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Thursday, October 03, 2024

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Cinema Daily US features Jane Campion's Masterclass at The Museum of Cinema in Turin.
During the Masterclass, Jane Campion claimed her strong appreciation for two literary Emilys that influenced her writing: the author of Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë, and Emily Dickinson who penned the poem The Heart asks Pleasure first, which gave the name to the song composed by Michael Nyman for the film [The Piano]. (Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi)
The New York Times reviews the play Good Bones at The Public Theater, Manhattan.
This production, directed by Saheem Ali, opens with a Brontë vibe; Aisha wanders in a shift dress through her in-progress modern mansion, with plastic sheets draping down from the high ceilings so the characters move through a haze of construction material. (Don’t worry, the sheets are gradually ripped down throughout the play to expose an Ikea showcase-worthy kitchen and dining room, beautifully designed by Maruti Evans.) The follow-through is a little less impressive. (Maya Phillips)
The Kathmandu Post interviews writer Louisa Kamal.
Has your reading taste evolved as you’ve lived and worked across different cultures?
Definitely. Living in Manchester with my mother was limiting in some ways, as she was strict. Studying in an all-girls school made my childhood conservative as well. During that time, my interest in literature was traditional, too, and I was drawn to 19th—and 20th-century literature penned by the Bronte sisters, Thomas Hardy, Jane Austen, and others. (Sanskriti Pokharel)
Voice Tribune features local writer Jenny Kiefer.
“Later, as a pretentious teenager, I only read classics or anti-war books, but still gravitated towards darker works like southern gothic or things like [Kurt] Vonnegut and Jane Eyre. I think these works, especially [William] Faulkner, have definitely influenced my writing voice and style.” (Kevin Murphy Wilson)
The News Record lists some 'Books You Should Be Reading This Fall' and one of them is
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 
With almost 2 million ratings on Goodreads, this gothic lit classic is both a favorite of professors and students alike. Centering around the complex character Heathcliff, this decade-long story conquers him seeking revenge on those who kept him away from his true love. Light up a candle and enjoy this tumultuous tale! (Brooke Burkhardt)
The fact that it has 'almost 2 million ratings on Goodreads' is exactly the right reason to read Wuthering Heights, right?

LifeHacker recommends 'The 30 Best Horror TV Shows to Stream Before Halloween' and one of them is
Dark Shadows (1966 – 1971)
Modern TV shows might give you 10 episodes a season but, if you're looking to kill more time than that, there are always the 1,225 episodes of Dark Shadows, the popular 1960s soap opera. Starting out as a gothic, Jane Eyre-style tale set among a wealthy but decayed family in a Maine fishing village, the show soon introduced ghosts, a phoenix-lady and, most famously, vampire Barnabas Collins. Always on the hunt for new horrors, the show saw the residents of Collinsport stalked and murdered (and resurrected and murdered again) by updated versions of every classic creature imaginable. There are a lot of episodes, but sticking with it yields the pleasures of the show's increasing and compelling weirdness: Characters alter history by traveling through time, get chased by mystical floating hands, and even visit parallel universes long before Marvel got in on that action. (Ross Johnson)
A contributor to Yahoo!Life tries to write something funny about a few 'Relationship lessons I've learned from Jane Eyre'. Jane Eyre's Library posts about some Jane Eyre adaptations for very, very young readers.

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