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.

One fan said: "I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say that this is probably the finest adaptation of a novel put to film." ...

In 1982, The Washington Post related a story about a woman who began suspecting her husband of infidelity. The initials “B.H.” had materialized on his calendar, scrawled in the schedule on consecutive ...

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 ...

There’s no time like the first time, and so it is with “Brideshead Revisited.” If you saw the 1981 11-hour-long TV miniseries, a masterpiece, you may cringe at the thought of a feature-length remake.

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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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 ...

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 ...