All about blogs

It's all about blogs today.

Brian Heys has a very funny post with a serious background. It's along the lines of last Saturday's article on what would have been Wuthering Heights had mobile phones existed then.

On Saturday, I was in Haworth, the Yorkshire village where the Brontë sisters lived and wrote their novels, including Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
The Brontë Parsonage Museum is a must-see when you’re in Haworth, and it really made me wonder what sort of things people will be looking at in another hundred and fifty years, if we haven’t all been killed off by bird flu, nuclear war, or global warming.
Imagine if the Brontës lived in our time, and we were in the future, looking back. Would we be in raptures over seeing Charlotte Brontë’s Palm Vx? Would we be delighted to see entries from Emily Brontë’s LiveJournal? Would there be long queues to watch brother Branwell’s YouTube videos, or to check out the PHP source from Anne’s web site?
A big part of me doesn’t think so.

Sadly a big part of us doesn't think so either.

After posting many alerts of Rivette's take on Wuthering Heights we think this might be the first time we come across a review of it online ever since BrontëBlog was born. It's from Doorknob in a Train.

Hurlevent - Easily the most beautiful film Rivette has done in terms of visuals and sound (and William Lubtchansky is not even managing the cinematography). I can understand why most Rivette fans do not embrace this picture. It is, evidently, missing humor, inventiveness, and personality. Emily Brontë's child-like characters feel out-of-place, and some audience even complain that the actors in the movie are "Bressonian models" (namely ones who give "living dead" performances). Nevertheless, this is as good as straight narrative goes - no overacting, no "movie music." Every frame has essential elements, every camera movement has narrative significance. Some might feel manipulated by the ethereal and magnificent soundtrack, but hey, it's Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares!

Encouraging, isn't it? We suggest you try and get hold of it and judge for yourself :)

We have discovered a new blog called Jane Eyre outside reading. Up to know three Jane-Eyre-related essays have been posted, and there might be more on the way.

Some Czech readers out there might find it interesting to read this post from a Czech blog. As far as we can judge it is on the Brontë sisters and their works in general and Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in particular.

And to end on a musical note, The Line of Best Fit has a post where a full concert of The Demberists can be downloaded song by song. We have mentioned their version of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights before, so if you're curious, just click here.

Categories: Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Music, Wuthering Heights