Jane Eyre graduates from required reading to accomplished cinema. It may come as no surprise that I am not the world’s leading expert, nor am I the world’s biggest fan, of period English chick lit, ...

The candlelight flickers exquisitely even as the passions are slow to ignite in this spare, shrewdly acted but not especially vital retelling of "Jane Eyre." From the 1944 Joan Fontaine-Orson Welles ...

Cary Joji Fukunaga's extravagantly gothic adaptation of Jane Eyre starred Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender as the central couple. Released in March, the film was largely out of the running when ...

There's been no shortage of film versions of "Jane Eyre," Charlotte Bronte's classic tale of romance and woe. Most notably, Orson Welles co-starred opposite Joan Fontaine back in Franco Zeffirelli ...

Jane Eyre is cast out by her wealthy aunt and sent to a strict school. She becomes a governess, teaching a French girl. Her employer, Mr. Rochester, is impressed by her honest, intelligent nature. But ...

Dramatic adaptations of Char­lotte Brontë's Jane Eyre tend to go for romantic embroidery and Gothic grandilo­quence. But the new movie version, directed by Cary Fuku­naga, feels pared down in all ...

Charlotte Brontë’s 19th-century masterpiece, Jane Eyre, has already been filmed nearly 20 times for screens big and small, so what more can possibly be said about this well-worn gothic romance? Not ...