Jane Eyre goes to Hogwarts

Jane Eyre makes it into The Hollywood Reporter critic Todd McCarthy's Top 30 Movies of 2011:

Jane Eyre (Cary Joji Fukunaga) A fine, rigorous adaptation of the perennial.

And Anne Thompson suggests it as a film to be watched during the holidays on Movie City News:

Jane Eyre: impeccable Brontë adaptation by Moira Buffini and Cary Fukunaga, well acted by Wasikowska and Fassbender.

It is precisely during the holidays when the film is going to be screened as part of the Artis International Vienna  (23 – 29 December), as reported by the Austrian Times.

Speaking of films, ABC Television comments on one of the Brontë references in the film The Trip:

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon move on to their second review, at L'Enclume in the Cumbrian village of Cartnel.
The beautiful drive there inspires them to channel Kate Bush and her song, 'Wuthering Heights'.

The Star Tribune reviews Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Brontë's Grave.

Goldhill has little patience with commodified hokum. While generations of readers, himself included, have taken pleasure in the erotic passions and windy atmospherics of "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights," Goldhill sees Haworth Parsonage, the much-visited home of the Brontë sisters, as a "back-invention" -- that is, a place retrofitted to correspond to the compelling myth of the "sisters' life as suffering artists" that was generated after their death. The sisters, he shows, lacked for little, least of all intellectual stimulation.
Yet Haworth has come to stand for "every woman's home, the repression of the inner self in social propriety." (Tom Zelman)

And The Times reviews Howl's Moving Castle at Southwark Playhouse where

Kristin McGuire stomping around in black tights and swoopy frills like a trainee junior Joan Collins auditioning for Mrs Rochester, wants to decapitate Howl and use his head to make a Frankenstein monster, because he rejected her love. Think of Jane Eyre crossed with Hogwarts (there is a fine wizard duel with wands and flash-crackles) (Libby Purves)

The Brontë Weather Project takes a look at Anne Brontë's letters. Ren's Bloggin' About reviews Jane Eyre 2011 while Silkiness posts about the novel. Secret Laboratory writes about Wuthering Heights.