In 1996, director Franco Zeffirelli made the most recent big-screen adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre—and for those keeping score at home, that’s just 15 years ago. Only a year after that, we ...
Actress Ruth Wilson remembers first reading Jane Eyre when she was 12, and she said she reread the 1847 Charlotte Bronte novel before auditioning for the BBC’s new film version. “She goes on such a ...
The 1847 classic novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is a favorite of filmmakers. Filmed 15 times before, Cary Fukunaga makes it 16 with this 2011 remake. The first was a silent film starring Louise ...
Just when Jane Austen’s boomlet seemed to be at last petering out, along comes Charlotte Bronte. Now that I’ve got that out of my system, I must point out that Franco Zeffirelli’s adaption adaptation ...
A cloud of cigarette smoke lingers around Franco Zeffirelli’s face as the respected Italian film and stage director ponders a question about his new film version of Jane Eyre. After a few seconds, ...
JANE EYRE. William Hurt, Charlotte Gainsbourg. Directed by Franco Zeffirelli. At the Paris Theater. Time: 112 mins. Rated PG. 2 Stars. AFTER SEXPLOITATION AND blaxploitation, maybe it’s time to ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Between 1910 and 1996, 18 feature films based on Charlotte Bronte's durable 1847 novel "Jane Eyre" were produced, or one less than every five years. Despite two TV ...
The candlelight flickers exquisitely even as the passions are slow to ignite in this spare, shrewdly acted but not especially vital retelling of "Jane Eyre." From the 1944 Joan Fontaine-Orson Welles ...
Charlotte Gainsbourg looked wistfully at a lock of Charlotte Bronte’s hair, woven into a mourning bracelet, at the Pierpoint Morgan Library’s “Art of the Brontes” exhibition. The actress was visiting ...