A Brief Defense of "Wuthering Heights"
Emerald Fennell said as much herself: "The thing for me is that you can't adapt a book as dense and complicated and difficult as this book. I can't say I'm making ‘Wuthering Heights.’ It's not possible. What I can say is I'm making a version of it." She put the title in quotation marks intentionally, providing a disclaimer that this film is not the classic text. Every adaptation imposes a vision, turning the source material into something else.
Nuremberg: Vanderbilt’s Political Mirror
The new movie Nuremberg attempts to convey the same message, albeit through a more character and relationship-driven lens. The overall theme, though, remains the same: Nazi’s aren’t some abstract villain–they are real, and they are human.
Kiss of the Spider Woman: A Meta-Musical That Strangles On Its Own Threads
For all its chaos, Kiss of the Spider Woman commits. Hard. Condon isn’t phoning it in, he’s trying to capture something much bigger than this movie can contain. It’s a movie about escaping, and even if the fantasy starts to collapse, I can still feel the ambition.