Heathcliff and Cathy's chardonnay with apricots

We have a couple of tidbits connected to Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights to report. CaptainStigmata has posted the following on the IMDb boards:

I contacted Artificial Eye (the UK's distributor) about the film and they replied very quickly:

Wuthering Heights has a tentative release date set for mid September, but as the film has yet to be completed this could be subject to change. A trailer will probably not be released until early August if the release date doesn't move. Should be worth waiting for though!

Hopefully the release date won't move!

Also, an alert anonymous reader pointed to Mull It Over and their interview with Agatha A Nitecka, promotional photographer of Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights.

JC: Any exciting plans for 2011?
AN: Yes, I’d like to publish a high quality, limited edition, of à la recherche de la jouissance perdue in a form of a book, maybe accompanied by an exhibition - that’d be nice, no? I’ll be printing more volumes of the love diaries too. Then, later on this year, a film by Andrea Arnold, Wuthering Heights is going to be released. I took pictures for the poster, the DVD, and an additional photo-essay; you’ll spot some lovely images in magazines, and all the papers. I’m dying to share those pictures, the whole setting was breathtaking, and I’m sure the movie will be a great success. (Jonathan Cherry)

She's dying to share the pictures and we're definitely dying to see them!

An article on books and book preservation in The Atlantic begins by quoting from Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.

As an adolescent, my father made an effort to turn me on to Ray Bradbury by screening the 1966 François Truffaut film adaptation of Fahrenheit 451, set in a dystopian future where possessing books is a criminal offense. Apart from the enduring irony of a society where firemen are dispatched to set fires rather than extinguish them, one scene has stayed with me since that initial viewing. Oskar Werner -- in the role of the former fireman and now fugitive Guy Montag -- escapes to the countryside and finds himself among a group who have memorized entire books, preserving them orally until the law against books is overturned. "Are you interested in Plato's Republic?" asks Granger, the leader of the book-loving vagabonds, pointing Montag towards a young woman. "Well, I am Plato's Republic," replies the woman. "I'll recite myself for you whenever you like."
"Now here's Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë," Granger continues, gesturing to his fellow "Book People." "And here's The Corsair by Byron. She used to be married to a chief of police. That skinny fellow is Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Now where's Alice Through The Looking Glass today, she should be somewhere about. Ah ... now there's The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan. He ate his book so they couldn't burn it." (Jared Keller)

Fingers crossed that it won't ever disappear, but should Wuthering Heights - and our memory of it - vanish overnight this sort of comparison seen in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat would be totally confusing:

Apricot season is a great time to enjoy a California chardonnay, including our Wine of the Week, Au Bon Climat 2009 Santa Barbara Chardonnay ($16.99).
Although a couple of other varietals — notably, gewerztraminer and viognier — will be flattered by summer's most fleeting fruit, in the end it is chardonnay that is the apricot's soulmate, Heathcliff to its Cathy, Romeo to its Juliet, Rhett to its Scarlett.
But without the tragedy. (Michele Anna Jordan)

Playbill reports how playwright Joy Gregory and composer Gunnar Madsen teamed up to write a musical about the rock band The Shaggs, made up by the three Wiggin sisters. Joy Gregory seems to have found some inspiration in the Brontë story as told by legend, not facts:

Gregory had recently finished writing a play on Charlotte Brontë, from which she drew unexpected inspiration. "I made some connections between the Wiggin and the Brontë sisters," she explained. Both families had three sisters, who lived in a rural world, and were dominated by an overbearing father. The Brontë sisters' father "was just an oppressive force. He was so frightening to the sisters, they started creating verse in secret. I connected that to the shame impulse of the Wiggin sisters, that they were removed from outside influence. Their father forced them to leave school. There was a similar, isolated urge to express their lives. The Wiggins and Brontës both felt like they were creating their own art from outside of society." (Robert Simonson)

It's somewhat sad to read this after commemorating Patrick Brontë's 150th death anniversary only yesterday. He was definitely not frightening to his children and actually encouraged them to keep writing.

Imarany's Blog review Jane Eyre 2011 in Indonesian while A Little Sun Shy reviews April Lindner's YA retelling of the novel, Jane. Jane Eyre has also inspired a still life photographed by Flickr user juliettetang. Bad reviews of good books writes about Wuthering Heights, which is writer Lea Tobery's favourite novel according to this internview (in Spanish) on Los libros son magia. A Day in the Life of an Aspiring Author picks the moors as one of the Settings/Worlds of this week's Top Ten Tuesday. Finally, On the Road with Friends has a post on visiting Haworth and the Brontë Parsonage Museum.

Categories: Books, Movies-DVD-TV, Patrick Brontë, References, Wuthering Heights