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.
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 ...
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 ...
Julian Jarrold’s Brideshead Revisited, from a screenplay by Jeremy Brock and Andrew Davies, is based on the seductively class-ridden novel by Evelyn Waugh. This literary masterpiece has, strangely, ...
Sex, religion and Anglophilia never seem to go out of style, making "Brideshead Revisited" a perfect target for visiting or revisiting. Director Julian Jarrold's new film version of the 1945 novel by ...
If you are a devout Catholic ready and eager to defend your faith or a confirmed atheist who believes Catholicism especially is without substance or merit, you will be inexorably drawn to “Brideshead ...
That’s pretty much how I felt watching Brideshead Revisited. Brideshead Revisited is an adaptation of classic 1945 Evelyn Waugh novel that I’ve never read. It was also made into a classic 1981 ...
What if they remade Gone with the Wind? Remade it, that is, as a normal-length movie in line with the tastes and production standards of 2008. No doubt the result would not be the monument, the ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Like Atonement before it, Brideshead Revisited is one of those astoundingly well-acted literary ...
A movie adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s tale of England collapsing under the pressure of social change—even one that has passed through the pop filter of co-writer Andrew Davies, British TV’s designated ...
Evelyn Waugh’s marvelous novel Brideshead Revisited begins as a coming-of-age story. At Oxford in the 1920s Charles Ryder crosses paths with the disarming, childlike aristocrat Sebastian Flyte; they ...