Everything in town is Brontë, Brontë, Brontë!

Just released, but Emily goes straight to #2 on a ranking of the best biopics according to MovieWeb.

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Emily (2022)

This Emily refers to Emily Brontë, author of Wuthering Heights. Similarly to Shirley and Kafka, this movie takes a certain amount of liberties with the subject's real experiences. Emily is very much a loose interpretation of her experiences, but one that makes sense looking back on who she is now as a historical figure. The movie is playful, creative, and visually impressive. It makes for a really vivid entryway into Emily Brontë's world. (Josie Greenwood)

Jane Eyre 1944 makes it onto another ranking put together by Collider: 'The 10 Best Orson Welles Movies That Aren't 'Citizen Kane''.

'Jane Eyre' (1943)

Far from the only film adaptation of Jane Eyre, the classic novel by Charlotte Brontë, this 1943 version is still one of the better-known ones. The story naturally follows the title character from childhood to adulthood, suffering hardships at a young age and then becoming romantically entangled with a mysterious lord while caring for his daughter.

Welles plays said lord here—Edward Rochester—in one of his rare romantic roles. It's a little strange at first to see Welles in a movie set so long ago that isn't a Shakespeare adaptation, but he does well here, never overshadowing Joan Fontaine in the lead role, either. Welles did not direct this one either - instead, it was directed by Robert Stevenson, who's probably best known for directing 1964's Mary Poppins. (Jeremy Urquhart)

Evening Standard reviews the film The Silent Twins, claiming that, 'It’s ridiculous the film has an 18 certificate; teens need art like this in their lives'.

It’s sheer madness that the film has been rated 18. It’s ideal viewing for the kind of young goths who heart Tim Burton/Wes Anderson/Charlie Kaufman. And far from being dangerous, it tactfully explores tricky topics (including abusive sexual relationships, anorexia and suicide) in a way that would surely be useful for any youngster suffering from mental health issues or low self-esteem. The twins think about death and destruction. A lot. Well, so do the characters in Wuthering Heights. Teens need art like this in their lives. (Charlotte O'Sullivan)

A contributor to The Atlantic refers to another aspect of Wuthering Heights:

Literature is full of brutally jilted lovers and cruelly broken hearts, whether Anna Karenina’s or Heathcliff’s in Wuthering Heights. But for my money, the most extreme case is Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations. (Arthur C. Brooks)

And yet another aspect of the novel is highlighted by Gatestone Institute:

During this holiday season it is particularly important to pause and insist upon a period of self-reflection for, regardless of one's faith, that Angel is in search of the person who embraces the humanity within ourselves and the ability to love.

Author Emily Brontë understood this. In her novel, Wuthering Heights, Catherine Earnshaw, one of the main characters, was asked how she could love the gypsy stable-boy, Heathcliff. She replied, "Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same." That might be as close to love, rapture, happiness as it gets. (Lawrence Kadish)

The Boston Globe interviews graphic novelist Kate Beaton.

BOOKS: Which other classic authors do you like?

BEATON: I read “Wuthering Heights” so many times. That book drove me nuts. What is going on with Catherine and Heathcliff! Why don’t I understand this? With Dickens there are no questions about characters’ motivations. In “Wuthering Heights” it’s all, “What do you think?” But I loved it because it drove me nuts. When I went to a comics show in Leeds, I took the train to Haworth, the Brontës’ house.

BOOKS: What was the Brontës’ home like?

BEATON: You are on the moors and you are like, wow. The wind is blowing. The wind! Their tiny shoes are in a glass case. Their writing is there. Everything in town is Brontë, Brontë, Brontë! I didn’t care. I was like, “You got my number, baby.” (Amy Sutherland)

The Times interviews the writer Sara Collins:

“I was obsessed with gothic romances growing up,” Collins explains. “I read Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre practically once a year during my teens, yet a black woman had never been centre stage in a story like that. So when ITV gave me the chance of writing the screenplay myself, everyone said, ‘You’d be a fool to turn that down.’ It doesn’t happen the first time round — usually you’ve got to beg.” (Jade Cuttle)

Bustle features British actress and model Jodie Turner-Smith, who

is still a reader, a habit that began with Jane Austen and Emily Brontë in childhood, and progressed to Toni Morrison, Anaïs Nin, James Baldwin, and Marlon James. (Erin Somers)

La mañana (Uruguay) interviews writer Carmen Posadas.

¿Qué autores han sido, en lo literario, tus referentes, o suscitaron tu admiración?

En cada época de la vida un autor diferente. De muy chica la mitología griega que nos leía papá, después y también gracias a él Sherlock Holmes, Wodehouse, Dante, Proust, Horacio Quiroga, Dickens y tantos más. Yo de más adulta descubrí a Kafka, Stendhal, Jane Austen, las hermanas Brontë, etc. Por supuesto también a Borges, Cortázar, García Márquez, Marguerite Yourcenar. La lista es tan larga que no acabaría nunca. (Mireya Soriano) (Translation)

Refinery29 explores the Twilight revival.

But at its core, Twilight is a contemporary gothic novel. How could we forget Meyer’s constant barrage of intertextual references to Bella’s dog-eared copy of Wuthering Heights? In fact, the gendered cultural criticism that haunted the Brontës for their “taboo” subject matter eerily echoes the way 21st-century critics went after Twilight’s jugular. Charlotte Brontë famously wrote how being “authoresses” made the Brontës “liable to be looked on with prejudice”. (Deborah Prospero)

Petaluma 360 features the local Great Dickens Christmas Fair at the Cow Palace in Daly City, near San Francisco.

Others are a response to concerns about the Fair’s underlying glorification of colonialism, with the previous presence of Queen Victoria and her court – to many a problematic symbol of English Empire – now gone entirely.

Likewise the Adventurer’s Club, a performance space where patrons have, in the past, been entertained by lectures on the Charge of the Light Brigade and other military/expansionist topics. For 2022, it’s been re-dubbed The Athenaeum Club, with the focus shifting more fully to cultural and artistic characters of the time, with “public readings” by such real-life characters as Charlotte Brontë and Edgar Allan Poe. (David Templeton)

On DR (Denmark) a podcast features the film Emily among other things.