Certainly that’s the case with David Lean’s “Great Expectations” (1946), which has been called the greatest of all the Dickens films, and which does what few movies based on great books can do: Creates pictures on the screen that do not clash with the images already existing in our ...
Fess Parker leads the charge as a courageous spy, and the movie enthralls viewers with its thrilling depiction of sheer heroism and perseverance. Released: 1956 Directed by: Francis D. Lyon 18 Great Expectations Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria 5 votes Great Expectations is a modern ...
“Great Expectations” begins as a great movie (I was spellbound by the first 30 minutes) but ends as only a good one, and I think that’s because the screenplay, byMitch Glazer, too closely follows the romantic line. Dickens, who of course had more time and space to move around in,...
" has given us a classic adaptation of Charles Dickens' beloved bildungsroman "Great Expectations." It is skillfully made and adeptly performed; even so it doesn't really add anything to the canon.
Great Expectations is full of extreme imagery – poverty; prison ships and chains, and fights to the death – and has a colourful cast of characters who have entered popular culture. These include the eccentric Miss Havisham, the cold and beautiful Estella, and Joe, the kind and g...
Great Expectations2013-06-25 07:07 0 3459 【中文片名】: 远大前程 【片名】: Great Expectations 【又名】: 爱情有刺 【地区】: 美国 【影片类型】: 剧情 / 爱情 【影片年代】: 1998 【导演】: Alfonso Cuarón 【编剧】: Mitch Glazer / 查尔斯·狄更斯 【主演】: Ethan Hawke / Gwyneth Paltrow ...
I thought Great Expectations was a horror movie when I saw it for the first time, split into four parts and aired over the course of a week on Elwy Yost's Magic Shadows back in the '70s. (I've written about Yost before; everybody deserved someone like Uncle Elwy back in the age of...
Based on Erich Maria Remarque’s landmark novel of the same name (which was first adapted into a feature film in 1930), this award-winning German-language movie tells the story of a young German soldier (Felix Kammerer) whose naive expectations of fighting for his country are shattered by ...
Meanwhile, there’s a point to be made here about color versus black-and-white. If ever a story would be even more effectively and dramatically told in full, living black-and-white--a la David Lean’s brilliant 1946 movie version of “Great Expectations” in which Simmons played Estella-...
Great Expectations is full of extreme imagery – poverty; prison ships and chains, and fights to the death – and has a colourful cast of characters who have entered popular culture. These include the eccentric Miss Havisham, the cold and beautiful Estella, and Joe, the kind and g...