Director/writer Andrea Arnold's anti-romantic narrative is a journey to the center of human darkness that perhaps for the first time depicts what Emily Brontë was trying to say in her 1847 story, Wuthering Heights -- her only novel. Mr. Earnshaw (Paul Hilton) brings home to his bleak farm a black child he found wandering the streets of Liverpool because it is the Christian thing to do. He has the boy baptized and names him Heathcliff (Solomon Glave/James Howson). The child … [Read more...]
Among the many themes that emerge or converge in the films of director, producer, writer Steven Spielberg are lonely children and war, specifically World War II. From the kids in “E.T”: the Extra-Terrestrial” (1982) to the Oscar-winning “Schindler’s List” (1993), a black and white film but viewers may remember the little Jewish girl in a red coat, waiting for transport to the Nazi death camps. And from “The Color Purple” (1985) for which he deserved an Oscar, to one of my … [Read more...]
Teresa Deevy 1894-1963 Theater aims to rescue Irish Catholic playwright from unmerited obscurity By Retta Blaney National Catholic Reporter She had six plays produced at Dublin, Ireland’s Abbey Theater in six years in the 1930s. When her seventh met with rejection, she began writing for radio, despite having been deaf since 19, the result of Ménière’s disease. In 1954 she was elected to the prestigious Irish Academy of Letters. The Irish Timescalled her one of the most significant … [Read more...]
There are times when I wish I could be in New York - like to see this exhibition of Jane Austin's letters and the handwritten manuscript Lady Susan. Article by Claire Prentice BBC News, New York A major Jane Austen exhibition, which has opened in New York, is creating a huge stir among fans and cultural commentators. Rare Austin Letters on Display in New York … [Read more...]
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