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Brideshead Revisited

The Week in DVR: Start Watching The West Wing From the Beginning! Plus, Matthew Goode Is Great in Brideshead Revisited and Liv Tyler Sure Loves Italy

Monday: The West Wing

Isn’t it great when this show starts over from the beginning on Bravo? Don’t get us wrong, those later, Obama-forecasting episodes were fun, and who doesn’t love Alan Alda? But there’s absolutely nothing like those first few magical seasons of The West Wing when the show was under Aaron Sorkin's Read More

Manhattan Weekend Box Office: Dark Knight Hangs On in Gotham, But Set its Records Elsewhere

More box office records crumbled as Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight continued its vertiginous climb. Heath Ledger's psychotic Joker seduced viewers nationwide to the tune of $75.6 million this weekend, making his movie the country's favorite once again—and by a $45.6 million margin. Here in Gotham's real-world counterpart, The Dark Knight claimed $1.1 million in sales—a Read More

Holy Waugh! Finally, The Intelligent Movie I’ve Been Waiting For

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED RUNNING TIME 135 minutes WRITTEN BY Jeremy Brock and Andrew Davies DIRECTED BY Julian Jarrold STARRING Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Greta Scacchi, Hayley Atwell

Here it is at last: the intelligent movie filmgoers have waited for all year. The film version of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited transforms Read More

Brideshead Revisited, Revisited! Lush Southern Wedding Throws Me for Loop!

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED RUNNING TIME 135 minutesWRITTEN BY Jeremy Brock and Andrew DaviesDIRECTED BY Julian JarroldSTARRING Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Emma Thompson, Hayley Atwell, Greta Scacchi, Michael Gambon

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, Read More