Desperatly Seeking Dashing Mr Rochester

Entertainment Weekly recommends movies 'you've never seen'. Jane Eyre 2011 is among them but in an alternative version with one Mia Wasakowski and directed by one Cary Fukanaga. Double sic:

Before True Detective and Beasts of No Nation, Cary Fukanaga (sic) offered up his own take on Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel — a period-set but still bracingly fresh reimaging of one of literature’s most enduring feminist heroes (a fierce, luminous Mia Wasakowski (sic)) and a pretty damn dashing Mr. Rochester (Michael Fassbender). (Leah Greenblatt)

The Laconia Daily Sun informs of the upcoming events at the Belmont Library:

The Friday Fiction book group will read “The Eyre Affair” by Jasper Fforde on Friday, April 19, at 10:30 a.m. It takes place in an alternative 1985, where literary detective Thursday Next pursues a master criminal through the world of Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre.”

The Hollywood Reporter republishes the original 1985 review of the film Desperately Seeking Susan:

The movie borrows its title from a set of personal ads that attract the attention of a bored Jersey housewife (Rosanna Arquette) — a frustrated romantic whose kitchen TV screen seems perpetually tuned to repeats of Wuthering Heights. (Kirk Ellis)

Regrettably nobody in these 34 years seems to have noticed that the film on TV is, as a matter of fact, Rebecca.

According to The Times:

Charlotte Brontë’s novel Shirley dramatises protests in the early 19th century when “certain inventions in machinery were introduced into the staple manufactures of the north, which, greatly reducing the number of hands necessary to be employed, threw thousands out of work, and left them without legitimate means of sustaining life”.

The St Louis Post-Dispatch announces the performances of the Gordon & Caird musical Daddy Long-Legs:

It’s no coincidence that Jerusha is fond of the novel “Jane Eyre,” as her relationship with Pendleton is at once poignant and a bit creepy. It’s a measure of Barber’s skills as an actor that the manipulative Pendleton comes across as a sympathetic character. (Calvin Wilson) 

Literary Hub publishes an excerpt of Outsiders by Lyndall Gordon:

Olive Schreiner: Charlotte Brontë Of South Africa, 19th-century celebrity (...)
Native ground was, at first, a mission station, Wittebergen, on the border of Basutoland. Like Emily Brontë, Olive Schreiner was a creature of her terrain and also the daughter of an evangelical preacher who was a stranger in a strange land.

Los Angeles Times talks about Ruth Wilson:

Wilson, who plays doomed Cordelia and The Fool in “Lear,” has also depicted a psychopathic genius in the BBC series “Luther,” a woman clouded by grief in Showtime’s “The Affair,” a 19th-century governess who falls for her brooding master in the BBC’s “Jane Eyre,” and a submissive wife torn between her brutish husband and neurotic sister in a London production of “A Streetcar Named Desire.” (Meredith Blake)

The Reykjavík Grapevine (Iceland) discusses a local exhibition:

Nectar & Ambrosia
Nordic House, Sæmundargata 11
Though the title might reference ‘Jane Eyre’, this exhibit is fully inspired by Japanese zen gardens. (Hannah Jane Coen)

John Polidori's The Vampyre is analyzed on The Conversation:

Lord Ruthven spawned a series of saturnine or demonic lovers in turn, from the Brontës’ Mr Rochester to the more sexy incarnations of Dracula and the contemporary paranormal romances of mortal women seduced by brooding bad and dangerous vampires. (Sam George)

Veja (Brazil) recalls how

O sucesso do longa alavancou as vendas do diário — assim como, anos antes, a saga vampiresca Crepúsculo fizera crescer o interesse pelo clássico O Morro dos Ventos Uivantes, de Emily Brontë. (Raquel Carneiro) (Translation)

Gazzetta di Parma (Italy) reviews the Italian translation of Elizabeth Strout's Abide With Me:

Conservare accanto ai classici d’ampio respiro. In particolare, di fianco ai libri di Jane Austen e delle sorelle Brontë. (Marilù Oliva) (Translation)

Lakáskultúra (Hungary) interviews the photographer Vasali Katalin:

Rajongója vagyok…
…a Brontë nővérek regényeinek. (Translation)

Periodistas en Español (Spain) and the Madrid Balthus exhibition:

Se pintó a sí mismo también en “La toilette de Cathy”, identificándose con Heatcliff (sic), el protagonista de “Cumbres borrascosas”. (Francisco R. Pastoriza) (Translation)

Panorama (Italy) interviews the musician Enrico Ruggeri on his new album Alma:

Gianni Poglio: Nel disco ci sono le tue due anime, quella rock and roll e quella dello chansonnier...
Sono fatto così, chi mi segue sa esattamente che cosa aspettarsi. In questo caso da un brano post punk come Supereroi alle atmosfere jazz di Cime tempestose. (Translation)

The Sisters' Room adds a new 'Brontë Parsonage treasure': Emily Brontë's Keeper watercolour and Keeper's collar. Write on Ejaleigh! posts some new gifts for Brontë lovers.