Emily Brontë Candour?

The Express Tribune (Pakistan) publishes a positive review of Jane Eyre 2011:

Just when you think you’ve seen all the Jane Eyre adaptations you possibly could, director Cary Fukunaga makes a solid film that will have audiences hooked despite their obvious familiarity with the story. (...)
In Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre, Fassbender adds an element of sheer masculine attraction to the cold wit and gothic demeanour of Rochester. Fassbender does not try to imitate anyone, and succeeds in leaving his individual mark on the character. More importantly, he does not overshadow Jane, the heroine of our story, and gives ample space to Wasikowska who does justice to the much-imagined Jane Eyre.

The film will be screened at the Sarajevo Film Festival next July 27th and 28th. Booktopia Blog is waiting for the Australian release of the film, So You Want to Be a Priest... posts a review and The Loveliest Tragedies posts several icons.

Blaze reviews mostly positively Wuthering Heights 1992:

So pined a mournful Heathcliff in the 1992 adaptation of Emily Brontë's immortal Wuthering Heights. Poor things, it can't be easy falling in love with a foster sibling, not even when they look like Ralph Fiennes or Juliette Binoche.
In fact, Heathcliff takes it so badly he adds a new dimension to head-banging: it's said that Fiennes, in his feature film debut, demanded a scene from the book in which the frustrated woodsman hits his head against a tree be included.
He performed so well, he drew blood.
Although some critics felt the same way about Peter Kosminsky's curious direction (that included Sinead O'Connor's narration and a script that ran to the novel's dreary, bitter end), Wuthering Heights has fared reasonably well over time.
The stunning Yorkshire backdrops keep audiences' attention but the hook is Fiennes' The English Patient co-star Binoche who brings a luminous presence to the younger Catherine.
Handsome and unaffected, Wuthering Heights remains worth a look. (Colin Fraser)

My Life in Scraps posts also about the film.

The Vernon Morning Star recommends Wide Sargasso Sea:

–– Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys.
Set against the lush backdrop of 1830s Jamaica, Rhys’ powerful, haunting masterpiece was inspired by her fascination with the first Mrs. Rochester, the mad wife in the attic in Charlotte Brontë ’s Jane Eyre . (The movie adaptation is also available.) (Maureen Curry)

The Tampa Tribune reviews Withering Tights with special attention to the Brontë references:

"Withering Tights" is also dedicated to "Em, Chazza and Anne Brontë," who first introduced the world to the pleasures of moaning about on the moors in the throes of passion and/or borderline personality disorders. As the brochure for Dother Hall, the local performing arts academy puts it, "think 'Wuthering Heights' but with more acting and dancing and less freezing to death on the moors." (...)
The Bronte references are equally spry and irreverent (in contrast to most of the recent crop of literary updates and inspired-bys that crowd the YA bookshelf). Tallulah's first view of her new school calls up images of Jane Eyre's Thornfield Hall, not least because the roof is on fire. There is even a long-haired person of mystery capering about in the flames, whom Tallulah immediately dubs Mrs. Rochester. The name sticks, even thought the figure turns out to be Bob, the ex-roadie turned handyman/sound tech. Even more inspired are the Hinchcliff brothers, a trio of aspiring rock stars whose youngest member, Cain, mumbles his way into the hearts of half the female population. (Amanda Sellet)

Glen Ducan's The Last Werewolf is reviewed by The Columbus Dispatch:

Duncan packs in as many literary allusions per page as any English major could want: Look for a macabre twist on the most famous line of Jane Eyre, as well as nods to T.S. Eliot, Matthew Arnold, Herman Melville, Susan Sontag, Joseph Conrad, Dante, Keats and Nabokov. (Margaret Quamme)

John Sutherland discusses the alleged racism of W.M. Thackeray on OUPblog:

When we first encounter George Osborne and Dobbin, they are just back from the West Indies. What was their regiment doing? Protecting the British interest in sugar cane production in the Caribbean possessions of the Crown (it is, incidentally, the same crop which enriches Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre and the Bertram family in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park; the English were addicted to sugar in their tea and cakes).

The Times Herald-Record reminds us of one of the most commented Potter-Brontë connections:

Harry is Frodo, Voldemort is Darth Vader and Snape is Heathcliff (as in Heathcliff the brooding and tortured romantic Brontë hero, not Heathcliff the lazy ginger cat who liked to eat all the time. Although, I suppose that could be Ron.) (Lisa Ramirez)

The Independent (Ireland) describes P.J. Harvey as follows:

There can't be too many female artists who sing with such Sylvia Plath skin-flaying pain and Emily Brontë candour about their turbulent romantic life (she allegedly had a nervous breakdown at around the release of Rid Of Me due to the pressure of making the album). But then there were never too many female artists like PJ Harvey to begin with. (Barry Egan)

Off the Beaten Track posts about Anne Brontë with particular attention to her tomb in Scarborough; Bokstödet reviews Jane Eyre; Mermaids Closet posts about Jane Eyre 1996; Meandering Thoughts recommends visiting the Brontë Parsonage Museum; Jedz, táncz i cztaj posts about several adaptations of Jane Eyre in Polish; Word for Teens includes Rochester among Her Ridiculous Romantic Book Obsessions; Mister Oy posts on Flickr several pictures of Brontë country.

Categories: Haworth, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Wide Sargasso Sea, Wuthering Heights