both Evelyn Waugh's novel and the 1981 PBS miniseries, Julian Jarrold's Brideshead Revisited succeeds handily on its own terms. It lacks the visual pyrotechnics of Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice, but ...

Brideshead Revisited, once a stellar PBS series, has been given the big screen treatment from Miramax and the box office hit lands on DVD this week. Emma Thompson heads a stellar cast in a tale of ...

For whatever reason, when television dramas tackle a teenage love triangle, an overbearing mother and simmering homosexuality, the result is usually mocked for its ineptness or melodramatic nature.

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...