Film+Q&A in Plesantville

An alert from Pleasantville, NY, for tomorrow, June 27:

Saturday, June 27

Jacob Burns Film Center, Pleasantville, NY

14.00 h  Wuthering Heights 1939

1939. 104 m. William Wyler. Park Circus. US. English. Rated NR.

Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, David Niven, and Geraldine Fitzgerald star in William Wyler’s Academy Award-winning adaptation of Emily Bronte’s tale of passion, hatred, and revenge.

Hailed as a “timeless masterpiece,” Wuthering Heights is the story of a tortured love affair between Heathcliff and Cathy, her escape by marriage to the wealthy Edgar and Heathcliff’s savage retaliation upon the woman he loves. Olivier portrays Heathcliff the jilted lover who bides his time before extracting his vicious vengeance; Oberon is Cathy, object of Heathcliff’s affections; Niven is Edgar, who steals Cathy from Heathcliff; and Fitzgerald is Isabella, Edgar’s sister who Heathcliff marries in an attempt to gain a measure of revenge.

Wyler’s film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won the Oscar for Best Cinematography.

Join us after the film for a Q&A with Professor Deborah Lutz, author of This Dark Night – Emily Brontë, A Life, the new acclaimed biography of Emily Brontë. Copies of the book will be on sale courtesy of The Village Bookstore.