Wuthering Heights

Juniper · 11-07-2009, 12:12 AM

Just watched it on Netflix. Can't believe I never read it before . . .

Wah. So intense - I am in awe and I can finally understand what everyone's been saying about the dark & brooding Byronic hero Heathcliff. :::sigh:::

glatt · 11-07-2009, 09:32 AM

Didn't know there's a movie version. Is it recent?

DanaC · 11-07-2009, 11:31 AM

I live about 20 minutes drive from where it was written

The landscape of the moors is etched into my soul. Both the Yorkshire moors of Wuthering Heights and the Saddleworth Moors that lie outwards of Manchester. I know I am home when I see their stark and unforgiving beauty. The drive across the Pennines from my current home to the town I grew up in has moorland stretching out from both sides of the motorway. Bleak and dangerous. I love them.

Juniper · 11-07-2009, 11:57 AM

It's fairly new, early this year. A PBS Masterpiece Classic. Very good!
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/...hts/index.html

Dana, I would so much love to tour the UK one day. Don't know if I'll ever get there, as my husband is dead set against international travel, says there's too much to see here in the US. He's right about there being lots to see, but I still want to go to England. And many other places.

Shawnee123 · 11-07-2009, 01:13 PM

There is the classic 1939 version, with Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier. It won an Oscar for best cinematography, and garnered nominations for best actor (Olivier), best supporting actress (Geraldine Fitzgerald), and best director (William Wyler) among a handful of other nominations.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032145/

monster · 11-07-2009, 08:21 PM

monster · 11-07-2009, 08:25 PM

which led me to this

W.HI.P · 11-08-2009, 12:02 AM

W.HI.P · 11-08-2009, 12:08 AM

Tulip · 11-08-2009, 01:42 AM

Ohhhh...never knew there's a recent version.

11-07-2009, 12:12 AM	#1
Juniper I know, right? Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,539	Wuthering Heights Just watched it on Netflix. Can't believe I never read it before . . . Wah. So intense - I am in awe and I can finally understand what everyone's been saying about the dark & brooding Byronic hero Heathcliff. :::sigh:::

11-07-2009, 01:13 PM	#5
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	There is the classic 1939 version, with Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier. It won an Oscar for best cinematography, and garnered nominations for best actor (Olivier), best supporting actress (Geraldine Fitzgerald), and best director (William Wyler) among a handful of other nominations. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032145/ __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

11-07-2009, 08:21 PM	#6
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	__________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

11-07-2009, 08:25 PM	#7
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	which led me to this __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

11-08-2009, 12:02 AM	#8
W.HI.P Free Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 1,513	__________________ pls stfu k thx

11-07-2009, 09:32 AM	#2
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Didn't know there's a movie version. Is it recent?

11-07-2009, 11:57 AM	#4
Juniper I know, right? Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,539	It's fairly new, early this year. A PBS Masterpiece Classic. Very good! http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/...hts/index.html Dana, I would so much love to tour the UK one day. Don't know if I'll ever get there, as my husband is dead set against international travel, says there's too much to see here in the US. He's right about there being lots to see, but I still want to go to England. And many other places.

11-08-2009, 12:08 AM	#9
W.HI.P Free Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 1,513	__________________ pls stfu k thx

11-08-2009, 01:42 AM	#10
Tulip Professor Join Date: May 2008 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 1,293	Ohhhh...never knew there's a recent version.

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