[Kingsley] Amis did not live to have his ears affronted by the BBC embellishment of Emily Brontë’s novel about passion on the moors with “strong expletives”. He would, I think, have responded with a few strong expletives of his own.Curiously, his son Martin Amis is interviewed in Clarín's Ñ (Argentina):
¿El peso del mundo? Bueno, pero eso no es verdad, sí lo llevan. Y el mejor novelista de la historia de la literatura inglesa es una mujer, George Elliot. Con Jane Austen pisándole los talones. Y las hermanas Brontë, claro. Dicho esto, debo decir que no leo tantas escritoras mujeres como hombres, leo mujeres pero no tantas. (Diego Salazar) (Translation)Also in The Times we discover that Lucasta Miller is the editorial director of the newly-created Notting Hill Editions:
If Montaigne’s spirit haunts Notting Hill Editions, it’s because Lucasta Miller, its editorial director (and author of The Brontë Myth) wants that “Montaigne’s word essaie means ‘assay’, ‘trial’ or ‘test’ in the sense of ‘experiment’.It seems that this is a really Brontë day for The Times. A new reference to the Brontës is also found in this article about the royal wedding:
It’s called exogamy: marriage outside one’s class or place or tribe. It's been called the presiding theme of the literature we Brits produce: Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Brideshead Revisited. (Simon Barnes)Will Hodgkinson remembers in The Times Kate Bush's debut with Wuthering Heights:
For those of us old enough to remember it, Kate Bush’s performance of Wuthering Heights on Top of the Pops was a life-changing, generationdefining moment. I was 7, and vaguely aware of Top of the Pops as a soppy music show on which adults wore clothes that were too small for them. Then an extremely beautiful, witch-like woman appeared staring directly out of the television and, seemingly, straight at me.(...)The Record talks with the singer and songwriter Sylvia Tyson:
Then you return to the video for Wuthering Heights, which she wrote one moonlit night in 1977, aged 19, as a response to watching a BBC adaption of Emily Brontë’s novel (she got around to reading the book only years later).
Tyson has always been a reader. When she was younger, she made her way through the great 19th-century novelists Jane Austen and Emily and Charlotte Brontë, in addition to Dickens and Hardy. (Robert Reid)Los Angeles Times reviews South Riding:
Vacillating between a gothic style that borders on Brontë and an urge to make a political statement about just about everything — women's education, corrupt local politics, the hypocrisy of religious leaders, the clear need for birth control and better sanitation — "South Riding" never finds its real narrative thread. (Mary McNamara)And the New York Times:
“South Riding” is a trifle by comparison, and Mr. Davies appears to have struggled with the material, which includes a spouse in the attic right out of “Jane Eyre” and an ill-fated horseback ride on a stormy night. (Mike Hale)In the same newspaper there's an article about Michael Fassbender:
In his most recent film, “Jane Eyre,” Mr. Fassbender played an anguished, sideburned Mr. Rochester, a smoldering hunk of 19th-century passion.A capsule review of Jane Eyre 2011 in the Calgary Herald:
Jane Eyre Rating 4 out of fiveThe film opens in Gainesville, Florida. The local newspaper, The Gainesville Sun says:
Cary Fukunaga directs this update on the Charlotte Brontë classic with a steady hand and an unflinching eye. Steering clear of melodrama to deliver a relatively matter-of-fact story of Victorian survival.
An All Things British Party was held in Tulsa with the excuse of the royal wedding. News on 6 (Oklahoma) reports:In Hollywood, movies made from classic books are like a fresh sheet of bubble wrap or a bowl of ice cream that beckons at midnight: irresistible.The latest is a new take of “Jane Eyre,” which opens in Gainesville and Ocala theaters today. (Keri Petersen)
In honor of the royal wedding, Circle Cinema held "all things British" Friday, showing Jane Eyre Friday evening and Pink Floyd at midnight. (Lacie Lowry)On the blogosphere, Jane Eyre 2011 is reviewed by The Pop Can, Red Toenails, Jill the Thrill, Inkwell Inspirations, Rick's Film Reviews, Dust Wrapper ,Celine Cinéma (in French) and Pictureland.
Catherine Bertola’s haunting sound installation between April 16 and July 8. Visit art.yorkshire.com for her biography.A cryptic Jane Eyre reference in the Daily Mail describing an interview with Betty Boothroyd, former Speaker of the House of Commons:
Intimate after-hours conversaziones throughout May, June and July.
Novelist and playwright Blake Morrison at West Lane Baptist Centre on May 19.
Cult classic Brontë spoof Withering Looks at West Lane Baptist Centre on June 4.
Maya Irgalina’s recital on Emily’s cabinet piano, which has only been played once before in more than 150 years, on June 5.
Brontë Women’s Writing Festival from September 16 to 18.
