WHY revisit it? That is the first question people ask about the film version of Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh's elegiac novel about faith, love and aristocratic young men between the wars. Surely ...

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 ...

MANY of us can still remember, with drooping eyelids and a rising tide of egalitarian distaste, that name so familiar, "that conjuror's name of ancient power", Brideshead. Turns out 659 minutes of ...

In a sense, and depending on your reading of Waugh's novel, it's the icy will of Lady Marchmain that seems to dominate - a great role for Emma. There had been much pressure to pack Brideshead ...

"It's not a bad camp, Sir," said Hooper. "A big, private house with two or three lakes. You never saw such a thing." "Yes I did," I replied world-wearily. "I've been here before." I had been there; ...

Felicity Jones, far left, as Cordelia Flyte, Hayley Atwell as Julia Flyte, Emma Thompson as Lady Marchmain and Matthew Goode as Charles Ryder in Brideshead RevisitedNicola Dove / Miramax Brideshead ...

Cineplexes this summer look a lot like classic television: Get Smart, Sex and the City, and Speed Racer all expanded half-hour TV shows to something closer to two hours. Now comes Brideshead Revisited ...

Emma Thompson is Lady Marchmain in the 2008 film of Evelyn Waugh’s classic story Brideshead Revisited. It was a struggle [jokes]. When you had the ageing make-up on and you looked in the mirror for ...