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Sunday, May 22, 2011

Trapped books and Dark Films

Sunday, May 22, 2011 12:15 pm by M. in Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References No comments

The Boston Globe addresses a growing (and annoying) problem happening in the film projections of 2D films:

Many theaters misuse 3-D lenses to show 2-D films, squandering brightness, color. (...)
This particular night “Limitless,’’ “Win Win,’’ and “Source Code’’ all seemed strikingly dim and drained of colors. “Jane Eyre,’’ a film shot using candles and other available light, appeared to be playing in a crypt. A visit to the Regal Fenway two weeks later turned up similar issues: “Water for Elephants’’ and “Madea’s Big Happy Family’’ were playing in brightly lit 35mm prints and, across the hall, in drastically darker digital versions.The uniting factor is a fleet of 4K digital projectors made by Sony — or, rather, the 3-D lenses that many theater managers have made a practice of leaving on the projectors when playing a 2-D film. (Ty Burr)

The same newspaper interviews writer Jamaica Kincaid:

Are you a fast reader?
Two books I just read, “A Box of Darkness’’ by Sally Ryder Brady and “Tiger Tiger’’ by Margaux Fragoso, I read in one sitting. They were beautiful. I wanted to read them so much I bought them on Kindle and read them right away. But there are some books I can never put on a Kindle, like “Jane Eyre.’’ The books seem trapped. (Amy Sutherland)

The Bowling Green Daily News interviews children's literature author Jennifer Trafton:

“I love any great story, no matter what genre it is,” Trafton said. “I want to laugh and catch a glimpse of some deep-down truth about life. I want to meet characters that linger in my memory for years afterward.” Her favorite books include the British classics “David Copperfield” by Charles Dickens and Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre”; in the realm of fantasy, Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings”; and in the category of contemporary literary fiction, Marilynne Robinson’s “Gilead” and Chaim Potok’s “My Name is Asher Lev.” (Libby Davies)

The Telegraph talks with Andrea Corr:

She reinvented herself as a theatre actress, playing an acclaimed Jane Eyre at the Gate in Dublin last year, and appeared in the Olivier Award-winning Dancing at Lughnasa at the Old Vic in London the year before. (...)
Both her part in Brian Friel’s play Dancing at Lughnasa and the role of Jane Eyre required her to be plain. Corr, experiencing an emotion that perhaps only the truly beautiful can understand, was thrilled with the idea of looking drab. (...)
Corr clearly took to the theatre. 'It was a great experience,’ she agrees. 'We finished [Jane Eyre] at the end of January and now it’s gone forever. That’s what I love about it. It isn’t recorded. Even if it’s a brilliant night it will disappear. (Chrissy Iley)

San Francisco Chronicle recommends This is the Garden: My Anthology by Charles Elliott:

A thought-provoking collection of reflections by more than 75 authors, ranging from Charlotte Brontë to William Wordsworth.

An alert from Kingston Pike, TN:

Brontë Society — Discussion of “Jane Eyre” the film, the novel, the author, 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 25, Panera Bread, 4855 Kingston Pike. 865-681-7261. (Knox News)