At the end of the interview, before Lady B left the studio, Richards asked what she thought about Mr Squeaker Bercow. Her response? She apparently gave 'a nervous laugh'. And then fled.We tend to disagree with USA Today when it is said that
It is possible her laughter was that of Jane Eyre on being asked about Mr Rochester. (Quentin Letts)
Jane Eyre would love this lush combo of roses, peonies, lily of the valley and magnolia: Chloe Rose Edition Eau de Parfum. It's a romantic feminine floral, but not in a your-mother's-fragrance way. My advice: If you really prefer lace bras, floral dresses, heart-themed jewelry, ballet flats and hand-written notes over studs, stilettos, leather and emails, you'll live in this. (Lois Joy Johnson)CBS New York recommends a visit to the Morgan Library to see the exhibition The Diary:
While handwritten diaries seem to have become a thing of the past, what is documented in both blank books and blogs seems to be very similar. Get a glimpse into diaries whose intent might have been for them to read by others, rather than just kept to themselves. On view are over 70 books penned by many including Charlotte Brontë, Bob Dylan and Tennessee Williams. (Alyson Schwartz)Die Welt (Germany) joins in the recommendation:
Wie eine Geheimschrift wirken auch die ameisenkleinen Buchstaben, mit denen Charlotte Bronte, die Autorin von "Jane Eyre", eine Erinnerung an eine stürmische Nacht aufs Papier bannte. (Hannes Stein) (Translation)Two references in El País (Spain). First, in an article about Virginia Woolf:
Estudió las condiciones en las que creaban las escasas escritoras que publicaron sus textos antes del siglo XX y recordaba con especial ternura los esfuerzos de las hermanas Brontë o la figura de Jane Austen, la autora de Orgullo y perjuicio quien "se alegraba de que chirriara el gozne de la puerta para poder así esconder el manuscrito de su novela". (Concha Caballero) (Translation)And Antonio Muñoz Molina in Babelia has visited the Rooms with a View exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum (NY):
Nunca las mujeres tuvieron el derecho a una habitación así, recuerda Woolf: en sus casas de clase media sin muchos recursos, a Jane Austen o las hermanas Brontë no les quedaba más remedio que escribir en medio del barullo de la vida doméstica. (Translation)La Nueva España (Spain) reviews the novel Deseos by Marina Mayoral:
Ya en la página 33 hay un guiño intertextual importante a la novela de Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre (1847), cuando conocemos el deseo de Consuelo de que el hombre que ama se quede cojo o manco, baje así sus expectativas vitales y se fije en ella, que está dispuesta a cuidarle el resto de su vida. (M.S. Suárez Lafuente) (Translation)Diario Las Américas talks about feminine and masculine reads:
Cuando a los 12 años comencé a estudiar en Ruston Academy, descubrí que mientras mis compañeras y yo habíamos devorado las novelas de Luisa May Alcott y las hermanas Brontê, los chicos de la clase leían con gusto a Eduardo Salgari. (Uva de Aragón) (Translation)El Informador (México) remembers how Luis Buñuel complained about producers' demands in Abismos de Pasión 1956:
Se acuerda con sorna de trabajar con actores contratados para otros fines y que tuvo que aceptar obligado por los productores (¡Lilia Prado en Cumbres borrascosas, rebautizada como Abismos de pasión...!) (María Palomar) (Translation)Parma Today interviews model Jessica Tinelli:
Cosa cerchi nel partner?Il Foglio (Italy) talks about Liala's opus:
Il mio partner deve essere tutto per me. Deve essere parte integrante e fondamentale della mia vita, riempirla, ma anche 'alleggerirla', se necessario. Cerco serenità e vero amore. Quello passionale e totalizzante, che ti sconvolge le giornate. Quello che di notte non dormi e se lui manca, ti manca il fiato. Un amore alla 'Cime tempestose' ((Wuthering Heights di Emily Brontë). (Translation)
La storia del grande amore era appassionante e salvifica per i sogni spesso infranti delle lettrici, che grazie a Liala riuscivano a sopportare, astraendosene, mariti rozzi e poco eroici, ma raccontava che non sempre andava a finir bene: gli aviatori si schiantavano in volo, le fanciulle in principio devote anche, dopo aver vissuto un po’ nel mondo e averne subito le lusinghe (e magari tradito il marito, incinta, con il suo migliore amico), le ragazze tentate da Hollywood finivano in fondo al lago, troppe colpe da espiare e troppo mal di cuore insomma, come in “Cime Tempestose”, con quel senso infinito di brughiera in cui gridare Heathcliff. (Annalena Benini) (Translation)Concert & Co (France) reviews a performance by Agnes Obel:
Le public est au paradis quand résonnent comme dans une cathédrale les morceaux à la fois simples et aventureux d'Agnes Obel, sans doute marquée à vie par la musique Kate Bush, Patti Smith et Cat Power, les sensations troubles distillées par Les Hauts de Hurlevent d'Emilie Brontë et les mélodies nourries d'un imaginaire romantique du 19éme siècle... (Pierre Andrieu) (Translation)Deutschlandfunk (Germany) reviews Das Leben Kleben by Marina Lewicka:
"Das Leben kleben", so lautet der Titel des neuesten Werkes der englischen Autorin mit ukrainischen Wurzeln Marina Lewycka. Lewycka, heute in Sheffield beheimatet nennt "Das Leben kleben" einen "britischen Landhausroman". Wer dahinter epische Dramen im Stil von Emily Bronte oder Jane Austen erwartet, liegt falsch. "Das Leben kleben" ist die Geschichte zweier Frauen und eines Hauses. (Mortimer Korsch) (Translation)Film-Dienst reviews the film Como Esquecer:
Hier lässt sie sich von ihrem schwulen Freund Hugo bemuttern, zankt mit der Mitbewohnerin Lisa, schläft mit deren Cousine Helena und schreibt an einer Arbeit über „Wuthering Heights“. (...) Das scheint auch die Regisseurin zu befürchten, die umso entschiedener gegensteuert: Gleich mehrfach nutzt sie das Setting des literaturwissenschaftlichen Seminars für metafiktionale Debatten, die keinen Zweifel lassen: Biografismus geht gar nicht. Nicht bei Virginia Woolf, nicht bei Emily Brontë – und dann auch nicht bei Malu di Martino. (Daniel Benedict) (Translation)A Peculiar Influence posts about Jane Eyre, the novel, while Ser pensante writes about the the BBC 2006 adaptation in Portuguese. Wuthering Heights is discussed by Park Benches & Bookends and What I have been reading. The Brontë Sisters posts about the people Charlotte Brontë met during her June 1850 stay in London. Onirik reviews Jane by April Lindner (in French).
Orquesta Estable Teatro ColónCategories: Music, Opera, Wuthering Heights
Concierto No. 1
Director y solista: Frédéric Chaslin
Ludwig van Beethoven: Concierto para piano Nro 5
Frédéric Chaslin: Gypsy dance
Héctor Berlioz: Sinfonía fantástica
30.04.2011 | 20:30 hs.
The Italian Brontë scholar, translator to Italian of Brontë juvenilia and author Maddalena De Leo has written to us discussing one of her upcoming projects. No less than a novel inspired by Maria Branwell's life and her beloved Cornwall. The title will be 'Mai più in oscurità' which in English means 'No More in the Darkness', because it aims to re-evaluate the forgotten character of Maria Branwell in the Brontë saga. Some years ago Angela Crow published a novella also based on the life of the mother of the Brontës with the name Miss Branwell's Companion.The resting place of monarchs including Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth I, it holds the soul of England also, in the graves of writers such as William Blake, Robert Burns, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and the Brontës. Just so, commoners and kings, princes and poets all have helped make England one of the most influential nations the Earth has ever known.The fact that the Brontës (and it's the same with Jane Austen) have a plaque in Poets' Corner doesn't mean that their graves are there - the plaque is merely a tribute to them while their actual resting place is in a vault under Saint Michael and All Angels church in Haworth. (Jane Austen is buried in Winchester cathedral, by the way).
