09-12-2008, 06:30 PM
My favorite Wuthering Heights is the one with Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche (I also have the soundtrack album). Favorite Rebecca is the Hitchcock one. I saw the first BBC adaptation in the 70s when it first aired, but now that I've been informed Jeremy Brett plays Maxim de Winter I'm keen to watch it again. My favorite Jane Eyre is the Fox version with Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine. I recently watched The Wide Sargasso Sea, the NC-17 rated take on the story behind Mrs. Rochester and her incarceration in the tower. It was quite good, though not quite Gothic. Those of you who are fans of BBC productions might want to seek out a terrific production of Dracula starring Louis Jordan from 1977 which finally made it to DVD in the US this time last year. Talk about sexy AND evil! *fans self to keep from fainting*
I got the new DVD release of Dragonwyck this week. I am not familiar with the story but I have only made it half way through the movie during two sittings. Its fun to see a very young Vincent Price and the always ethereal Gene Tierney, the house is suitably Gothic and there is a pall of opression which hangs over the Van Ryan family, but overall the movie has failed to capture my interest. Anyone else seen it who can better advise?
I got the new DVD release of Dragonwyck this week. I am not familiar with the story but I have only made it half way through the movie during two sittings. Its fun to see a very young Vincent Price and the always ethereal Gene Tierney, the house is suitably Gothic and there is a pall of opression which hangs over the Van Ryan family, but overall the movie has failed to capture my interest. Anyone else seen it who can better advise?
