Deadline looks at this week's box office results for
Wuthering Heights 2011:
Wuthering Heights (Oscilloscope Laboratories) Week 4 [12 Theaters] Weekend $10K, Average $833, Cume $62,117
Free Press Houston reviews the film:
Arnold finds beauty with muted low contrast Earth tones that highlight velvety blacks and blues of capes and coats and at the same time can’t keep the camera from observing whippings, beatings, and more than one dead animal. This latest and possible the most accurate to the 18th century WH quietly watches Heathcliff and Catherine first as children and then as adults with the same intensity it observes the changing of seasons and windswept dales. (Michael Bergeron)
The Stranger Suggests describes it as 'romantic in the way that bar fights are routine oral surgery'.
Toute la culture reviews the film in French:
Parfaitement menée, la première partie du film est un bijou. Les dialogues se font rares, la réalisatrice préférant suggérer l’idylle naissante en capturant, comme à la dérobée, les échanges muets des héros. Toute en retenue, la performance des acteurs incarnant Catherine et Heathcliff enfants, Shannon Beer et Solomon Glave, est criante d’authenticité. La narration, entrecoupée de plans rapprochés de la faune des landes, et de grands panoramas saisis sous tous les soleils, se déroule, suivant avec lenteur le rythme calme des saisons. Elevant le paysage au rang de personnage, le film d’Andrea Arnold est d’une rare beauté plastique. Les grandes étendues désertiques sont particulièrement bien mises en valeur, permettant au spectateur d’apprécier la violence du climat et l’aridité de ces terres sauvages, comme de deviner la manière dont cet environnement est susceptible d’influencer le caractère de ses habitants. Cette mise en image de l’atmosphère crépusculaire du roman de Emily Brontë est sans doute la plus grande réussite du film. (Aïnhoa Jean-Calmettes) (Translation)
Alicia Silverstone's impression of
Jane Eyre is reported by
Vulture.
Instead, she went to tech rehearsal for The Performers, her third Broadway play (now in previews); took a bath with her 17-month-old son, Bear; and read Jane Eyre. “It reminded me of when I was little, when I’d go to England with my family every summer,” she says. “It’s so nostalgic.” (Rebecca Milzoff)
An update on university life by a freshman on the
Daily Breeze.
My Rites of Passage class is my favorite, primarily because of the professor, Arnold Weinstein. Picture a white-haired, white-mustached Southern grandfather, only make him the most contemporary and intelligent person you've ever met, and that's essentially my professor.
No pressure to impress, right?
His class, a freshman-only seminar of 20 people that explores the theme of coming of age across different cultures and time periods via novels written by Brontë, Faulkner, Balzac and many more, has definitely forced me to expand my thinking and analysis processes more than any other class I've ever taken. (Riley Davis)
The
Bangkok Post looks at book covers and mentions the one Rubén Toledo designed for
Wuthering Heights. Mutiny discusses Gothic Fiction.
BlackBook agrees with a previous article that called Mr Rochester 'a creep'.
Voir (in French) reviews
Agnes Grey.
Kosher Movies posts about
Jane Eyre 2006.
London Boulevard writes in Polish about
The Professor.
El faro del fin del mundo writes in Spanish about
Wide Sargasso Sea. Flickr user
Prusarn has uploaded a couple of historical pictures of Top Withins.
And finally an alert for tomorrow, via
Friends of South End Library:
Scottish-born Margot Livesey, who is currently a distinguished writer in residence at Emerson College, will read from her latest novel, The Flight of Gemma Hardy, this coming Tuesday, October 30, at 6:30 p.m., at the South End Library [85 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02118]. She will be introduced by novelist Sue Miller, who invited her to The South End Writes program.
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