Her circle included Thomas Malthus, George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charlotte Brontë and Wordsworth. These people, the heralds of change, thought they could improve the world and, to a greater or lesser extent, did so. Buoyed up by their vision of the new, Harriet yearned to experience nascent cultures for herself, and at a time when few of her age or class undertook such solo trips, she sailed to the United States in 1835.Erm... actually, most of Harriet Martineau's literary output was published long before Charlotte Brontë's writing could even begin to 'buoy her vision up'. And, anyway, their friendship was quite brief and ended on an angry note which continued even after Charlotte's death.
The most galling thing about Anglophiles, who worship a class of people that many English people hold in contempt, is that they are oblivious to what makes England great. The English have given the U.S. many wonderful things — our legal system, King Lear, Keith Richards, Jane Eyre, Graham Greene, Iris Murdoch, Fawlty Towers, the Protestant Reformation, Twinings' English Breakfast Tea — but these are not the things about England that Anglophiles admire. Anglophilia, a demented form of cultural fetishism, is directed not at the things that make Britain great but at those — bowler hats, Harrods, people with names like Bonham-Carter — that make it twee. (Joe Queenan)We wonder why you can't, say, like both Harrods and Jane Eyre, for instance.
The new film of Charlotte Brontë's novel "Jane Eyre" should come with a warning: This picture may induce both romantic swooning and emotional devastation. [...]The North Coast Journal has liked the film too:
This "Jane Eyre" equally owes its vibrancy to beautifully austere photography and a story that works on three levels: as love story, social commentary and Gothic thriller. [...]
The movie's excellence is solidified by its faithfulness to those parts of the novel depicted in a two-hour film - including themes of madness and atonement - without going to melodramatic lengths to portray these factors, as seen in previous productions.
For those who think that Brontë's novel has been adapted so frequently for the screen and stage that if you've seen one, you seen them all, know that this "Jane Eyre" is one for the ages. (Michael Smith)
Indeed, it is the darker aspects of the novel that this film adaptation of Jane Eyre so wonderfully captures. Screenwriter Moira Buffini expertly recreates both the spirit and substance of the novel in this filmic translation without twisting the material into something else. In particular, both the critique of the social structure and the Gothic aspects of the novel are preserved. Director Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre) contributes some very clean direction with appropriately beautiful, stark images from cinematographer Adriano Marianelli [sic: the cinematographer's name is Adriano Goldman while the music is by Dario Marianelli]. (Charlie Myers)The Vancouver Courier recommends the film quite emphatically:
If you haven’t already seen it, throw on your best empire-waist dress and head straight out to delight in Jane Eyre, the Charlotte Brontë novel re-imagined by Cary Fukunaga. Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) stars as our much put-upon teenage heroine, up against Michael Fassbinder’s Rochester. And if you don’t know that St. John Rivers is pronounced “sin-jin,” you shall be dispatched with, post-haste. (Julie Crawford)Timothy Sullivan reviews Sheila Kohler's Becoming Jane Eyre on Technorati. Some reviews of Jane Eyre 2011 on blogs: Movie Wave and middecalsswhitenoise review Dario Marianelli's soundtrack and Amber Blue Bird, needcoffee (on video), Virtual Margin (adding a comment about Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea), Gay RVA and The Grizzly Growler post about the film itself; Urbantramper Lyrics & Music posts the lyrics of a song inspired by Jane Eyre: The Ballad of Mr Rochester; 30 Day Book Challenge, Tribulations d'un Oeuf (in French) and Welcome to Love review the original novel and Reading with my Twin is reading Villette.
The latest album by Stevie Nicks, former Fleetwood Mac vocalist and long-time solo singer, In Your Dreams contains an unexpected surprise. A song which pays tribute to Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea:4. "Wide Sargasso Sea" 5:36The singer said in the Ventura County Star:
There is a song about a novel called “Wide Sargasso Sea,” the precursor to Jane Eyre. It was a crazy movie in the ’80s that I loved. (Marjorie Hernandez)Judging by the comments to this Rolling Stone article, it seems that the song is going to be a fan favourite. According to Fleetwood Mac News and Reviews:
"Wide Sargasso Sea," based upon the classic novel by Jean Rhys begins softly and slowly, building into a smashing rocking and rolling frenzy complete with Nicks' trademark urgent wailing by the end of the song. (John Seger)Categories: Music, Wide Sargasso Sea
Buffini’s script also foregrounds the proto-feminist elements of Jane’s character, and brings a sobering note of social realism to a small multitude of pungent secondary characters. Fukunaga and his cast remain true to Buffini’s rigorously unsentimental take on Brontë throughout. And it all pays off in a quietly magical way—we get a lot more psychological realism than is usually the case with gothic romance, classical or not, and the passions involved seem more genuine as a result. (Juan-Carlos Selznick)Indeed Conducive Chronicle also thinks the film is 'good for the feminist soul'. So much for the Bechdel test.
Not only are we treated to two strong representations of girls, but both films [Hanna and Jane Eyre] pass the Bechdel Test for measuring the gender bias of films. Do the films contain more than one female character with a name? Yes, and yes. Do these characters talk to each other? Yes, in both. Do they talk to each other about something other than a man? Yes, and yes again! Each gives us a respectable female hero, yet also female villains, and importantly, female friends. Thank you, Focus Features, for these breaths of fresh air. (Nicki Lisa Cole)The Bit Maelstrom, Erik and His Pointless Blog, Filmusis (in Portuguese - with special attention to Dario Marianelli's soundtrack), The Reeltime Report, Rosy Kiera and Culture Watch all write about the film as well.
