From the Department of Not Leaving Well Enough Alone comes a new film version of “Brideshead Revisited,” Evelyn Waugh’s classic novel, a book previously made into an 11-hour British TV series in 1981.
The 2008 film adaptation is available to stream for free on BBC iPlayer and delivers the same rich estate setting that made ...
To review Julian Jarrold’s film of “Brideshead Revisited,” one must first consider the elegant elephant in the room. Although Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 novel has never before been transformed into a ...
Why anyone thought it necessary to make another Brideshead Revisited is a mystery. The fondly regarded 1981 British television miniseries should have been the last word on Evelyn Waugh’s elegy to ...
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When producers announced a new adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s lush 1945 novel “Brideshead Revisited,” the question on many lips was: “Why?” The book had already been made into a 1981 miniseries. The ...
The homosexuals loved it. The Catholics loved it. The literary types went gaga over it. The cinephiles praised the filming, the drama critics raved about the casting, and everybody — everybody — in ...
Granada Television's acclaimed serialisation of Brideshead Revisited was shown in 1981 and lasted 11 hours. Now we have Brideshead Revisited, the £10 million feature film directed by Julian Jarrold, ...
No love story can be wholly satisfying in which the crucial decisions are made by the mother of the loved woman; still less, when she is the mother of both the loved woman and the loved man, and ...
The Granada TV Brideshead Revisited may not have had all that much relevance to viewers in 1981, but during 11 lovingly detailed hours spent with the pastoral gentry of England between the wars, they ...