From Vancouver to Germany through Haworth

Three alerts from Canada to Germany:

Passing by Haworth, where a special screening of Franco Zeffirelli's version of Jane Eyre (1996) will take place today, March 23. The Telegraph & Argus covers the news:

Franco Zeffirelli's 1995 Hollywood version of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre will be shown at West Lane Chapel, on Friday, March 23, from 7.45pm. (...)

Andrew McCarthy, Bronte Parsonage Museum deputy director, said: "We've shown several Brontë movies in recent years, working our way through the decades from the silver-screen classics of the 1930s and 40s right through to the 1990s.

"The screenings have been hugely popular and Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre is really one of the very best examples of the Brontës in Hollywood and well worth seeing."

Tickets must be purchased in advance and cost £5 for adults and £2.50 for under 16s. For bookings and further information contact the Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth, on (01535) 640194 or e-mail andrew.mccarthy@bronte.org.uk.

Jacques Rivette's Hurlevent (based in the first chapters of Wuthering Heights) continues its tour around North America. This time it can be seen in Vancouver's Pacific Cinematheque:

Hurlevent
(Wuthering Heights
FRANCE 1985. DIRECTOR: JACQUES RIVETTE
FRIDAY, MARCH 23 – 9:20 PM - buy tickets

Jacques Rivette adapts the early chapters of Wuthering Heights in his little-known Hurlevent, an erotically charged, often hallucinatory drama that explores the boundaries between social classes and between reality and dreams. Hurlevent (literally, “howling wind”) transposes Emily Brontë's famed novel from the moors of Yorkshire in the late 18th century to the rocky Cévennes region of south-central France in the 1930s. The film's Cathy is Catherine (Fabienne Babe), the passionate, petulant daughter of a dissolute country squire. Her Heathcliff and great adolescent love is Roch (Lucas Belvaux), a lowly farmhand. Cathy's ardour for Roch wanes as she grows up and becomes more concerned with wealth and status. When she eventually takes a more respectable husband, Roch disappears. His return years later as a man of means sets events moving towards their tragic, nightmarish conclusion. Rivette's beautifully filmed drama makes eerie, evocative use of the incantations of Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, the noted Bulgarian choir, and of Escher-like dream sequences. In the fantastical finale, “the spirit world quite literally breaches the real world, an action that manages to have repercussions at one miraculous, damning, and devastating” (Keith Uhlich, Slant). Colour, 35mm, in French with English subtitles. 130 mins.

The Leipzig Buchmesse celebrates today the Radionacht der Hörbücher (Audiobook's Radio Night). It can be listen through all the ARD radio stations. One of the activities is related with last year's Jane Eyre audiobook released in German (more information on this post and this other post of ours):

Discussion with Christian Redl (Edward Rochester) and Christiane Ohaus (director), around Jane Eyre's audiobook.
March 23, 23:00 PM

Categories: Alert, Audio-Radio, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Wuthering Heights