It’s shot in a studio-bound English moors where the sisters and their drunken ne’er-do-well brother Branwell (Arthur Kennedy) enact their doomed lives. Emily and Charlotte independently court Paul Henried as the local curate or vicar or whatever he is. He’s neither like Heathcliff nor Rochester but the movie works on the theory that both sisters love the same man. The movie ends “happily” on Charlotte’s marital success without mentioning that she’d be dead in a few years, while Emily is presented as the more brilliant and serious one who loses the man and kicks the bucket. In an engaging interlude, Charlotte and Emily briefly are teachers in a French school that provided grist for Charlotte’s Villette as Charlotte flirts with the headmaster (Victor Francen).In all likelihood - because he did so with with so much else - the movie director would have ignored this reminder from The Telegraph and Argus about a picture taken in the 1920s:
It’s the kind of literary biopic that’s not above having Emily point out a lonely house on a bluff and declare “I call it Wuthering Heights” as she strides away with purpose. While dying, she has a special-effects dream of a dark horseman riding toward her, cape billowing. Sydney Greenstreet, billed fourth, steals the movie by showing up in the last third as William Makepeace Thackeray, inimitably pinching snuff and making supercilious remarks about Dickens as he escorts the now bestselling Charlotte about the London of Vanity Fair. If only she’d moved there from those darned moors, she might have survived a bit longer.
Again, this movie can’t be called a success, but it’s too odd and well-made not to be fascinatingly watchable, with Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s music churning us up in high romantic mode. (Michael Barrett)
From a postcard entitled simply “Sheep-Shearing, Haworth Moor”, this rustic scene from the 1920s captures the flavour of small-scale farming in an area which has since depopulated.The Telegraph includes Emily Brontë on a list of 'Literary one-hit wonders'.
The moors over which the Brontës are popularly imagined as “running free” were not in reality the wide-open, empty spaces they now appear.
A directory of 1884 lists more than 50 farmers at Haworth. (Ian Dewhirst)
Emily Brontë - Wuthering HeightsAnother list is the one made by The Times on the subject of practice and success.
Brontë published her one and only novel in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. She died the following year of tuberculosis. In 1850, a new edition of Wuthering Heights was published with a preface written by her sister, Charlotte.
A similar story emerges whether you look at the Williams sisters, David Beckham, Lionel Messi, Mozart or the Brontë sisters. Far from being miracle performers whose genes enabled them to avoid practice, they embody its power. (Matthew Syed)The Telegraph & Argus has a reminder of the Conrad Aktinson's Dreams of Permanence, Hopes of Transience exhibition in Thornton. Variety also finds echoes of Jane Eyre in South Riding. The Arizona Republic reviews a local production of The Mystery of Irma Vep and alludes to its Brontë influences. Eatocracy mentions a wedding where passages from Jane Eyre were read.
Lexington Christian Academy's Acting in the Spaces presentsMontgomery Media has more information:
Jane Eyre
Adapted by Robert Johanson
Director Karen Kuehne and Shaina Sullivan.
Tuesday, April 26 7:00pm
Thursday & Friday, April 28 & 29 7:00pm
Saturday, April 30 2:00pm
Quakertown Christian School
50 E. Paletown Road, Quakertown, PA
We are pleased to announce our spring 2011 production of Jane Eyre. This selection is in keeping with our goal to present a variety of dramatic literary pieces to our audience members and thereby continue to challenge our students to grow in the area of communication skills. This production is based on the classic by Charlotte Brontë and dramatization by Robert Johanson (special arrangement with The Dramatic Publishing Company of Woodstock, IL).
“Quite honestly, when we selected [Jane Eyre] we were not aware it was coming out as a movie,” Kuehne said. “The same thing happened with ‘Pride and Prejudice.’” (...)
“It was a lot of fun,” Kuehne said. “We got a lot of real positive audience response.”This year, however, Kuehne decided to go in a different direction. “Jane Eyre” is a more serious piece that offers unique challenges but also carries a positive message, Kuehne said.
Besides being considered one of the top five English classics, “Jane Eyre” offers the opportunity for special stage effects, including fog machines to replicate the misty British moor. (Erin DuBois)
The Appleton East Patriot Players presentThe Appleton Post-Crescent has more information:
Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
Adapted by Robert Johanson
Technical director Michael Traas
Artistic director Debra Weiher-Traas
Charlotte Brontë's magnificent Gothic love story is brought to stirring life. In the burned-out ruins of Thornfield Hall, the adult Jane Eyre recalls the disturbing events of her childhood and young adulthood: her miserable upbringing as an orphan thrust upon unsympathetic relatives, her trials at the infamous Lowood School, and eventually her acceptance as governess at Thornfield Hall where she encounters its enigmatic master, Edward Rochester. Jane eventually unravels the secrets of this mysterious place and finds her own personal epiphany through honesty, courage and sacrifice. A moving story for all times and a stunning portrayal of one of the world's greatest heroines.
Performances
7:30 pm Thursday, April 28th 2011
7:30 pm Friday, April 29th 2011
2:00 pm Saturday, April 30th 2011
7:30 pm Saturday, April 30th 2011
"The action moves quickly from scene to scene as this script, which was adapted from the novel by Robert Johanson, is the most complete version of the novel that we have found, with 25 scenes that move from her childhood to the moment that she finally reunites with a tempered Rochester," Traas said.Categories: Jane Eyre, Theatre
The cast includes 30 Appleton East students and 25 girls from the community's elementary schools.
"Shortly after we made the decision to produce 'Jane Eyre,' we found out that a new movie version of the book was being released this spring," Traas said. "So the appeal for this literature is still quite high. In fact we had found out as we were auditioning young girls for the parts of Little Jane, Helen and Adele that many of these 9- to 11-year-olds had already read this novel, which is still required reading for many high school students. The story is an epic, tragic love story that still stirs emotions."
Senior McKenzie Bell, who plays the title role, said the show offers a challenge.
"I think the context of the literature that we're performing is difficult, and I think when doing a beautiful show like this, you really have to work hard to do it justice," she said. "Overcoming past challenges to create your own happiness and to do what makes you happy is really kind of the story of (Jane Eyre's) life." (Kara Patterson)
Moviegoers who are wondering what to do after voting and before election results come out have a great opportunity to attend Vernon Film Society’s next show Monday, May 2. [...]And the Idaho Mountain Express reveals that the film will also be shown locally:
Jane Eyre will screen at the Vernon Towne Cinema Monday at 5:15 and 7:45 p.m. All tickets are $7 and are available at Bean Scene one week prior to the showing and at the door.
The Magic Lantern Cinemas in Ketchum will hold its annual Spring Film Festival featuring six independent films. The festival will run from Friday, April 29, through Friday, May 20.More information on the Jane Eyre screenings here.
For the festival, he [Magic Lantern Cinemas owner Rick Kessler] chose "Jane Eyre," "Nowhere Boy," "Of Gods and Men," "Win Win," "The Concert" and "The Conspirator."
