Staggeringly good picture

Tulsa World summarises the semester's film premieres:

"Jane Eyre": My only four-star review of the year belongs to the swooning and heartbreak of the latest take on Charlotte Brontë's book, a film that makes the class-system drama feel more alive than ever. Rarely do movies grasp such depth of emotion as does this staggeringly good picture. Young Mia Wasikowska as Jane and Michael Fassbender as Mr. Rochester must be remembered at Academy Award time. (DVD release Aug. 16) (Michael Smith)

The Guardian remembers a production of Chekhov's Dear Uncle in Scarborough and mentions the upcoming We Are Three Sisters production in Halifax:

Anton Chekhov's characters, like so many of their compatriots these days, it seems, are relocating to these shores. This autumn, his Three Sisters will be shifting to the Brontë Parsonage museum in Haworth for Blake Morrison's latest Northern Broadsides adaptation, while his Uncle Vanya has already been comfortably resettled in Ennerdale, thanks to Alan Ayckbourn. (Clare Brennan)

The Omaha World-Herald talks about the Brontë Festival in Omaha:

Actress Jill Anderson's one-woman show "Brontë,"  in which she plays early 19th century author Charlotte Brontë ("Jane Eyre"), sold out its entire run of July performances. Anderson added a show Saturday that also sold out. Four more dates, Aug. 3-6, have been added since. Performances are at 7 p.m.
Anderson said lectures and panel discussions related to the Brontës, as well as dramatic readings from their works, have also been popular, drawing upwards of 50 people to a drawing room at the castle home at 40th and Davenport Streets.
Another dramatic reading and discussion of Emily Brontë takes place today at 5 p.m., and a seminar on "Wuthering Heights" will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Information: 402-595-2199.

A local Brontëite in Bowling Green Daily News; The Boston Reader has read Jane Eyre on her iPhone and My Book Journal talks briefly about it; Fifty Books Project reviews Wuthering Heights; Love & Lilac has been to Haworth.

Categories: Haworth, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Theatre, Wuthering Heights