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 ...

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 ...

Call Me By Your Name director Luca Gaudagnino will make an adaptation of Brideshead Revisited for the BBC, The Daily Mail reports. The miniseries will be based on the 1945 novel of the same name by ...

Matthew Goode as Charles Ryder, left, Hayley Atwell as Julia Flyte, and Ben Whishaw as Sebastian Flyte visit Brideshead, the Flyte family estate, in 'Brideshead Revisited.' On the face of things, it ...

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 ...

In the spring of 1943, disillusioned Army captain Charles Ryder stumbles upon Brideshead, once home to the Marchmain family, and recalls how he visited it for the first time twenty years ago. While ...

The reinvented “Brideshead” – and third feature for Julian Jarrold (“Becoming Jane“) — is a handsome arthouse entertainment in the mold of Merchant Ivory, an interpretation that both honors its source ...

IN THE WEEKS after VE day, as British voters prepared to swap Winston Churchill for the Labour Party, the country’s fiction leapt into a radiant past. Published 75 years ago, at the end of May 1945, ...

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 ...

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