Song and dance melodrama with the Brontës

Giles Coren writes about his film I Hate Jane Austen (sic) in The Times:

John Mullan, professor of English at University College London and the greatest Austen scholar of our day, admitted that I was in good company in mistrusting her, alongside Charlotte Brontë, Joseph Conrad, Henry James and Mark Twain. He explained that their problem was that “they didn’t get any of the jokes. They just didn’t see how funny she was.” Well, them and me both. Mullan spoke of the beautiful “Swiss watch” mechanics of the novels, the “miracle” of the plots, and he placed her, without appearing to jest, alongside Shakespeare. What a clown!

By the way, New Statesman has already replied to Giles Coren's boutade in Why I Hate Giles Coren.

The Guardian is looking at the best films of 2017 in the US and Lady Macbeth is one of them:

Katherine is to excite the kind of unjust punitive outrage that Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre triggers in her relations and at her boarding school for orphaned girls. (Peter Bradshaw)

FilmFare lists the most memorable performances of Indian actor Dilip Kumar.

Sangdil (1952)
Jane Eyre, anybody? Sangdil is an adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel. Dilip plays a brooding Rochester to Madhubala’s spirited Jane. Charlotte would have enjoyed watching this song and dance melodrama with her sisters. The two actors looked made for each other and it’s said that their romance first blossomed on the sets of Sangdil. (Devesh Sharma)

La Stampa (Italy) features Branwell Brontë.

Sfortunato in amore e in poesia il fratello cancellato delle Brontë
In mostra nella casa di famiglia nel West Yorkshire i dipinti di Patrick Bramwell, che nella pittura trovò rifugio dai dispiaceri
È velata dal mistero la vita di Patrick Branwell. Di sicuro, il quarto dei fratelli Brontë, di cui il Parsonage Museum, allestito nella casa di famiglia nel West Yorkshire, celebra (sino al 31 dicembre) il bicentenario della nascita con una mostra dei suoi dipinti e disegni, era più timido delle sorelle Charlotte, Emily e Anne. (Luca Bergamin) (Translation)

El colombiano (Colombia) discusses women writers and mentions the Brontës' use of pseudonyms.  On Facebook, the Brontë Parsonage Museum posts about opening times in the coming weeks.