All about Emily

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When and Where Will Emily Be Released?

The movie premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2022, and received high praise from critics. It will then be released to the public on October 14, 2022, for UK audiences US audiences will have to wait a few months longer as the film won't release in the Americas until early 2023. The film will be available to watch in cinemas on their respective release dates. While Warner Bros is releasing the film in the UK, indie label Bleecker Street is handling distribution in the US, after having acquired the film back in May 2022. (Leah Donnes)

A press release from Welcome to Yorkshire:

Welcome to Yorkshire hosted guests from around Yorkshire, the film community and literary circles for a special supper in Skipton ahead of the Yorkshire screening of new Brontë movie, Emily.

The group gathered for traditional fish & chips at the famous Bizzie Lizzie’s restaurant next to the Leeds Liverpool canal.

Robin Scott, MD of Welcome to Yorkshire, commented:

"The Brontës really showcased the glory of the Yorkshire moors and everyone should be encouraged to immerse themselves in the beauty of this natural landscape by visiting Yorkshire.”

Piers Tempest, Tempest Productions, producers of the new Brontë film: Emily said:

“As a producer, my projects have brought a slice of Yorkshire to audiences worldwide - I am especially proud to be a part of this film which I am sure will inspire and entertain in equal measures.”

Dr Michael Stewart, Reader in Creative Writing, University of Huddersfield also enthused about the upcoming film:

“Wuthering Heights is one of my favourite novels and Emily Brontë has been a source of endless fascination most of my adult life. And for those two reasons, I can’t wait to see this film.”

Nicky Peacock, Artist & Writer in Residence at the Brontë Parsonage Museum 2022

“It's inevitable that we strive to imagine and reimagine Emily's world, as we know so little of it and that creates this space - this pure potential. Emily's iconic story of obsessive love was also entirely imagined and not drawn from experience, so it seems fitting that we also make up our own tales with similar wild abandon.

“We do know that the moors were Emily's one true love and as someone who has spent a great deal of time in Haworth this year, I can see why. Haworth seems to place you under a spell. At its heart are soulful people, funny and warm, and at the edges are these mesmerising ghosts.

“I'm happy to have a whole six months of my residency left because I'm kind of addicted!”

Vogue UK interviews Emma Mackey on the 'not-quite-biopic' Emily:

Before you ask, Emma Mackey has no interest in discussing the similarities between her Sex Education character, Maeve Wiley, and Emily Dickinson. “I don’t really get why people have to make comparisons,” the 26-year-old declares with, it has to be said, a winning touch of Maeve’s passionate feistiness. “Emily stands on its own. Before filming started, I obviously spoke with our director Frances [O’Connor], and did my research – reading Lucasta Miller’s The Brontë Myth and watching lots of recent films about the Brontës, like Sally Wainwright’s To Walk Invisible – and I sort of realised then that I had to let go of the idea of this being a biopic. There are no rules in this film. Once I realised that, it became so much more fun.”

Instead of sticking to the historical facts (or going the classic Hollywood route of being “inspired by” the author’s life), Emily takes the little concrete information available about the middle Brontë sister and tries to imagine what could have led her to write Wuthering Heights. O’Connor’s deliberately fanciful theory? That Emily had a premarital affair with William Weightman (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), a real assistant curate who worked with her father Patrick in the village of Haworth, Yorkshire. (Many Brontë scholars actually believe Weightman had a romantic attachment to Anne, with Charlotte writing damning letters about his incessant flirting.)

If Weightman “has shades of Edgar Linton” to his personality, Emily’s brother Branwell (Fionn Whitehead) is a more Heathcliff-esque character – pushing his younger sister to explore her darker side during opium-fuelled treks across the moors. As in Wuthering Heights itself, there are no simple heroes and villains here, with the audience never quite sure of the power dynamic in any relationship. “You’re never on solid ground,” Mackey enthuses. “The lines between the natural and the supernatural, light and dark, desire and repression, are all blurred.” (Read more) (Hayley Maitland)

Yorkshire Live talks about the Undercliffe Cemetery in Bradford:

