A sullen Victorian gentleman and other news

Peter Bradshaw selects for the Guardian a few feel-good films of 2011 but remarks on the fact that,

A lot of the really good films this year have been on dark and difficult themes (We Need To Talk About Kevin, Wuthering Heights, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) and sombre topics will attract the most talented, thoughtful film-makers.

The film award season is on everybody's mind at this point. IndieWire has a 'Complete Guide To 2011-12 Awards Season' where Jane Eyre is listed among the British Independent Film Awards for Mia Wasikowska's Jane. Fox 4 Kansas City laments the fact that her name has been left off the list of 2012 Critics’ Choice Movie Awards (neverteless, Michael O'Connor  has been nominated to the Best Costume Design). Another columnist on IndieWire does remark on her powerful interpretation but doesn't think she'll gather many nominations:

Beyond those three films, there's exceptional female representation it would be irresponsible not to note. In this regard, "Albert Nobbs," "The Arbor," "Bridesmaids," "Carnage," "Certified Copy," "Circumstance," "The Future," "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo," "Higher Ground," "In The Land of Blood and Honey," "Jane Eyre," "The Lady," "Like Crazy," "Pariah," "A Separation," "Tyrannosaur" and "Young Adult" all -- to varying degrees -- deserve recognition. But collectively they make up just a teeny tiny fraction of 2011's releases as a whole. And for a variety of reasons, none of them will end up best picture nominees. (Peter Knegt)

Other websites are also commenting on Michael Fassbender's LA Film Critics Award for best actor and describing the roles that helped him carry it home. His role as Rochester is described by The Reel Breakdown as

brood[ing] his way across the moor as Rochester in "Jane Eyre." (Thelma Adams)

And by The Capital as a

sullen Victorian gentleman.

The film has been nominated to Best Costume Design in the Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards.

The Oxford Mail has an article on the Oxford Mail’s fifth Senior Citizens Film Festival and alerts locals to the fact that

The festival continues today with its screening of Jane Eyre, which was released to critical and commercial acclaim earlier this year.

The Los Angeles Daily News features Guy Ritchie, who

admits that his favorite films are English costume dramas.
"I can't get enough of them, funny enough," he says, citing "Sense and Sensibility," "Pride and Prejudice" and the latest "Jane Eyre" as some of his favorites.
The director describes himself as an Anglophile.
"I'm a big fan of England, and the older I get the more obsessed I become with it," says Ritchie. "I find the history and the cultural trajectory extremely beguiling. I find England as I grow older aesthetically more rewarding. ... I've developed an appreciation of damp, dark days and it evokes something creatively, and many of those costume dramas have managed to capture that." (Rob Lowman)

Mid Pennine Arts and Reel Time review Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights and Adivina quién viene al cine posts about Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre in Spanish while Hello Sunshine discusses both novels.