A Dark Alternate World of References

Shockya recommends Jane Eyre 2011 fervorously:

Go figure that the first one that I end up mentioning for this section happens to be a flat out romance story. But here’s the thing, there aren’t too many straight-shooting romantic stories floating around in theaters nowadays. Cary Fukunaga stretches out his young directing wings wonderfully on the screen with his own romantic but slightly-thriller version of the classic tale “Jane Eyre.” He’s not the only one who breathes all sorts of wonderful life into a story that’s been done in theaters practically millions of times. He brings to the cast a couple of the brightest younger actors out there in the business right now with Mia Wasikowska and the crazy great Michael Fassbender. In a time where supposed love stories are buried under a huge pile of mindless action or special effects, it’s nice to see an honest-to-God romantic movie reach the screen, even if this particular story has been translated on there before. Yes, check it out now.

Exactly the opposite of Movieweb:

This film feels very stolid and cold. Watching it I felt emotionally detached and I couldn't really get anything out of it. All and all, this isn't the best adaptation and I can say honestly this probably won't receive any Oscar attention. (Corey Wood)

Rope of Silicon places the film in a midway point with an honorable mention among all the 2011 films premiered so far. Telling Stories compares the latest film and Jane Eyre 2006. Amanecer eterno also reviews the film in Spanish.

We read in the Publishers Weekly newsletter the description of an upcoming book with far too many fathers (and mothers):

Michael Boccacino’s Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling, “a Victorian gothic tale pitched as The Turn of the Screw meets Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell meets Jane Eyre and the love child of Neil Gaiman and Tim Burton, in which a feisty young governess at a dilapidated manor falls in love with her widower employer and discovers a dark alternate world called The Ending, the place for things that cannot die, in which the deceased mother of the two boys under her care has been waiting to pick up where she left off in the ominous House of Darkling . . . ” to Harper Perennial, for publication in July 2012

GMA News (Philippines) is quite proud of

Consul General Mario de Leon Jr. acknowledged with pride that [Jose] Rizal's novels "Noli Me Tangere" and "El Filibusterismo" are now in the official roster of Penguin Classics - along with the books of Charles Dickens, Emily Brontë and other authors of great classics.

The National (UAE) summarises ther Karlovy Vay Film Festival so far:

So far, the actor making the biggest splash has been Judi Dench, who represented the cast of Joji Fukunaga's Jane Eyre, the opening night film. Speaking at a packed press conference, the veteran performer said she had originally hoped to be a set designer in the theatre, but thought "I'll never be good enough at it". Instead, she said, she followed her brother into acting on stage. "My husband [Michael Williams] and I used to call Shakespeare 'the man who paid the rent', because for many years he was."
Classics were all over the programme this year, and not all of them were by such names as William Shakespeare and Charlotte Brontë (David Darcy)

Financial Times interviews Candida Brush, professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College: Olin in the US and the founding member of the Diana Project International:

What is your favourite memory of school?
When I was in sixth grade, the teacher, Dr. Will Hayes had every single student in the class read a book a week. I read the following: Silas Marner, Wuthering Heights, Kon-Tiki, Jane Eyre, The Yearling, All Quiet on the Western Front, Scarlet Letter, Ethan Frome, The Great Gatsby and several others. While it was extremely challenging to read one book a week, I remember a whole new world was opened up for me. (Charlotte Clarke)

Associated Content posts an article by Drew Lipsky about the themes of Wuthering Heights; Your Move, Dickens posts about Jane Eyre; Manga Maniac Cafe interviews the author Alyxandra Harvey:

If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go and why?
[AH] I love Scotland. Love, love, love.
I’d also like to see Egypt, Tibet, India, Crete…
And Haworth and the moors to commune with the Brontë sisters… (Julie)

The Colors are Beautiful has mixed feelings about Wuthering Heights but The Bloody Cafe (in French) describes it as a masterpiece; The Ballad of the Broken Birdie posts about Wuthering Heights 1939 in Portuguese. The illustrator Jason Pym has uploaded to Flickr a Wuthering Heights-inspired drawing from the 2010 Penguin (literally) Books China calendar.

Categories: Books, Haworth, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Wuthering Heights