More filming locations for Jane Eyre

Further news on Cara Fukunaga's Jane Eyre filming locations. According to the Derby Telegraph, apart from Froggatt and Fox House, locations include:

TWO Derbyshire stately homes will be used to film scenes for a new Hollywood movie.
Chatsworth and Haddon Hall will both be featured as locations in Jane Eyre, a new production of the classic novel by Charlotte Bronte.
Stars appearing in the film include Dame Judi Dench and Jamie Bell and shooting will take place over the next few weeks.
Yesterday the Derby Telegraph revealed that the movie's stars would be staying near Matlock during some of the filming.
Now Ian Thompson, publicist for Ruby Films, which is producing the film, has confirmed the filming locations.
He said: "Along with Chatsworth and Haddon Hall we are also shooting some scenes in the Derbyshire Dales.
"It's not hard to point the camera somewhere in Derbyshire and for it to look stunning.
"It's the untouched rural beauty of the region and the stately homes that makes it perfect for shooting period films."
In the past, films such as The Wolfman and The Duchess have been shot at Chatsworth, attracting stars such as Benicio Del Toro and Keira Knightley.
James Trevethick, head of house operations at Chatsworth, said: "It's not only a tourism boost to the estate but it celebrates the beauty of the place.
"We are only involved in a few minor scenes but we are always glad to welcome a film crew."
Red House Stables, in Darley Dale, will be providing accommodation for both horses and humans while filming is under way.
Caroline Dale-Leech, owner of Red House Stables, said: "We are catering for up to 16 people and 16 horses and they will be staying over the next few weeks but numbers will vary as filming changes."

Yesterday's edition of the Derby Telegraph did indeed comment on the goings-on behind the scenes:

HOLLYWOOD stars will be in Derbyshire again as parts of a new adaptation of classic novel Jane Eyre are filmed in the county.
Dame Judi Dench and Billy Elliot star Jamie Bell are among the cast for the new movie.
The locations for filming have yet to be confirmed, but the cast and crew will be staying at a working museum near Matlock while shooting takes place.
Red House Stables, in Darley Dale, will provide accommodation for both horses and humans while filming is under way for the period drama, based on the 19th-century novel by Charlotte Bronte.
The building houses a large collection of original horse-drawn vehicles and equipment and, as a working museum, regularly takes them out on the road.
The size of the collection and working order of the equipment has led to the place developing a growing sideline in providing props and horses for film-makers.
Caroline Dale-Leech, owner of Red House Stables, said it was not the first time the company had worked with a film crew.
She said: "We have been operating as a museum since 1946 and have helped with plenty of films before.
"But we are always happy to accommodate them. Normally they use our horses and carriages in the films but this time they have their own so we will just provide the horses and crew with somewhere to stay. (...)
She said the stables had been involved with film companies since the 1960s.
Over the years, Caroline said they had helped in the making of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the BBC TV version of Pride and Prejudice, films based on DH Lawrence's novels Sons and Lovers and Women in Love and TV show Peak Practice.
She said: "We also do all sorts of promotions and advertising. We have built up a good reputation and it is a unique selling point.
"On the back of our work with films, especially after the BBC's Pride and Prejudice series, we had people from as far as Japan come and visit on tours especially to see us." (...)
Christine Langan, creative director of BBC Films, said: "We're delighted to bring together two such fresh and impressive talents as director Cary Fukunaga and screenwriter Moira Buffini.
"Added to the gorgeous cast Cary has assembled, this is exactly the treatment Charlotte Bronte's evergreen classic Jane Eyre deserves."

And the search is still on for the young and older Heathcliff as well as young Cathy for Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, as the Gazette & Herald says.

FILM-MAKERS are appealing for unknown actors in the region to star in the latest big-screen film to shoot in Yorkshire.
A new adaptation of Emily Bronte’s 1847 novel Wuthering Heights is set to film on location in Yorkshire at the end of May, directed by Oscar and BAFTA-winning director Andrea Arnold.
Skins star Kaya Scodelario will play Catherine Earnshaw, but the role of Heathcliff had yet to be filled.
Now an open casting call has been issued by investors Screen Yorkshire looking for Heathcliffe and younger versions of both central characters.
A spokesman for the film- makers said the Heathcliff they are looking for is, “Male, working class, brooding, 16-21 years old.” Actors auditioning for the role of young Heathcliff must fit the same description, but be aged between 10 and 14.
The young Catherine is described as “10 to 13 years old (strictly no older than 13), pale-skinned, dark-haired, feisty”.
Actors auditioning for the roles do not need any acting experience, but will ideally have a Yorkshire accent and must be available for eight weeks from the end of May.
Auditions take place at Jurys Inn Hotel in Leeds today, at 2pm, and tomorrow, at 9am.
For more details, email Rob Earnshaw at rob@thecastingwebsite.com or phone 01952 458450.

An Earnshaw casting Heathcliff... Life's ironies.

A.V Club reviews Marina Endicott's Good to a Fault:

Good To A Fault’s perspective jumps fitfully between the members of the ad hoc family, and some of its best moments are spent following Lorraine’s precocious daughter, Dolly, as she snoops into strangers’ homes and escapes into Jane Eyre and Mistress Masham’s Repose. They’re stories about orphans, but fiction lets her keep her mother’s illness at arms’ length. An Anglican priest who takes an interest in the family has a similar coping mechanism: When his own words fail him, he always has a snatch of poetry ready to substitute. Together, they present a moving portrait of the ways art can function as salve and shield. (Christian William)

And The Smith College Sophian discusses R.D. McHattie's Returning to Denver:

I found Returning to Denver difficult to read, its main character undeveloped and therefore unsympathetic - for how can one sympathize with what one does not know? - and its tale only half-coherent, and the coherent half seemed cribbed from other, better novels. The mystery of the Glampers family and their old house was reminiscent of every other "madwoman in the attic" novel ever written, and frankly, I'd rather have Jane Eyre or the mysterious, gruff Heathcliff of Wuthering Heights than the inscrutable Doris. I'd even rather have Jane the obnoxious Mr. Lockwood than the annoyingly repetitious protagonist Diane. (Emily Atkinson)

The Galway Advertiser alludes to Joyce Carol Oates's Brontëiteness and CCTV.com mentions Charlotte Brontë as one of the visitors to London's 1851 Great Exhibition.

But the actual big news of the day is that Gordon Brown has mutated into yet another Brontë character! From The Telegraph by the always controversial Tanya Gold:

“We cannot cut our way to recovery!” Gordon responded, with a wince. As he shuddered, knowing that the electorate IS too busy WATCHING EMMERDALE to decipher the minutiae of Keynesian economics, I realised that people are wrong when they say Brown is Rochester from Jane Eyre. Actually he is Rivers, the wracked, obsessive missionary who wants to save the world but dies himself.

Nevertheless, Tanya Gold is not so original as the comparison has been done before.

On the blogosphere, Le Blog de Verte Adélie (in French and English) has joined in the Brontë-along.

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