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Friday, January 25, 2008

Friday, January 25, 2008 12:41 pm by M. in , , , , , ,    No comments
The Scarborough Evening News also echoes the recent news about the Brontë movie:
HOPES that Scarborough will be used in a new film about the Bronte sisters are under threat.
Parts of the film Bronte were due to be filmed in Scarborough, Haworth, Cannon Hall near Barnsley, and Brodsworth Hall near Doncaster. However, other locations including Wales and Canada are now being considered after an investor withdrew more than £350,000. (...)
It would provide a major economic boost for the town, which has been used in films such as Little Voice and A Chorus of Disapproval as well as TV shows including The Royal and Heartbeat. Cllr David Jeffels, Scarborough Council’s cabinet member for tourism, said: “It’s very disappointing news because not only would it have been a good thing to help promote the Scarborough area as a visitor destination but it would have been much cheaper from the production point of view of the film itself.“We have seen in recent years so many TV and film production companies using Scarborough and the Yorkshire coast area as a whole for filming.“ It would take away the authenticity of the story of the Brontes.”
Scarborough was one of Anne Bronte’s favourite places and the castle was the inspiration for a scene in her novel The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall. When she was diagnosed with tuberculosis, Anne and her sister Charlotte came to the town where they rented a room in a house before her death. The house, called Wood’s Lodgings, was on a site where the Grand Hotel now stands. Her body was buried in St Mary’s churchyard, where her grave still lies today. (Paul Derrick)
The Leamington Spa Courier reviews the Heartbreak Productions' adaptation of Wuthering Heights now in tour around the UK:
Adapting and performing a classic such as this is no easy task but Heartbreak Productions’ adaptation told the story with clarity and simplicity. Ros Wehner was responsible for the adaptation and there was no fault to be found.The set was spartan and some of the actors doubled up as characters, but it was this very arrangement that made it that little more real. Wuthering Heights is a gritty and wild tale of ill-fated love and vengeance. (Lucia Clifford)
The Hollywood Reporter considers that Edward Bond's The Sea, now at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London is
A curious blend of Charlotte Bronte, Oscar Wilde and M. Night Shyamalan, Edward Bond's eccentric play "The Sea" brings together drawing-room comedy and alien conspiracies in a storm-laden English setting in 1907. (Ray Bennett)
The New York Times reviews How She Move, a a feature by the director Ian Iqbal Rashid which contains an unexpected Brontë reference:
To the film’s credit this tragedy, which would have been an arbitrary tear-jerking touch in other movies, hangs over every frame, even in fleeting details, like the shot of Raya reading Jane Eyre". (Matt Zoller Seitz).
Dame Darcy's Jane Eyre is becoming a reference by itself. Look at this description of works in exhibition at the Koo's Art Center (Long Beach)
One, by Lori Escobar, shows a beautiful woman, outside in the wind and the night—almost like Dame Darcy’s Jane Eyre—with wild teal and ebony tresses, pert breasts, a Schiele-gaunt waist, and no arms. (Rebecca Schoenkopf in The District Weekly)
On the blogosphere: Bailey and Ireny's Site talk about Jane Eyre. Pickwick Portfolio devotes a post to Üvöltő szelek, that is Wuthering Heights in Hungarian. Richards World changes Charlotte for Emily and publishes some of her poems.Finally, The Schaeffer's Daily Blog provides us with the weirdest Brontë reference of the day:
If Starbucks was Jane Eyre, the short cup was the crazy woman in the attic. (Elizabeth Harrow)
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