A first-class job on the setts

Keighley News talks about the current status of the repair of the stone setts in Haworth's Main Street. When BrontëBlog visited Haworth a month ago we witnessed how the work was being carried out:

Work to restore Haworth’s historic setts will halt shortly before next month’s 1940s Weekend celebration, then begin again in October.
Bradford Council’s principal traffic and highways officer, Keith Escritt, said the workers had been lucky with the weather since they began the job on Main Street in January.
He said: “They’ve been cleaning out the joints between the setts around the bottom of the street.
“They should get as far as the Fleece pub by the end of this month.”
This year’s 1940s Weekend will take place on May 14 and 15.
Mr Escritt said the workers would make sure they removed their material from Weaver’s Hill car park in time for the event.
He said: “When we restart in October we hope to complete the stretch from the Butt Lane area to the top of Main Street, depending on the weather.
“We’ve got to relay a lot of the setts on West Lane.
“Then we’ve got the asphalt stretch between the car park there and North Street.
“We’re thinking of removing the asphalt and revealing the setts underneath.”
Coun Huxley said: “I think they’ve done a first class job on the setts.
“Bradford Council deserves some praise because it’s really got on with it and this is something that will last for a long time.”
In response to a query from Mike Hutchinson, of the Haworth Village Association, Mr Escritt said: “I’ve been told that we’ve got funding for this scheme for the next two years.” (Miran Rahman)

The US fascination with the upcoming royal wedding in the UK is discussed in Los Angeles Times. Films and TV series are also mentioned:

Who else can they get to play all those stock characters like the stern butler, the snooty dowager, the flinty cook, the plain but good-hearted scullery maid? Period dramas such as these and the endless Austen and Brontë adaptations have practically saved the U.K.'s theatrical class from destitution. (That and Hollywood's bizarre typecasting of bad guys as Brits.) (Simon Reynolds)

Jane Eyre 2011's box office is discussed by Alt Film Guide:

Meanwhile, Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre, starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender, continues to do decent business in limited release. At 319 locations on its seventh weekend out, the latest film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's classic grossed $782k, down 21% after the addition of 45 theaters (about 15% more than last weekend). Total to date: $7.91m. (Zack Gille)

and indieWire:

In its seventh frame, Cary Fukunaga’s adaptation of Charlotte Brontë‘s “Jane Eyre” also held up nicely. It expanded from 273 to 319 theaters and took in $782,372, averaging $2,453. Distributor Focus Features should be quite pleased with the film’s $2,453 per-theater-average and its new $7,902,371 total. “Eyre,” which stars Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell and Judi Dench, should easily be heading for the $10 million mark[.] (Peter Knegt)

or The Hollywood Reporter:

Focus Features’ Jane Eyre approached $8 million over the weekend, ending the frame with a new cume of $7.7 million. (Pamela McClintock)

Several Korean news outlets present or talk about the movie: Newswire, 대전일보, The Union Press, 중도일보 and 매일경제 mentions the Dario Marianelli score. According to Financial News, Jane Eyre is number six in the South Korean box office (52838 viewers).

On Rare101, there's a video interview with Mia Wasikowska made by Medium Rare. There are also some new reviews on blogs: The McKendree Review, kaileykailey, MoJo Movies, Fizzy Thoughts, Phil's Film Adventures, America Thanked Me For This Recipe, Ignorância (in Portuguese), Lavender Contradictions, Film: A Passage to a Whole New World, Paul Daniggelis on the Brontë Parsonage Blog.

Northumberland View announces that Jane Eyre 2011 will be part of the Northumberland Film Sundays Spring Series, next May 1th.

The Huffington Post talks about some of the movies presented at the 10th Tribeca Film Festival. About Michael Winterbottom's The Trip:

The sumptuous meals are almost upstaged by the glorious Brontë-esque countryside. (Erica Abeel)

Brutal as Hell lists some non-carnivore zombie movies. Including I Walked with a Zombie 1943:

Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 gothic masterpiece “Jane Eyre” gets a hundred year makeover and a trip to Jamaica in this film by horror master Jacques Tourneur. Hired as a caretaker for the wife of a plantation owner, Nurse Betsy gets caught up in the Calypso-tinged world of Voodoo when her patient turns out to be a white zombie. Is it a medical mystery or a genuine voodoo curse? Betsy’s willing to stroll through the cane fields at night to find out, and neither spooky jungle drums nor the presence of a cadaverous, pop-eyed native is going to deter her. Considering this was made in 1943, there’s stunningly little in the way of sexism or racism. Smart and eerie, there’s a reason this is considered a classic. (Annie Riordon)

The Daily Mail has one of those not-to-be-missed articles about divorces and how-bad-it-is-to-return-to-your-ex-but-the-sex-is-so-good kind of thing. A Brontë reference gives it a touch of quality:

It's a classic trait of manipulative men to ensure women can't form deep roots with new partners, while failing to disappear from their lives or to commit to them. What you see as some sort of Cathy and Heathcliff-style eternal bond, your ex sees as an occasional, convenient tryst. (Rowan Pelling)

SAAAM is reading Jane Eyre and Poe's Deadly Daughters posts about the novel; Codswallop posts a new part of Money Must be Funny, a sort of prequel of Wide Sargasso Sea; La Sirène du Ciel talks about Cathy and Heathcliff or Jane and Rochester as soulmates; V for Books talks about staying in Haworth; Abigail's Ateliers continues exploring Charlotte Brontë's possible wardrobe; Adrianne Ambrose shares what she has learnt about the Brontës; Sophisticated Dorkiness reviews Erin Blakemore's The Heroine's Bookshelf and Cornflower Blue posts about a Jane Eyre cross stitch project recently finished.

Categories: Brontëana, Haworth, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References