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‘Wuthering Heights’ DP Linus Sandgren Talks VistaVision’s Revival

‘Wuthering Heights’ DP Linus Sandgren Talks VistaVision’s Revival

Published by Daniella Wilson

Wuthering Heights cinematographer Linus Sandgren lets the story dictate the format.  As much as the Swedish DP may enjoy shooting in IMAX, Emerald Fennell’s vision for her reimagining of Emily Brontë’s seminal novel had a different ambition than the one he fulfilled for Denis Villeneuve on Dune: Part Three. The writer-director wanted her tragic period romance starring Margot Robbie (Cathy Earnshaw) and Jacob Elordi (Heathcliff) to have a tactile, impressionistic quality, hence the decision to shoot the majority of the piece on standard 35 mm film.  When it came to landscape shots of the Yorkshire Moors — as well as wide interior shots involving Edgar Linton’s (Shazad Latif) decadent manor — the filmmakers sought a higher resolution for the sake of detail, but without sacrificing film grain. Neither standard 65 mm nor IMAX were going to uphold both of those requirements. Thus, Sandgren and Fennell opted for VistaVision, a large 35 mm film format that presents high resolution and just enough grain to maintain continuity with the rest of the film’s 3-perf 35 mm.  “Each format will …

Margot Robbie-Jacob Elordi Movie Streaming Date

Margot Robbie-Jacob Elordi Movie Streaming Date

Published by Daniella Wilson

Streaming audiences can get ready to swoon over the the Margot Robbie-led feature adaptation of Wuthering Heights. HBO Max announced Friday that filmmaker Emerald Fennell‘s romantic drama hits the streaming service on May 1. Jacob Elordi co-stars in the movie that makes its linear debut via HBO on May 2, the same day that a version with American Sign Language will also stream exclusively on HBO Max. Based on author Emily Brontë’s classic novel of the same name, Warner Bros. released the film theatrically on Feb. 13, and it surpassed $240 million at the global box office. Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver, Martin Clunes and Ewan Mitchell round out the cast. Fennell helmed the movie from her own script that is based on Brontë’s book. Fennell, Robbie and Josey McNamara produced the project that hails from LuckyChap and MRC. Robbie plays Catherine Earnshaw, while Elordi portrays Heathcliff. First published in 1847, the book centers on the pair’s tempestuous relationship that encompasses passion and revenge after they meet while living at the eponymous residence. In …

Wuthering Heights: 11 Biggest Differences Between The Film And Book

Wuthering Heights: 11 Biggest Differences Between The Film And Book

Published by Sam Flores

Emerald Fennell’s film version of Wuthering Heights is, to say the very least, not your grandma’s version of Emily Brontë’s gothic masterpiece. Although many Brontë purists have been less than pleased with the way the movie has chopped and changed the iconic source novel, Emerald has spoken in defence of her adaptation on several occasions, insisting she was trying to make “something that was my response and interpretation to that book and to the feeling of it”. In fact, that’s why she made the decision to show the film’s title in quotation marks and other promotional materials, including its title card. But just how much of the original novel is left in the recent big-screen adaptation of Wuthering Heights? Here are 11 major differences between the two… Emerald Fennell’s decision to depict Heathcliff as white faced backlash before filming had even begun The topic that generated the most discussion long before Wuthering Heights hit cinemas was around Heathcliff’s ethnicity and background. As soon as Jacob Elordi was cast in the role, people criticised Emerald for …

What Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights Gets Right About 18th Century Sex

What Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights Gets Right About 18th Century Sex

Published by Sam Flores

Whether you loved it or you hated it, Emerald Fennell’s sexually-charged reimagining of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights – featuring a brooding Jacob Elordi – still has us all talking over a week after its cinematic release. While the original 1847 novel didn’t feature any sex scenes, Fennell’s film is far more ‘Heathcliff, it’s me, it’s Cathy, I’m horny.’ But for all the sneaking out of bedroom windows, romping in carriages, grinding in the moors, finger sucking and… puppy play that Fennell portrays in her take of Wuthering Heights, how much of this raunchery was actually going on during the period in which the original novel was set? When you think of sexy periods of time in history, we tend to think of the promiscuity of the Ancient Romans or even the more recent free love movement of the 1970s – not the late Georgian era. So before we all start wishing that we could jump in a time machine to 1770 and find our own Heathcliff to romp about the moors with, we asked leading …

