Jane Eyre 2011: March 6 in Chicago and Challenge

Via IMDb user Glacier571-3 we find out that Jane Eyre 2011 will be part of the 14th European Union Film Festival at the Gene Siskel Film Center. The world premiere seems to be next March 6th:

Sun, Mar 6th at 7:30pm
Cary Fukunaga and Mia Wasikowska in person!

JANE EYRE
1. 2011, Cary Fukunaga, UK, 120 min.
2. With Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender

Charlotte Brontë's oft-adapted classic gets a fresh, non-starchy reworking from Cary Fukunaga, director of the acclaimed 2009 immigrant drama SIN NOMBRE. Mia Wasikowska (ALICE IN WONDERLAND, THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT) stars as the orphan who survives a harsh childhood to become governess at isolated Thornfield Hall, presided over by the brooding Edward Rochester (Michael Fassbender of HUNGER and FISH TANK) and haunted by dark secrets. The cast also includes Judi Dench, Sally Hawkins, and Jamie Bell. In English. Special advance screening courtesy of Focus Features. 35mm widescreen. (MR)

MSN thinks Mia Wasikowska has been overlooked when it comes to awards:

Twenty-one-year-old Mia Wasikowska made the perfect moody teen in "The Kids Are All Right," but she'll get another shot at the big awards (maybe soon: She's starring in a big remake of "Jane Eyre" this spring.)

And via Misty Midwest Mossiness we have found out that Goodreads is hosting a Jane Eyre Challenge:

Step 1: RSVP to see Jane Eyre the movie playing in select theaters March 11th.
Step 2: Add Jane Eyre to your shelf
Step 3: Take the Jane Eyre Quiz
Step 4: Choose your favorite Jane Eyre quote
Step 5: Complete the challenge

Complete the Challenge and enter for your chance to win a Kindle and a copy of the novel signed by Director Cary Fukunaga!

There are also pictures, wallpapers and buddy icons available for download.

Brontëite Laura Marling is featured in The Independent:

After moving to London and setting up home with friends, she began recording her debut. Having read Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre three times before going into the studio, some of the dark, gothic imagery made its way onto Alas, I Cannot Swim, a set of deeply personal and confident songs delivered in her arresting tones. (Gillian Orr)

We have been alerted by a reader to this page from Reading Marson Reading where writer David Markson commented on his copy of The Brontës: A Collection of Critical Essays by Various (Ed. Ian Gregor). He perceptively catches a mistake in the chronology:

1855 Charlotte dies. Buried in Haworth churchyard with Emily and Anne [annotation: No. Anne buried elsewhere].

We would have been the kind of people to add that they are not buried in the actual churchyard but in a church vault. According to Reading Markson Reading he also included the following Brontë mention in one of his books:

“There would appear to be no way of avoiding the two dots over Brontë, however.”
Being what Markson mentions on pg. 96 of Wittgenstein’s Mistress.

Mr Markson's mind seems to us to have been quite wandering, just what Scientific American seems to think of the Brontës:

Mind-Wandering Heights
As children in the 1820s the novelists Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, along with their brother, Branwell, created two make-believe realms called Gondal and Angria in their parsonage on the English Yorkshire moors. Angria, a confederacy of states, teemed with both fashionable aristocrats and lower-class citizens who frequented inns and taverns and similar locales. In various plots Angria would become enmeshed in war, revolution and other dramatic events. In Gondal, Emily and Anne's secret state, warfare and politics alternated with romantic intrigues. Gondal's women were more assertive and resourceful than those of Angria, in which passive beauties pined for their lovers. These two fantasy lands, about which the children wrote in several hundred matchbox-size books, planted the mental seeds for the novels the sisters would write as adults. These masterpieces included Jane Eyre (Charlotte), Wuthering Heights (Emily) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne). (Ingrid Wickelgren)

For a peek into Charlotte's wandering mind, don't miss the exhibition The Diary: Three Centuries of Private Lives at the Morgan Library in New York, which The New York Times also recommends.

The Mirror (Drury University) lists the 'best books for twenty somethings'. Among them is

Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
"A story that transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a wider and richer life than Victorian society traditionally allowed." (Yelena Bosovik)

Local librarian Jan Laurent, who has just received an award, might be chuckling over her copy of The Emporia Gazette:

Her favorite authors include Charles Dickens and Jane Eyre (sic), along with Barbara Kingsolver, Nancy Pickard and Kurt Vonnegut. (Monica Springer)

FA Magazine quotes from chapter XXI of Jane Eyre (the novel, you know):

Emotions may be very powerful decision-influencers, but “feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed,” as the writer Charlotte Brontë put it. (Cort Smith)

Entertainment Weekly makes an old joke about Charlotte Brontë in a Jersey Shore recap (!):

He kidnapped Snooki's beloved pet Crocodile, whose name is Crocodilly. (I wonder if Snooki has a whole menagerie of stuffed pets. A snake named "Snakey." A rabbit named "Rabbity." A brontosaurus named "Charlotte Bronte-saurus.") (Darren Franich)

The Irish Times reviews the book Shapely Ankle Preferr'd: A History of the Lonely Hearts Ad 1695 - 2010 by Fran Beauman and mentions Charlotte's mock advertisement:

The advertisements tracked the development of modern urban life and of the media so faithfully that Charlotte Brontë wrote her own spoof notice, satirising the obsession with money. (Anne Marie Hourihane)

The BBC screen adaptation of Winifred Holtby's South Riding, which up until now had been likened to Jane Eyre, seems now reminiscent of Wuthering Heights to Beehivecity.

At the centre of this lies a love story similar to Wuthering Heights in more than just location. (Ben McDermott)

Les soeurs Brontë discusses in French the so-called Brontë portrait unearthed by James Gorin von Grozny and about which we remain highly sceptical. Books Glorious Books gives a 10 out of 10 to Wuthering Heights. YouTube user Mad826 has uploaded a video of Anne's tomb at Scarborough (as Mr Markson remarked above).

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