Jane Eyre in Texas and other news

First of all, readers from Texas might find this press release interesting:

March 10 – Screening of Jane Eyre at the Alamo Drafthouse, South Lamar. Time TBD. The film is a passionate adaptation of the timeless novel by influential English author Charlotte Brontë. It is directed by two-time AFF Alum Cary Fukunaga and stars Mia Wasikowska, Judi Dench, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell and Sally Hawkins.

The screening will be part of the joint events organised by the Austin Film Festival and Texas Book Festival.

This reviewer from The Volante is sadly not too keen on April Lindner's Jane.

There are some classic novels that work well when well-meaning authors decide to yank the characters out of their corsets and into the 21st century. Charlotte Brontë's famous Victorian Gothic romance "Jane Eyre" just isn't one of them. (Jessica Kokesh)

About the character of Nico Rathburn she says,

What is with Young Adult authors romanticizing jerks recently? (Jessica Kokesh)

We would just like to point out that the original Mr Rochester is no saint either.

The Boston Phoenix jokes about recent literary trends:

Paranormal romance is the single most important literary movement of our time. To judge by the shelves of Borders, novels about sexy vampires and beefcake mummies are the only things people read or write anymore. In fact, I've begun to outline my own paranormal Gothic-romance masterpiece. Not to give too much away, but it's going to be the Wuthering Heights of hot yetis. And I'd better act fast. (David Thorpe)

Northern Stars reports Danishka Esterhazy's film Black Field 'has been chosen to open the 6th annual Vancouver Women in Film Festival on March 4th' and the Brontë influences of the movie are once again mentioned:

Inspired by the Gothic novels of the Brontë sisters, this suspenseful drama unfolds on a bleak Canadian prairie landscape set in the 19th century.

The Scotsman discusses the new season of Skins and recalls the Charlotte Brontë tattoo moment.

The Scotsman also features singer PJ Harvey and remarks on her Brontë side:

She can look like "Joan Crawford on acid" (her words), a vamp, a drag queen, a serious artist swathed in black, or a Brontë sister. (Chitra Ramaswamy)

Given that her new album - Let England Shake - is coming out in a couple of weeks, we are pretty certain that this won't be the last time we read something along those lines.

Angelic Blogjia writes in Hungarian about Jane Eyre. Tahleen's Mixed-Up Files, This Miss Loves to Read, Loving Books and The Biblio Blogazine all include either Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights among their top ten debut novels. Bring on the Bling recently acquired a copy of Wuthering Heights illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg. And YouTube user katieconnornme has uploaded a video of a trip to Haworth.

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