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Friday, August 06, 2021

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 Illinois News Today publishes a top ten of films set in Yorkshire:
Emily Brontë’s desolate Yorkshire Marsh production Wuthering Heights Due to its widespread popularity, it is generally considered a definitive depiction. However, future generations of artists have sought to truly capture the subtle changes in Yorkshire’s geographical and psychological landscape. (...)

10. Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold – 2011)

Nevertheless William Wyler’s 1939 Interpretation Arnold’s contemporary adaptation, often touted as the best of the classic novels, deserves praise for its beautiful cinematic and atmospheric elements. The film won the Best Filming Award at the Venice Film Festival, among other acclaims.
Arnold said: I don’t know about Brontës.I haven’t read until today Jane Eyre. I watched many old movies on TV, including William Wyler in 1939 Wuthering Heights, With my Nan and Grandpa who were in Kent when I was a kid. For all adaptations, I expected the books I read in my late teens to become a traditional love story. “
In addition, “It’s a really dark book and it’s very annoying. When asked to oversee it, it’s a very famous and difficult book and there were so many adaptations that it’s hard to do it. It turns out to be a bit silly. People keep trying it, but the book survives all of it. It’s its own beast. It should probably be left alone. “ (amberlamitie)
Hello! Magazine recommends the Yorkshire Dales for stargazers:
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Where to see the stars
With waterfalls, glens, dales, Abbeys and gorges in abundance, this wild and rugged national park will have you feeling like Cathy from Wuthering Heights! It is also home to the Three Peaks Challenge, should you wish to embark on a challenging outdoor hike before sitting back to watch the cosmos take over the rolling hills. (Georgia Brown)
The Maldon Standard announces a local performance of Jane Eyre by DOT Productions
Then, at 7.30p Museum of Power will host another show of a popular story.
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre will be brought to life in a new stage adaptation.
This is DOT Productions' return in its 12th year of touring with another adaptation of an English classic. (...)
A spokesman said on Facebook: "Charlotte Brontë’s bold and enduring novel is full of gothic drama and heart wrenching choices that translate onto the stage in a powerful production played out by 5 actors that is not to be missed." (Jessica Day-Parker)
The Chronicle gives more reasons to visit Leeds:
The world’s best countryside
You could fill every weekend of the year with fantastic city centre activities. But it’s also worth venturing slightly out of Leeds too, as the beauty of the Yorkshire Dales National Park is right there for the taking.
Follow in the footsteps of the Brontë sisters in Haworth, or hike up to the cow and calf rocks in Ilkley for stunning views. (Leena Sidat)
The Sydney Morning Herald reviews the novel Widowland by C.J. Carey:
Alt-historical fiction set in Nazified Britain isn’t new, with Robert Harris’ Fatherland perhaps the best known. Widowland marks its own imaginative territory, and more than holds its own as a feminist contribution to the subgenre. It’s 1953 and Britain never went to war with Germany, instead forming a Grand Alliance with the Third Reich. Edward VIII and his queen, Wallis Simpson, reign – a puppet regime; the sinister Alfred Rosenberg holds the real power. Women adhere to a strict caste system, and Rose Ransom works at the Orwellian “Ministry of Culture”, rewriting the Brontës and George Eliot, among others, to better reflect the new ideology. (Cameron Woodhead)
And Los Angeles Times reviews All is Well by Mona Awad:
Fiction is the natural breeding ground for sad sacks. The disconsolate have teary backstories to draw you in and nowhere to go but forward. Heathcliff, Hamlet, Gatsby. As Martin Amis put it, “Who else but Tolstoy has made happiness really swing on the page?” Literature is built on misery. (Hillary Kelly)

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