The programme is announced as Fennell’s adaptation of ‘Wuthering Heights’ is set to head to cinema screens next month.
The BFI has announced details of a bespoke BFI IMAX programme curated by Academy Award and BAFTA-winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell (Saltburn) as her latest film “Wuthering Heights” is set to be released.
The limited engagement at BFI IMAX features a tailored programme of four titles selected from a longer list of thirteen “Love Stories” curated by Fennell especially for the BFI, offering insight into the her inspirations and a taste of what audiences might expect from her highly anticipated imagining of Emily Brontë’s beloved novel.
The films, chosen by Fennell to play on the UK’s largest screen each Sunday throughout February, will include CRASH (David Cronenberg, 1996), ROMEO + JULIET (Baz Luhrmann, 1996), THE HANDMAIDEN DIRECTOR’S CUT (Park Chan-wook, 2016) and THE BEGUILED (Sofia Coppola, 2017).
Explaining, Emerald Fennell said: “Since its publication 200 years ago, critics have challenged Wuthering Heights’s validity as a love story. It is too shocking, too cruel, too narratively strange to slip neatly into the world of romance, but it is a love story nonetheless. While researching it, I rewatched many of my own favourite “love stories”, ones that challenged, subverted, even obliterated the conventions of the genre. These are stories which put the love story under duress, which stick a needle into the strawberry trifle, which show love in all its freakish, gory detail.”
It was also announced that Fennell will join the BFI for a special event “Wuthering Heights”: Emerald Fennell in Conversation on the 4th February when she will discuss her experience of filming her big screen version of the classic story.
The complete list of “Love Stories” curated by Fennell for the BFI, which complement and give context to her adaption of “Wuthering Heights” includes: RANDOM HARVEST (Mervyn LeRoy, 1942), A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1946), FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (John Schlesinger, 1967), PEAU D’ANE (Jacques Demy, 1970), THE NIGHT PORTER (Liliana Cavani, 1974), BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992), CRASH (David Cronenberg, 1996), ROMEO + JULIET (Baz Luhrmann, 1996), THE END OF THE AFFAIR (Neil Jordan, 1999), ROMANCE (Catherine Breillat, 1999), BLUEBEARD (Catherine Breillat, 2009), THE HANDMAIDEN DIRECTOR’S CUT (Park Chan-wook, 2016) and THE BEGUILED (Sofia Coppola, 2017).
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