The first week of the festival will include "Jane Eyre," "Nowhere Boy" and "Of Gods and Men." (Sabina Dana Plasse)
Will this version of Jane Eyre inspire others to check out the novel? I think it will. While it does contain some flaws, Cary Fukunaga has established himself as a fine filmmaker, one who has an equal amount of intelligence with visuals as he does working with actors. I look forward to seeing what he has to offer in the future. Here, he focuses on Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender, who hand in terrific performances with a superb supporting cast that includes Jamie Bell, Judi Dench, and Sally Hawkins. The distinct style and structure will develop a following, but the problem with all these revisits of classic novels is that unless they can find a way to overtake the best adaptation, it will be tough for them to stand out. I'd still recommend this, if not for fans of the book then for fans of the two outstanding stars. This is probably still being shown in some of the smaller arthouse theaters, but it should be on its way to DVD before long. (Chad Webb)Red & Black mostly likes it too:
Wasikowska has moments when she captures Jane’s spirit and her soul shines out, but most of these moments are quiet and fleeting.The Daily Tribune publishing editor recommends it as well:
For the most part, she seems flat, failing to impart the passion that Rochester supposedly sees in Jane.
On the other hand, Fassbender plays Rochester with just the right mix of brooding and manipulation.
His performance is much more subtle than the Rochesters who have come before him, which makes his character harder, at first, to grasp.
He doesn’t yell and stomp around as much, and this makes him seem not as sick or frustrated as he needs to be.
Whereas Wasikowska’s understated performance leaves too many feelings and thoughts unstated, Fassbender manages to portray depth through his. [...]
Fukunaga’s movie does not reinvent the wheel, but it does give the 21st-century its own version of the gothic romance.
In a market glutted with dark tales of love and loss, it is a welcome addition — a film with a heart as well as a brain. (Sarah Smith)
Sharon and I recently slipped into Dallas to see Jane Eyre at the Angelica. I was surprised how much I enjoyed it.The Evansville Courier & Press reviews it briefly 'from a family perspective'. The high school journal Clarion, Junto Letras (in Portuguese) and Ionarts review the film too.
This was my first experience with the Charlotte Brontë gothic romance on the big screen. The theater allowed me to avoid all those at home distractions that can keep you from immersing yourself in the story.
I won’t say Mia Wasikowska, Judi Dench and Michael Fassbender did a better job than other productions, but their efforts were certainly commendable.
If you are in the mood to slurp some classic culture, you can do worse than spending a dark and stormy night with Jane. (Bob Palmer)
billed as a quirky comedy set in a Brisbane video store where Jackie and Lucy (collectively ‘Jucy’) plot a way out of their boredom by getting involved in a local production of Jane Eyre, angling to snag the local heartthrob and a new job into the bargain. (Stuart Kemp)The Pikes Peak Courier View talks to a local English teacher who talks about his experience teaching Wuthering Heights:
In teaching the English novel by Emily Brontë, “Wuthering Heights,” Leonard manages to elicit positive feedback. “They complain all the way through but, in my lecture, when I show them why it’s an important book, they agree that it’s a great book,” he said. (Pat Hill)Author Meg Cabot also does her bit bringing the Brontës to youngsters. She is interviewed by The Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy.
John Hayden [from her new novel Abandon] wouldn’t be easily mistaken for a lighthearted love interest—he’s joining the brooding ranks of Edward Cullen, Stefan and Damon Salvatore, Dimitri Belikov, etc. What do you think attracts readers to darker heroes?A.V. Club has some thoughts on completism:
The same thing that attracted Elizabeth Bennet to Mr. Darcy and Jane Eyre to Mr. Rochester. Darkly moody men can be irresistible because we’re drawn to that which we don’t understand… People can be extremely compelling when they seem dangerous, especially when they’re as dark and mysterious as John in “Abandon.” And of course, Pierce is drawn to him in a way she can’t understand. And that might be what scares her most of all.
But John—like Darcy with Elizabeth, and Rochester with Jane—is the only person who truly understands Pierce, and what she’s been through. (Gina Bernal)
The latter means just accepting that, yeah, you’re going to miss some good stuff. A lot of good stuff. But that’s okay. It’s a big world with abundant deposits of good stuff, and while it’s sad that you’re not going to get to it all—be it Charlotte Brontë, Jackson Pollock, or The Moonglows—isn’t it kind of wonderful that we live in a world with too much to experience in one lifetime? (Keith Phipps)Well, from BrontëBlog we would suggest not missing Charlotte Brontë (or her family) but then again we're mostly preaching to the choir here.
Masturbating in public is always illegal, whether you’re doing it to internet porn or Jane Eyre, so that shouldn’t be an issue as long as there’s some diligent librarian to enforce it (and my God what an awful job that would be). (Sam Biddle)Blogosphere thoughts on Jane Eyre (the novel): The Oddness of Moving Things, The Story Girl, Rose Vignettes, Se liga! (in Portuguese) and Veverita's Blog (in Romanian). Booktalk & More has Laurel Ann from Austenprose write a guest post on Jane Eyre 1944. Michael Bryant reflects on the Brontës and English literature. Pamflet reviews Shared Experience's revival of Polly Teale's Brontë. Through the Wardrobe mentions briefly Rachel Ferguson's The Brontës Went to Woolworths. And finally, Readin' and Dreamin' reviews Jude Morgan's The Taste of Sorrow.
Centro Internazionale Scrittori della Calabria presents2. In Hamburg, Germany, a chance to see Christa Krings and Viktoria Meienburg in a performance inspired by the life and work of the Brontë sisters:
Ciclo di letteratura mondiale: Inghilterra
Emily Jane Brontë
Salone di San Giorgio al Corso di Reggio Calabria
April 27, 18.00
With Video projections.
Maria Festa, Literary Critic and Journalist.
Emily Brontë, (Thornton, Yorkshire, 1818) scrittrice inglese, sin da piccola condusse una vita chiusa in un suo interiore mondo fantastico. Nel gruppo dei ragazzi Brontë svolse un ruolo di animatrice culturale.I suoi versi, insieme a quelli delle sorelle Anne e Charlotte, furono pubblicati, con uno pseudonimo, nel 1846. Il capolavoro di Emily è il romanzo “Cime tempestose” (Wuthering heights, 1847).Lo sfondo del romanzo è la solitaria brughiera dello Yorkshire. Due famiglie che esprimono gli opposti mondi della passione distruttiva e del timido conformismo vivono una in una fattoria sulla collina e l’altra in una agiata dimora nella valle. Causa del contrasto è la figura del misterioso giovane Heathcliff.Il romanzo della Brontë è stato considerato dalla critica originale lontano dalla tradizione inglese per l’aspro realismo della vita quotidiana, le inquietanti suggestioni simboliche e per gli spunti di eccezionale intensità emotiva.
