If you want to make some comparisons about the
new BBC's Jane Eyre and the last
1997 TV adaptation (the one with Samantha Morton and Ciarán Hinds) you have a chance to do so today. In our TV weekly alerts section on the sidebar we have included an alert for today.
ITV3 broadcasts tonight (September 19, 9:00 PM UTC) the 1997 version. Quoting
The Times:A stellar line-up of Samantha Morton, Ciarán Hinds and a Kay Mellor script promises much in this 1997 adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s classic romance, but falls some way short of the mark. Part of the problem is that Mellor and her co-writers had to cut some notable scenes, and the pairing of Morton and Hinds lacks a certain spark. It is perhaps cheekily timed to pre-empt the new BBC One version on Sunday, starring newcomer Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens.
Regrettably not everybody is so excited about this new adaptation of Jane Eyre.
The Washington Post reviews the new PBS season and is not exactly happy with it:
Among the "Masterpiece Theatre" offerings this season: a two-part, four-hour adaptation of the very venerable "Jane Eyre," with no big names in the cast -- not that there's anything wrong with that. Otherwise, it's more of "Antiques Roadshow" on a network that is beginning to look like something of an antique roadshow itself.
Finally,
a new addition to the Haworth misspellings gallery of horrors:
Travel has been my passion ever since I was a boy. We lived in Riddlesden, a small village on the south side of Ilkley Moor, looking across Keighley to Hawarth, the home of the Brontë family.
Categories: Movies-DVD-TV, Jane_Eyre,In_the_News
Re Washington Post
ReplyDeleteWhy does there have to be "big names"? William Hurt was a big name and quite frankly totally miscast. I'd much rather have a respected British actor who is not unknown in the UK than some American "star". British TV does not do "star" vehicles. Talent is more important.
I wholeheartedly agree! I still get shivers down my spine to think of Angelina Jolie as Cathy - and she's a neon-light kind of big name.
ReplyDeleteThe nameless writer of the article obviously goes to blockbusters only. Oh well, that's their loss.
Well, judging a series by its no-big-names cast is wrong IMHO - even they go on to remark "not that there's anything wrong with that". if there wasn't anything wrong with that they wouldn't feel the need to comment on it.
ReplyDeleteDid you really like W. Hurt as Rochester? What was it you liked about him?