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 ...

Brideshead Revisited tells the story of middle-class Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode), who meets and befriends wealthy Lord Sebastian Flyte. Charles and Sebastian become close, and Sebastian invites ...

The memories of the missteps of our young adult years haunt many of us. Not yet able to act with the wisdom that comes from experience, the decisions we made are often the best we knew how to do in ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Brideshead Revisited” is an unimpeachable yet ultimately unmoving adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s classic novel about social ambition, religious conflict and doomed love. There’s nothing wrong with ...

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 ...

With characteristic British self-deprecation, Evelyn Waugh wrote that he didn’t believe that more than two Americans would enjoy his 1945 novel “Brideshead Revisited.” That notion was scotched when ...

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 ...

Before Downton Abbey there was Upstairs, Downstairs, and before both, there was Brideshead Revisited. The latter has been twice adapted for film, but it began its life as a great work of literature ...

The story begins in Oxford in 1925, when young Charles Ryder makes friends with the louche and flamboyant Sebastian Flyte, son of Lady and Lord Marchmain. Charles is soon seduced by the social status ...