Jane Eyre 2011 appears in several news outlets.
The Seattle Times or
Current Movies and News look at the films in 2011:
-- "Jane Eyre" (March 11). Why another "Jane Eyre," you say? Because the trailer looks delicious, because Mia Wasikowska can do no wrong these days (did you know she was Australian? I didn't), because it's one of my favorite books ever, and because I haven't seen a perfect "Jane Eyre" on screen yet (though the 2006 BBC/PBS miniseries version, starring Ruth Wilson, is pretty close). (Moira MacDonald)
As far as we can tell, known release dates for the film to date are: US (March 11, limited), Australia (April 7 or May 26), Spain (September 23), Denmark (September), Germany (
April 14 September 8).
The
Florida Times-Union reviews April Lindner's
Jane. It seems that the reviewer has missed the point of this retelling... or of any YA retelling as a matter of fact.
The recently published "Jane" is Professor Lindner's "reworking" of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 classic novel "Jane Eyre."
Aimed at the burgeoning, and lucrative, young-adult female market, Lindner succumbs to her own adolescent fantasies by turning Jane's love interest into an aging rock star, addled by many years of drug use. She also tosses in some adult obscenities (Modern people talk like that, you know.)
Other than these facts, "Jane" is a direct rip-off, down to the crazy wife in the attic. Professor Lindner even uses the same names - sort of. Brontë's Thornfield is Thornfield Park. The man Brontë named St. John Rivers is called River St. John. We could continue to heap blame on Lindner ad nauseam. The real culprit in this sordid affair is modern book publishing. Poppy, an edgy imprint of Little, Brown and Co. wants the dough. It's easy - and pervertedly fun - to imagine the evil marketing department commissioning the work. You just know the hypothetical dialogue included a phrase such as "lop off the first third of Brontë's masterpiece to keep it to a marketable length."
There is a light in this bleak tunnel. This sliced and diced version might entice your child to read the real "Jane." My wife and I did spend an enjoyable afternoon, comparing it to and revisiting Brontë's classic.
Who would say, "(O)h romantic reader, forgive me for telling the plain truth." (Tim O'Connell)
The
Cincinnati City-Beat asks local musicians for their best list of songs:
Eric Nally of Foxy Shazam
“Wuthering Heights” by Kate Bush
One of my best friends recommended this to me and now every time I hear it I think of him.
The Telegraph (Calcutta) talks about a local exhibition of paintings by young artists:
Rajendra Kumar Pradhan’s huge untitled work is as intriguing as it is beautiful. You realise with a shock as you look at the painting that the pale figure in the left-hand corner, suspended like a sprite against the bluish darkness, is staring back at you from behind the windowpane, which is the canvas. She reminds you of Wuthering Heights’s Catherine — the waif pressing her face against the window to peer into the warm, lighted room from which she is eternally excluded. (Anusua Mukherjee)
John Weeks from
The San Bernardino Sun has personal issues (a childhood trauma perhaps?) with scholars:
Scholars, on the other hand, are critics gone to seed. They still are chewing on, and slowly digesting, works of art that were created centuries ago. Don't ask them about this week's bestseller list. They're still buzzing over the Brontë sisters.
Today's literary quiz in
The Guardian contains a Brontë reference:
8. Which 19th-century literary character responds thus to the accidental extinguishing of her candle? “Catherine, for a few moments, was motionless with horror. It was done completely; not a remnant of light in the wick could give hope to the rekindling breath. Darkness impenetrable and immoveable filled the room. A violent gust of wind, rising with sudden fury, added fresh horror to the moment.”
1. Catherine Earnshaw in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
2. Catherine Bennet in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
3. Catherine Hayes in William Makepeace Thackeray's Catherine, A Story
4. Catherine Morland in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey
The Brontë Sisters posts about Emily Brontë's funeral. Discover what an Eyress is on
mikkipedia's Twitter.
Categories: Books, Emily Brontë, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Music, References, Wuthering Heights
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