The director of the gritty modern Fish Tank may not seem like the most obvious fit for a romantic tragedy by a Brontë sister, but from the looks of it Andrea Arnold has certainly found a way to make Wuthering Heights her own. Eschewing stuffy period piece conventions, Arnold's adaptation keeps the 19th century setting…
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In the past decade Andrea Arnold has emerged as a promising art-house filmmaker, even if she has only two features to her name. Her 2009 film Fish Tank rightfully impressed many, thanks in no small part to Michael Fassbender's effective performance. (His follow-up to Hunger.) And if her 2006 film Red Road is less impressive…
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Hot on the heels of the release of a massive batch of films that will appear in the Toronto Film Festival, we've got the main lineup for the 68th Venice Film Festival, which runs from August 31 to September 10. We knew that George Clooney's The Ides of March would open the fest (the trailer…
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The Brontë family is coming back to movie screens in a big way. There's the new version of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, to be directed by Sin Nombre's Cary Fukunaga. And now a long in development revamp of Wuthering Heights, the only novel by Charlotte's sister Emily Brontë, has its own director. Andrea Arnold, currently…
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At least in terms of teen appeal, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights was the Twilight of its day... but seeing as that was way back in 1847, when teens were a little different and less OMG!OMG!, you shouldn't be put off the latest film adaptation just yet. The Hollywood Reporter tell us that this new adaptation…
Read MoreHere is a round up of stories that just didn't make the /Film front page, or what we like to call.... Page 2! Orlando United has photos of the exterior and queue area of Disney's new Toy Story Mania. I love the mini-replica of Pixar Studios. David Chase, creator of "The Sopranos," has signed on…
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