Emotionally satisfying, optimistic conclusion

Entertainment Weekly reviews the several CliffNotes+DVD editions that we commented on several days ago:

The same goes for Wuthering Heights — this plodding 1970 feature does a disservice to Emily Bronte's sublime 1847 novel. (If you insist on seeing this classic on screen, then by all means hold out for the Sept. 3 DVD release of Masterpiece Theatre's The Bronte Collection. The 1998 version of Wuthering — staring Pride and Prejudice's Matthew MacFadyen as the oft-underrepresented Hareton — will have you, and your child, in knots.) (...)
The big-screen presentations of Moby Dick (1956), Anna Karenina (1948), and Jane Eyre (1944) [Jane Eyre 1944] won't help your kid pass tests. In the second of these movies, Vivien Leigh appropriately bewitches as Anna, but Ralph Richardson's depiction of frigid, cuckolded Karenin as a sauntering cad is just wrong. So, too, in the third movie, Joan Fontaine captures Jane's erotic charge with the covertness of the novel, but the film is more interested in top-billed Orson Welles as her boss/fiancé Rochester. (Anne D'Arminio)

Nonetheless, we notice on Amazon that the release date for the Masterpiece Theatre's The Brontë Collection is October, 9.

The Commander Coconut in The Orlando Sentinel who, like us, complains about the absence of nominations for the Jane Eyre 2006 cast in the Emmys:

And the acting in PBS' Jane Eyre was shunned -- even though the show got a bunch of tech noms, including my favorite, "best hairstyling."

The World Magazine devotes an article to Katherine Erin Woodiwiss, recently deceased, and historical romance novels in general. A reference to Jane Eyre comes out:

All that's necessary to the category, according to RWA, is a central love story and an "emotionally satisfying, optimistic conclusion." It's a simple formula that still accounts for almost half of all genre fiction sales.
And after all, don't Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice fit that same basic description? Indeed, but real character development and astute observation raise those classics from genre to literature. (Janie B. Cheaney)

On the blogosphere: Blogger Kristan Tetens (The Victorian Peeper) is interviewed on normblog. Her Brontëiteness is revealed:

Two Victorian novels would make a short list of favourites: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Finally, me mention this comment on palincestos about Wuthering Heights (in Spanish).

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