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It certainly has gone down in my book as one of the best film adaptations of a classic novel, Catholic or otherwise, ever made: the 11-hour 1981 TV adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited succeeded largely due to it’s faithful, almost word-by-word script—perfect for the filming of a short novel told in the first person [...]
reviewed by Christy Isinger I just finished re-reading Middlemarch. I think this must have been my third reading of the book, not including the innumerable times I’ve watched the entirety of the BBC mini-series production. But as is true with any classic, with our years of maturity we are better equipped to absorb the intricate [...]
The classic Parade’s End tetralogy by Catholic novelist Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) is being given the classy BBC/HBO treatment in a five-part miniseries scheduled to air in 2012. The script was penned by playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter, Tom Stoppard, and the cast list is mighty promising, too, including Miranda Richardson, Rebecca Hall, Rupert Everett, and [...]
Graham Greene’s novels have fared better than most “classics” when it comes to film adaptations. The trailer from Rowan Joffe’s new version—Joffe both wrote and directed—suggests that here’s another worth watching and comparing to the original, considered by many the most “Catholic” of Greene’s Catholic-themed novels. Among its other assets, the film’s cast includes Helen [...]
After wasting an hour or two too many several years ago on the much-ado-about-patent-nonsense controversy surrounding Dan Brown’s laughable blockbuster, The DaVinci Code, I have of late been sedulously avoiding all references to “Dan Brown”, “Angels and Demons”, “Ron Howard”, or “Tom Hanks”. But when I stumbled across Ross Douthat’s spade-calling op ed piece in [...]
reviewed by Debra Murphy As I write this, the Catholic diocese of Spokane, (like my own Archdiocese of Portland, OR) is going through bankruptcy proceedings brought on by sex abuse cases. I don’t know what the Portland numbers are, but in Spokane, according to this Catholic News Agency report, fully half of the $48 million [...]
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