Screaming for Heathcliff and other news

Apart from the big news that is the fact that we can now watch a few clips from Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, there are some more Brontë tidbits to be found online today.

Irish Central's Tip Sheet recommends this years's other Brontë film: Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre:

Fukunaga's film succeeds because he insists on the primacy of human interaction and he is never seduced by the period or the admittedly ravishing costumes and settings.
It's a quiet and immensely thoughtful film that works its magic on you discreetly, until you realize somewhere near the end its had a cumulative and revelatory power that sends you reeling into the street. (Cahir O'Doherty)

And LA Weekly lists the 'best and worst of the summer movie season' and includes Jane Eyre among the Top 10 for 2011. Associated Content has a review of the Blu-Ray of the film.

The Los Angeles Times lists the places in New York City that book lovers can't miss:

On the third floor of a big, gray building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, silver-haired docent Julie Chelminski recently stepped up to the middle of a hushed room and faced 15 spellbound tourists.
"On the walls of this room there were 9,000 drawers," Chelminski said. "And in those drawers were 10 million cards."
This was in the New York Public Library's catalog room. And these were book people, as happy as pilgrims in the Holy Land, imbibing every detail of how the library switched from cards to computers in 1983. Within minutes, they would stand in a reading room as grand as a cathedral. That same day, they could see Charlotte Brontë's private diary (such tiny lettering!) at the Morgan Library a few blocks away or hear the tale of Dylan Thomas' final binge in the bar where it happened. (Christopher Reynolds)

The writer at CNN's Geek Out! has a plan:

We got married on the altar of the deconsecrated 1850s Gothic stone church in which we now live together, and for our five year anniversary, we're going to Northern England's Brontë country and Scotland to tromp around castles and run through the moors screaming for Heathcliff. (Kat Kinsman)

Cliff Richard took quite a different approach to the novel and Broadway World asks Olivia Newton-John about it:

PC: Speaking of John Farrar, I had to fit in a mention of the concept album you did with Cliff Richard of his musical version of Wuthering Heights, Heathcliffe (sic).
ONJ: Oh, Heathcliffe (sic)! I actually think the music is fantastic.
PC: The marriage song is a real earworm, that’s for sure!
ONJ: Oh, yeah! I think that music with a good book could
be fantastic, actually.
PC: You’d need a charismatic leading man and leading lady.
ONJ: Well, it’s not something I would do because it is for a younger crowd, but I would love to help John Farrar get that developed. Cliff Richard did it in England and it was his baby and he originally got John Farrar and Tim Rice to write it. (Pat Cerasaro)

The Daily Mail eloquently describes what a possible remake of Dirty Dancing would be like:

The fact is, it doesn’t matter who they cast, every frame will beg the question: ‘Why didn’t they leave it alone?’ Remaking such a classic is like getting Jackie Collins to rewrite Wuthering Heights. You could do it, but what’s the point? (Flic Everett)

Seagulls Gertrude and Heathcliff make a comeback to VillageSoup, now with pictures.

Charlotte Brontë: A New Kind of Heroine is a new article on Associated Content. Ramblings of a Happy girl posts about Jane Eyre. Vuela Viajes features Haworth (in Spanish). Abigails Ateliers has designed a late 1840s mourning dress and taken pictures of it at Wycoller Hall.

Categories: Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Music, Wuthering Heights