Wuthering wishy-washy

Musician David Turpin joins the ranks of Brontëites, according to an interview in The Independent (Ireland).

And you're also a big fan of the Bronte Sisters...
I like Wuthering Heights. A lot of people tend to think of it as wishy-washy. It's actually tremendously violent -- it's about the madness of love and sex and their destructive power. (Ed Power)

What we don't know is what he thinks of the latest screen adaptation of the novel, the first episode of which will be broadcast in Australia this Sunday (see TV alerts on our sidebar for further details). The Age announces it as follows:

This version of Emily Bronte's classic will more than satisfy hardcore costume drama fans but never really rises to anything more than a competent adaptation.
Charlotte Riley as Cathy is the beautiful, free-spirited foil to Tom Hardy's suitably brooding Heathcliff, who delivers Peter Bowker's script in pseudo-Shakespearean style. However, through modern eyes the story appears both over-complex and lacking credibility. But if the middle Bronte's work is your thing and you are willing to suspend your disbelief a little more than usual, you'll pass a pleasant couple of hours with this two-part moorland melodrama. (Nick Galvin)

The film An Education is reviewed by CBC News.

Everything seems to be going according to plan: her middle-class parents encourage her to attend the upscale university, and Jenny even notches top marks for her essay "Passion and practicality in Jane Eyre." Soon, however, she's swept up into an entirely different world and forced to deal with issues of passion and practicality in her own life. (Greig Dymond)

The Telegraph and Argus publishes a reminder of the many activities that can be done during half-term, such as visiting the Brontë Parsonage Museum, of course.

The blogosphere today is all about Wuthering Heights, which is discussed on The Bookworm Chronicles, Yay! Reads, Koboldmaki and (continued from a few days ago) The Delta Factor.

Flickr user August Caribou has uploaded what is supposed to be an imagined portrait of Jane Eyre and David Downes some pictures of the Bradford performances of Wuthering Heights by the Northern Ballet.

Categories: Brontëites, Dance, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Wuthering Heights