I have a sudden obsession with Anna Karenina. Apparently there’s a 2000 British miniseries starring Stephen Dillane as Karenin and Mark Strong as Anna’s brother Oblonsky. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! I want to watch this ASAP! Anna was played by Helen McCrory (probably most well-known as Cherie Blair in “The Queen”) and Kevin McKidd (Dr Owen Hunt aka Cristina’s husband in Grey’s Anatomy) played Count Vronsky. Was looking at the IMDB page for the 2012 Anna Karenina; I can’t find casting info for Nikolai Levin the dying brother. This, plus the fact that Joe Wright casts relatively unknown actors for the parts of Kitty and Levin made me suspect that the movie will be mostly about Anna, Vronsky and Karenin, and ignoring a large part of Levin’s story. Not surprising, I guess, you can’t fit everything in 2+ hours, and once you’ve cast a big star as Anna, you can’t keep moving from her story to someone else’s.
verityjes 
I never heard of her (well I guess maybe because Im a teenager) but I should check it out and learn more about her and her movies
You mean Helen McCrory? I only know her from the two movies she played Cherie Blair (“The Queen” and “The Special Relationship”), heh. But she was perfect as Mrs Tony Blair, I thought.
Do you think If I go visit the public library I would be able to rent one of her movies? 😛
Probably “The Queen”. It’s one of those prestigious, Oscar-bait type of movies considered highbrow. But don’t let that discourage you, it’s still a very enjoyable movie 🙂