94. Wuthering Heights, Part 2

In this episode of Adapt or Perish—our second of two parts—we’re still looking at Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë’s classic gothic romance!

In Part One we discussed:

• Emily Brontë's original 1847 novel
• Wuthering Heights (1939 movie)
• Studio One Season 3 Episode 10: Wuthering Heights (1950)
• DuPont Show of the Month Season 1 Episode 9: Wuthering Heights (1958)
• Wuthering Heights (1967 miniseries)
• Wuthering Heights (1970 movie)
• Wuthering Heights (1978 miniseries)
• Kate Bush's 1978 song "Wuthering Heights"

Here in Part Two, we discuss:

• Hurlevent (1985 movie), directed by Jacques Rivette, written by Pascal Bonitzer, Marilù Bonitzer, and Suzanne Schiffman, and starring Lucas Belvaux and Fabienne Babe
• Arashi ga oka (1988 movie), written and directed by Yoshishige Yoshida, and starring Yūsaka Matsuda, Yūko Tanaka, and Tomoko Takabe
• Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1992 movie), directed by Peter Kosminsky, written by Anne Devlin, and starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, and Jeremy Northam
• Wuthering Heights (1998 TV movie), directed by David Skynner, written by Neil McKay, and starring Robert Cavanah, Orla Brady, Sarah Smart, and Matthew Macfadyen
• Wuthering Heights (2003 TV movie), directed by Suri Krishnamma, written by Max Enscoe and Annie deYoung, and starring Erika Christensen, Mike Vogel, and Christopher Masterson
• Wuthering Heights (2009 miniseries), directed by Coky Giedroyc, written by Peter Bowker, and starring Tom Hardy, Charlotte Riley, Andrew Lincoln, Burn Gorman, and Rebecca Night
• Wuthering Heights (2011 movie), directed by Andrea Arnold, written by Arnold and Olivia Hetreed, and starring James Howson, Kaya Scodelario, Solomon Glave, and Shannon Beer

Footnotes:

• August Strindberg's Miss Julie
• Sparkhouse (2002)
• Robin Hood (2006–2009)

93. Wuthering Heights, Part 1

In this episode of Adapt or Perish—our first of two parts—we’re looking at Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë’s classic gothic romance!

In this episode we discuss:

• Emily Brontë's original 1847 novel
• Wuthering Heights (1939 movie), directed by William Wyler, written by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht, and starring Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, and David Niven
• Studio One Season 3 Episode 10: Wuthering Heights (1950), directed by Paul Nickell, written by Lois Jacoby, and starring Charlton Heston, Mary Sinclair, and Una O'Connor
• DuPont Show of the Month Season 1 Episode 9: Wuthering Heights (1958), directed by Daniel Petrie, written by James Costigan, and starring Richard Burton, Rosemary Harris, and Denholm Elliott
• Wuthering Heights (1967 miniseries), directed by Peter Sasdy, written by Hugh Leonard, and starring Ian McShane and Angela Scoular
• Wuthering Heights (1970 movie), directed by Robert Fuest, written by Patrick Tilley, and starring Timothy Dalton, Anna Calder-Marshall, Julian Glover, and Judy Cornwell
• Wuthering Heights (1978 miniseries), directed by Peter Hammond, written by Hugh Leonard and David Snodin, and starring Ken Hutchison, Kay Adshead, and Pat Heywood
• Kate Bush's 1978 song "Wuthering Heights"

Footnotes:

• Adapt or Perish Episode 43: Jane Eyre, Part 1
• Adapt or Perish Episode 44: Jane Eyre, Part 2
• Adapt or Perish Episode 73: Flowers in the Attic
• "David Duchovny" by Bree Sharp
• "The 50 greatest Irish film actors of all time – in order" from The Irish Times
• Adapt or Perish Episode 34: Romeo and Juliet
• Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights" music videos: Version 1, Version 2, and Version 3
• The "Wuthering Heights" dance as performed by Noel Fielding

92. Stuart Little

In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we're returning to the works of E.B. White to talk about his little mouseboy (boymouse?) hero, Stuart Little!

In this episode we discuss:

• White's original 1945 novel
• "The World of Stuart Little," the March 6, 1966 episode of NBC's Children's Theatre, produced by George A. Heinemann and June Reig, written by Reig, and narrated by Johnny Carson
• Stuart Little (1999), directed by Rob Minkoff, written by M. Night Shyamalan and Greg Brooker, and starring Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Nathan Lane, and Jonathan Lipnicki
• Stuart Little 2 (2002), directed by Minkoff, written by Bruce Joel Rubin, starring the cast of Stuart Little with Melanie Griffith and James Woods

Footnotes:

• Adapt or Perish Episode 50: Charlotte's Web
• John Hodgman's Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches (2018)
• Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild (2005)