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 ...

The award-winning, 11-part 1981 PBS version of Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited" is widely considered a landmark TV miniseries and one of the best -- and certainly most complete -- film ...

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 ...

This 1981 miniseries has stood the test of time.

He worked on the lauded, lavish British miniseries for three years, then guided the films 'A Handful of Dust' and 'Where Angels Fear to Tread.' By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Derek Granger, the British ...

Making notes in 1949 for a review of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, George Orwell wrote that “Waugh is about as good a novelist as one can be…while holding untenable opinions.” Which is a nice ...

A finely wrought, Merchant-Ivory-style Brit-lit adaptation rather curiously unloaded by Miramax smack amid Stateside summer tentpole season -- just before fall fest season and the unveiling of awards ...

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 ...

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