Cinematherapy: Ordinary People

Directed by Robert Redford, 1980

Lessons I learned from this movie:

• Accept yourself and others exactly as they are and as they are not, especially your parents. They have their own issues to work through, whether they realize it or not.
  
• You have no control over anyone but yourself.
• You can't save anyone but yourself.
• We all fail.
• We all hurt.
• You can overcome anything.
• An excellent therapist will help you release yourself from your pain, not merely listen to you.
• Children understand people (adults and each other) better than most people think.
• There's nothing wrong with asking for help, and it's a courageous person that does so.
  

Anything and Everything "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre is one of my favorite heroines in literature. I have read or listened the book a few times and have seen every film version possible! Enjoy the links below.


Film
DVD - 2006 - Starring Ruth Wilson, Toby Stephens (Masterpiece Theatre)
DVD - 1997 - Starring Deborah Findlay, Laura Harling (A&E)
DVD - 1996 - Starring William Hurt, Charlotte Gainsbourg
DVD - 1983 - Starring Timothy Dalton, Zelah Clarke (BBC)
DVD - 1973 - Starring Sorcha Cusack, Michael Jayston (BBC)
DVD - 1971 - Starring George C. Scott, Susannah York
DVD - 1944 - Starring Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine
DVD - 1934 - Starring Virginia Bruce, Colin Clive


Books
The Illustrated Jane Eyre by Dame Darcy (Penguin Illustrated Classics)
Jane Eyre Illustrated by Pablo Marcos (Great Illustrated Classics) (Hardcover)
Hardcover - White's Books Ltd (September 30, 2008)
Hardcover - Collector's Library, CRW Publishing Limited (September 1, 2003)
Hardcover - with 16 color illustrations by Monro S. Orr (1931)
CliffsNotes (okay not really a book, but, you know...)


AudioBooks
Narration by Wanda McCaddon
Narration by Susan Ericksen
Narration by Emma Fielding
Narration by Juliet Stevenson (Abridged)
Narration by Juliet Stevenson (Unabridged)
Narration by Juliet Stevenson (BBC Radio Collection, Abridged Audio Cassette)
LibriVox
AudioBookTreasury.com
Project Gutenberg (Human-Read)
BooksShouldBeFree.com


Online Book Resources / Synopses
SparkNotes
The Literature Network
Literature.org
Masterpiece Theatre 2007
CliffsNotes
The Victorian Web
Fanpop!
LitLovers
Jane Eyre Appreciation Page
Jane Eyre Appreciation Group (Facebook)
Jane Eyre Page on AngelFire
Jane Eyre Group (Facebook)
BrontëBlog


Biographical Information about Charlotte Brontë
The Literature Network
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/cbronte.htm
Wikipedia
Haworth Village (West Yorkshire, England, aka Bronte Country)
essortment
The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell (Oxford World's Classics)
Charlotte Bronte: A Writer's Life by Rebecca Fraser
Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life by Gordon Lyndall
The Bronte Myth by Lucasta Miller
Unquiet Soul: Biography of Charlotte Bronte by Margot Peters


Music
Jane Eyre, The Musical (Official Website)
Jane Eyre, the Musical (Original 2000 Broadway Cast Recording)
Jane Eyre, The Musical (Unofficial Website)