Brontë logic

A couple of news outlets still echo the good news about Red House: BBC News and the Yorkshire Evening Post.

Stuff (New Zealand) reviews the DVD of Jane Eyre 2011:

Fukunaga has a remarkable ability to find a shot that looks incredible, but also serves the story; the use of light and dark is haunting, shimmering candlelight barely allowing the faces of his cast to register, while the low contrast, washed out colours of the outdoor scenes give the film an otherworldly feel that seems to match the daydream-like nature of the story.
Moira Buffini's script also does a great job manipulating the order of events in the story. Most adaptations of Jane Eyre tell the story in chronological order, where Fukunaga's adaptation opens with the fourth stage of the story (Jane arriving at the home of St John Rivers) and telling the preceding events through flashbacks.
It's a clever way to modernise the film while maintaining high period production values.
This is a wonderful movie, a coming-of-age romance that is as relevant in 2012 as it was when Bronte wrote the story in 1847 - in the age of Jersey Shore and quick-fire celebrity weddings, it might be a timely reminder that love is something much deeper, that relationships can be established with both parties on an equal footing, and that marriage is not a decision to take lightly. Highly recommended. (Chris Philpott)

And The West Australian, mentioning the movie in passing, considers it 'a very good adaptation'.

Not as good is The New York Observer's opinion of The Woman in Black:

But the stock effects of wind, rain, mist, a cemetery in the fog and an ominous raven (think of The Secret Garden) add austerity, if not much adventure. Where is Heathcliff when we need him?
Instead of Brontë logic, we get a vaporous apparition in black who has been haunting the doleful little hamlet for years, killing off the children. (Rex Reed)

The Irish Times' Screenwriter celebrates Charles Dickens's bicentenary:

Anyway, this being nominally a cinema “blog”, I should probably say a bit about Dickens on film. In truth, the larger 19th century novels have always fought back against adaptation. They’re so darn long. They have so many characters. Here’s an interesting thought. Many critics’ choice (though not mine) for the greatest English novel of the 19th century has never been made into a movie. It seems astonishing. But no film-maker has ever attempted Middlemarch. Emily Brontë comes off all right. Dickens doesn’t do badly. (Donald Clarke)

A columnist at The Dispatch seems to be a Brontëite and when the Dover Post asks its staff about 'star siblings', one of them actually picks the Brontë sisters, including Anne:

Jennifer Dailey, reporter
[...]
2 Charlotte and Emily Brontë: They wrote “Jane Eyre” and “Wuthering Heights.” They have another sister, Anne, but her novels aren’t as well known.

Abigail's Ateliers continues posting about Emily Brontë's imaginary second novel. Flickr user Mackenzie K. has uploaded a creation inspired by a favourite quote from Wuthering Heights.