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Inspired by the greatest love story of all time, “be with me always - take any form - drive me mad!” comes to the largest screen in the UK, from 13 February.
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Once a decade the magazine asks critics to select the best films ever made. Explore the results in a special edition.
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“There’s a kind of wet heat in there that you can feel”: Emerald Fennell on 7 films that influenced her version of Wuthering Heights
Emerald Fennell loves films that provoke a reaction, as her list of influences on “Wuthering Heights” goes to show. She talks us through seven films that – like Emily Brontë’s novel – are sure to unsettle the prudes and pearl-clutchers.
By Lillian Crawford
Variations on a Theme: Rotterdam’s Tiger Competition winner explores the beauty of everyday life in a remote South African community
By John Bleasdale
“Children give you permission to dream”: Akinola Davies Jr on My Father’s Shadow
By Hope Rangaswami
Heights of fashion: Wuthering Heights on screen, from Wyler to MTV
By David Jenkins
Keeper of the Flame: an exploration of “German cinema’s greatest marginal figure”, Werner Schroeter
By Adrian Martin
“Friedkin saw American Animals and summoned me to lunch”: Bart Layton on his LA heist thriller Crime 101
By Lou Thomas
The greatest love stories ever re-told? The legacy of the Brontë sisters on screen
By Martin Spence
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Emerald Fennell in conversation at BFI Southbank: her career so far and a fresh vision of Emily Brontë’s classic.
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