We're all gagging on Oscar bait at the moment, so free yourself (and your esophagus) with a glimpse at the film's playing in four Sundance out-of-competition sections, including Spotlight, Park City at Midnight, Next <=> and New Frontier. Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie, the tantalizing, all black UK version of Wuthering Heights, and that amazingly harsh Indonesian film The Raid are all set up for their Utah debuts. Check out the full roster after the jump.
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Remakes often suck -- but when they're total stylistic upheavals of the source material, I'm more optimistic. Would you see a whacked-out, space-age remake of a classic period piece like Little Dorrit? I would! Or better yet, this weekend's ridiculous, steampunk The Three Musketeers in 3-D? It puts the "rich" in Richelieu and the "dumbass" in Dumas. I dig it! Ahead, we investigate five other Victorian novels worth revisiting in a fulgent 3-D experience. Put on your special glasses, Heathcliff.
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"This is something of a pointillist Wuthering Heights, a story told more with dots and dashes than with long, bold strokes," wrote Movieline's Stephanie Zacharek after seeing Andrea Arnold's bold take on the classic novel upon its Venice Film Festival debut. Now that the film's first teaser has debuted, you can see for yourself what she meant, windswept longing gazes and foggy moors and elemental snatches of scenery and all.
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Two hours after seeing Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, screening here in competition, I'm still fighting my way across this rugged moor of a movie, a vast, wild place where Arnold's vision and Emily Brontë's meet eye to eye and claw to claw. Arnold's reading of Bronte's weird, unabashedly sick novel is daring for sure: This is a film filled with interesting choices that, in the end, may not be all that interesting -- it's more self-conscious than Arnold's other films, Red Road and Fish Tank, perhaps partly because, unlike those movies, it's based on familiar source material.
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