Brontë moments

Joanne O'Connor gives some advices for a Wuthering Heights-experience in The Guardian:

Andrea Arnold's moody adaptation of Wuthering Heights looks set to inspire renewed interest in the Brontë sisters when it opens this week. The Brontë Parsonage Museum (bronte.info) in Haworth will be putting on special events to coincide with the launch, including two evenings dedicated to Emily Brontë (16 and 23 November) and a talk by the film's screenwriter, Olivia Hetreed (9 December). But for the ultimate Wuthering Heights experience, check out Cowside, the newest self-catering property from the Landmark Trust (landmarktrust.org.uk). Set in the Yorkshire Dales north of Haworth, this remote 18th-century farmstead has flagstone floors, an inglenook fireplace and a backdrop of rolling hills. A more perfect retreat for aspiring Heathcliffs and Cathys would be hard to find.

The Mirror reviews the film and, unsurprisingly, didn't like it:

Director Andrea Arnold’s minimalist and unappealing version of Emily Brontë’s classic pretty much fails on all scores.
Skins’ Kaya Scodelario as Cathy Earnshaw is the only thing worth watching in a film that struggles to intrigue, let alone interest. Arty but not very good.  (Mark Adams)

The Daily Mail has a Brontë sisters 'moment':

Three Victorian siblings can’t be having a ‘moment’…
Wrong! The Brontë girls are so happening right now. The new film of Charlotte’s novel Jane Eyre – starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender – was a hit when it opened in September. An edgy film version of Emily’s novel Wuthering Heights will be in cinemas this Friday.
Wuthering Heights – will I like it?
It stormed the Venice Film Festival –one reviewer called it ‘raw and affecting’ – and it’s bagged major cool points for casting Skins star James Howson as Heathcliff – the first black actor to play the role.
But are the kids into gothic love stories?
Er, hello? Ever heard of The Twilight Saga? Since its pasty-faced heroine Bella announced Wuthering Heights was her favourite book, Brontë mania has been sweeping schools. Lady Gaga and Florence Welch reference the novel in their videos and Brontë-inspired fashion is huge this season. It’s all about ‘English romanticism’ – think lace and velvet capes. Vivienne Westwood loves the look, and hip new menswear designer Lou Dalton’s last collection was inspired by Heathcliff.
What about the third sister, Anne?
She hasn’t been forgotten. In the new play We Are Three Sisters, Chekhov’s Three Sisters has been adapted (by Blake Morrison) and relocated from Russia to Yorkshire – with the Brontë trio in the starring roles. And as BBC1 has just announced a new TV film of the girls’ private lives as part of next year’s schedule, expect Brontë fever to remain high next year.  (Tanya De Grunwald)

We don't know what is this 'new TV film' announced by the BBC1. We wonder if the writer is talking about In Search of the Brontës 2003. For some reason if you look in Google a 2003 Daily Mail article about the project appears as published last October 28, 2012.

The film will be screened at the Stockholm International Film Festival, next November 16.

The Times talks about coarse language in BBC Radio 3:

Last weekend’s The Empire, about soldiers in Afghanistan (seven uses of f*** and three of c***), received only two complaints, says the BBC; Black Watch, about soldiers in Iraq (152 of f*** and 61 of c***), gathered four from two broadcasts; the coarsely adapted Wuthering Heights, earlier this year, got none. (Paul Donovan)

Glens Falls Post-Star quotes the author Lorrie Moore saying:

Author Lorrie Moore has found inspiration in classics like "Jane Eyre," but not everything on her reading list has been high-brow.
"I was always reading inappropriate novels when I was a teenager. I would read anything with an explicit sex scene," Moore told a crowd of students Thursday at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. "They were the kinds of books you would find left behind in a summer cottage, and they were giving me information as a high school student I didn't have." (Doug Gruse)

BellaOnline recalls a well-known Vivien Leigh anecdote:

Four years later, Vivien Leigh successfully won one of the most important roles in Hollywood - the role of "Scarlett O'Hara" in the epic drama, "Gone With The Wind." After having read the book, and found out that there was a search for an actress for the part, Vivien only saw herself in the role even though everyone else around her doubted that she would get the role. It is rumored when she turned down the role of "Cathy" in which she would have been co-starring alongside her love Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff in "Wuthering Heights" (1939), that she told her agent she was holding out for a better role. Vivien's agent told her that there would never be a better role than Brontë's "Cathy." But Vivien proved everyone wrong. She famously won the role over every known actress in Hollywood including Carole Lombard and Bette Davis. (Amber Grey)

Fiction Examiner reviews Kate Morton's The Forgotten Garden:

The Forgotten Garden is an excellent example of a modern gothic influence. If you love classics like Jane Eyre and Rebecca, The Forgotten Garden would be an excellent place to start with when looking for modern fiction with historical and gothic undertones. (Rory O'Connor)

Sarah Granby from the Haworth Couldn't Wear Less initiative writes a letter to Keighley News asking for support:

As has been previously reported in the Keighley News, people from Haworth have joined forces to produce His and Hers versions of Calendar Girl-style calendars. The name given to these calendars is Haworth Couldn’t Wear Less! — obviously a play on words. The village residents and traders are proving that they really do care about raising money for the Parish Church Restoration Fund and Brontë Spirit, the Brontë School Room Development Project.
While making money from the calendars is very important, it is not the be all and end all of the project, it’s an opportunity for people to work together to prove there is Unity in the Community. We are also generating Future Heritage, something for people to smile about now and for future generations to enjoy too. Last Friday evening Miss March, Anita Watson, along with Harry Wilson, son of Barry (Mr April) organised a party at the Black Bull, Haworth, to get the calendars well and truly launched. I would like to thank Anita and Harry and also landlord Mark and landlady Val for doing this for us.
I would also like to thank Bradford Council for supporting us through the Area Committee’s Worth Valley Ward Based Community Development Fund and the Area Committee’s Culture and Heritage Fund. The women and men who have been putting the calendars in the envelopes deserve a mention too as do our sales outlets.
The calendars can be bought at Keighley Town Hall, Haworth Visitor Information Centre and various outlets in Haworth. Please look at HaworthCalendar.co.uk to find out where else you can buy yours. You can also follow us on Twitter @HaworthCalendar.
If anyone would like to help with the printing costs and other administration charges we would love to hear from you — Haworth Calendar@aol.com We also need people to help us sell the calendars.

 oubliettemagazine (in Italian) has discovered Anne Brontë's poetry; Shellie Writes has read Syrie James's The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë; O Meu Momento Zen posts about Jane Eyre in Portuguese;  Richard & Sophia's Big Adventure, My Online Book Journal and Desconexas e Agrupadas (in Portuguese) have read Wuthering Heights; Midnight Birth has a Austen vs Brontë poll going on; yourleaderDrChaos posts on YouTube a 1973 recording of the medium Leslie Flint 'channeling' Charlotte Brontë, no less.