Wuthering Heights Director Explains Why There Are No Nude Scenes In New Film

Wuthering Heights Director Explains Why There Are No Nude Scenes In New Film

Published by Sam Flores

However, while much has been made in the media of the film’s sexually-charged content, it should be noted that, unlike Saltburn, Emerald’s Wuthering Heights doesn’t actually contain any nudity, which she said was a deliberate choice on her part. During a recent appearance on the podcast Happy Sad Confused, host Josh Horowitz suggested it “might surprise some people” that Emerald’s latest big-screen is offering not an “explicit movie”. “Saltburn wasn’t explicit, either,” she responded, pointing out the film’s two nude scenes both featured a character who was completely alone, and that “one is about grief and the other is about joy”. The Oscar winner said: “When we talk about ‘explicitness’, it’s sort of interesting, because it’s explicit because of what we’re thinking. “But the movies that I grew up with, and the way that they used bodies – and the way that they, in particular, used female bodies – were really explicit because often there was nudity and sex for absolutely no reason. The trick for me is always making people feel that they have …

Wuthering Heights Director Addresses Controversial Isabella Scene

Wuthering Heights Director Addresses Controversial Isabella Scene

Published by Sam Flores

Emerald Fennell via Associated Press This article contains spoilers for Wuthering Heights. Wuthering Heights director Emerald Fennell is opening up about one of the biggest changes she made to the original story for her new big-screen adaptation. Much has already been made of Emerald’s fast-and-loose approach to staying faithful to the source material in her new spin on Wuthering Heights, so much so that the title of her film is listed in quotation marks to indicate how much it’s her version of events. One of the most polarising aspects of the new film involves Alison Oliver’s character Isabella, and what transpires between her and Heathcliff. In the original film, Isabella and Heathcliff’s relationship is depicted as coercive, violent and abusive, with the latter even killing the former’s dog as an act of cruelty shortly after marrying her. However, in the film, when Nelly drops in on Isabella and Heathcliff, it’s suggested that their relationship is more of a consensually submissive one, with Isabella chained up and acting like a dog, even quietly winking at her …

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What the Critics Are Saying

Published by Daniella Wilson

Ahead of the release of Wuthering Heights this week, critics’ reviews of the film have finally been released, and they’ve been decidedly mixed. The Emerald Fennell-directed film, adapted from Emily Brontë’s beloved 1847 novel, follows a passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi) and Catherine Earnshaw (Margot Robbie). As of Monday evening, Wuthering Heights had a score of 71 percent from 65 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, and clocked in at 60 percent on Metacritic from 31 reviews. The cast also includes Hong Chau, Alison Oliver, Shazad Latif, Martin Clunes, Owen Cooper, Charlotte Mellington, Ewan Mitchell and Amy Morgan. Read on for key excerpts from some of the most prominent reviews from critics in Hollywood, ahead of the film’s release in theaters on Feb. 13. The Hollywood Reporter‘s chief film critic, David Rooney, wrote in his review, “Fennell’s overhaul flirts with insanity, and if you can let go of preconceived notions about how this story should be told, it’s arguably the writer-director’s …

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Wuthering Heights First Reactions

Published by Daniella Wilson

Emerald Fennell‘s hotly anticipated adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic, and very hot, novel Wuthering Heights had its first few screenings for press on Tuesday, and the early reaction suggests the film starring objectively hot Aussie pair of Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi is, well, hot. While official, full, critics reviews for Wuthering Heights are embargoed till closer to the film’s Feb. 13 release date, Warner Bros. Pictures allowed press to release social media reaction to screenings this week. The film, based on Brontë’s 1847 book, is set on the windswept moors of West Yorkshire and tells the story of Catherine Earnshaw (Robbie) and her turbulent relationship with the dashing Heathcliff (Elordi). Written for the screen and directed by Fennell, the cast includes Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver, Martin Clunes and Ewan Mitchell. Wuthering Heights has been adapted for the screen dozens of times over the last century. The most notable feature adaptations include William Wyler’s 1939 film (starring Merle Oberon as Catherine and Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff); Robert Fuest’s 1970 take (starring Timothy Dalton …

Emerald Fennell Addresses Jacob Elordi Wuthering Heights Casting Backlash

Emerald Fennell Addresses Jacob Elordi Wuthering Heights Casting Backlash

Published by Sam Flores

Emerald Fennell has spoken for the first time about the controversy that arose when it was first announced that Jacob Elordi will be playing Heathcliff in her new movie version of Wuthering Heights. Last year, the British filmmaker was accused of “whitewashing” a character many think of as a person of colour when it was first revealed the Euphoria actor would be taking on the iconic role. Asked about this during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter at her film’s premiere, Fennell said: “The thing is, everyone who loves this book has such a personal connection to it, and so, you can only ever kind of make the movie that you sort of imagined yourself when you read it. “I don’t know, I think I was sort of focussing on the kind of sado-masochistic elements of it.” Jacob Elordi at the Wuthering Heights premiere The Oscar winner continued: “That’s the great thing about this movie is that it could be made every year and it would still be so moving and so interesting.” Last year, …