Byronic heroes

The Telegraph and Argus shows several pictures of different adaptations of Wuthering Heights.

As the Bradford City of Film celebrates its first decade, and the most romantic day of the year approaches, we thought we’d delve into our archives to bring you pictures of the timeless classic, Wuthering Heights, in all its various forms.
Over the years there have been many adaptations of Emily Brontë's novel, Wuthering Heights, from the rather inaccurate 1939 version starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon, to ITV's 2009 two-part drama series featuring Charlotte Riley as Cathy and Tom Hardy as Heathcliff.
Bringing Emily’s masterpiece to the stage in 2002 and 2009, it was a case of life imitating art for Northern Ballet Composer Claude-Michel who had fallen in love with the company’s principal dancer, Charlotte Talbot, during rehearsals, and later married.
One thing for sure, is that the bleakly beautiful West Yorkshire moors have often helped to define the way readers and critics have interpreted Wuthering Heights, bringing filmmakers back, year after year, to film in locations across the region including Oakwell Hall, Birstall, East Riddlesden Hall, and Keighley. (Odele Ayres)

Film School Rejects recommends 'The Best Valentine's Day Movies for Single People'.

Belle (2013)
As far as I’m concerned, it’s not a true romance marathon unless there’s a period piece involved. The world before the invention of dick pics just seems inherently more romantic. The more traditional choice would be to go with something adapted from Austen or a Brontë sister, but Belle is my go-to for two important reasons. First, its social and historical commentary give you a little bit more to chew on while still keeping all the fun lordly talk and courtship shenanigans one expects from a period piece. Second, love interest John Davinier (Sam Reid) has that sort of smoldering broodiness that makes Byronic heroes so addictive without the problematic power dynamics or the abusiveness of a Mr. Rochester or a Heathcliff — Byronic hero lite. (Ciara Wardlow)

The Independent also finds traces of Byronic heroes in the film The Souvenir.

The film shows Julie with her fellow students at the film school and then with Anthony. It’s as if she is living in two completely separate worlds. Burke plays Anthony with subtlety, catching his raffishness and his charisma but also his leech-like neediness. “You’re not normal, you’re a freak,” …you’re lost and you will always be lost,” he tells her but he could just as well be describing himself. There’s a hint of Jane Eyre’s Rochester or Wuthering Heights’s Heathcliff about him, albeit he is a druggier version of such archetypes. (Geoffrey Macnab)

And more on film on The Week, which looks at the work of cinematographer Robbie Ryan on The Favourite.

Irish cinematographer Robbie Ryan, who worked on The Favourite, is long overdue for an award, with more than 80 projects under his belt to date (including a film I think is particularly beautifully shot, 2011's Wuthering Heights). (Jeva Lange)

Noticias (Uruguay) interviews writer Laura Ramos, who wrote the Brontë biography Infernales.

Noticias: ¿Cómo tuvo las agallas de meterse con la familia Brontë, tan emblemática en la literatura inglesa?
Laura Ramos: No lo siento como un atrevimiento, era lo que tenía que hacer. Desde muy chica declamaba los guiones de estos libros del siglo XIX, mientras mi madre me hablaba, le contestaba con un diálogo de “Mujercitas”. Toda mi lucha fue tratar de ser uno de esos personajes. Es mi identidad y la palanca desde la que manejo mi mundo y me relaciono con él, todo lo demás son esfuerzos para vivir en esta realidad que no me agrada. Cuando terminé el libro, fue como decirles a mis amigos: “Ya no se rían más de que tengo frío, de que me gusta vestirme como monja, de que soy delicada, es por esto, esta soy yo”. [...]
Noticias: Cuenta cómo las Brontë se construyeron un mundo mental paralelo, por ejemplo cuando Emily y Anne viajan a York y actúan como si fueran los personajes de sus invenciones. Ese parece haber sido también su propio sello.
Ramos: ¡Así me sentía en el tren la primera vez que fui al pueblito de las Brontë, estaba en estado de trance! Me estaba jugando mi vida. Estaba frente a la lápida de la cocinera de la familia, llovía y me aferraba. Quería que la lluvia me fundiera con la lápida porque esa es la vida que siempre anhelé tener.
Noticias: ¿Analizó la razón de esa devoción por un tiempo y un espacio tan diferente del que le tocó?
Ramos: No sé si es tan diferente porque lo que sucede entre el libro y vos es tan intenso… Cuando estaba leyendo “Jane Eyre”, era mucho más vívido y estaba aprovechando mucho más el sol en mi lectura que mi hermano y los otros que jugaban en la playa. (Valeria García Testa) (Translation)

Spitalfields Life features the Cornhill door with an engraving of the Brontës.