Jenna Holmes writes:
Andrea Arnold’s 2011 film adaptation of Wuthering Heights will be screened in Haworth on Friday 23 November, 7.30pm,
at the West Lane Baptist Centre. The gritty film is a minimalist take
on Emily Brontë’s novel which strips away the traditional conventions of
a period drama. Featuring a cast of unknown actors, and depicting a
mixed race Heathcliff for the first time on screen, the film’s
cinematography by Robbie Ryan foregrounds the wild, brooding Yorkshire
landscape and the soundtrack is taken purely from nature. With a limited
cinema release last year, this is another chance to see the film on the
big screen if you missed it the first time around!
The
screening is a collaboration between the Parsonage and
Haworth Cinema. The film has been programmed to coincide with the
landscape exhibition Ways to the Stone House, currently on
display at the Parsonage. Haworth Cinema successfully
turns Haworth’s Baptist church into a cinema twice every month to show a
programme of new releases.
The novel has been adapted
for film and television many times, including the 1939 Hollywood
version starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon, and the 1997 version
when Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche took on the title roles. Andrea
Arnold took a very different approach to the book, filming in North
Yorkshire using hand held cameras, and casting mainly non-professional
actors, including unknown Leeds actor James Howson who took the lead
role of Heathcliff, and was the first black actor to play the part on
screen.
Tickets are £3 on the door; no need to book in advance. Certificate 15.
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1 comment:
That sounds like a very good evening- I hope to be there.After reading about the thought provoking evening, on the Saturday of the June weekend, and the discussion, by the impressive panel, about the doucmentary-' A Regular Black- The Hidden Wuthering Heights', I look forward to seeing the latest film incarnation of Emily's masterpiece.
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