Better persons after reading Jane Eyre

Female First is taking a look at female directors at the London Film Festival and today it's Andrea Arnold's turn:

Andrea Arnold is one of the most exciting British directors currently making movies and she is set to have her new movie Wuthering Heights screened at the BFI London Film Festival. [...]
We haven't seen Arnold in the director's chair for two years but now she has returned with her highly anticipated adaptation of Wuthering Heights.
Arnold herself has penned the screenplay along with Olivia Hetreed and has cast Kaya Scodelario and James Howson in the central role as Cathy and Heathcliff. [...]
The movie premiered at the Venice Film Festival before going on to be screened at Toronto and the movie is now heading for London and is one of the movies that everyone will be desperate to see.
The movie is perhaps a little darker than what we are use to seeing from this story as Arnold has shown no fear in putting her stamp on a story that has been told many times. (Helen Earnshaw)

And isn't it just great that an Earnshaw is signing that article?

The New Zealand Herald reveals that designer Kate Sylvester is quite a Brontëite:

and she is a huge reader (she's excited about the just-released film adaptation of Jane Eyre, one of her favourite books). (Zoe Walker)

The Independent's Notebook is quite enthusiastic about the novel too:

You are a brighter and perhaps better person after you have studied Jane Eyre. (Toby Marshall)

While The Star has something to say to compilers of '1001' things you must do/watch/read/etc. before you die:

After all, one thing they should do before they die is spend less time writing 300-word faux-predictable analysis of Jane Eyre and more time trying to emulate the authors they claim to admire. (Colin Drury)

MJB Star remarks on the fact that many literary adaptations - such as Jane Eyre - do on to do well at the box office.

Public CEO comments on the news that Santa Monica Boulevard has been chosen as one of 10 Great Streets for 2011.

Scattered along the roadway - amidst some 600 traditional and unconventional businesses - are seven historic structures, including Irv's, a 1946 burger stand and The Lot, where movies such as Wuthering Heights (1939), Some Like It Hot (1959) and West Side Story (1959) were shot. (Dan Oney)

EADT24 is mourning 'the loss of the Blue Peter annual':

These books capture the spirit of what the TV programme was all about: nice and decent presenters doing nice and decent things. John Noakes learning to be a waiter; Peter Purves helping to maintain the London Underground tracks in the middle of the night. Mixed in were historical features – telling the stories of the Brontës, for instance, or the time the Thames froze solid. (Alex Darcy)

The Brontë Sisters has posted a letter written on October 4th, 1847 from Charlotte Brontë to William Smith Williams. Abigail's Ateliers has posted an image to match Emily's poem 'The night is darkening round me'.

Bokhora (in Swedish), Very Jane Austen and Kinoterapia (in Polish) both review the new Jane Eyre.