Wuthering Heights, the experience

X Media Online gives 3.5 stars out of 5 to Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights:

Character and language problems aside, aesthetically the film is exquisite. Because of this, it is much more suited to lovers of the countryside and the gothic romantic than specifically of Wuthering Heights as a novel. Watching this in the cinema really transports you to the middle of nature – it rolls you in mud, drenches you with rain, shakes you with storms, sings you traditional songs by the fire and presents picturesque, misty vistas. While not a great telling of Wuthering Heights “the story”, this film definitely shows you Wuthering Heights, “the experience”. (Katie Wilkinson)

The film is also reviewed by: John Bates Writes, Wading Through Treacle, Cecil & Bea's Film Reviews and Miss Cellany.

Film Threat has a demolishing review of Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre:

Mia Wasikowska’s stiff Jane and Michael Fassbender’s cranky Rochester add to the confusion – anyone who is familiar with the Brontë text or the numerous other film versions will be baffled by the utter lack of emotion (let alone oxygen) in the stars’ performances. The rest of the cast carefully recite their lines in robotic monotones, as if they learned their lines phonetically. Judi Dench, serving a light hammy turn as the chatty housekeeper Mrs. Fairfax, is the only one who tries to pump life into this mess. But even an old trooper like Dame Judi cannot prevent this film from collapsing into hopeless inertia. (Phil Hall)

However, The Seattle Times lists the film as one of those 'Movies based on good books that get it right'.

The Derby Telegraph features Haddon Hall, which is already decorated for Christmas:

Haddon Hall's fame is growing all the time with its use as a film location. Which stars did you meet during the filming of the recent Jane Eyre movie?
I met Mia Wasikowska, who played Jane, Michael Fassbender (Rochester) and Dame Judi Dench (Mrs Fairfax).
Which other celebrities have paid the hall a visit?
We've had lots of celebrities at Haddon Hall, both during filming and as visitors. Keira Knightley (Pride and Prejudice), Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson (The Other Boleyn Girl), Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth), Toby Stephens (BBC's Mr Rochester), Colin Firth and, most recently, John Sargeant.

The York Press reviews the play We Are Three Sisters:

Amid the coughing and suffering that presages life’s short passage for the sisters, and the sound of the buffeting wind and the mason’s chisel chipping away at another grave, it is not all doom and gloom in Morrison’s play, despite the constant shadow of death. Far from it. Kinsell’s Charlotte may be the most stoic sister, but di Martino’s whistling, moorland-walking Emily and Hutchinson’s yearning Anne are both quick of wit.
Morrison enjoys playing the sisters off each other, especially in Charlotte’s less-than-flattering assessment of her sisters’ writing talents, and there is a particularly sharp moment when all three dismiss Jane Austen. “Where’s the fresh air [in her novels]?” they lament.
The humour is not of the satirical nature of Victoria Wood’s Brontëburgers monologue or Lip Service’s Withering Looks (which coincidentally plays Hull Truck next Wednesday to Saturday), but slightly ameliorates the dramatic punch of this nevertheless rounded, intelligent, beautifully written portrait of restless sisters caught between domestic routine and an escape through writing. (Charles Hutchinson)

The Gazette Times has an article on the Willamette Stage Company's production of The Turn of the Screw:

“It has a kind of Jane Eyre-ish feel to it,” said [Robert] Hirsh, who also serves as the company’s artistic director. (Sarah Payne)

The Adelaide Advertiser features a group of young illustrators, one of which is quite the Brontëite:

TALIA WIGNALL, 27
Talia was a finalist in the National Youth Self Portrait Prize in 2009 and has exhibited in group and solo shows. Her last solo exhibition at FELTspace (an artist-run initiative) was inspired by the “beautiful poetic prose” found in Jane Eyre.
“The way Charlotte Brontë described physical and emotional spaces gave me a lot of inspiration for my work,” she says.
Talia takes the femininity found in words she reads and places it on her canvas. “Maybe it’s the romanticism of Jane Eyre; high skies, golden visions of fire and seas,” she says. (Hélène Sobolewski)

The Huffington Post makes a statement that opens a can of worms:

This weekend, English-speaking Catholics around the world will walk into their churches to find an act of Vatican vandalism, as a new English translation of the Mass is foisted upon them. This new translation is a throwback to 19th century English that would make the Brontë sisters feel right at home. (I should, in fairness to the Brontës, point out their prose is eminently more readable than the Mass translation in question). (John Pinette)

We get the point but actually, in fairness to the Brontës, any Catholic Mass text would make them feel anything but 'at home'.

The Reading Corner posts in Italian about Jane Eyre while Sharan Srinivas (Outlaw Film Critic) reviews the 2011 adaptation of the novel and rominaopina writes in Spanish about the different adaptations of the novel. Iris on Books recommends a few books for the 'Jane Eyre obsessed'. And finally Wicked Wonderful Words reviews Rachel Ferguson's The Brontës Went to Woolworths.