Sunday cinematic newsround

Our Sunday newsround comes with a lot of mentions connected with Brontë novels adapted to the big screen:

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reminds the US cable viewers that this week on the Encore channel you can see Franco Zeffirelli's 1996 Jane Eyre: Jun 01, 06:15 AM (Eastern Time). Precisely about this film Anna Paquin, who was young Jane Eyre in the Zeffirelli film before being Rogue in the X-Men saga, talks in an interview in The Telegraph:
Paquin cites her second film, Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (1996), in which she played the young heroine, as the sort of fare of which they approved. 'He hasn't made that many more films because he's not, you know, a spring chicken any more,' Paquin says of Zeffirelli. 'I feel really privileged to work with someone like him before he stops making movies.'

In a funny article published on L.A. Daily News, Glenn Whipp makes a list of bad books/good movies and good books/bad movies. The entry devoted to The Scarlet Letter gives an unexpected, and disturbing, Brontë mention:

"The Scarlet Letter" (1995): Plays like the first — and last — entry in the "Classic Literature as Imagined by Hugh Hefner" film series. Sadly, the abject failure of this movie meant we never got to see Demi Moore take off her clothes in "Wuthering Heights," "Madame Bovary" or "Jane Eyre."

Sadly? Demi Moore as Jane Eyre? And Antonio Banderas as Heatchliff? I will have nightmares.

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