Brontë-esque riffs

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Jane Eyre (1996)
Nel 1996 è il turno di “Jane Eyre”, una coproduzione italiana, francese e britannica. Il film mette in scena l'omonimo romanzo di Charlotte Brontë che narra la storia dell’orfana Jane e del suo amore per il ricco Edward Rochester. Il film riceve il David di Donatello per i costumi. (SkyTg24) (Translation)

Zeffirelli never again quite reached those sublime heights, though he came close with “La Traviata” (1982), starring Teresa Stratas and Placido Domingo, and his take on “Jane Eyre” (1996), starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, is the most emotionally comprehensible version of the Charlotte Brontë novel ever committed to the screen. (Mick LaSalle in San Francisco Chronicle)

[C]on Jane Eyre, rilettura intensa del romanzo di Charlotte Brontë, con una Charlotte Gainsbourg straordinariamente in parte. (Fulvia Caprara in La Stampa) (Translation)

De todos modos, a la hora de recoger el desamparo, la orfandad y el desconcierto, acertaría más con Jane Eyre (1996), adaptación del clásico de Charlotte Brontë con Anna Paquin y Charlotte Gainsbourg en las versiones infantil y juvenil de la protagonista. (José María Aresté in Decine21) (Translation)

In 1996, he directed a moderately well-received adaptation of “Jane Eyre,” considered one of his more restrained filmic efforts. (Richard Natale in Variety)

Ha appena girato Jane Eyre. In quell’orfana graziata dalla severità e dall’intuito, diceva, rivedeva se stesso.
Di Zeffirelli estraggo due immagini, due volti. Il primo è quello di Jane Eyre, appunto. Film dalla delicatezza sinistra, didascalia d’ombre, elevato dal volto di Charlotte Gainsbourg, la figlia di Serge e di Jane Birkin. Prima di diventare la maniaca di sesso di Lars von Trier, faccia cementata in una dissipazione sfinita, Charlotte è, qui, per un istante, l’icona del candore, e ciò che di irrisolto, di inafferrabile, di perverso giace sotto la cute dell’innocente. Di lei – tradotto in disumana pietà – è l’avvertimento selvaggio, una avvenenza da giungla, la quota inscalfibile all’amore che continua a distruggerci. Una Maddalena in cuffia, resa a ogni abisso, purché sia certo il non ritorno, un viso che spacca a mezzo il costato, la fronte, il setto nasale, come la chiglia di un angelo. (Pangea) (Translation)

[Mel Gibson was a] bold choice for his Hamlet in 1990, a gamble that largely paid off; although Jane Eyre (1996) was generally thought self-defeatingly lacking in sparkle. (The Times)

Jane Eyre 1996 will be aired on IRIS (Mediaset Italy) at 21.14 h.

The Sunday Times reviews the film Toy Story 4:

It is also funny, but from the reality check for Buzz in the first film, echoing Philip K Dick’s inquiries into the mind, to the romantic Brontë-esque riff here, there is little about all this that is cartoonish any longer. Just think of that third film, when all the toys nearly died. (Jonathan Dean) 

And talks about Paula Rego's retrospective at MK Gallery:

She is now 84, a genuinely venerable artistic figure, a dame of the British Empire, no less, deep into her late style. She has illustrated nursery rhymes and tales of frogs that go a-wooing. She did Jane Eyre, and the murals for the restaurant at the National Gallery. These respectable achievements have softened her presence and added a note of saintliness to it. But don’t let them fool you. (Waldemar Januszczak)

TVFanatic reviews the LifeTime TV movie Tempting Fate:

No, but seriously, where do you find Matt? Other than his total disregard for banging a married woman, he was almost too perfect, or maybe it was the combination of him being perfect and Gabby being easily impressed.

Matt: Jane Eyre. I read it four times since my class in Feminist Lit I took in college, which I swear, I didn't take to pick up women.

Her unmentionables disintegrated around the time he tossed out some basic information about Jane Eyre, which he credited to the Feminist Literature class he took in college for reasons that didn't include picking up chicks (Ha. Sure, Matt). (Jasmine Blu)

The history of the Thornton Antiquarian Society is discussed in The Telegraph & Argus:

The society came into being in 2002 as a reminiscing group. It became formalised when one of the founders and later chairman Eddie North gave it the name ‘antiquarian.’
Its mission is to preserve the history of the village, its people, places, buildings, trades and everything that makes up this interesting area of Bradford, famous as the birthplace of the Brontë children. (Helen Mead)

The Telegraph interviews the writer Victoria Hislop:

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. -. This book switched me on to reading. As a teenager, I found Heathcliff to be the most interesting anti-hero. I loved the Kate Bush song too. (Sophie Foster)

The Hindu reviews Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway:

Madame Bovary chose arsenic to end her life. Anna Karenina flung herself under a train. Jane Eyre got her happy ending by becoming Mrs. Rochester. And Mrs. Dalloway? She returned to her party. (Anjali Thomas)

Northern Soul interviews the theatre director Jake Murray:

There’s an eclectic mix of pictures on the walls of my house. Like many people, my home is my life writ large and among the mish-mash of Brontë quotes and self-deprecating swipes at my Northern heritage is a signed poster of the 1995 Manchester Royal Exchange production of Miss Julie.

La Marina Plaza (Spain) interviews the writer Nieves Mories:

-José Ángel de Dios García: ¿Cuáles dirías que son tus influencias (ya sean literarias o no)?
-Hay tantas… Las más grandes en lo literario son Stephen King, Poe, Ballard, las Brontë y Clive Barker, crecí devorando sus obras, aunque soy permeable y tuve una etapa muy Palahniuk, solo por poner un ejemplo. (Translation)

Revista Cifras (Brazil) talks about the late Andre Matos and his band, Angra:

Todo o talento e a versatilidade dos músicos do Angra fica evidente na sétima música do disco, “Wuthering Heights”, clássico da cantora Kate Bush baseado no romance de mesmo nome, que mistura amor e suspense. A interpretação emocionada de Andre Matos e o talento dos demais componentes transformaram a balada em uma das mais memoráveis e corajosas versões escritas por uma banda de metal. (Mateus Ribeiro) (Translation)