to invite the guest of honor.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2004/vanityfair.php (582 words)

	Vanity Fair (2004): Reese Witherspoon, Bob Hoskins, Romola Garai, Eileen Atkins - PopMatters Film Review
		According to Mira Nair's Vanity Fair, adapted from William Makepeace Thackery's lengthy novel, Becky Sharp (Reese Witherspoon) has everything going for her, in particular the fact that she's the star of this lightweight, episodic social-climbing adventure.
		The film paints her as an ambitious, essentially good-hearted girl, less ruthless than in the novel and more admirable.
		Then again, "history" is hardly the subject of Vanity Fair, which attends instead -- when it's not marching through bits of plot -- to the ways that "facts" are shaped to accommodate the images and needs of those writing it.
	popmatters.com /film/reviews/v/vanity-fair-2004.shtml (1129 words)

	05.05.2004 - The dangers of media lite
		Orth, a longtime writer for Vanity Fair magazine (and a 1964 Berkeley graduate), spoke to an audience at the Graduate School of Journalism on April 28 during a promotional tour for her new book, The Importance of Being Famous: Behind the Scenes of the Celebrity-Industrial Complex.
		As a special correspondent for Vanity Fair since 1993, Orth has interviewed the likes of Madonna, Margaret Thatcher, Vladimir Putin, Gerry Allen, and Tina Turner, among others.
		Huffington had hired a television crew to film her volunteering, though the agency says she contributed neither time nor money to their cause.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/berkeleyan/2004/05/05_orth.shtml (708 words)

	September 2004 \| blackfilm.com \| reviews \| film \| vanity fair
		William Thackeray's classic novel of the same name is the source material for the film.
		The result is a disjointed film that becomes incredibly tedious to watch.
		Vanity Fair is essentially a pulp soap opera.
	www.blackfilm.com /20040903/reviews/vanityfair.shtml (704 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Vanity Fair [2004]: DVD: Reese Witherspoon,Eileen Atkins,Jim Broadbent,Gabriel Byrne,Romola Garai,Bob ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The corsets and high waists of the 19th century meet the lush colors and visual splendor of India in Vanity Fair, a classic novel translated into modern celluloid by Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding).
		But as Vanity Fair unfolds, the movie's tone embraces both period decor and modern attitudes, searching for a bridge that will carry us more deeply into a different time.
		This film looks gorgeous and I think Nair has stuck faithfully to the tone of the story in all but one respect - the character of Becky.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Vanity-Fair-Reese-Witherspoon/dp/B0009F68AM (1381 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: Vanity Fair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Nair, eschewing the prudishness of so many cinematic adaptations of Victorian classics, drenches the proceedings in sumptuously vibrant colors that both breathe life into the staid country manor milieu as well as comment on the sexual underpinnings of Becky's calculated machinations.
		Her film, from its glittering set design to its heroines' heaving bosoms, is enticingly opulent.
		The consequence of such narrative imbalance is that the film becomes an awkward—and slightly unfaithful—period piece about one pretty woman's uplifting elevation from poverty to prominence.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1217 (370 words)

	Vanity Fair [2004] Shaking Through.net: Movies: Review
		Adapting William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair for film is no small endeavor.
		Rather than focus on Becky to the exclusion of the various subplots, Nair and her team attempt to offer little slices of Vanity Fair.
		What’s left is a gorgeously filmed, professionally executed misfire.
	www.shakingthrough.net /movies/reviews/2004/vanity_fair_2004.html (642 words)

	Wired 12.10: The Long Tail
		That same month, IFC Films released a docudrama of the story to critical acclaim.
		An average movie theater will not show a film unless it can attract at least 1,500 people over a two-week run; that's essentially the rent for a screen.
		In the tyranny of physical space, an audience too thinly spread is the same as no audience at all.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/12.10/tail.html (1037 words)

	Vanity Fair (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ironically, 'Vanity Fair' is a very fitting title for this inexpressive and characterless remake of a true classic.
		I had the somewhat unfortunate job of accompanying two teenage girls to my viewing of Vanity Fair.
		All their interest was well gone by the time Gabriel Byrne strutted onto the screen, and although it pains me to admit it, my interest had slowly subsided with theirs.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0241025 (503 words)

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