There are rumours that at least one key part of the film differs substantially from the text

Total Film talks about David Fincher's new project, a biography of Dorothea Lange being written by Angela Workman:

Angela Workman (the writer behind the upcoming Brontë) is currently scribbling away at the script, with documentary maker Leslie Dektor set to direct. (Matt Maytum)

Last we heard about Angela Workman's Brontë was in April 2010.

Empire thinks that Wuthering Heights 2011 is one of the must-see films of Venezia's Film Festival:

Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold, UK)
Secrecy, as they always say, surrounds the third film by Andrea Arnold, director of two great films (Red Road, Fish Tank) and an Oscar-winning short (Wasp). So little is known about this project that only the poster offers any suggestion that Emily Brontë's classic novel will be given the period treatment. In other areas, all bets are off, as Arnold has brought her usual streetwise eye to casting and there are rumours that at least one key part of the film differs substantially from the text. (Damon Wise)

The Star (Malaysia) reviews Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks:

At times, reading is a pleasure so particular that it can only be compared to the pleasure of reading another book. More than once Bethia’s way of talking and observing, her urge to be good, her indignation at the suffering she and others are made to endure bring back vivid memories of Jane Eyre. (Amy De Kanter)

Now that the film has opened in several countries and the Region 1 DVD is imminent (let's not talk about other available albeit illegal options), new film clips are not so exciting as they were. Nevertheless, The Hollywood News prepares the UK premiere of the film with this new clip and The Vine publishes some new and not so new images with the Australian release in mind.

We read this personal remembrance by author Maile Meloy in the New York Times:

When I was 10, growing up in Montana, I wanted a 10-speed bicycle, and my father made me a deal. I could have a new bike if I read 10 classic novels and wrote reports on them. I was a malleable kid with no negotiating power, so we went to the library and made a list.
We chose “Jane Eyre,” “Tom Sawyer,” “Wuthering Heights,” “The Scarlet Letter” and “The Sword in the Stone.” I took “Moby Dick” off the shelf at home, but very quickly put it back. Then I decided to add “Silas Marner” by George Eliot because it was very short, and had a picture of a little girl on the front. But that was misleading, and I got bogged down, and petitioned for “Little Women” to count toward the list instead.(...)
People also ask if I remember the bike books. I remember the ghostly branches scraping the window in “Wuthering Heights,” but otherwise it’s like asking if I remember the water in a pool I swam across when I was 10. The Brontë sisters’ sentences washing over me may have done me some good, but the books themselves are like barely remembered dreams. 

The Huddersfield Daily Examiner doesn't think that Amy Winehouse's influence on music could be comparable to Kate Bush's:

Nothing sounded remotely like Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights when it topped the charts in 1978. Bush, who was 20 at the time, went on to produce a string of ever challenging yet popular records.  (David Himelfield)

The Times Tribune makes an elegy of dying bookstores (Borders in this case) killed by the ebook star:

As I scanned the stacks, stocked with Twain, Dickens, Steinbeck, Hemingway, Nabokov, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Shakespeare, Orwell, Fitzgerald, Wilde, Eliot, Joyce, Swift, Shaw, Yeats, Wolfe, Austen, Bronte, Potter, O'Connor and countless others who committed their classic creations to paper, I couldn't help but wonder how this happened. (Chris Kelly)

The Ames Tribune discusses good films based on good books:

Wuthering Heights” (1939) is the first and finest dramatization of Emily Brontë’s passionate love story. The desolate Yorkshire moors provide the setting for the star-crossed romance of Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier) and Cathy (Merle Oberon). Laurence Olivier said the director of this film, William Wyler, taught him how to act for the screen, and his powerful performance dominates this beautifully made Gothic romance classic. (Michael G. Quinn)

Asha Sahni posts about the Brontës in Bella Online; Cathrines Blog (in Danish) reviews Wuthering Heights.

Categories: Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Wuthering Heights