When film festival darling director Cary Fukunaga veered from the grittiness of his 2009 breakout film “Sin Nombre” and immersed himself in the mist-laden romanticism of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre in the 2011 adaptation of the classic, fans of the young director’s former film were surprised. The sharp turn paid off, though, and Fukunaga proved himself in possession of a range of talents as he handled Brontë with as much grace and poignancy as he did the inner goings-on of the U.S./Mexico border. Now, we’re learning that the reach of Fukunaga’s genre interests is extending even further, as news of his involvement in an upcoming two-part production of Stephen King‘s It makes headlines. (Kristin Fritz)This is how The Plain Dealer describes Gillian Flynn, author of the book Gone Girl:
Flynn, a former "Entertainment Weekly" writer, has the enviable ability to marry pop culture tropes with the themes and atmospherics of classic literature -- think the Brontë sisters on staff at TMZ. She is a Gothic storyteller for the Internet age. (Andrea Simakis)It's actually something we'd rather not imagine, though.
Moviebabbler and Losing the plot thread post about Jane Eyre 2011. Bijou Reviews writes briefly in Spanish about Wuthering Heights 2011. Au coeur de mes lectures et mes rêveries... reviews Agnes Grey in French and Echo istnienia... posts about The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in Polish. Beth Babbles about Books continues posting her series Women Writing Women in the 1800s: Married or Single, Women as Persons. Flickr user Judy ** has uploaded a Wuthering Heights-related picture.
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