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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Wednesday, September 12, 2012 8:36 am by Cristina in , , ,    3 comments
The new trailer for Wuthering Heights 2011 and its forthcoming premiere in the US continue generating articles: The Christian Science Monitor, Cinema Blend, PanArmenian, MovieReporter (in German), Le Nouvel Observateur (in French), Brain Damaged (in French) and Tout le cine (in French). While Film School Rejects' Culture Warrior discusses its aspect ratio. The State Journal-Register's The Morris Chair, however, doesn't think this could be the ultimate version:
Now for some instances of where the book is better than the movie. No one has ever made a movie version of Wuthering Heights that is as good as Emily Brontë’s novel. (Isaac Morris)
This is how Metro describes Toby Stephens's portrayal of Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre 2006:
DI Jack Armstrong, previously the nonchalant face of Mr Rochester in the BBC adaptation of Jane Eyre, was here to save the day. . .  (Kate Bellamy)
And now for the blunder of the day, courtesy of Fangoria:
[Moira] Buffini, who based this script on her play A Vampire's Tale, shone most recently (and darkly) in her adaptation of Emily Brontë’s gloom with the screenplay for the 2011 remake of Jane Eyre. (Aidan Johnson)
The Daily Cardinal has an article on writers criticising other writers.
And writers as disparate as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain and Charlotte Brontë have ganged up against Jane Austen through the years. (Sean Reichard)
Such an ugly way of putting it, though.

There's a Wuthering Heights fan in the Appeal Democrat. The National CatholicReporter continues the Journal from England and Scotland and includes a visit to Anne's grave in Scarborough. Vintage Reads is re-reading Jane Eyre while Blue Gardenia (in French) has been inspired by it. Dr Tony Shaw looks at the origins of the pictures carved at the door of 32 Cornhill in London, one of which depicts Charlotte and Anne Brontë and William Thackeray. Interesting except for the blunder about the publication of the second edition of Jane Eyre. 

3 comments:

  1. Hi there,

    Charlotte Brontë wrote the preface for the second edition of Jane Eyre on December 21st, 1847, definitely not 1858. (She died in 1855).

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  2. Hi

    Yeah, one mistake followed another: obviously a bad week!

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