Nelly, I am a Dalek

The screening at the Sarajevo Film Festival of Jane Eyre 2011 was followed by no less that 3000 people according to Balkan Insight:

Nearly 3,000 people attended the open-air screening of director Cary Fukunaga's "Jane Eyre" at the Sarajevo Film Festival on Wednesday night.
The following morning, Fukunaga and actor Michael Fassbender, who plays Lord Rochester, sat with fans and journalists at a "Coffee with..." session to discuss the film.
Both men talked about their backgrounds, and how they came to work together on "Jane Eyre." (...)
"Cary is a smart and precise director," he said. "It was great working with him, and I am delighted with what we've done with 'Jane Eyre.'"
Fukunaga talked about his early work making music spots, and his interest in "Jane Eyre."
“I wanted to adapt something, and my sister and mother love Charlotte Brontë," he said. "It was because of them that I made this movie." (Naida Balic)

An interview with the director and Michael Fassbender can be read on the festival's website. By the way, according to Movieman, the film will open in Germany next December 1st and Dziennik informs that the Polish release will be next October 14th. The Czech one was yesterday and the local press is reviewing the film:

Bylo by asi možné spekulovat o tom, jak moc klasická látka přidusila mladého režiséra a sebrala mu větší tvůrčí odvahu. Jana Eyrová není nic víc než filmařsky vybrané převyprávění povinné četby, které však navzdory kultivovanosti a úctě k tradici nepůsobí mrtvě a muzeálně. Na rozdíl od některých předešlých filmových verzí nelpí jen na milostné linii, ale účelně odkazuje na pochmurnost gotických románů. I přes přiměřenou spokojenost a respekt k Fukunagově vypravěčské grácii si však stále nejsem jistý, zda se podobný typ snímku nehodí spíše jako ozdoba zasloužilého filmařského důchodu.  (Vit Schmarc in Radiowave) (Translation)

Check other reviews on Topzine (which has the dubious honour of being the only one which considers Dario Marianelli's excellent music...boring!), iDNES,  filmserver, Novinky, Týden and Aktuálně. E15 interviews Cary Fukunaga and Volny traces profiles of both Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender.

IndieWire's The Playlist talks about the awards chances of Wuthering Heights 2011:

Andrea Arnold‘s excellent films to date, “Red Road” and “Fish Tank,” haven’t really been Oscar material; gritty British dramas, mostly star-free, dealing with tough subject matter. But you may not remember that Arnold already has an Oscar: her 2003 film “Wasp” won the Best Live-Action Short Film award at the 2005 ceremony. She’s also got two BAFTAs as well, so it’s not like she’s unfamiliar to the red carpet. Her new film isn’t really on Oscar-prognosticator’s radars, thanks to a basically unknown cast, but it does, of course, adapt the classic novel by Emily Brontë, and has made it to the screen many times before, the 1939 version with Laurence Olivier picking up eight Oscar nominations. It’s in the official competition at Venice, which bodes well, and has Film4 behind it, who had awards success with “Slumdog Millionaire” a few years back. If it turns out to be exceptional—and we’re expecting that from Arnold—all it’ll take is a swift pick up by someone like Focus (whose other Brontë flick, “Jane Eyre,” unfortunately looks unlikely to get the necessary traction, considering its March release) and the film could become a major player, given that it’s source material is far more Oscar-friendly than, say “Fish Tank” was. (Oliver Lyttleton)

SugarScope interviews the author Alyxandra Harvey:

What are your own favourite spooky books or films?
I don’t like gory horror movies and I can’t watch most of the really terrifying ghost films either. I’d just lie awake at night and freak myself right out since I live in a gently haunted house. But I do love ghostly moments, such as in Wuthering Heights when Heathcliff leans out the window yelling for Cathy to haunt him. It's just lovely.  (cari3232)

The New York Times reviews the London production of The Village Bike by Penelope Skinner:

But more important, perhaps, “The Village Bike” is about a subject that when it’s been addressed on stage (or film, for that matter) of late it has usually been presented with a wink, a smirk or a life-affirming (but still comic) roar. That’s pure sexual desire as experienced by a woman. And not as in a transcendent “Wuthering Heights” kind of passion. I’m talking about basic biological impulses that drive women to not think – at least not with their heads. (Ben Brantley)

The Wall Street Journal reviews the biography A Book of Secrets by Michael Holroy but reminds us of his second book, a biography of Lytton Strachey:

Strachey was the great liberator of biography, developing a style that took possession of its subjects. His pointillism, his reduction of "eminent Victorians" to a series of images that fixed them firmly in the popular imagination, rescued biography from its 19th-century imprisonment inside its subjects' own words. If you read Elizabeth Gaskell's 1857 biography of Charlotte Brontë, for example, you see how much she is shackled to quoting, at length, her subject's letters, a process that turns biographer into factotum. (Carl Rollyson)

The Liverpool Echo discusses the sale of a Grade II cottage in the area:

You could almost imagine Jane Austen or Charlotte Brontë or, indeed, any of the other romantic writers, perched by the window or sitting on the front lawn. (Janet Tansley)

The Royal International Horse Show is presented like this in The Times:

Live equestrianism Today, 2pm, Sky Sports 4: Miniature horses (think Escalado), women riding side-saddle (think Wuthering Heights) and the Sky Sports Speed Classic (don’t touch that remote) at the Royal International Horse Show[.] (Rick Broadbent)

La Gaceta (Spain) talks about the architecture of Comillas:

Con un palacete inglés tan excéntrico como el del duque, que parece un caserón de novela de las Brontë, conviven viviendas indianas[.] (Jorge Bustos) (Translation)

The column of Antonio Muñoz Molina in El País (Spain) includes a Brontë reference:

La intrépida Jane Eyre es tan la Cenicienta como la Pretty Woman de Julia Roberts o aquellas "reinas por un día" que hacían llorar a nuestras madres y a nuestras vecinas en los remotos concursos de la televisión en blanco y negro. (Translation)

Der Westen (Germany) presents the trilogy Der schwarze Lord by Andrea Mertz:

Literarische Vorbilder sind Frank Schätzing, aber auch englische Klassiker wie Jane Austen, die Brontë-Schwestern und Shakespeare. „Zuletzt habe ich das Buch ,Weiblich, ledig, untot’ gelesen, ein Vampir-Roman im Sex-and-the-City-Stil“, erzählt Mertz. (Pia Maranca) (Translation)

Notimex and Cadena 3 (picture source) mention the last performances of the Espinosa & Israilevich Cumbres Borrascosas musical en Córdoba (Argentina). Julie Wimmer selects Jane Eyre on her personal top five on Associated Content; Oasis de Lettres (in French) reviews Wuthering Heights; Portland Book Review posts about Jane Slayre; The Alumnae Theatre Company's Blog is posting about the current rehearsals of an upcoming production of Polly Teale's After Mrs. Rochester.

Finally, Tanaudel posts on Flickr a self-explanatory Wuthering Daleks image.

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