Trees and roses

Let's begin today with some update on the Wuthering Heights film project. Not really anything new but The Independent (Ireland) credits another Irish production company for the project:

THE $15m budget movie Wuthering Heights could be shot in Ireland in late October after advanced discussions to bring the film to Ireland were held at the Cannes film festival last week.
Michael Fassbender, who starred in the I'm Sorry Guinness advert, the semi-animated epic 300 and who plays the IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands in Hunger, will play the role of Heathcliff in the romantic fiction.
If some of the film is shot in Ireland, the film will be co-produced by British film producers, Ecosse Films, and the Irish production company, Octagon Films. The rest of the film would be shot in Britain. Octagon and Ecosse recently co-produced Becoming Jane, a romance about Jane Austen. (Louise MacBride).

Keighley News republishes the news about the cyprus pine tree souvenirs initiative of the Brontë Society. In the picture (source): Brontë Parsonage Museum director Alan Bentley (check the following post for news about Mr. Bentley) with the remains of the felled tree.

Art Daily presents the upcoming exhibition Matthew Carr – New York (25 June - 19 July 2008 at the Marlborough Fine Art, London):

On a larger scale, Carr has produced majestic drawings of a range of subjects: a rhinoceros, crows and Mimi the family dog together with a powerful nude and the enigmatically beautiful five-panel study of Whitby headstones. Whitby on the east coast of Yorkshire has a brooding, Bronte-esque atmosphere and is where Dracula is reputed to have first tasted English blood. The tombstones emerge as five richly textured compositions in which one may read the poetry of sky, clouds, mountains, rivers, trees and rocks at will.

musicOMH reviews the BAC's performances of Goat Island's dance piece: The Lastmaker (more information on this previous post):

The performers charge from one side of the space to the other, springing and leaping in a manner reminiscent of children at play – sudden brief bursts of energy. One of the five takes a microphone and launches into Lenny Bruce’s familiar drawl, this is interwoven with recitals of Emilys Dickinson and Bronte. (Natasha Tripney)

The Observer talks with Siri Hustvedt and traces her Brontëite beginnings:

When did she know that she wanted to write? 'It happened at 13, in Reykjavik. My father was studying the sagas. There were English books in the public library: David Copperfield, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights. I read compulsively that summer.' (Rachel Cooke)

Kyle Post writes a letter to his newborn daughter in The New York Post which includes this passing comment:

Wear sunscreen. I can get sunstroke from a reading lamp, and your mom is so pale she looks like the illustration of a ghost in a Bronte novel.

FilmJournal reviews William Nicholson's film Firelight (a forgotten gem in the opinion of this half of BrontëBlog):

The most fun to be derived from Firelight, a rather tortured bodice-ripper, comes from discerning its all-too obvious inspirations. There's the mousy governess and mysterious lord out of Jane Eyre and Dragonwyck (with that disturbed wife thrown in for good measure); the ominously spectral house and grounds from The Turn of the Screw; the monstrously bratty kid from our old friend, The Bad Seed, and the noble teacher who strives mightily to instruct her impossible student out of The Miracle Worker. (David Noh)

On the blogosphere today: South in the Winter is reading Jane Eyre and posts about the figure of the madwoman on the attic, Pelargonium oasen posts the left hand side picture (source) of a Jane Eyre-named variety of rose (Stanley P. Stringer, 1968). As far as we know, there is another variety of Jane Eyre roses, click here to see them.

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