Wir Schwestern drei, wir SchönenCategories: Theatre, Talks
by and with Christa Krings and Viktoria Meienburg
April 28, 20.00
Goldbekhaus Winterhude
Composition and piano - Barbara Henneberg
Atmospheric design stage -Walter Beasley
Christa Krings und Viktoria Meienburg setzen das Leben der drei literarischen Schwestern Brontë aus dem England der Romantik mit eigenwilligen Mitteln um. Hinter dem Namen steht eine der erstaunlichsten und bizarrsten Legenden der englischen Literaturgeschichte: Die Brontës, Anne, Emily und Charlotte. Sie hatten sich vorgenommen Schriftstellerinnen zu werden. Das erreichten sie auch fast auf Anhieb – und dies ist die Wurzel der Legende, dass es diesen drei Frauen gelang, in ihrem einsamen Haworth eine fiktive Welt zu erschaffen, die uns bis heute in ihren Bann zieht. In ihrem LeseTheaterAbend entführen Christa Krings und Viktoria Meienburg die Zuschauer mit sinnlichen Mitteln in die Welt der Brontë – Schwestern. Die Zuschauer erleben die faszinierende Schönheit der Landschaft, mit der die Schwestern bis in die Tiefe ihrer Seelen verbunden waren und die Kraft und Inspiration für ihr Schaffen war. (Bühne: Waltraut Biester). Die live gespielte Klaviermusik aus der Zeit verdichtet die Atmosphäre, in der die beiden Darstellerinnen in szenischen Dialogen, Briefen und Gedichten das Leben von Charlotte, Emily und Anne entstehen lassen. Poesie in sturmzerzauster Zeit – ein Gesamtkunstwerk.
When you enter the world of Jane Eyre and Thornfield Hall — the estate of Edward Rochester that has employed Jane as a governess — there is no leaving it until the story is done. The cover opens, the tale begins, and once again I walk with Jane and Edward on the grounds of his estate or stand alongside Jane as she looks out from a massive rock outcropping worn smooth and round from the relentless wind that never ceases to blow across the treeless moors of West Yorkshire.Filmmaker Magazine is also very enthusiastic about the film:
The strange beauty of this adaptation of Jane Eyre is that it is relentlessly of our time, even as it’s not. The film’s visual style and the tone of Adriano Goldman’s cinematography is cool and drained of color, and yet its emotional register is sheer Technicolor, all hot-red-lava. There is a yearning—there has been for a long time—for the old strictures and rules and taboos. As much as we want to be free, we yearn for constraint, the very rules that make rebellion possible. Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom is about that. The woman in the row in front of me, she is a Franzen character. So am I. But Jane and Rochester, they are not. We pay to see them because they are not like us, and the intrusion of their utter unfamiliarity (in the opposite way of Avatar, where North American audiences find within their future selves, the Southwestern-tinged Na’Vi, a sort of guilt) is a shock to the system. I should say that I’m writing this in Detroit, tinged by a hatred of nostalgia. No one here is nostalgic. There is no going back. Thus, the ending of Jane Eyre (the film) holds a special allure, not finalized, full of potential, the opposite of Johnny Rotten’s “No Future.” These are unspeakable words in Detroit. (Nicholas Rombes)Media Matters compares the box office results of Atlas Shrugged to those of Jane Eyre:
After adding 166 screens around the country (bringing the total to 465 screens in the U.S.), the film's gross plummeted almost 48%, and the per-screen average sank to an estimated $1,890. By comparison, it barely edged out Jane Eyre in total gross -- and lost badly in per-screen average -- though Jane Eyre is in its 7th week of release. Curiously, I haven't seen many conservatives suggesting a groundswell of grassroots fervor for the works of Charlotte Brontë. (Ben Dimiero)Also, The Daily Telegraph (Australia) announces proudly that Mia Wasikowska has made 'her debut on Time magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world'.
All well and good, if only Holtby and screenwriter Andrew Davies hadn't larded the story with so many cliches, not to mention people who seem like second-rate versions of characters created by Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë. (David Wiegand)The Sop lists Jane Eyre as one of those characters we'd want to have existed. Writing about Mills & Boon, the columnist from Express Buzz seems to think that liking Wuthering Heights better than The Lord of the Flies or Waiting for Godot somewhat paves the way for Mills & Boon novels. Salon also discusses the classics and how little we actually know about them:
I knew the names -- Nick Carraway and Daisy Buchanan, Heathcliff and Cathy, the Bennets and the Joads and Humbert Humbert. I knew when Bloomsday was celebrated, and why Cordelia lost the kingdom to her bitchy sisters, and who the madwoman in the attic was. And let's be honest: In most situations, that is plenty to pass as a person well-versed in the classics. I could have gone most of my life as a small-time fraud. (Kate Harding)And our thanks to Melissa from The Clothes Make The Girl for alerting us to this comment on Go Fug Yourself about Beyonce's recent hairstyle:
But my feeling is, if you have Beyonce’s hair (either naturally growing out of your head or patiently waiting for you on a wig stand), do you really ever wake up in the morning and think, “I wish I looked more like Jane Eyre”? My theory is no. I think that very few women indeed find themselves standing in front of the mirror thinking, “I wish I looked LESS awesome, and more like a governess who is likely to marry a crabby dude who concealed from her the rather pertinent fact that he was hiding a crazy wife in the attic.” So: I’m not a huge fan of Beyonce leaving her Hair at home. (Jessica)Jane Eyre - the novel - is reviewed by The Book Project, Out of the Best Books, The Church Bulletin and Red Toenails. Letters to AB takes a look at several on-screen Rochesters and Literary Sluts imagines a conversation between Elizabeth Bennett and Jane Eyre. Honor Champion's Book Blog and Timothy's Readz review Wuthering Heights. The Brontë Sisters wonders whether Charlotte was actually as ugly as she saw - and described - herself. YouTube user tripmonk0 has uploaded a video from Haworth.
