Anti-antiseptic Heights

The Wrap shares the box office results of Wuthering Heights 2011:

“Wuthering Heights” added $16,765 from 11 theaters – a $1,524 per-screen average -- in its third week. It’s overall gross is $44,741. (Todd Cunningham)

The Austin Chronicle reviews the film and gives it 2 1/2 stars out of 5.

The first half is close to perfection in its evocation of the brutal landscape and its brutish inhabitants. Arnold doesn’t go so far afield from the book, which describes Heathcliff as dark-skinned, by casting black actors to play the part, and the film deepens with the additional friction of institutional racism. Catherine – played by first-time actor Beer as rambunctious and casually cruel but capable of profound empathy – is Heathcliff’s only champion, and he – silent and seething from so much abuse – opens his heart only to her. Too raw for talk, they bolt across the moors like wild animals, a pack of two, and when Heathcliff is whipped, Catherine licks the open wound like a she-cub. The moment – a startling bolt of tenderness, first-fledged eroticism, and shuddering anti-antiseptic – plays like a lightning strike illuminated by Arnold’s idiomatic artistry. (Kimberley Jones)

Cine Vue discusses Great Expectations 2012 with a reference to Wuthering Heights 2011:

With Academy Award double nominees Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter - as grubby convict Magwitch and jilted bride Miss Haversham respectively - further bolstering a significant all-British ensemble, it's surprising then that Newell's Great Expectations fails to live up to live up to its own. With almost none of the radical invention of Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights (2011) or Joe Wright's Anna Karenina (2012), Newell and his cast go through the box-ticking, costume drama motions with all the empty clinicalness of a mainstream Hollywood blockbuster. (Daniel Green)

Movie Reviews from the Dark also posts about Wuthering Heights 2011.

According to Cleveland Celebrity Examiner, True Blood actor Stephen Moyer recently discussed Fifty Shades of Grey and vampires by way of the Brontës.

"It's about romance and power and fantasy," he said. "Vampires have a sort of brooding presence that goes back to Gothic literature. There's often a dark, enigmatic man involved, such as Mr. Rochester or Heathcliff,” Stephen added. (Amanda Scheffler)

While De Morgen (Belgium) looks at the Fifty Shads of Grey phenomenon, which includes the likes of Jane Eyre Laid Bare.

The Post and Courier poses the following question to a few writers: 'If you could read one book again for the first time, what would it be?'

Katie Crouch, author of “Girls in Trucks,” said “Wide Sargasso Sea” by Jean Rhys (which I didn’t realize until now provides a backstory for a character from “Jane Eyre”). (Jonathan Sanchez)

Catalina Terrassa (in Portuguese) posts about Wuthering Heights. My Eating Life in Tokyo posts about the Japanese version of Jane Eyre The Musical.

Finally, an alert from Morris, MN:

Book Group—Wuthering Heights
On Monday, Oct. 22, there will be a Book Group meeting from 4:30 until 5:30 p.m. in the Briggs Library McGinnis Room. The group will be discussing Wuthering Heights. (Morris Sun Tribune)