New Wuthering Heights poster

Thanks to Digital Spy we now can see the new poster for Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, which is much more fitting than the previous one, don't you think?

The moody poster - bearing the tagline "love is a force of nature" - shows the back of Heathcliff's head as he stares out at the rain-swept Yorkshire moors. (Simon Reynolds)

Female First thinks Wuthering Heights is one of the 'UK Movies To Watch Out For' at the BFI London Film Festival.

In the meantime reviews keep on coming on the other Brontë film of the year, Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre. The Nelson Mail gives it 4 out of 5 stars.

No doubt Jane Eyre will be made again; the challenge then will be to not only be as accomplished as Fukunaga's film but achieve the unexpected freshness he instills in such a familiar classic tale. (David Manning)

The Digital Journal has a press release about a first edition of Bram Stoker's Dracula and reminds readers that

During the 19th century, contemporary reviews compared Stoker’s masterpiece to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher.

The Minaret has an article on a talk given by costume designer Suzy Freeman:

A friend tipped Freeman off to a job opportunity working for Paramount Pictures while they were on location locally in Yorkshire.
“[They were making] Wuthering Heights [1992] and they wanted somebody to go out and find extras,” Freeman said. “I got in touch with the production company and said ‘what do you need?’ They gave me a creative description of the people they were looking for and that’s what I did. I spent between four and five months working for Paramount Pictures organizing and selecting [a] crowd for the assistant directors. I got the lowest pay, but I made it work.”
Working on Wuthering Heights was Freeman’s first taste of what a job in film could be like, and from then on she was hooked. (Mia Glatter)

The Shakopee Valley News makes one of those sweeping statements we loathe so much:

Had [author of A Jane Austen Education, William] Deresiewicz been talking about someone else, say the Bronte sisters, I probably would be more hesitant. But see Charlotte Bronte, author of "Jane Eyre," and Austen, author of "Pride and Prejudice," fall on polar opposite sides of the spectrum, according to Deresiewicz. I'm not sure loving them both is possible. (Kristin Holtz)

Yes, it is possible.

Up and Comers searches for actresses who could play Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Mia Wasikowska won't be taking on the role, so the wonder whether Kaya Scodelario (the latests on-screen Cathy) would:

She’s already earning raves for her portrayal of a different Victorian icon, as Cathy in Andrea Arnold’s new adaptation of “Wuthering Heights”, and after being shortlisted for Gary Ross’s highly sought-after “The Hunger Games”, we know she’s gotta have some kick-ass killer instinct in her. The young Brit Scodelario is the very definition of a rising star, coming off a successful fan-favorite run as Effy on teen UK series “Skins” and slowly but surely making her mark on the big screen. A leading role in a gender-bending high profile project that fits both her looks and her capabilities would be a great step further into the spotlight for this promising new talent. (Linda Ge and Rebecca Lewis)

Another review of Zola Jesus mentions the Brontës. From Live4ever:

It feels like ‘Conatus’ has much deeper roots in Danilova’s love of literature and philosophy. Her voice more than anything lends tracks like ‘Vessel‘ and ‘Hikikomori‘ (Japanese for extreme and deliberate isolation) an unearthly quality, as if it were bleeding through hidden walls in old houses. For all her eerie, tempestous tones, she might be Cathy’s ghost clawing at the windows of Wuthering Heights, or Jane Eyre’s mad woman in the attic, wandering the halls of Thornfield in the dead of night. (Simon Moore)

Another music review, this one of Stevie Nicks's In Your Dreams, also brings the blunder of the day, courtesy of the Delaware County News Network:

Elsewhere, Nicks draws inspiration from literary sources in “Wild [SIC!] Sargasso Sea” (from the book and movie of the same name) . . . (Joe Szczechowski)

I Love Cinema reviews Jane Eyre 2011. A Day in the Life now discusses Jane Eyre 2006.