What with all the television shows, film retrospectives and books, it almost as if Charles Dickens has come back to life
1812 will be much in evidence this year in celebration of Charles Dickens's birth. The BFI is putting on a Dickens-on-screen retrospective. There have been BBC adaptations of Great Expectations and Edwin Drood. And later in the year Claire Tomalin's blockbuster biography, will be out in paperback. In the dreary winter months of an ongoing recession, what better refuge than among Dickens's bone-familiar archetypes.
Everyone has been made to watch David Lean's Great Expectations at least once, but there are lesser known gems in the BFI line-up. The 1922 silent version of Oliver Twist; George Cukor's 1935 David Copperfield, with Wc Fields as Mr Micawber; and Alastair Sim, in what look like the teeth worn by Alec Guinness four years later in The Ladykillers, played Scrooge in 1951. Every...
1812 will be much in evidence this year in celebration of Charles Dickens's birth. The BFI is putting on a Dickens-on-screen retrospective. There have been BBC adaptations of Great Expectations and Edwin Drood. And later in the year Claire Tomalin's blockbuster biography, will be out in paperback. In the dreary winter months of an ongoing recession, what better refuge than among Dickens's bone-familiar archetypes.
Everyone has been made to watch David Lean's Great Expectations at least once, but there are lesser known gems in the BFI line-up. The 1922 silent version of Oliver Twist; George Cukor's 1935 David Copperfield, with Wc Fields as Mr Micawber; and Alastair Sim, in what look like the teeth worn by Alec Guinness four years later in The Ladykillers, played Scrooge in 1951. Every...
- 1/21/2012
- by Emma Brockes
- The Guardian - Film News
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