Wuthering Heights x2

Wuthering Heights x2

2 Episodes

As the latest screen adaptation of “Wuthering Heights” makes its way to theaters in time for Valentine’s Day, revisit two strikingly different cinematic visions of Emily Brontë’s immortal tale of tempestuous, star-crossed love that stretches beyond the bounds of time. Starring Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier, William Wyler’s sweeping 1939 version—with its exquisitely moody black-and-white cinematography—remains a paragon of classic Hollywood craftsmanship, while Andrea Arnold’s 2011 postmodern triumph roils with a raw, visceral intensity, charged with youthful desire and violent obsession.

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Wuthering Heights x2
  • Wuthering Heights

    Episode 1

    Directed by William Wyler • 1939 • United States
    Starring Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, David Niven

    Often cited as the definitive screen version of Emily Brontë’s classic novel, William Wyler’s moodily poetic adaptation casts Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon as the immortal lovers Heathcliff ...

  • Wuthering Heights

    Episode 2

    Directed by Andrea Arnold • 2011 • United Kingdom
    Starring Kaya Scodelario, James Howson

    Andrea Arnold’s WUTHERING HEIGHTS is an excitingly fresh and elemental take on the classic novel by Emily Brontë. An epic love story, the film follows Heathcliff, a boy taken in by a benevolent Yorkshire far...