What Saltburn lacked

Vulture claims that, '2011’s Wuthering Heights Is the Horny, Twisted Romance Saltburn Wishes It Was'.

Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights is a film for perverts. This is praise. With its nearly incestuous (and nearly necrophiliac!) doomed romance, the 2011 adaptation is full of quivering eroticism and feral brutality, less interested in maintaining pure authenticity with Emily Brontë’s narrative than in constructing vivid presentations of love as an engine for discomfort, agony, and vengeance. The movie equates the hidden, natural world with our hidden, carnal urges — our desire to taste and bite and suck and lick — and swells the story with tension between repression and possession. Comparatively, the cum-slurping and grave-humping in Saltburn is for beginners. (Roxana Hadadi)

More on films as The Telegraph and Argus has an article on 'Brontës to Bollywood: Check out these love stories filmed in Bradford'.

According to a recent study, Keighley is the UK’s joint most romantic filming location. The study, by TourScanner, revealed that nearly a quarter of films and TV dramas shot in the area have been romances. Films have included Bronte-related classics and 2022 film Emily, which re-imagines how Emily Brontë came to write Wuthering Heights, inspired by a romance with curate William Weightman. The Bafta-nominated film, shot in Haworth, stars Emma Mackey, of Netflix hit Sex Education, as Emily and Line of Duty actor Adrian Dunbar as Patrick Brontë. [...]

To celebrate Valentine’s Day, here’s a look at some of the love stories filmed in, and linked to, the Bradford district:

* Wuthering Heights: Emily Brontë’s only novel is one of the world’s greatest love stories and has inspired many film and television and films, including a 1920 silent film, 1998 Japanese film, Arashi ga oka and 1996 Bollywood film Dil Diya Dard Liya.The story of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, free spirits bound by a destructive passion, has also been a ballet, an opera, a graphic novel and a musical. Who could forget Cliff Richard as Heathcliff?

The 1939 classic, starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon, is much-loved but, like many versions, doesn’t tell the full story. Other movies include director Andrea Arnold’s 2011 film with James Howson as a black Heathcliff and a 1992 film starring Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes.

On TV, Charlton Heston played Heathcliff in a 1950 CBS drama and among the many other TV adaptations are Sally Wainwright’s 2002 role reversal series Sparkhouse, starring Sarah Smart as the anti-hero, and a 2009 version starring Tom Hardy as Heathcliff, shot at East Riddlesden Hall and Oakwell Hall in Birstall.

* Jane Eyre: “Reader, I married him,” says the “poor, obscure, plain and little” heroine of Charlotte Brontë’s novel when she finally finds happiness with brooding Mr Rochester. Jane Eyre has inspired countless films, including several Indian language versions, 1962 Egyptian film The Man I Love and 1963 Mexican movie, El Secreto.

More well known films include the 1970 adaptation starring George C. Scott and Susannah York; Franco Zeffirelli’s 1996 movie starring William Hurt and Charlotte Gainsbourg and the 2011 film starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender. TV productions starred Ciarán Hinds and Samantha Morton (1997) and Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens (2006). (Emma Clayton)

MovieWeb lists the '15 Greatest Love Stories of All Time, According to the American Film Institute' and one of them is

15 Wuthering Heights (1939)

Wuthering Heights, along with other adaptations of the Brontë sisters's works, need little introduction. Directed by William Wyler (Ben-Hur), the 1939 version is the first live-action adaptation of Brontë's novel and stars classic Hollywood icons Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon as Heathcliffe and Catherine. Wuthering Heights is a gothic romance about young love and passion, which is broken by duty and civility, only to be tested again years later. When Catty marries her rich neighbor, despite harboring feelings for Heathcliffe (sic), her life is thrown into disarray when Heathcliffe (sic) returns after some years, now an incredibly wealthy man.

The Original Is Often the Best

In the modern age of remakes and reboots, Wuthering Heights has currently seen 11 adaptations across TV and film, including multiple BBC mini-series and an incredibly 00s musical version. However, as is often the case with remakes and reboots, the original is still considered the best by many. Not only is it the most iconic adaptation of the novel, it also won an incredible 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture. (Richard Fink)

Movie Jawn mentions Wuthering Heights in an article on 'slow burn love'.

The term “slow burn romance” usually conjures up images from literary and period romances – Heathcliff still yearning for Cathy even after her death in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights or Anne Elliot still pining for Captain Wentworth after an 8-year separation in Jane Austen’s Persuasion. However, the slow burn romance can be used well in the modern rom-com, particularly in my favorite romance trope: “friends to lovers.” (Fiona Underhill)

Fine Books & Collections picked 'Five Rare Books for Collectors' with special attention to Valentine's Day.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brönte [sic]

Limited to 300 numbered and signed copies, ilustrated with 15 lithographs by 'Balthus' (Count Balthazar Klossowski de Rola) on Japanese paper printed in brown-toned black ink. Text set by Michael Bixler using Monotype Dante, printed on specially made off-white mould-made Arches paper with watermark. Original prospectus laid in. In 1933 the Count visited Emily's wild moors and made a series of drawings based on her novel. He agreed to The Limited Editions Club in 1994.

A contributor to The Shield includes Jane Eyre on a list of six favourite books.

“Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë

You may have looked up this book in cliff notes in your high school literature class, but now is the time to give Jane a proper, fair shot. 

Charlotte Brontë writes about a young woman named Jane who has been dealt some difficult cards. Between abusive aunts and cruel schooling conditions, Jane takes the opportunity to escape to work as a governess for the wealthy Rochester, whom she develops feelings for despite not knowing his haunting secret. 

This book has it all, honestly. I love that it has all of the extravagance and drama of a classic novel, as well as tones and themes that feel modern. I love the spookiness of this book, and no matter how many times I read it, the ending packs the same punch. (Maci Crowell)

Finally, the story of the Valentine's Day cards for the Brontë sisters on AnneBrontë.org.