Love Lingers On

7h Space Interactive announces the screening of a series of films in Hong Kong which will feature a largely unknown Wuthering Heights adaptation:

The Hong Kong Film Archive (HKFA) will show 12 of Cathay's Mandarin classics, starring Grace Chang, Lucilla You Min, Jeanette Lin Tsui and Julie Yeh Feng, and 10 outstanding Cantonese films directed by Tso Kea to mark the 75th anniversary of the Cathay organisation and its glorious work. The HKFA's new film programme, "It was 75 Years Ago... Celebrating Cathay's Anniversary", will be held from Friday (October 1) to October 31 at the Cinema of the HKFA.

The film in question is Tso Kea's Love Lingers On (1957):

Love Lingers On ("Hun Gui Li Hen Tian" 《魂归离恨天》)

Dir / Scr: Tso Kea Original Story: Emily Brontë
Cast: Cheung Ying, Mui Yee, Chow Kwun-ling, Cheung Ching
1957 / B&W / D Beta / Cantonese / 119min

Tso Kea was adroit in adapting film and literary classics from the West, organically transplanting stories and characters onto Chinese soil and nurturing them to glorious fruition. Love Lingers On is based on the gothic novel Wuthering Heights and Tso shepherds Emily Brontë's tale of profound passion, thwarted love and bitter vengefulness with a perfect balance of broad narrative strokes and delicate orchestration of mise-enscene. He wisely concentrates on the lead characters' simmering mental troubles, greatly enhanced by stars Cheung Ying and Mui Yee, who overcome glaring age differences with their characters to bring life to this saga of vivid emotions.

9/10 (Sat) 7:00pm Cinema, Hong Kong Film Archive
30/10 (Sat) 4:30pm * Cinema, Hong Kong Film Archive

*Post-screening talk with Li Cheuk-to

Amy Alkon in The Orange Country Register begins her article with a Wuthering Heights mention:

Men sometimes make extravagant gestures for love. Heathcliff wandered the moors calling Cathy’s name until he froze to death. King Edward VIII ditched the throne to marry Wallis Simpson. Emperor Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal as an “elegy in marble” to his late wife. And then there’s your guy, who has yet to spring for sheets, pillowcases, and a headboard.

And Ujala Sehgal also uses Emily Brontë's novel in her article on The Millions:

But what happens if feeling miserable becomes your way of getting closer to the books you love, rather than the books you love enabling you to get closer to your feelings? This is the scenario I’m describing: when you find yourself storming about, banging your head against a tree and bellowing in rage like Heathcliff for Cathy, and a feeling of hideous familiarity overtakes you. “I’ve felt this way before,” you think. Possibly even several times. And that you can’t remember who inspired this, or when, or why, is the most worrisome part of the altogether worrisome situation. Do you love… (what was his name again)? Or do you just love Wuthering Heights?

Canada Postmedia News interviews Nichola Burley (Isabella Linton in Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights) but there's nothing to report:

Q: I hear you've been cast by Andrea Arnold for a new version of Wuthering Heights.
A: I'm really not allowed to speak about that. (Jay Stone)

Rumour has it that the filming has already started. Several members of the crew are already known. Some usual collaborators of Andrea Arnold's participate in this film: Robbie Ryan's photography; Nicolas Chaudeurge's edition; Helen Scott as the production designer and Christopher Wyatt in art direction.

Today's Quizword in The Mirror includes an Anne Brontë-related question:

ACROSS
3 Anne Brontë novel featuring the curate Mr. Weston (5,4)

A post from the Elizabeth Gaskell's Bicentenary Blog Tour is of particular interest to us: Reading, Writing, Working, Playing posts about The Life of Charlotte Brontë and the TV series The Brontës of Haworth 1973 where Mrs Gaskell was portrayed by Barbara Leigh-Hunt as voice-over narrator.

Mental_floss traces the origins of Benjamin Braddock's character in The Graduate to Branwell Brontë's affair with ... Mrs Robinson; Booklady's Booknotes reviews positively April Lindner's Jane. CatDoss999 uploaded to YouTube a performance of a Cathy monologue in Wuthering Heights.

Categories: Biography, Elizabeth Gaskell, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Wuthering Heights