The Last Independents

Andrew Clark regrets the (absurd and shortsighted) closing of the UK Film Council on EADP24. He (and so do we) thinks that probably:

My biggest fear is that we may now be seeing the beginning of the end of indigenous film production in the UK. We may finally become a Hollywood outpost. The last films made with Film Council backing include Mike Leigh’s Another Year, Stephen Frears’s Tamara Drewe, Nigel Cole’s Made in Dagenham, Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk about Kevin, Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech, Peter Mullan’s Neds and Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights. Treasure them, they may be last independent films made in this country for the big screen.

More articles on summer reads. For pleasure: Writer and broadcaster John Kelly remembers previous (summer) reads in the Irish Times:

So with that, every summer, I always make sure to read at least one book that I know I should have read, or else to re-read a classic. Over the past few summers, I’ve read the likes of Moby Dick, Wuthering Heights, Ulysses. (Tony Clayton-Lea )

But when I do something I truly enjoy, like rereading Jane Eyre yet again, I’m energized and better able to tackle my to-do list. (Gretchen Rubin in Woman's Day)

Or school reading lists:

Keith Page, the advanced placement/dual credit English IV teacher at Kingwood High School, expects his students to study a wide variety of novels this year, including classics like “Wuthering Heights,” Heart of Darkness,” and Dante’s “Inferno.” (Emma Weaver Sobey in The Tribune)

We think that KXAN (Texas) is too optimistic in this analysis:

After reading Twilight they can go for the love story aspect and continue in the direction of classics such as Brontë and Austen or go for classic gothic fiction such as Shelley’s Frankenstein , Kafka’s Metamorphosis or even narrative driven vampire classics written by Rice and Stoker, explained [Dr. Thomas] Garza[, Director of the Texas Language Center]. (Mourin Nizam)

An alert from the Lakeland Public Library:

August 3 & 4
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Books Sandwiched In (BSI) is a monthly book discussion group, which meets in the Main Library Meeting Room on the first Tuesday of every month and the Larry R. Jackson Branch Library (1700 North Florida Avenue) Meeting Room on the first Wednesday at 12:15 p.m.

Another Cookie Crumbles reviews Rachel Ferguson's The Brontës Went to Woolworths; First Novels Club posts about Wuthering Heights (which also was a first and sadly last novel); Gutenberg has another old set of Brontë volumes to auction: A 1924 collection of the whole Brontë novels plus Gaskell's biography.

Categories: Alert, Books, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Wuthering Heights