has been brought to Blu-ray using the “best source material available.” While I don’t doubt that, the source print was apparently not in great shape. Imperfections abound and contrast is inconsistent.

Charlotte Bronte's Victorian novel, Jane Eyre, reaches the screen in a drama that is as intense on celluloid as it is on the printed page. This picture has taken liberties with the novel that may be ...

Cary Fukunaga (left) and cinematographer Adriano Goldman on the set of Jane Eyre. The director remembers watching the classic 1943 film of the novel with his mom — and says its shocks helped shape his ...

Forget National Velvet; forget Cleopatra. For me, Elizabeth Taylor, whose death yesterday was just announced in the New York Times this morning, will always be Helen Burns from the 1943 version of ...

A young Elizabeth Taylor plays Helen Burns in the 1943 rendition of "Jane Eyre," and shows up in the first scene (and others) in this YouTube clip. "She’s the tiny, sickly orphaned waif whom Jane Eyre ...

Is there any old chestnut as hearty as Jane Eyre? Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 proto-feminist page-turner has been reprinted enough to paper the earth’s surface a dozen times over — and committed to film ...