Jane Eyre (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is a young woman whose will to overcome a life of hardship leads her into a passionate romance with a handsome -- and mysterious -- gentleman (Hurt). Swept up in ...

By Todd McCarthy 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 versions in the ...

Charlotte Brontë's most popular work, Jane Eyre, published in 1847, has been adapted many times and in numerous ways, and the ...

This Jane Eyre might have been better off remaining silent ... The most recent cinema version was Franco Zeffirelli's 1996 film starring Charlotte Gainsbourg as the adult Jane (Anna Paquin ...

Our Flick of the Week is “Jane Eyre,” which may not be a necessary film — there have been at least three other versions — but is a powerful experience nonetheless. Charlotte Bronte’s ...

“Jane Eyre,” which was published in 1847 ... including a 1910 silent film and a 1996 big-screen version starring Anna Paquin, William Hurt, Joan Plowright and Geraldine Chaplin.

If Jane Eyre is not the greatest of the Great Books ... starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender—than timing. In 1996, when Franco Zeffirelli had the last big-screen go at Charlotte ...

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 ...

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the ...

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 ...