With... Bethany Turner-Pemberton
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Sassy and Sam chat to researcher and curator Bethany Turner-Pemberton.
Bethany is PhD candidate in Textiles and Museum Studies at Manchester
Metropolitan...
This writer saw several films that verged on greatness at the Venice Film Festival this year, but none quite blew us away like Andrea Arnold‘s “Wuthering Heights.” We’d liked “Red Road,” and greatly admired “Fish Tank,” but her new film, an adaptation of Emily Brontë‘s literary classic, is really something special, a masterly reinvention of a great tale, with the year’s best lensing, courtesy of Robbie Ryan and a true command of cinema, taking on Terrence Malick at his own game and, against the thematically similar “Tree of Life” at least, winning. [...]
As you’ll see, it’s instantly recognizable as an Arnold film, with the same Academy ratio look as “Fish Tank,” and those expecting a staid period drama are likely to be surprised, even if the film’s real savagery is being kept under wraps—considering it makes Cary Fukunaga‘s “Jane Eyre” from earlier in the year look like “Sense & Sensibility,” its probably a smart marketing move.
We’re not sure this quite captures the real sweep of Arnold’s film, but it is only a teaser trailer, and it will inevitably look better on a big screen, or at least in HD. (Oliver Lyttelton)
Variety discusses the highs and lows of the Toronto International Film Festival:
It was also a very good fest for British directors -- not just McQueen but also Andrea Arnold, whose "Wuthering Heights" reps a bold departure from the classical tradition of literary adaptation. (Justin Chang)
Another film festival where the film will be seen is the Zurich Film Festival (22 September - 2 October), as reported by Variety as well.
This film adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's book Jane Eyre draws you into the solitary world of the young governess. With its striking set decoration and costumes, director Cary Fukunaga has crafted a worthy adaptation of the novel. (Esther McCarthy)
And ScreenDaily shares the film's current figures:
Jane Eyre stands at $7.7m through Universal and $9.5m overall and has generated $4.4m in the UK after two weekends.(Jeremy Kay)
The Times reviews the performances of We Are Three Sisters in Halifax:
For this Northern Broadsides touring production Blake Morrison has written a fantasia on a theme by Chekhov, rather as a composer will create a piece that draws on another composer’s music. In this case the theme is the famously frustrated existence of Olga, Masha and Irina Prozorov, sisters exiled from culture and excitement in a remote provincial town. What Morrison cunningly does is to blend their experience with that of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, tied by their spinsterhood to the parsonage of the remote Yorkshire village of Haworth. The parallels between the two threesomes are striking — and it seems that Chekhov read a biography of the Brontës before writing his play. Both sets of sisters have a ne’er-do-well brother who gambles and is besotted with a socially ambitious woman. The personalities of the individual sisters also curiously resemble their foreign counterparts, with Charlotte a kind of quasi-mother, Emily brooding on her private thoughts, Anne sweetly naïve. Obviously the Haworth reality has to be wrenched to fit the Chekhov, and sometimes the strain is glaring. (...) Marc Parry’s lovesick curate is as dashing in his darting approaches as in his contrived charm. Catherine Kinsella, Sophia di Martino and Rebecca Hutchinson convey a powerful sense of sisterhood, with Di Martino outstanding as an Emily whose precise intensity almost persuades me to take a look at Wuthering Heights. (Jeremy Kingston)
The Independent discusses the works of artist John Martin and mentions the Brontës' passion for him:
His popular image was less as an artist and more as a visionary whose work could be found on the walls of European royalty, Russian emperors and even the Brontë parsonage. (Arifa Akbar)
A Younger Theatre takes a brief look at British literature apart from Shakespeare:
With the likes of Pinter and Stoppard, Dickens and Hardy, the Brontës and the Romantics, and not least those of the Golden Age of British theatre, Middleton, Jonson and Webster, we are endowed with one of the richest dramatic and literary traditions in the world. (Jude Evans)
While The Hindu highlights one of the best things about the classics:
You can read a classic like ‘Wuthering Heights' for example at the age of 12 and 21, and enjoy it equally both times, even though you will probably interpret it completely differently when you're older.
