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 ...

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 ...

Lust for companionship. For God. For love. For real estate. For family. Everyone in Brideshead Revisited is hungry for something, and it gets them into terrific trouble. But even lust in pre-WWII ...

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, ...

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.

So Charles is introduced to a most eccentric young man, who drinks champagne in the afternoon and enjoys highly exclusive dishes. Gradually, the two very different men become friends, and before long, ...

Brideshead Revisited – A Miramax Films release. Directed by Julian Jarrold. Starring Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Hayley Atwell, Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, and Greta Scacchi. Rated PG-13. It’s ...

Guilt, intrigue, lust, nobility, and religion: Brideshead Revisited has it all. To the casual observer, historical epics named for and set in expansive English estates might recall romantic dramas a ...

Human figures may be glimpsed amid the expensively furnished wastes of “Brideshead Revisited,” but I admit I lost sight of them for whole stretches. There was so ...

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 ...