Wuthering Heights is 'really good, though there are a few words in it'

Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights trailer continues being discussed and reposted today. First Showing says,

The visuals look rather stunning, but it's somewhat strange to see a film shot in Academy Ratio (1.37:1). (Ethan Anderton)

And Film School Rejects has high hopes for it:

Poor takes on classic material are getting so commonplace that when a new adaptation looks like it may actually hit the right notes and invoke the right tone in service to its source material – well, it’s something special. [...] With her emphasis on captivating visuals and deeply emotional stories, a period piece seemed like a natural fit for the director.
Her take on Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, and today we get our first real look at Arnold’s vision. This new Wuthering Heights features some distinct differences from more traditional versions of the material – namely a black actor playing Heathcliff (James Howson) and a Cathy who appears to be much more sympathetic than those we’ve seen before. (Kate Erbland)

Other sites reposting the trailer are SlashFilm, The Huffington Post, Cinema Blend, Empire, Coming Soon, BritScene, Collider, The Squeee, Best for Film, Feel Guide, Talking Films, etc.

The Star has an article on the actress who plays Cathy as a child, Shannon Beer.

FROM Shirecliffe to the silver screen - 13-year-old schoolgirl Shannon Beer will soon be in cinemas across the country playing a key role in a new big screen version of a literary classic. [...]
Shannon has already enjoyed a thrilling taste of the big time - she was flown to the world premiere of the film at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month.
There she dressed to the nines, walked the red carpet and posed for photos in front of dozens of photographers.
Not bad for a girl who before she was chosen for the role had never acted in her life.
“The casting director for the film came to our school - he seemed to be looking for feisty pupils and I sort of got pushed forward,” she said.
“At the audition I just had to improvise a few scenes, I’d never acted before at all. The director just watched - and I was really pleased to be chosen.” [...]
“I’d not read the book so I didn’t know anything about the story, but it’s quite exciting. I’m in the film for about an hour.”
Shannon, who lives on Standish Road, Shirecliffe, with mum and dad Michelle and Matthew, has now seen the film and is pleased with the results.
“It’s really good, though there are a few words in it,” she said. [...]
Shannon said her experience at the Venice Festival was ‘scary’. “All those cameras snapping away at me, it was pretty weird,” she said. “But I really enjoyed dressing up for the red carpet, it was cool and everyone was really friendly.”
Shannon said she was now hoping to do more acting and is in the process of finding an agent.
“My mum and dad are really proud of what I’ve done, my friends are interested and it’s been really fun,” she said. The film comes out on November 11 and I expect there will be a lot more attention and fuss then.”

The Wall Street Journal's Dear Book Lover is asked to recommend love stories:

Is the unhappy love story any less a love story? "Wuthering Heights" is a sad story, as are "Anna Karenina," "Dr. Zhivago," "The Great Gatsby" and perhaps the unhappiest romance of all, "Romeo and Juliet." (Cynthia Crossen)

Writer Melvin Burgess is asked by the Yorkshire Post about his favourite Yorkshire writer:

Emily Brontë. The first half of the 19th century was a fascinating period – the beginning of the modern era, really. I love Wuthering Heights – I’d love to have a conversation with her.

We'd love that too although Emily Brontë doesn't strike us like the kind of author who chitchats with fans.

Another writer and admirer of the novel is Sita Brahmachari who according to EADT24,

adored stories such as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (Sita was in love with Heathcliff!). (Steven Russell)

On the other hand, Dave Astor from The Huffington Post is full of admiration for Jane Eyre.

Then there are novels I mostly "got" the first time, but loved them so much that I read them again (and again). These include Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, L.M. Montgomery's The Blue Castle, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, and J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, to name a few.

Clem Bastow writes on The Vine about going to see Jane Eyre 2011:

This weekend just past, I went to see Jane Eyre. The film was utterly exquisite - the audience was abhorrent.
At face value there didn't seem to be any cause for alarm: the crowd was mostly older people, save for a group of what looked like Year 12 students and their teachers, and the screening was on a Sunday morning at one of Village Knox's Europa cinemas.
Well, how wrong was I. The crowd yakked at full volume the entire way through the trailers, which is always a bad sign. A light smattering of low-level chat through the trailers is understandable, but this lot were engaging in full-bore conversation.
Eventually the lights went down and the film began. The music swelled. STILL they chatted, all the way through the titles until Jane Eyre first appeared on the screen.
As the poor woman dragged herself, sobbing, across the moors, the two women next to us carried on talking. "Oh, you really must see Red Dog, it's fantastic," they cooed, like hens.
The teenagers down the front kept opening chip packets and checking their phones.
I issued a violent "SSSSHHH" when I could take no more. That shut them up for, oh, about two minutes.
For the rest of the film we were subjected to constant commentary, inappropriate laughter, witless banalities, and never-ending coughs during scenes of quiet dialogue.
When Jane returned to Mr Rochester's charred manse, our neighbour droned, "Ooh, I bet everyone's gone." NO FUCKING SHIT, LADY.
By the time the lights came up at the end, we were ropeable.

The Daily Mail mentions only Charlotte Brontë as a fan of John Martin's works.

Digital Journal has an alert for today in Toronto:

Jane Eyre will be shown Tuesday, September 20th at 2:00 pm at the Toronto Reference Library. (Carolyn E. Price)

The Good Stuff posts about Jane Eyre. The new film is reviewed by The Fortress of Solitude and Almablogg (in Swedish).

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