The Capital Times

For the fourth season, which begins this spring, the theme will be The Turn of the 20th Century.
Then to mark the fifth season of the free and public program, jointly run by The Capital Times, the Wisconsin Historical Society and the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, the club will hold an all-Jane Austen year.
Here is a tentative schedule, subject to change, of the next two seasons:
April 15, 2007: We launch a turn-of-the-20th-century theme year with Henry James Washington Square.

The movie features Albert Finney, Maggie Smith and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The speaker is Joseph Wiesenfarth, UW professor emeritus of English, who published a book on James.
Sept.

16, 2007: Edith Wharton s The Age of Innocence with a speaker yet to be named. The movie is the award-winning version directed by Martin Scorsese that stars Daniel Day-Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Jan.

20, 2008: E.M. Forster s Howard s End with Bob Baker, UW professor emeritus of English, who will link it to the 2005 best-selling novel On Beauty by Zadie Smith, who uses the Forster book as her premise or inspiration for an updated treatment of similar themes.

The film is a Merchant-Ivory production starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.
In April 2008, the all-Jane Austen year will begin:
April 13, 2008: Pride and Prejudice with Emily Auerbach, UW professor and Wisconsin Academy fellow. Auerbach recently published an acclaimed critical book on Austen ( Searching for Jane Austen, UW Press) and will show the same scene from an Indian Bollywood treatment called Bride and Prejudice and a 1941 Laurence Olivier version in the archives of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research before screening the full Keira Knightley and Donald Sutherland 2005 version that did well at the box office.

Sept. 14, 2008: Caroline Levine, UW professor of English, will speak again (she appeared for Jane Eyre ) and introduce Sense and Sensibility, which won several awards, starred Emma Thompson and was directed by Ang Lee ( Brokeback Mountain ). Levine will talk about Austen leading up to the later 19th century fiction.

Jan. 18, 2009: Persuasion will be featured. Joseph Wiesenfarth, UW professor emeritus, who published a book on Austen, will lead the discussion of the book and the British film version starring Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds.

The club s previous selections have included Ernest Hemingway s A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls ; Dashiell Hammett s The Maltese Falcon ; Leo Tolstoy s Anna Karenina ; Virginia Woolf s Mrs. Dalloway ; Raymond Chandler s The Big Sleep ; Franz Kafka s The Trial ; Charlotte Bronte s Jane Eyre ; and Philip Roth s Goodbye, Columbus.
All screenings take place on Sundays at 1:30 p.

m. in the 300-seat first-floor auditorium of the Wisconsin Historical Society, 816 State St., on the Library Mall across from the Memorial Union.

For more information, call 252-6480 or visit and click on the calendar of events.