Ryan Gallagher
At the 2011 Venice Film Festival, Andrea Arnold debuted her latest film, Wuthering Heights, her much anticipated follow up to the 2009 film, Fish Tank.
Oscilloscope eventually picked up the US rights and today they finally released the film on DVD and Blu-ray. A few months back we hosted a giveaway for a few copies of the Nicholas Ray film, We Can’t Go Home Again, and the fine folks at Oscilloscope have given us a few copies of Wuthering Heights to give to you lovely readers.
You can find packaging shots of the DVD here on our blog. Here’s a taste:
Here are the rules:
- You need to leave a comment below, with your favorite film adaptation of a novel.
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We have two copies of the DVD and two copies of the Blu-ray to give away. I’ll pick the winners at random next Tuesday, April 30th at 11:59pm.
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Never Let Me Go.
“A Christmas Story” (based upon “In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash” by Jean Shepherd).
The Shining.
naked lunch (with the last tycoon a close 2nd.)
Misery
The Graduate
To Kill A Mockingbird. Harper lee
For me, it’s a tie between A Clockwork Orange and Naked Lunch. Both seem impossible to film without making major changes, yet Kubrick and Cronenberg stepped up and delivered films as gleefully insane as their respective sources.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Blade Runner
Darabont’s THE MIST based on Stephen King’s novella is up there for me. He notoriously changed the ending and shockingly King said Darabont’s ending was better.
The Age of Innocence
Dracula (the Todd Browning version)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Jaws, without a doubt.
David Lean’s “Great Expectations”
Now, Voyager (1942) based on the 1941 novel written by Olive Higgins Prouty
A Clockwork Orange
Children of Men
Children of Men
James and The Giant Peach
Sideways (certainly the one I watch the most)
The Leopard
The Ice Storm
My favorite novel to film adaptions include this one because of well it captures Cathy and Heathcliff’s relationship, but the winner is Ang Lee’s adaptation of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi because it gets such a beautiful story practically perfect.
No Country for Old Men. McCarthy + Coens = Genius
In a Lonely Place
A Clockwork Orange
The Thing
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Fight Club
The Godfather.
Death in Venice
Zodiac
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Social Network.
The Shining
This is certainly one of the best ones I have seen in a very long time, though my all-time favorite would probably be The Night of the Hunter, which is both a deft adaptation and a brilliant fleshing out of Davis Grubb’s overlooked novel.
The Godfather
Pride & Prejudice directed by Joe Wright!
The Leopard
Howl’s Moving Castle
Woman in the Dunes
The Godfather
It’s nothing at all like the original source material, but I quite like Kubrick’s “Lolita.” James Mason is typically deadpan and Shelley Winters turns it up to 11 as the precocious nymph’s mother. Love it.
I love Lasse Hallstrom’s Chocolat. The novel was much more sinister and deep with its dying priest rather than Alred Molina’s bumbling mayor. Still, I have to watch Chocolat every Lent when everyone is yammering about what they are giving up. It reminds me what I want to take on. Good friends, good meals, bedtime stories, romance, and sure, some great shawls and pumps a la Juliette Binoche.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Fight club was dead on for me.
Out of Sight. Still Soderbergh’s best movie.
The Shining
Warm Bodies
Jane Eyre (2011)
Lord of the Rings — Not since have I seen the images in my mind on screen.
Don’t Look Now
Don’t Look Now
I love the ethan hawk great expectations