This year's
BAFTA shortlist nominations have just been disclosed. It looks like
Jane Eyre 2011 has only been nominated for Costume Design (Michael O'Connor).
Coincidentally, according to
The Telegraph, a British government report on the film industry
praised low-budget but critically-acclaimed films including Shame, We Need To Talk About Kevin and Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights. (Anita Singh)
The
Guardian cites verbatim from the report:
The report also advocates "market testing where appropriate" – showing unfinished films to audiences and adjusting them according to response.
Smith claimed such initiatives, aimed at boosting commercial success, would not thwart challenging work by British film-makers like Andrea Arnold or Steve McQueen, whose Wuthering Heights and Shame are cited in the report as having contributed to a "golden year" for British film. (Alex Needham)
The Times adds:
[L]ow-budget British film industry seems to have more room for mixed- race casts. Andrea Arnold recently cast a black Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, and Attack the Block brought a teenage John Boyega into the limelight. (Kate Muir)
Another new adaptation of
Wuthering Heights (Walang Hanggan) is currently being broadcast in the Philipines. From
Business World Online:
Showcasing a powerhouse cast led by seasoned actresses Susan Roces and Helen Gamboa, Walang Hanggan tells the story of undying love that spans three generations, similar to the 1847 novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.
Misses Roces and Gamboa play sisters Virginia and Margaret who compete for the love of one man (played by Eddie Gutierrez).
Then there is the ill-fated love story between the rich guy Marco (Richard Gomez) and the poor woman Emily (Dawn Zulueta).
The tangled love story continues with young sweethearts Daniel (Coco Martin) and Katerina (Julia Montes).
Regina Amigo, the program’s creative manager, said ABS-CBN has pulled out all the stops to make sure Walang Hanggan will be a big TV hit.
"We got the best actors to be in the project. We shot in various locations around the country. We made sure this TV project will be something big for our audiences," Ms. Amigo told reporters last week.
Ms. Roces expressed excitement over the new series. "I’m a fan of soap operas myself, that’s why I’m very happy to be part of it," she said.
Meanwhile, Ms. Zulueta, who appears on this TV project for the first time in more than a decade with Mr. Gomez, takes pride in the narrative. "The story was so great, that it was hard to turn down the role. Everyone can surely relate with the characters’ journey," Ms. Zulueta said.
While Ms. Zulueta and Mr. Gomez rekindle an old onscreen romance, Mr. Martin and Ms. Montes starts a new one as they team up for the first time in this project.
"This is a new challenge for me since this is the first time that I’ll be doing a ‘full love story.’ But I’m getting inspiration from the fact that I’m working with the best actors and actresses of the industry," Mr. Martin said.
Completing the powerhouse cast are Rita Avila, Melissa Ricks, Joem Bascon and Paulo Avelino. Jerry Lopez Sineneng and Trina Dayrit direct the series which will run for at least four months.
Walang Hanggan airs weeknights at 9:30 p.m. on ABS-CBN. (Jeffrey O. Valisno)
Yet another adaptation of
Wuthering Heights is mentioned in
The New York Times in an article praising Fabio Luisi, the Metropolitan Opera’s principal conductor:
Who would have expected this Italian maestro to be so at home conducting Copland’s jazzy Clarinet Concerto, let alone an aria from “Wuthering Heights,” the only opera by Bernard Herrmann, of “Psycho” fame? (Anthony Tommasini)
A tutor in Cambridge writes in
The Boston Globe,
For 40 years I’ve encouraged hundreds of students, lost in thickets of dense prose, unable to muddle through cumbersome classics, to turn to study guides. They offered consolation, an easy way out and a chance to pull the wool over the teacher’s eyes; teachers like Miss Marmet, who heaped scorn on me after catching me with Mickey Spillane’s “I, The Jury’’ when I should have been reading “Jane Eyre.’’ (Ted Sutton)
Natalie in the Wild has uploaded a
Jane Eyre illustration.
Thoughts from Mill Street and
Humo (in Dutch) posts about
Jane Eyre 2011.
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