Wuthering Heights (2011)

[Maurice]

Northern Echo:



Film-makers are seeking young unknown actors to appear in a new production of a classic novel.



An adaptation of Emily Bronte's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights will be filmed in Yorkshire at the end of next month, directed by Oscar-winner Andrea Arnold.



Skins actress Kaya Scodelario will play Catherine Earnshaw, but the role of Heathcliff has yet to be filled.



An open casting call has been issued by investors Screen Yorkshire, which is looking for people to play Heathcliff and younger versions of both central characters.



A spokesman said: "The Heathcliff we are looking for is a working class, brooding 16 to 21-year-old."



Actors auditioning for the role of young Heathcliff must fit the same description, but be aged 10 to 14.



The young Catherine must be aged 10 to 13, pale-skinned, dark-haired and "feisty".



People do not need acting experience, but will ideally have a Yorkshire accent and must be available for eight weeks from the end of next month.



People are asked to email Rob Earnshaw at rob@thecastingwebsite.com or call 01952-458450



Casting director Gail Stevens had the same role with SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE.

[jimw1]

Wuthering Heights is Academy Award winning writer-director Andrea Arnold's third feature following the BAFTA award winning, Fish Tank and Cannes Jury Prize winning Red Road.

Produced by London's Ecosse Films.

The film was shown in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in September.where it won the Golden Osella for Best Cinematography.











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[CaptainWaggett]

I saw this at the LFF and I think it will divide the critics (or at least audiences). Personally I loathed it, not because of the 'controversial' casting (though I didn't rate any of the actors - sometimes people are unknown for a reason ) but because it was so dull, went on so long and still only did the first half of the book . The moors looked extremely unattractive too (though I guess that was rather the point). I'll be very interested to hear what others think.

[jimw1]

Its showing at the Cornerhouse Manchester from Friday until next Thursday.....Im hoping to get to see it....I think you are Right Capt''n It will get a mixed reception

[CaptainWaggett]

Its showing at the Cornerhouse Manchester from Friday until next Thursday.....Im hoping to get to see it....I think you are Right Capt''n It will get a mixed reception

Ah, the Cornerhouse! I went to its opening night party

[Nick Dando]

I saw a few films there too. After Hours, The Angelic Conversation and Mishima are the ones that I remember. I did try to go to the Aaben once, to see Taxi Driver, but it looked a bit intimidating - not a place to go after dark.

Nick

[CaptainWaggett]

I saw a few films there too. After Hours, The Angelic Conversation and Mishima are the ones that I remember. I did try to go to the Aaben once, to see Taxi Driver, but it looked a bit intimidating - not a place to go after dark.

Nick

Gosh, yes, the Aaben's location was a bit bleak but they showed some great stuff there - it's where I first saw Potemkin (in a double bill with October)

[Poppy-Hopkins]

I remember going to the Cornerhouse last year and felt very foolish, when told by the man at the ticket kiosk, that they didn't sell popcorn

Poppy.

[jimw1]

Thanks to the Mod who Merged My post with Maurice's.....I knew i had read it somewhere but the Search showed no results

[didi-5]

Remember the Cornerhouse well from when I was a student in Manchester; not as well in as the Captain to go to its opening though (or indeed old enough!).

[Hugo]

To get back to Wuthering Heights, I saw it at the opening of the Leeds Film Festival last week and I also hated it. Andrea Arnold's hand-held camera, in-your-face social realism, kind of film making is totally unsuitable for a dense gothic romance like WH. Right at the beginning I was reconciled to the idea of a black Heathcliff but when Hindley Earnshaw appeared as a skinhead I lost all interest. It is all so muddy and rainswept, surely the sun must have shone occasionally on the Yorkshire moors.

[jimw1]

Heathcliff: two syllables conjuring desolate space and dizzying altitude. The two ideas are well represented in this brilliant, visceral, though flawed version of the Emily Brontë novel, a daring raid behind the lines of heritage English Lit. Director Andrea Arnold and cinematographer Robbie Ryan strip the story ruthlessly down to its bare essentials: pain, anger and love.


Wuthering Heights

[dremble wedge]

It is all so muddy and rainswept, surely the sun must have shone occasionally on the Yorkshire moors.

It is Wuthering Heights so I suppose we must expect a certain amount of oomska. A radical reinterpretation would be to film an entirely sunny version

[didi-5]

To get back to Wuthering Heights, I saw it at the opening of the Leeds Film Festival last week and I also hated it. Andrea Arnold's hand-held camera, in-your-face social realism, kind of film making is totally unsuitable for a dense gothic romance like WH. Right at the beginning I was reconciled to the idea of a black Heathcliff but when Hindley Earnshaw appeared as a skinhead I lost all interest. It is all so muddy and rainswept, surely the sun must have shone occasionally on the Yorkshire moors.

Hindley as a skinhead. A black Heathcliff. Reportedly f- and c- words in the script and a tedious depiction of the Yorkshire moors as being bleak and dark. Not to mention the interpretation of Bronte's admittedly odd love story as a kind of S&M passion.

Doesn't sound like my kind of thing at all.

[Nimuae]

It is on release here tonight - but I won't be going. I can cope with a black Heathcliff - he was described in the book as being dark skinned - but skin heads and foul language - in a Bronte story ? No, I don't think so !!