One of the most recent headstones, installed in June, remembers a woman called Nancy De Garrs who had been a nursemaid and cook to the Brontë sisters.
A spokesman for Undercliffe Cemetery said: "She stayed with the Brontës for eight years, as nursemaid and cook. She took the children for walks on the moors, told them stories, and took part in their games. She nursed their mother who was dying of cancer, and helped rescue Patrick’s reputation when it was damaged by the publication of Elizabeth Gaskell’s book. She never tired of talking about her days with the Brontës."
Nancy died in 1889 in the Bradford Workhouse.
Her unmarked grave was found in 2019 and earlier this year a headstone was placed there following a fundraising campaign. (Andrew Robinson)

The Independent confirms that Branwell as a name is officially extinct:

The definition of extinct is a name that doesn’t appear in the Office for National Statistics dataset of babies’ first names in England and Wales since 2000, or in the Scottish records for 2020 and 2021. The ONS dataset omits names that are recorded only once or twice in a year, on grounds of confidentiality – so “extinct” means no more than two in any year since the turn of the century. (...)

2. Branwell. As in Branwell Bronte, nominated by John Peters. (John Rentoul)

A breathtaking revelation about Taylor Swift's lyrics' craftsmanship is all over the place. It's all about the pen she uses: 

She says words written in “the ‘Quill’ style” contain words and phrases that are “antiquated”, which she may have been inspired to write “after reading Charlotte Brontë or after watching a movie where everyone is wearing poet shirts and corsets”.
Taylor added: “If my lyrics sound like a letter written by Emily Dickinson's greatgrandmother while sewing a lace curtain, that’s me writing in the Quill genre.

Patch Washington D.C. discusses the latest works by the painter Vian Borchert. now on exhibition at the Framer Choice's Gallery:

 The landscapes are imagined ones where memories of classical literature from the artist’s young age are recalled. Literary works such as "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë have always been a great source of inspiration for the artist as a young child. Such literary works have allowed the artist’s imagination to really run free with every chapter she read as a young child. The novel has had a soft spot in the artist’s heart ever since. Moreover, in these latest floral landscapes, Borchert emphasizes on the importance of nature in one's life. For in nature and only in nature does true beauty exist.

Télérama (France) interviews the actor Pascal Greggory who remembers an anecdote from Les Soeurs Brontë 1979:

 L’envie de jouer aussi, qui lui vient par bouffées, au point qu’il profite de l’inattention d’une secrétaire pour dérober le numéro de téléphone privé d’André Téchiné et postuler au rôle de frère des Sœurs Brontë après lequel tout Paris court à la fin des années 1970. Le cinéaste le reçoit chez lui et se dit immédiatement sous le charme. De l’homme, du comédien, ça n’est jamais clair, est-ce que ça devrait l’être ? « Le tournage était dur, électrique entre les deux Isabelle — Huppert et Adjani. Téchiné m’a beaucoup protégé, je m’en suis entièrement remis à sa direction, j’étais un élève docile. » (Laurent Rigoulet) (Translation)

El Español (Spain) and the mysteries and charms of the moors:

Los moors de Inglaterra son unos de los paisajes más característicos de la isla. Los páramos se extienden durante kilómetros, nublando la línea del horizonte con sus planicies cubiertas de hierba y arbustos, sin vegetación arbórea alguna. El suelo, siempre húmedo por la constante neblina y la intermitente lluvia, permanece sin cultivar; vastos prados dedicados a la trashumancia. Arroyos puntuales serpentean un paisaje que sirvió de inspiración para algunas de las más altas obras de la literatura universal. De Cumbres Borrascosas a El Sabueso de los Baskerville, el embrujo que los moors desplegaron sobre los artistas románticos ha permeado el inconsciente colectivo de los ingleses. (Borja Vaz) (Translation)

Murcia Plaza (Spain) quotes the writer Maryse Condé in her speech at the University of Murcia: 

Ha defendido también el interés de los escritores francófonos por "canibalizar" la literatura de otras partes del mundo, y ha recordado que ella misma hizo esa práctica adaptando y trasladando los personajes de Cumbres borrascosas, de Emily Brontë, a su novela La migración de los corazones. (Translation)

Jornal de Notícias (Portugal) quotes Charlotte Brontë about sleep and memory. Radio France (in French) interviews the writer Gaëlle Nohant who mentions Jane Eyre as one of her inspirations. SEM México (in Spanish) looks into powerful first novels, including Wuthering Heights. Art's Cinema Spot reviews I Walked with a Zombie 1944. Sydstack reviews Wuthering Heights.