Wuthering Heights: anything but boring

Vogue's The Culture Edit reviews Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights:

The film starts with a young Heathcliff and Cathy (Solomon Glave and Shannon Beer), showing how the pair first fell in love - through almost animalist expression. A scene where Cathy licks the wounds of Heathcliff was particularly moving. There isn't much talking, this is more about the emotion, action and the all-consuming, life-changing experience of teenage love. [...]
The key to this story is chemistry - you have to believe these characters loves each other enough to do the gut-wrenching, horrible things they do to one another and to themselves, and both actors convinced me.
This isn't a traditional, cosy period drama, but the original never was intended to be either, and that -as it was when Brontë first wrote the novel in 1847 - is exactly the basis of its appeal.

Vogue also interviewed Kaya Scodelario:

The actress says audiences will not be left wanting of an opinion, good or bad, upon seeing the new version of Wuthering Heights - directed by Andrea Arnold and out next month.
"It will provoke some sort of reaction," she said. "It isn't an old fashioned period drama. As soon as I saw Andrea's Fishtank film, I knew it was never going to be stiff. It's anything but boring." (Ella Alexander)

In the meantime PopMatters reviews the previous screen take on the novel:

The dark, atmospheric mood that falls over the production feels as brooding as Heathcliff (Tom Hardy). The tumultuous tale of tortured lovers Heathcliff and Cathy (Charlotte Riley), Wuthering Heights is perhaps the most completely committed to showing the full consequences of doomed love.
Adopted by Cathy’s father as a child, Heathcliff is never fully able to shed his gypsy past. As Heathcliff is driven mad by his obsession with Cathy, his coldness and cruelty drive all others away from him, adding to his already very isolated existence. The secrets surrounding their love affair and Cathy’s subsequent marriage to Edgar Linton (Andrew Lincoln), are soon discovered by her daughter. The story is told in flashbacks and the shifts back and forth further lend the adaptation an air of confusion and mystery. [...]
With Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff is a more complicated character in that he’s not exactly likable, at least in traditional terms, but it’s to Hardy’s credit that he comes off dark and gloomy, but still charismatic enough to make the viewer understand why Cathy fell in love with him. (J.M. Suarez)

The New York Times City Room reports that some of the inhabitants of Villa Charlotte Brontë haven't been able to return to their homes yet after 'Tropical Storm Irene caused a landslide at the building'.

Les Soeurs Brontë writes in French about a 2010 trip to Haworth and the Brussels Brontë Blog has a post on a recent talk by Dr Sandie Byrne putting Jane Eyre in context.