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 ...

Fear not, purists. Brideshead stands. Now, you may argue about what the filmmakers behind the first feature adaptation of “Brideshead Revisited” have decided to emphasize and the details they left out ...

Like the Evelyn Waugh novel on which it is based, "Brideshead Revisited" is an idea-driven film about conflicts of faith and class, and how each gets complicated by sexual passion. But even if its ...

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 ...

Lust for companionship. For God. For love. For real estate. For family. Everyone in Brideshead Revisited is hungry for something, and it gets them into terrific trouble. But even lust in pre-WWII ...

The 2008 film adaptation is available to stream for free on BBC iPlayer and delivers the same rich estate setting that made ...

For whatever reason, when television dramas tackle a teenage love triangle, an overbearing mother and simmering homosexuality, the result is usually mocked for its ineptness or melodramatic nature.

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 ...

A finely wrought, Merchant-Ivory-style Brit-lit adaptation rather curiously unloaded by Miramax smack amid Stateside summer tentpole season -- just before fall fest season and the unveiling of awards ...

Befriended by aristocrat Sebastian Flyte, Oxford student Charles Ryder finds that the power and privilege experienced by the family is seductive. On a visit to the ancestral home, Brideshead, he falls ...

Guilt, intrigue, lust, nobility, and religion: Brideshead Revisited has it all. To the casual observer, historical epics named for and set in expansive English estates might recall romantic dramas a ...

Human figures may be glimpsed amid the expensively furnished wastes of “Brideshead Revisited,” but I admit I lost sight of them for whole stretches. There was so ...