To Eyre ...(Via Handmade Things)
Please know, first off, that I usually avoid copying other knit designs like the plague.
But exceptions must be made from time to time.
This time, the shawls worn in the new Jane Eyre film are so sweet and so simple
and were demanding so vociferously to be knitted, that I couldn't stop myself.
But there is more:My 'Moor House' colorway was created using my low-water dye technique. This colorway has a literary inspiration based on the book Jane Eyre. I always imagined the stones of Moor House being coated with green moss and orange lichens- what a dynamic pair of colors! This yarn will knit up as a variegated color which will work well with lace patterns or to liven up stockinet stitch!
quovadishandspun has his own Wuthering Heights, Handspun and Hand Dyed Organic Cotton Yarn.This colour reminds me of the darkness, intensity, and passion in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.
This is one of my earlier projects, so the yarn is fairly slubby, so you'll get some great texture in your project.
algernonrex has a Heathcliffe (sic) yarn: Handspun Worsted Weight.This handspun yarn is a worsted-weight three-ply named Heathcliffe.And Jane Eyre neck warmers on SnowCatCoalCat and hand-dyed merino wool named Wuthering Heights on latiniumexmachina.
It has been hand-painted with professional low impact acid dyes.
The colors remind me of the murky heathered moors of Scotland as described in the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. This colorway is full of ivy greens, heather, mauve, stormy grey and the occasional deep red.
Keighley News talks about the current status of the repair of the stone setts in Haworth's Main Street. When BrontëBlog visited Haworth a month ago we witnessed how the work was being carried out:Work to restore Haworth’s historic setts will halt shortly before next month’s 1940s Weekend celebration, then begin again in October.The US fascination with the upcoming royal wedding in the UK is discussed in Los Angeles Times. Films and TV series are also mentioned:
Bradford Council’s principal traffic and highways officer, Keith Escritt, said the workers had been lucky with the weather since they began the job on Main Street in January.
He said: “They’ve been cleaning out the joints between the setts around the bottom of the street.
“They should get as far as the Fleece pub by the end of this month.”
This year’s 1940s Weekend will take place on May 14 and 15.
Mr Escritt said the workers would make sure they removed their material from Weaver’s Hill car park in time for the event.
He said: “When we restart in October we hope to complete the stretch from the Butt Lane area to the top of Main Street, depending on the weather.
“We’ve got to relay a lot of the setts on West Lane.
“Then we’ve got the asphalt stretch between the car park there and North Street.
“We’re thinking of removing the asphalt and revealing the setts underneath.”
Coun Huxley said: “I think they’ve done a first class job on the setts.
“Bradford Council deserves some praise because it’s really got on with it and this is something that will last for a long time.”
In response to a query from Mike Hutchinson, of the Haworth Village Association, Mr Escritt said: “I’ve been told that we’ve got funding for this scheme for the next two years.” (Miran Rahman)
Who else can they get to play all those stock characters like the stern butler, the snooty dowager, the flinty cook, the plain but good-hearted scullery maid? Period dramas such as these and the endless Austen and Brontë adaptations have practically saved the U.K.'s theatrical class from destitution. (That and Hollywood's bizarre typecasting of bad guys as Brits.) (Simon Reynolds)Jane Eyre 2011's box office is discussed by Alt Film Guide:
Meanwhile, Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre, starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender, continues to do decent business in limited release. At 319 locations on its seventh weekend out, the latest film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's classic grossed $782k, down 21% after the addition of 45 theaters (about 15% more than last weekend). Total to date: $7.91m. (Zack Gille)and indieWire:
In its seventh frame, Cary Fukunaga’s adaptation of Charlotte Brontë‘s “Jane Eyre” also held up nicely. It expanded from 273 to 319 theaters and took in $782,372, averaging $2,453. Distributor Focus Features should be quite pleased with the film’s $2,453 per-theater-average and its new $7,902,371 total. “Eyre,” which stars Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell and Judi Dench, should easily be heading for the $10 million mark[.] (Peter Knegt)or The Hollywood Reporter:
Focus Features’ Jane Eyre approached $8 million over the weekend, ending the frame with a new cume of $7.7 million. (Pamela McClintock)Several Korean news outlets present or talk about the movie: Newswire, 대전일보, The Union Press, 중도일보 and 매일경제 mentions the Dario Marianelli score. According to Financial News, Jane Eyre is number six in the South Korean box office (52838 viewers).
The sumptuous meals are almost upstaged by the glorious Brontë-esque countryside. (Erica Abeel)Brutal as Hell lists some non-carnivore zombie movies. Including I Walked with a Zombie 1943:
Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 gothic masterpiece “Jane Eyre” gets a hundred year makeover and a trip to Jamaica in this film by horror master Jacques Tourneur. Hired as a caretaker for the wife of a plantation owner, Nurse Betsy gets caught up in the Calypso-tinged world of Voodoo when her patient turns out to be a white zombie. Is it a medical mystery or a genuine voodoo curse? Betsy’s willing to stroll through the cane fields at night to find out, and neither spooky jungle drums nor the presence of a cadaverous, pop-eyed native is going to deter her. Considering this was made in 1943, there’s stunningly little in the way of sexism or racism. Smart and eerie, there’s a reason this is considered a classic. (Annie Riordon)The Daily Mail has one of those not-to-be-missed articles about divorces and how-bad-it-is-to-return-to-your-ex-but-the-sex-is-so-good kind of thing. A Brontë reference gives it a touch of quality:
SAAAM is reading Jane Eyre and Poe's Deadly Daughters posts about the novel; Codswallop posts a new part of Money Must be Funny, a sort of prequel of Wide Sargasso Sea; La Sirène du Ciel talks about Cathy and Heathcliff or Jane and Rochester as soulmates; V for Books talks about staying in Haworth; Abigail's Ateliers continues exploring Charlotte Brontë's possible wardrobe; Adrianne Ambrose shares what she has learnt about the Brontës; Sophisticated Dorkiness reviews Erin Blakemore's The Heroine's Bookshelf and Cornflower Blue posts about a Jane Eyre cross stitch project recently finished.
An odd Brontë news story comes from Russia (Komsomolskaya Pravda, for instance). As an experiment, a bookstore in Yekaterinburg has launched a line of air fresheners whose cans display a chapter from several novels. The Brontë reference comes via Wuthering Heights, whose corresponding air freshener is called "горный воздух"('mountain air'). Apparently, the whole thing has been quite a success with people grabbing the cans from toilets in bars, restaurants, offices, etc.
