Salon.com > Wuthering Heights http://www.salon.com Fri, 24 May 2013 01:55:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Andrew O’Hehir’s 10 Best Movies of 2012 http://www.salon.com/2012/12/25/andrew_ohehirs_10_best_movies_of_2012/ http://www.salon.com/2012/12/25/andrew_ohehirs_10_best_movies_of_2012/#comments Tue, 25 Dec 2012 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13148130 Well, listen – the next time the movie beat gets boring I’ll write another essay proclaiming the death of film culture. Apparently that was all it took to perk things up! Actually, the widely misinterpreted point I was trying to make, which was that film no longer holds the position of cultural centrality it once did, on either the highbrow or mass levels, remains valid. Even amid the undoubted richness of this fall and winter season, you can find examples of this: While films like Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master” and Michael Haneke’s “Amour” pile up rave reviews and critics’ group awards, they don’t resemble what the general public thinks of as a movie, and the number of Americans who pay to see them in a movie theater may not exceed the audience for a single episode of a hit cable show. (My No. 1 pick of the year, which will no doubt be described as an eccentric choice, failed to gross even $100,000 in the United States. That’s more like the audience for a cable-access show. In Polish.)

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2012/12/25/andrew_ohehirs_10_best_movies_of_2012/feed/ 57 Pick of the week: An earthy, sexy new “Wuthering Heights” http://www.salon.com/2012/10/05/pick_of_the_week_an_earthy_sexy_new_wuthering_heights/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/05/pick_of_the_week_an_earthy_sexy_new_wuthering_heights/#comments Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13030917 Some people will be thrilled by Andrea Arnold’s raw and daring reimagining of “Wuthering Heights” – and you can count me among them – and other people will be irritated or massively bored. But whatever you make of it, this movie isn’t like any British costume drama you’ve ever seen before. Arnold, the Scottish filmmaker whose previous work includes the gritty urban thriller “Red Road” and the intense sexual melodrama “Fish Tank,” isn’t going after Emily Brontë’s classic romance in some spirit of avant-gardism or postmodernism or anything like that. If anything, this is a pre-modern, stripped-down “Wuthering Heights,” an attempt to dig through the pages and pages of florid melodrama back to the elemental truths of life and love on the damp and frigid Yorkshire moors.

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