Stay off the moors!

Time Out Magazine reviews the Jane Eyre 2011 trailer (a film about which Flavorwire is already excited).

There’s a telling moment a little way into this trailer for Cary Fukunaga’s forthcoming adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel. We’ve already been treated to 30-odd seconds of rainswept burials, raging fires, little girls running along creepy corridors, black smoke pouring spectrally from fireplaces and a discussion on the nature of hell. But when the theme from Dario Argento’s ‘Suspiria’ kicks in, it suddenly becomes clear where this latest screen version is heading.
The two stories aren’t entirely dissimilar, at least aesthetically: both concern remote girls’ schools, unnerving elderly women, heavy weather and lashings of grim death. And while this doesn’t mean we’re likely to see Blanche Ingram fall into a pit of barbed wire or Mrs Fairfax turn out to be one of the Three Mothers, it does hopefully imply that Fukunaga has looked a little further afield for his influences than the usual staid BBC period fare.
The rest of the trailer – following Michael Fassbender’s Wellesian introduction on horseback – seeks to deepen the mystery, with notable nods to the likes of ‘The Others’ and ‘The Exorcist’ along with the expected ‘Gosford Park’ stately home trappings. It might all be terribly overwrought and silly, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing (as anyone who’s seen ‘Suspiria’ can attest), and there’s certainly enough in this trailer to whet our cinematic appetites while we wait for Andrea Arnold’s feverishly anticipated take on ‘Wuthering Heights’. Stay off the moors! (Tom Huddleston)

Concerning the release dates of this film, SanneDK from the Jane Eyre imdb board complains about the Danish release taking place in September 2011. Indeed this seems to be the date of the premiere of the film in several European countries like Spain (23 September 2011).

PopStar reviews episode 2 of the first season of Supernatural (2005):

Her hand reaches out to Sam from beyond the grave as he places the flowers down.  In a chilling moment, reminiscent of Wuthering Heights. Doomed love. If Jess was buried there, she must have been a native of Palo Alto. (Mila Hasan)

The Magic Valley Times-News posts about Ron Hutchinson's play Moon-light and Magnolias:

The play, which premiered in 2004, is based on the true story of Hollywood producer David Selznick's decision in 1939 to junk the original screenplay for Margaret Mitchell's blockbuster novel [Gone With the Wind] and start over again three weeks into filming.
He calls on screenwriter Ben Hecht, who wrote screenplays for "The Front Page" and "Wuthering Heights." And he pulls director Victor Fleming, who had directed such adventure classics as "Treasure Island" and "Captain Courageous," off the set of "Wizard of Oz." (Karen Bossick)

NPR revies The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman:

Goodman's newest novel plays off Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, but it's as much that as [Lorrie Moore's] The Gate at the Stairs is Jane Eyre. 

The Hindu publishes an alert from Tiruchi, India:

Dr. Kalaignar Arts and Science College, Lalgudi: K. Mahadevan, secretary, Nimai Ghosh Film Society, speaks on ‘literature and cinema', S. Karthick, special officer in-charge, presides, 10 a.m.; screening of the BBC production of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and Emily Brontë's ‘Wuthering heights', 10.30 a.m.

We don't know which Wuthering Heights is shown though.

José Jiménez Lozano mentions in La Razón (Spain) the story of Charlotte Brontë catching cold as the possible cause of her final illness (as we said on other occasions nowadays the biographical consensus is that it was hypemeresis gravidarum):

Pero, hasta cuando es una delgada seda o tul, la niebla nos suscita pensamientos oscuros y recordamos, por ejemplo, lo que  decía Montaigne de la más tenue neblina azul de la mañana que era suficiente para acabar con la fragilidad de ella; como le ocurrió a la pobre Charlotte Brontë, que durante un paseo se mojó los pies con el relente del rocío o de una niebla baja. (Microsoft translation)

Página 12 (Argentina) reviews El retorno de los tigres de la Malasia by Ignacio Taibo II, a sequel of the Emilio Salgari's Sandokan saga:

Siguiendo esa rara tradición de continuadores de clásicos, como es el caso de Maxime Benoît-Jeannin con Mademoiselle Bovary o Jean Rhys con El ancho mar de los sargazos, notable saga de Jane Eyre, Paco Ignacio Taibo II tomó el toro por las astas y decidió que, así como no pueden elegirse los libros que se leen en la infancia, al menos sí es factible continuar o reescribir los que más gustaron, y de paso encontrar nuevas razones para legitimar esa preferencia.

20 Minutes (France) interviews Finnish author Sofi Oksanen:

Un multiculturalisme qui l’a aussi conduite à se nourrir d’une littérature de tous bords. Des auteurs finlandais, à ceux des voisins. Les sœurs Brontë. Ou Angélique (surnomée Marquise des Anges)… «Mon livre est très européen, incontestablement.» (Charlotte Puzlowski) (Microsoft translation)

Nolwenn Leory's last clip (Mna Na H-Eireann) is reviewed by Zest of People:

Le clip a été réalisée sur les côtes armoricaines et dévoile une esthétique doucement surannée empreinte d’une agréable mélancolie, ten ues traditionnelles, un ciel obscurci, une voix cristalline qui nous raconte une vieille histoire irlandaise… Un paysage, un mystère qui semblent tout droit échappés des œuvres d’Emily Brontë ! (Aline B) (Microsoft translation)

Very Becoming posts about Jane Eyre's Imagination; SparkLife continues blogging Wuthering Heights (part 22 already); alita.reads. reviews April Lindner's Jane; Random Colors publishes an open letter to Charlotte Brontë talking about Jane Eyre.

Categories: Books, Jane_Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Wuthering Heights