ANA KARENINA

We have talked about film adaptations in past entries. Almost everybody seems to agree they normally like the book best, but there must be some exceptions...

What is your opinion? Are there any adaptations you really enjoyed? What about really disappointing ones?

Here's a review by the Guardian of Ana Karenina. Do you think you'd like to watch it? As for me, I haven't read the book, even if I read Tolstoy's War and Peace a long long time ago.

JANE EYRE

Romantic novels seem to exert a special fascination on film-makers and that's shown in the fact that they keep been adapted to be shown on the silver screen.

The Brontë sisters (Charlotte, Emily and Anne) were a threesome who really made an impact on English literature with their novels Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and Agnes Rey.

The 3 novels have already been turned into movies, but in a few days a new version of Jane Eyre will be released, written by Moira Buffini and directed by Cary Fukunaga, with quite an amazing setting. Even if you haven't read the novel (which I recommend) you should watch the earlier movie (1996) by Franco Zeffirelli with William Hurt as Mr Rochester, and also the 1944 one starring Orson Welles.

Here's the trailer of the new one:

NEIL GAIMAN & TERROR

Very good news! Another one of Gaiman's book, Good Omens, is being adapted for a 4-part TV series (story here).

Also, for lovers of terror, here's a documentary which you can watch online for free about H.P. Lovecraft. It includes comments by Guillermo del Toro, N. Gaiman, Peter Straub and John Carpenter.

Enjoy!

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