No, no, I don’t allow that!

World of Reel announces who will be the director of photography of Wuthering Heights 2026:

Cinematographer Linus Sandgren is going to have a busy schedule next year. The Swedish-born DP has in the past worked with David O. Russell, Damien Chazelle and Gus Van Sant, but it’s only in these last few years that his stock has really risen up.

First off, Sandgren is replacing Greig Fraser as DP on Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Messiah,” and that one’s set to shoot in August/September 2025. It also now looks as though he’ll be reteaming with his “Saltburn” director Emerald Fennell on her “Wuthering Heights” movie, set to shoot in January. (Jordan Ruimy)

The Times celebrates (a bit early, it's next October) the 200th anniversary of Johann Strauss II, the undiscussed king of waltz:

As a rustic peasant dance, the waltz had been around for decades before the Strausses appeared. And because the man held the woman much closer than was customary in 18th and early 19th-century dances, and the flowing three-in-a-bar movement encouraged flirtatious swirling, it had a lurid reputation. There’s a telling passage in Anne Brontë’s novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, set in the 1820s, where a clergyman intervenes to stop a village dance when people start waltzing (“No, no, I don’t allow that!”). (Richard Morrison)

Dazed talks with Robert Eggers, director of Nosferatu 2024 who says:

Eggers acknowledges that “film dorks” may find themselves overawed by Craig Lathrop’s extravagant production design, Linda Muir’s gloomy but stylish costumes, and Jarin Blaschke’s careful cinematography that captures moonlight with a spooky luminescence. However, he hopes audiences will also be immersed in the emotions. “A big inspiration was Wuthering Heights – the novel, not any film version – where Heathcliff really is a bastard. Does he love Cathy? Or is he obsessed with her, and he needs to own her, possess her, and destroy her?” (Nick Chen)

The New York Times interviews Penguin Classics's VP and Publisher, Elda Rotor:

How have your reading tastes changed over time?

In high school I loved the emotional, dark and moody stuff: Keats, Byron, Shakespeare sonnets, Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Wuthering Heights,” “The Picture of Dorian Gray.” In college, there was a lot of eyeliner and underlining Milan Kundera, and coffee and Raymond Carver.

Bay City News lists things you can do for free:

Online freebies galore: Hollywood has the opera stages of the world outgunned when it comes to turning literary classics into fodder for the silver screen, and YouTube has taken advantage of it by establishing a curated channel of them called “Cult Cinema Classics.” (...)  Also on the list are (...) 1970’s “Jane Eyre,” with Susannah York and George C. Scott. (Sue Gilmore)

Hope 103.2 (Australia) lists some of Hopeland's Favourite summer reads:

Work Experience Student Scarlett’s favourite 2024 read is…

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere…

As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house, Wuthering Heights.

It is a place he will never forget.

There he will come to learn the story of Cathy: how she was forced to choose between her well-meaning husband and the dangerous man she had loved since she was young.

How her choice led to betrayal and terrible revenge – and continues to torment those in the present.

How love can transgress authority, convention, even death. (Joni Boyd)

The Brontë Sisters explores the restored home of Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell in Manchester, examining her literary career and close friendship with Charlotte Brontë while revealing details about their correspondence and mutual support as female writers in Victorian England.