Source Code isn't Jane Eyre

Hillcrest Patch makes a rather stupid recommendation of Jane Eyre 2011:

It is probably fair to say that the film Jane Eyre is everything the man in your life would pay good money to miss. It’s a passionate love story set in the mid-1800s, and that’s about all he’d need to know before declining your sweet offer to take him to the movies.
So, how about going to a matinee alone while your guy defends the homefront? (Fran Henry)

Warwick Beacon gives 3 1/2 stars to Jane Eyre 2011:

We somehow avoided reading Jane Eyre in college but have managed to see at least two movies based on the novel. The latest, starring Mia Wasikowska as the title character, is gripping and emotional for sure, if a bit dark and dreary.  (...)  While the movie can be a bit of a downer, Jane's ability to deal with her situations make for an upbeat and inspiring outlook to miserable situations. Wasikowska's portrayal of Jane Eyre is terrific, and the shocking double ending will have you leaving the Avon, as many people do, talking about the movie. (Joyce & Don Fowler)

Next week the film opens in Korea and The Korean Times presents it. The Longview News Journal announces that the film will be scheduled in the Kilgore Film Festival (May 1-5). La Tercera (Chile) and Sentire Selvaggi (Italy) also talk about this new version. The Telegraph highlights Mia Wasikowska's history:

I’ve seen her in Cary Fukunaga’s forthcoming Jane Eyre, and she makes a splendid Jane. (David Gritten)

Several blogs review the movie: Gateway Cinephiles, QMuze, No.Certain.Answers, Sound+Vision and oh, mundo bão (both in Portuguese), solifestyle, Miss A love life; Libby's Clothesline; Blacked Out; evelinamarina (in Swedish); Toriminardwrites and Leisure Pursuit.

The Times talks with author Alice Walker:

She was a voracious reader: Jane Eyre, Gulliver’s Travels and Matthew Arnold were early favourites. (Tim Teeman)

RTL interviews French author Guillaume Musso, who speaks about the many influences of his first story, written when he was 15:

Eloi Choplin : Vous souvenez-vous de la nouvelle?
Guillaume Musso : C'était un hommage à Alfred Hitchcock, puisque la nouvelle s'appelait fenêtre sur rue, et comme je lisais beaucoup Stephen King et Fournier à l'époque, il y avait un mélange de fantastique, d'onirique. Je lisais aussi Emilie Brontë, il y avait une histoire de passion. En fait toutes ces choses qui continuent à m'intéresser aujourd'hui donc les graines étaient déjà là. (Translation)

The Film Stage talks about Mike Newell's Great Expectations project:

And while another version of this story isn’t something that I’m dying to see, a classic tale can be given a fresh sense of life every once in a while, such as the recent adaptation of Jane Eyre. If they can approach this in a way similar to that film, then I’d certainly be curious to check this out. (Nick Newman)

Even a film like Source Code gets a Jane Eyre mention in a review in Seattle Weekly:

Without divulging anything in a spoiler-filled and implausibly multiply ended movie (hey, it's sci-fi, not Jane Eyre), one of the film's nicest moments is a freeze frame of the railway car, as the camera pulls back to show them laughing and smiling for once at a fellow commuter. (Brian Miller)

The York Press covers a Joanna Trollope talk at the Explore York Library Centre:

Two hundred people gathered in Explore York Library to welcome a best-selling author.
Joanna Trollope, 68, read from her new novel, Daughters-in-Law, and explained to the gathering of fans and budding York authors the thinking behind her storylines.
“I like the kind of fiction that is about relationships, all kinds of relationships – it is what people can relate to,” she said.
“That is why we read Jane Austin (sic) and the Brontë sisters.”

The Huddersfield Daily Examiner talks briefly about the Brontë Parsonage contemporary arts programme; the Positive Bradford Initiative is presented in the Yorkshire Post:

“When I got here I was astounded by the beauty. We’re so close to Brontë country, the city has the most marvellous architecture and we just don’t seem to shout about it,” says [Darren] Kelly. “Fortunately the people behind Positive Bradford are the sort of people that make things happen. What will stop this from being meaningless are the people behind it. 

The Burnley Express explores Pendle Hill, Lancashire:

Not a place to linger in the cold, but utterly dramatic, Pendle Hill is much more local. With a brisk chilly wind whistling across the fields, and grey clouds racing across the skies, all the drama of the austere which the Brontës tried to convey comes together for me, not near Haworth, but near Newchurch. (Phil Calvert)

El País talks with several Spanish authors about their passion for books:

Ahí [Núria] Amat se arrancó con un Mujercitas que se salvó de la quema de la biblioteca -que ya tenía con 14 años- por un olvidado cigarrillo de su hermano; luego, una Alejandra Pizarnik, una Jane Eyre y una Ana Karenina, todo en primeras ediciones ("este fetichismo me ha dado hace poco, desde que leo en Ipad y sé que el libro en papel desaparecerá"). (Carles Geli) (Translation)

Laura Ramos concludes her article in Clarín (Argentina) like this:

Si hay un tratado sobre institutrices ese es Agnes Grey (Anne Brontë, 1847), un tratado pornocalvinista que suscribe la idea de Karl Marx sobre la historia de la humanidad como historia de la lucha de clases, ( Manifiesto Comunista , 1848). Pero esa historia se las contaré el próximo domingo. (Translation)

La Vanguardia (Spain) mentions the R. Sikoryak's Wuthering Heights comic parody, The Cript of Brontë; Musings has some problems with Jane Eyre; Mininessie's art gallery posts a painting of the Rochester and Jane encounter in Hay Lane; Bombshell Beauty has attended the Blogger Preview Night of the Minnesota Opera production of Wuthering Heights; dinda's has just finished Jane Eyre and Wife With Books is reading it; One stop poetry devotes its Saturday post to Charlotte Brontë; a Brontëite in Salerno in La Repubblica (Italy);  Erodiade2008 posts on YouTube a reading of No Coward Soul is Mine and El Periòdic (Spain) mentions the reading of poems by Emily Brontë in the Xàbia celebrations of the Day of the Book. 8Weekly (Netherlands) mention George Smith's opinion that Charlotte Brontë would have exchanged her genius for beauty.

Richard Wilcocks posts about the 2011 Spring Walk around the Cowan Bridge area on the Brontë Parsonage Blog.

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