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(e)Book – Love and friendship

  (e) Book –  Love and friendship Full title :  Love and friendship and other early works Author : Jane Austen Score : /10 Year : 1790 (original) ; 2012 (this edition) Publisher : Duke Classics   ISBN  978-1-62012-155-9  // 9781620121559  (ebook)  Pages :  Language: English Jane Austen is best known for her 6 novels, which all have been adapted into tv movies - but after having read Virginia Woolf's short fiction in chronological order, I decided to apply the same for Austen's publications, to better appreciate her growth and evolution in narrative style. So, before reading her novels which were released from 1811 to 1817, in the following order :  Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma,  Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, I decided to go back to her teenage years, reading Love and Friendships, and other early works.
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Movie – The Haunting (1963)



Movie – The Haunting 

Score : 6/10  
Year : 1963
Director:  Robert Wise
Cinematography : Davis Boulton
Country: UK & USA
Language: English
Duration: 1h54
Writers: Nelson Gidding (screenplay) ; Shirley Jackson (novel)

In his attempt to prove the existence of ghosts, Dr John Markway invites 2 women and a men for his research in a haunted house, in this classic horror movie, directed by Robert Wise and based on a novel with a slight longer title the haunting of Hill house.

Wise's direction and Boulton's photography join to a great visual experience with interesting angles and effects, but this movie is plagued with a horrible sound effects which reduces my appreciation as the noises are too loudly played and destroy the experience and what is implied in less believable. In my opinion, the eerie atmosphere would've benefited from a subdued mysterious sound effect instead. 

The acting was ok, but I never forgot I was watching actors and actresses, with very few exceptions. 

I found some hinted clues to social commentaries the director might have tried to discuss, like he did on another movie on the period... but which made certain scenes a bit awkward. 

There a few dialogues and actions which I found unbelievable from a scientist, even in those days...  

The musical score was fitting, except during those loud noises where everything got a bit too jumbled up with the dialogues, and this entire mixture of issues reduce what could've been an amazing horror movie - which is a shame, because it had a lot of potential. 

It was still entertaining enough as a Halloween movie this year.  


Starring : Julie Harris, Clair Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn, et al. 
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