Eerier than Ever

Several film news outlets continue updating their Jane Eyre 2011 information as The Film Stage, Movieweb or Film.com (which describes the film "as spiced with heart-fluttering amour like and eerier-than-ever" (Christine Champ)) but the main part of them discuss the release of the Forbes annual list of the highest grossing actors of 2010. Mia Wasikowska is number 2:

$1.03 billion
The virtually unknown actress scored big in 2010 with Disney's new Alice in Wonderland. The film was the second-highest-grossing of the year with $1 billion. But Wasikowska also starred in the critically acclaimed The Kids Are All Right. That film earned a respectable $29 million on an estimated budget of $4 million.

Therefore, her role in Jane Eyre 2011 is also mentioned in the Daily Mail, Gather, Starpulse, Chicago Independent Press, Contactmusic, Boston Herald, Limelife, Current Movies Reviews, Thaindian News, MSNBC, The Australian, CBC News, The CelebrityCafe, AfterEllen, The Adelaide Advertiser...

The New York Times lists Jane Eyre among good depictions of childhood in the 19th-century:

Something romantic about the 19th century made it a great era for artists to enter into the imaginations of children. Thanks to Tchaikovsky’s music — with its blend of fantasy, humor, suspense and vehemence, and its “Gulliver’s Travels”-type changes of scale between the miniature and the colossal — it’s not too much to place the “The Nutcracker” ballet among the many great 19th-century depictions of childhood. It takes company among E. T. A. Hoffmann’s original “Nutcracker” tale, “Jane Eyre,” “David Copperfield,” Hans Christian Andersen’s tales, “Huckleberry Finn,” the “Alice” books and the opera “Hänsel und Gretel.” (Alastair Macaulay)

Novelist Debbie Izzo is interviewed by Hinsdale Suburban Life:

What do you read for fun?
I like classic literature. My favorite book is ‘Jane Eyre.’ I read it every summer. (Renee Tomell)

Gay City News recommends the New York performances of Edna O'Brien's Haunted. In conversation with the author, she confesses:

I told O’Brien that, often, one would do well to see what Isherwood pans and avoid what he likes (“Passing Strange,” “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,” “American Idiot”), and she said, “A lot of my friends have told me that. But with this play, I think I get ideas in my sleep. I’m very interested in people who live on the edge of the buzz and glamour of London. I chose the name Blackheath for the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Berry because it was the nearest I could get to ‘Wuthering Heights.’ (David Noh)

Buffalo News gives some advices about SAT/ACT exams:

Reading comprehension and essay writing often go hand-in-hand, and can be improved through reading classic novels by authors such as Charles Dickens and Emily Brontë as well as more modern works like Harry Potter. (Beatrice Preti)

Hogwarts Professor begins a series of posts about reading Jane Eyre as a fairy tale; Gdzieś w Azji / Solidarni z Białorusią! posts about Jane Eyre 2006 (in Polish); Ler para Divertir (in Portuguese) and Un blog de pierres (in French) review Jane Eyre; Stuff That Doesn't Make Me Cry posts about Wuthering Heights.

And finally a special mention to a new short story just published on December Lights: Merrie Haskell's Currer Bell Comes to America where Charlotte and Anne visit America via the Bermuda Triangle.

Categories: Fiction, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Wuthering Heights