Several news outlets publish the sad news of the sudden and unexpected death of the French actress Marie-France Pisier (1944-2011). Her body was found in her swimming pool and the circumstances of the death are now under investigation.
On this video that can be seen on Ina.fr, Marie France Pisier discusses her role as Charlotte Brontë in the Cannes presentation of the film:André Téchiné et Marie France Pisier viennent parler du film réalisé par ce dernier "Les Soeurs Brontë". Il est présenté ce soir en sélection et l'émotion est grande. Le réalisateur parle de ce nouvel exercice, un film historique. Marie France Pisier parle de Charlotte son personnage très complexé. Extrait. Pascal Gregory les rejoint, il incarne le frêre Brontë. Il a téléphoné à Téchiné pour se proposer, lui acteur méconnu au milieu d'une distribution prestigieuse.EDIT: L'Express rescues a 1990 interview with the actress where she says:
Une réalisatrice dormait en vous d'un sommeil de plume depuis Les soeurs Brontë ?EDIT: An obituary in The Times.
Marie-France Pisier: Depuis ces années-là, oui. Je me prenais un peu pour Charlotte Brontë à l'époque, et tout allait bien. J'avais déposé, en 1978-1979, un scénario à l'Avance sur recettes : Territoire d'outre-mer. (Gilles Médioni) (Translation)
Et cette fièvre, contractée chez les Brontë, et dont il n'est pas sûr qu'elle ait jamais guéri. (Translation)Categories: In the News
The Yorkshire village where the Brontë children grew up could scarcely seem more charming. Its crooked Main St., paved by ancient flagstones, climbs a hill overlooking the broad Worth Valley. The humble buildings crowding its sidewalks are largely what Charlotte, Emily, Anne and brother Branwell would have passed in the 1830s and '40s, many built of local sandstone, called millstone grit. Then, these would have been the homes of weavers and wool combers. Today they are teashops and gift boutiques.The Austin Statesman recommends the Morgan Library exhibition The Diary:
At the top of the street is the Black Bull Pub, across from it a shop that says "apothecary," and nearby are two old coaching inns and these, likewise, were all here when the family knew Haworth.
At the Black Bull a lane to the left leads higher still, to St. Michael and All Angels, the church where the family's patriarch, Reverend Patrick Brontë, preached. Next to the church is its small cemetery, shaded and grim in all but the sunniest weather. Beyond its back wall, first glimpsed through tombstones and tree branches, stands the Parsonage, where the Brontë children resided. "Resided" rather than "lived" because although the house kept a roof over their heads, all four siblings spent a great deal of time inhabiting worlds of their own creation.
The Parsonage is now the Brontë museum or, really, shrine. Anywhere from 70,000 to more than 200,000 people visit each year, depending on whether modern-day interest in the Brontës is peaking or ebbing. With the recent release of a new Jane Eyre film (starring Alice in Wonderland's Mia Wasikowska), the numbers are likely to rise this year. (Read more) (John Masters)
Read what Henry David Thoreau wrote day to day about Walden Pond; see Albert Einstein's figure-filled book in which he moans about yet another day pondering the relationship between gravity and electricity; consider Charlotte Brontë's moping about being cold and lonely during a Brussels teaching assignment where she considered everyone around her unworthy of her company. (Her handwriting is incredibly tiny.) (Anders Meanders)At the Brookfield Banter, Rich Piepho has cleaned out his car:
The Incredible Missing Book! - Own a part of history! This is the very copy of Jane Eyre Rich needed to write a paper about before it suddenly went missing. Rather than look for the book at all, Rich decided to just go ahead and write the paper anyway, which earned him a D. Had Rich known this mysterious relic was under the driver’s seat, blocked by a McDonald’s bag, could things have been different? Probably not.On the Standard Media (Kenya) Chesterton is quoted as not having a very positive opinion of Charlotte Brontë:
The second was Chesterton’s analysis of three female 19th Century authors, which piqued my interest: "I fancy Jane Austen was stronger, sharper and shrewder than Charlotte Brontë. I am quite certain she was stronger, sharper and shrewder than George Eliot. She could do one thing neither of them could do: she could coolly and sensibly describe a man." (Charles Kanjama)The Telegraph discusses house names:
But many homeowners also saw a chance to make a larger statement about themselves and their tastes. If they had spent time abroad, particularly in the Army, that might be reflected in the name of their house – Shanghai, Mafeking or El Alamein. There was also an opportunity to remember favourite novels; Wuthering Heights and Ivanhoe both enjoyed long innings. (Max Davidson)The Boston Globe begins a new season of one of the spring-summer classics: the summer reading lists:
Not so long ago, high schoolers had to lug heavy beach bags brimming with tomes by Brontë, Steinbeck, and Tolstoy. These days, they’re more likely to carry sprightly fare by contemporary authors like Dan Brown, Mitch Albom, and Bill Bryson. (Lisa Kocian)The Worcester Telegram & Gazette has a petition from a local reading group:
“I so wish that some of the local Worcester colleges would host occasional lectures, open to the public, on classic books like ‘Jane Eyre,' ‘Wuthering Heights,' ‘Pride and Prejudice,' Steinbeck,” wrote Brenda Yates of the Sutton group Full Court Press. (Ann Connery Frantz)The Cinematheque reviews Jane Eyre 2011:
[T]his latest version of Bronte's novel, though passable enough, seems to just lay there, not willing to do much of anything. And again (as my lovely wife, who claims the novel as her favourite as a child, attests to and rightfully complains about) the childhood of Jane, and her life in the Lowood orphange, is all but ignored (the aforementioned 1944 version allows for the most screentime for this earlier section of the book, but even then it is quite truncated). Perhaps we do not need another version of this story (and the same can be said of many great works of classic literature that get made and remade and remade again ad nauseum) or perhaps we need one with a braver filmmaker than Fukunaga at the helm, or perhaps one that stars (no offense to the lovely miss Wasikowska, for she is a good, if not a bit miscast actress) a stronger lead actor in the role.(Kevyn Knox)KirstWords, tea and oatmeal, See you at the movies, Opinions of an Aspiring Director, Octoberborn, Teresa Bodwell Writes, Occupation: Girl also review the film.
