[Rummyfan]

My favorite Dickens adaptation... And always loved this guy:

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Terrific movie. They don't get any better, "Eh, Pip?"

[GOPJ]

Bob Huke, camera operator on the film, recalled to Brownlow that "he said, for instance, when we shot the children, we would use 35mm lenses, and 24mm, which was the widest lens in those days. Even on close-ups we'd use the 35mm, so the set around them would seem so much bigger. But when we shot them when they're grown-ups, we'd use longer lenses. 50mm and 75mm. So it was exactly the same set, but it was a vast, cavernous shadowy place when they were kids, and it was a dreary, dirty, run-down house when they were adults."

Cool post. ping

[Rowdyone]

It’s such a tragedy that children don’t read more, especially the classics. But then not enough of them learn how to read proficiently in school nowadays. And David Lean is my all time favorite Director.

[proxy_user]

Well, Dickens was certainly read in my Austen-Dickens seminar at Yale Grad School. Every book of both authors in one semester! Plus extensive critical and biographical material, and three term papers.

[Dr. Sivana]

I was assigned “Emma” and “Great Expectations”in high school, but as an adult I went a Dickens kick and read “Pickwick Papers”, “Tale of Two Cities”, “Nicholas Nickleby”, “Bleak House”, “Hard Times”, “Martin Chuzzlewit”. My wife has read the Austen canon several times.

Dickens writes long form, but some of them are well worth it. “Bleak House” was great, “Martin Chuzzlewit” very under-rated, “Tale of Two Cities” very important. “Hard Times”, on the other hand, was a little too much, even for Dickens, and halfway through the book he seems to be presenting an apology for easy divorce the motivation for which might stem from his own bad behaviour.

[Buttons12]

Recently in conversation with a young attorney (35-ish) I made a reference to Jarndyce and Jarndyce. He wasn’t familiar with it. “Bleak House,” I explained. He’d never heard of that. At which point I decided not to mention Dickens.

[nopardons]

BTTT

[nuconvert]

Great movie