Dear friends and readers,

Do not miss the new Jane Eyre. Even if you've seen as many versions as I have (that's many, maybe all available on DVD -- see On Never Tiring of Jane Eyre).  And even if you've not seen that many -- Jane Eyre, 2011.  The director (Cary Fukunaga) knows how many times this film has been made.  And he manages surprises:  : it ( Read more... )

Dear Friends and readers,

Still struggling to turn 24 tapes into 48 MPS of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding read aloud by David Case.  In a way my heartache has turned more pragmatically into a headache as I try to retrieve the beautiful performances on my tapes and make them into MP3s and then CDs.   On this more in the comments.  But I did experience ( Read more... )

Dear friends and readers,

Midnight.  I've just finished watching the first half (a couple of hours) of a powerful film adaptation:  Sandy Welch, Susanna White, and Rebecca Eaton's (screenplay writer, director, producer) 2006 Jane Eyre, starring Ruth Wilson, Toby Stephens (son of Maggie Smith, he was Gabriel Markham in a great Tenant of Wildfell Hall ( Read more... )