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Sunday, December 11, 2022

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 Ghost stories aren't dead. Los Angeles Review of Books elaborates on that:
Ghost stories continue to be one of the most popular types of short stories, especially since the subgenre first appeared in early gothic novels such as Matthew Lewis’s The Monk (i.e., the ghost story of the Bleeding Nun) and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. (Lindsey Carman Williams)
The Times of India celebrates the 100th anniversary of the actor Dilip Kumar and mentions how: 
In 1966 Dilip Kumar ghost-directed Dil Diya Dard Liya, an underrated adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, officially credited for direction to the eminent AR Kardar.
One of the film’s prominent actors revealed in a previous interaction, “Kardar saab was made to sit outside the studio, while Yusuf saab (Dilip Kumar) did the direction.”  (Subhash K Jha)
Legacy publishes the obituary of  Elise Elizabeth Hamlett "Elysee" Peavy (1936 - 2022) who
earned her Master of Arts at Tulane University where she authored "An Examination and Evaluation of Criticism of Wuthering Heights."
The Sunday Times briefly reviews the film The Silent Twins:
Does she convince us that they are Wales’s answer to the Brontës? Not quite, but she has made an intriguing companion piece to Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures, about a case of two school friends whose imaginative bond spirals into murder. (Tom Shone)
Hit Serials talks about Matthew Sweet's cover of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights:
Many artists have tried to cover Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights,” but the it’s such a uniquely iconic song with an equally unique structure that attempts, while valiant, have largely failed from being too over-the-top, too ambitious, or just plain terrible.
Potentially flirting with disaster, Matthew Sweet took up that challenge and thankfully walked away with a prize. Instead of deconstructing it or turning it into a dramatic retelling, he tackled it rather faithfully, keeping the piano, bass and guitar rather note-for-note, but pushing the drums a bit farther up in the mix.
Esquire (Spain) lists the most asked for books in bookstores. Among them, A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf:
 Una mujer debe tener dinero y una habitación propia para poder escribir novelas. Esta opinión de la escritora británica Virginia Woolf fue el motivo de la creación de este ensayo feminista. En el libro, Woolf indaga en las carreras profesionales de algunas autoras de especial relevancia como Jane Austen o Emily Brontë, denuncia que el espacio literario quede restringido prácticamente a los hombres, y señala el contraste tan violento entre la idealización de la figura de la mujer en la literatura y el trato que se les da en la vida real. Una habitación propia tiene todavía vigencia y su lectura continúa siendo necesaria. (Álvaro de Luna) (Translation)
Cinematographe (Italy) recommends films similar to Lady Chatterley's Lover 2022:
Cime tempestose (1992)
Trasposizione del 1992 del celebre romanzo di Emily Brontë, con protagonisti Ralph Fiennes e Juliette Binoche. Come ne L’amante di Lady Chatterley, anche in questo caso le barriere di classe – tra la benestante Catherine e l’orfano Heathcliff – giocano un ruolo fondamentale all’interno di una turbolenta relazione amorosa. Le cime tempestose ben rappresentano le indomabili passioni che possono sconvolgere le vite di noi tutti. (Giulia Lang) (Translation)
Cineuropa (Spain) interviews the film director Ángeles Huerta:
Alfonso Rivera: El paisaje fronterizo y brumoso ayuda bastante a crear la misteriosa atmósfera de O corpo aberto.
A.H.: El trabajo de la directora de fotografía Gina Ferrer es impresionante, entendió perfectamente lo que queríamos transmitir aquí. Ella nos convenció para concentrar la mirada en los personajes: es una película de cuerpos, carnes y pieles, con referencias como Cumbres borrascosas de Andrea Arnold, con todo en un formato más encuadrado para centrarse en lo humano.  (Translation)

Two magazines, Gazete Duvar (Turkey) and Politis (France) quote Jane Eyre in an article about Annie Ernaux. 

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