That's the thing with classics. They've stood the test of time for a reason — they're layered, they're clever, they're open to interpretation. If you do them right you can't go wrong. (Shonali Muthalaly)
The Brontë Sisters posts about Elizabeth Gaskell's September 1853 visit to the Parsonage. EDIT: An alert from Richmond, Virginia:
Chesterfield County Public Library Book discussion group, 7-8 p.m., Bon Air Library, 9103 Rattlesnake Road, Richmond. “Wide Sargasso Sea” by Jean Rhys will be discussed. 320-2461,
Where Was The Real Thornfield Hall?
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Spring has not yet sprung and we are still enjoying dark nights where you
can snuggle up with a good book. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is one of
those bo...
Member talk: The Brontës and fake news
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There have been wild speculations and baseless theories about the Brontë
sisters and their novels virtually since the books were first published in
1847. J...
Celebrating Anne Brontë
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Wishing a happy belated birthday to Anne Brontë, born on 17th January 1820
in Thornton. She was an English novelist and poet and her works include the
prot...
Goodbye, Jane
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As two wonderful years come to an end, Piper and Lillian reflect on what
we've learned from Jane Eyre.
Thank you for joining us on this journey.
Happy...
The Calderdale Windfarm
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*The Calderdale Windfarm*
Sixty-five turbines, each one of them forty metres taller than Blackpool
Tower! All of them close by Top Withens. This is what ...
Hello!
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This is our new post website for The Anne Brontë Society. We are based in
Scarborough UK, and are dedicated to preserving Anne’s work, memory, and
legacy. ...
Final thoughts.
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Back from honeymoon and time for Charlotte to admire her beautiful wedding
day bonnet before storing it carefully away in the parsonage.
After 34 days...
Charlotte Bronte and the Great Exhibition of 1851
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A Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, celebrating industrial advances,
had been promoted from July 1949 by Prince Albert and Sir Henry Cole, the
sam...
Ambrotipia – Tesori dal Brontë Parsonage Museum
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Continua la collaborazione tra The Sisters’ Room e il Brontë Parsonage
Museum. Vi mostriamo perciò una serie di contenuti speciali, scelti e
curati dire...
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kcarreras:
I have an inward *treasure* born with me, which can keep me alive if all
extraneous *delights* should be withheld or offered only at a price I...
Livre «Quel Brontë êtes-vous ?»
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Un nouveau livre en français au sujet des Brontë est paru le 20 février
2020 aux éditions Librinova : Quel Brontë êtes-vous ? par Anna
Feissel-Leibovici. ...
Brontë in media
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Wist u dat? In de film ‘The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society’
gebaseerd op de gelijknamige briefroman, schrijft hoofdrolspeelster Juliet
Ashto...
Researching Emily Brontë at Southowram
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A couple of weeks ago I took a wander to the district of Southowram, just a
few miles across the hills from Halifax town centre, yet feeling like a
vil...
Handwriting envy
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The opening facsimile of Charlotte Brontë’s hand for the opening of the
novel is quite arresting. A double underlining emphasises with perfect
clarity tha...
Html to ReStructuredText-converter
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Wallflux.com provides a rich text to reStructredText-converter. Partly
because we use it ourselves, partly because rst is very transparent in
displaying wh...
Display Facebook posts in a WordPress widget
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You can display posts from any Facebook page or group on a WordPress blog
using the RSS-widget in combination with RSS feeds from Wallflux.com:
https://www...
5. The Poets’ Jumble Trail Finds
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Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending with some friends a jumble trail
in which locals sold old – and in some instances new – bits and bobs from
their ...
How I Met the Brontës
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My first encounter with the Brontës occurred in the late 1990’s when
visiting a bookshop offering a going-out-of -business sale. Several books
previously d...
Radio York
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I was interviewed for the Paul Hudson Weather Show for Radio York the other
day - i had to go to the BBC radio studios in Blackburn and did the
interview...
CELEBRATION DAY
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MEDIA RELEASE
February 2010
For immediate release
FREE LOCAL RESIDENTS’ DAY AT NEWLY REFURBISHED BRONTË MUSEUM
This image shows the admission queue on the...
Poetry Day poems
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This poem uses phrases and lines written by visitors at the Bronte
Parsonage Museum to celebrate National Poetry Day 2009, based on words
chosen from Emily...
The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte
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Firstly, I would like to thank the good people at Avon- Harper Collins for
sending me a review copy of Syrie James' new book, The Secret Diaries of
Charlot...
With... Bethany Turner-Pemberton
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Sassy and Sam chat to researcher and curator Bethany Turner-Pemberton.
Bethany is PhD candidate in Textiles and Museum Studies at Manchester
Metropolitan...
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