Books and films

First of all we will start by posting a couple of things that we have mentioned before recently. Yesterday The Fountain was compared to Wuthering Heights. Today too.

As for ‘‘The Fountain,” in which Weisz plays a Spanish queen who sends Hugh Jackman’s conquistador to the New World and also portrays a contemporary woman struggling with her lover (Jackman again), she calls it ‘‘a real classic fairy tale or a classic story about love that lasts for eternity. It’s like ‘Wuthering Heights.’ I love the idea of a love that transcends all odds and time and pain and death and all of it.” (Stephen Schaefer in The Boston Herald)

And a few days ago the new James Bond was said to have a resemblance to Heathcliff. Today is not exactly the James Bond of the film but of the books.

The books—like the best films in the series—reveal a romantic hero with secret sorrows: a figure more like Bronte's Heathcliff than like Mike Hammer, or the other bruisers of pulp. (Richard von Busack on MetroActive)

Something that's not new either, it's the many praises for Jane Eyre 1944. This time it is reviewed on Beta Particle. A short but very to the point and insightful little review.

And finally This is Bradford reviews Emily's Journal by Sarah Fermi (check our own review).

Experts have praised the plausibility, skill and detail of Sarah's 236-page portrayal of Emily's thoughts and motivations.
The Cambridge writer completed "Emily's Journal" after 15 years of research into unanswered aspects of the Brontë family's lives.
She explored the theory that Emily experienced a profound and tragic relationship as an adolescent, social circumstances keeping the couple apart. The experience was said to have affected the rest of Emily's life and became the emotional source of both her poetry and Wuthering Heights.
Sarah looked at census records, parish registers and wills as she tried to match real-life evidence with the contents of Emily's works.
She chose to put forward the theory as a fictional journal, exploring Emily's life in minute detail, rather than as a biography.
Sally Wainwright, writer of TV drama At Home with the Braithwaites, this year turned the theory into a Radio 4 drama.
Sarah said her book was already selling well at the Brontë Parsonage Museum. She said: "It might be of interest to the general public as an entertaining read and a completely new look at the Brontë sisters.
"A great deal of research went into its creation and the theory is both possible and indeed probable."
Margaret Smith, editor of the Letters of Charlotte Brontë, said she was sceptical when she first started reading "Emily's Journal".
But she said: "I was gripped by the skilful interweaving of fact and possibility, and the way Sarah brought historic places and people to life."
Bob Duckett, editor of Brontë Studies, described the book as a superb mixture of historical research and plausible gap-filling.
Dr Heather Glen, who has written about Charlotte Brontë, said the compelling "Emily's Journal" was based on an extraordinarily detailed knowledge of the social history of Haworth.
She added: "Sarah really does convince us that something like what she describes could have happened and gives an intriguing glimpse of what the Brontë family dynamics might actually have been." (David Knights in Keighley News)

Categories: Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Emily Brontë