Creepy Spins

Outlook India recommends a visit to Haworth if you're in Leeds visiting for the ICC Cricket World Cup:

Less than an hour's drive from Leeds is Haworth, home to the Brontës, location that has inspired many of works by the Brontë sisters. The picture-perfect village is small but a haven to those interested in art, gourmet food and even better sights to see. The village is surrounded by scenic moorlands. The Bronte Parsonage Museum and the Keighley Worth Valley Railway are some of the attractions you must not miss when visiting Haworth.

The York Press reviews the Oxford Shakespeare Company outdoor performance of Wuthering Heights in York:

Wilby and Conti have the all -essential physical bond, while expressing the changes that ultimately break both the wilful Cathy and wild Heathcliff. There is something of Nora in Ibsen's The Doll's House about Wilby's interpretation of de Angelis's characterisation, while Conti's Heathcliff pre-figures the doomed men of the kitchen-sink dramas of the late 1950s and Sixties.
No less important are the performances of Dominic Charman, Thomas Fitzgerald, Rachel Winters and Christopher Laishley, each taking on two roles, with the contrasts and sometimes similarities adding to the production's impact.
As bird song dies out, and the night chill sets in, we leave Cathy and Heathcliff to roam the moors forever, beyond the boundaries of the Walled Garden. (Charles Hutchinson)

A ranking of zombie movies in The Guardian:

3. I Walked With a Zombie (1943)
This is one of the great zombie classics, and a creepy spin on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. It features a nurse who travels to a Caribbean island to attend to a plantation owner, and encounters voodoo rituals and reanimated corpses. It is a fable satirising colonial guilt, the inheritance of slavery and paranoid fear of “the other” – an almost poetic zombie adventure. (Peter Bradshaw)

The Most Wuthering Heights Day is coming (July 13th). Bega Valley About Regional (Australia) is waiting for it:

If you’ve never seen the music video for Kate Bush’s 1978 song Wuthering Heights, (and I hadn’t until now) the connections between the musician, flowing red dresses, free-form dancing, Emily Brontë’s 1847 classic and domestic violence might seem tenuous – at best.
But a global phenomenon, The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever, has sprung out of the song and for the second time, the Bega Valley is joining in – dancing like no-one is watching! (Elka Wood)

Le Monde vindicates the Italian genre film director Lucio Fulci:

On pense encore à Vertigo, bien sûr, avec son bien sûr, avec son récit de dédoublement, mais aussi au livre Rebecca (1938) de Daphné Du Maurier, variation, à l'époque déjà « trivialisée », du  Jane Eyre de Charlotte Brontë. Ce beau film définit allégoriquement ce qui a nourri le cinéma populaire italien : un sublime mélange de noblesse et de vulgarité. (Jean-François Rauger) (Translation)

And, also in Le Monde, a review of Les Amers remarquables by Emmanuelle Grangé:

« Les Amers remarquables », d’Emmanuelle Grangé : le livre de sa mère
« Jane Eyre », de Charlotte Brontë, tient une place essentielle dans le second roman d’Emmanuelle Grangé, succession d’arrachements et de retours.
Elle a 7 ans. Ce n’est pas un livre pour son âge. Mais, ligne à ligne, elle s’y tient. Elle s’applique. La petite lit Jane Eyre. Pour cette ­enfant précoce qui trouve que les ­histoires que lui raconte sa mère sont toujours trop courtes, le texte de ­Charlotte Brontë ouvre un nouveau chemin. Il est des livres qui vous choisissent étrangement. Qui s’attachent à vous. Entrant en résonance avec votre vie. En écho troublant.
Emmanuelle Grangé n’a jamais oublié Jane Eyre et sa lecture de fillette. A un bout de prénom, et quelques détails près, elle se confond entièrement avec la ­narratrice de son dernier roman, Les Amers remarquables. Le livre de Brontë y occupe une place essentielle. Il en fait la structure (chaque chapitre porte en en-tête une citation). Moins à cause du destin douloureux, fait d’embûches, de l’héroïne que parce que, sans doute, il répète une succession d’arrachements et de retours. (Xavier Houssin) (Translation)

The New Republic looks into Andrea Arnold's direction for the new season of Big Little Lies:

She has an active distaste for opulence that comes through in her work; even her recent remake of Wuthering Heights was less about the romance of the English moors and more about the terror running underneath Brontë’s text. She was the ideal choice to helm a season that slowly dismantles everything the first season built. (Rachel Syme)

The Portland Press Herald also enters into the sprouting-of-horns-because-smartphones stupid news:

As a person who has a smartphone and is also a lifelong reader of books, I can attest that the reading posture would be the same for a more intellectually ambitious young person reading “Jane Eyre” on a tablet or an old-fashioned paperback. There’s no way the news media would try to scare people away from reading books. (Faye Flam)

Thrive Global interviews the actress Laurene Landon:

Thank you so much for joining us! Can you tell us a story about what brought you to this specific career path?
Insecurity. The “root” of all bottled blondes. Joking! When I was a kid growing up, my beloved father, Douglas, loved old movies and we watched them together a lot, such as Wuthering Heights, Random Harvest, White Heat and many Marlon Brando movies

The Australian has an article on Siri Hustvedt:

She takes it everywhere, when it's not hidden behind copies of Don Quixote or Wuthering Heights. 

The Doylestown Reporter informs like this about a local exhibition:

The brightest natural object in the night sky, billions have looked up at it.
Carl Sandberg, Emily Brontë and Dorothy Parker wrote poetry about it, and it figured into the plot of Bucks County author James A. Michener's 1982 fiction novel "Space." One of Beethoven's beloved compositions is the "Moonlight Sonata."
The moon has provided countless other artists, photographers, scientists, and just plain old romantics a mystifying fascination for centuries. Inspired by the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, Doylestown's Michener Art Museum presents the exhibition "The Color of the Moon: Lunar Painting in American Art," featuring more than 60 paintings and works on paper. (Brian Bingaman)

La Nación (Costa Rica) talks about the female Gothic:

Después de todo, de los diversos ámbitos literarios, el gótico ha sido tradicionalmente uno de gran presencia femenina, desde sus orígenes a fines del siglo XVIII, con Ann Radcliffe y Los misterios de Udolfo o, ya en el siglo XIX, con Mary Shelley y su Frankenstein. Incluso la literatura “culta” recibió su influjo en títulos como Cumbres borrascosas, de Emily Brönte (sic). (José Ricardo Chaves) (Translation)

La Repubblica (Italy) interviews the film director Jane Campion:

Chiara Ugolini: Molti dei suoi film hanno una matrice letteraria, Lezioni di piano invece è una storia originale. Da dove era nata l'idea?
"Anche se non è tratto da un libro ha sempre una matrice letteraria. Sono stata ispirata dalla letteratura del Novecento, penso a Cime tempestose delle sorelle Brontë, quel tipo di letteratura. Volevo fare un film che fosse in quell'atmosfera". (Translation)

Sheer De Luxe shares some wedding diaries and Brontë's iconic reader-i-married-him is mentioned.