Documentary on the series Brideshead Revisited (1/5)

[fatparrot66]

1981 the world had turned so very open-minded and accepting. If young men chose to risk their eternal souls then mankind had evolved beyond and above the laws of God. The strength of our secular superiority encouraged us to engage absolute belief in becoming non-believers. Then came NEMESIS!!!!

Can anyone seriously deny that HIV/AIDS is a punishment from GOD sent to cleanse our societies from degenerates and the depravity they radiiate amongst the young and innocent?

Sodomy:GOD says "NO!".

[sabinerey]

@fatparrot66 that is a terrible thing to say.

[324wilson]

Only the books by P.G Wodehouse and Agatha Christie can rival those of Evelyn Waugh in English literature.

[mymonaro2008]

What year was this documentary screened?

[anhiti]

when was this documentary made or screened? I want to use it in a project, and the need the full reference

[LLACEM]

Its like meeting old friends that you knew many years ago and cant help thinking what it would have been like if you had stayed in their world. Brideshead i miss you.

swimmerpaul.

[948tt]

Very good documentary.

1)Clifford Longey is wrong, the family become Catholic because of Lady Marchmain, it is due to her that her husband becomes a Catholic and that the children are Catholic.

2) When it mentions the children of the Marchmains they forget to mention the elder brother.

Evelyn wanted to write a novel on the effect of divine grace on a family, a very ambitious project.

[Divertedflight]

Peter York and clifford Longley were both wrong when they stated that the Marchmains were an old Roman Catholic family (Longley more exactly wrong than York)

The family became RC when Lord Marchmain converted in order to marry.

[OtterlyOttery]

@Divertedflight Well noticed!!!! Evidently they did not read the book properly! Anyway I adore this adaptation! Actually this is what 'quality' Television in the UK was all about back then! Those halcyon days! Wonderful story, stupendous production, glorious Englishness! Goodness I love this story!!! TV Heaven!

[anonUK]

@OtterlyOttery

Jolly super, what what! And now returning to the real world...

[IbnHawariyyun]

One of the greatest to grace the small screen! Bellissimo!!!!

[DavidMJordan]

Probably the best TV series ever. If I'm asked what my favourite films are this always springs to the top of the list- even though it's not officially a film. And this in spite of it lauding: Aristos, the glitter of Oxford, homosexual love and Catholicism.

Conspicuous consumption made good by Waugh's immaculate use of language and this beautiful adaptation.

[MimPagga]

I agree 100%. Nothing I ever saw could beat it

[parisiana1898]

Thank you for posting this - I didn't know it existed. I remember weeping when the series ended, as the jeep turned that corner for the last time. It was the greatest thing I'd ever seen on tv, and assumed I'd never see it again (as it premiered in the pre-video era). I later traveled to Castle Howard, Oxford and Venice to walk in the footsteps of the characters and cast.

This documentary brings back so many lovely memories!

[tich302001]

I loved this mini series I was 12 when I saw Brideshead for the first time brilliant acting by Anthony Andrews and Jeremy Irons they made this mini series.

[AlicetheCamel7]

I love this series! wish I was alive in the 80s when it first came out though lol

[clivetemple]

I was. I was at University in Bristol and used to twiddle my thumbs around my girlfriends house, waiting to go down the pub, whilst she and her mates stayed in and watched this. It then became (I believe) the fastest ever repeat on British TV (about 3 months later). I watched it then and many times since. To me this is the pinnacle of British TV drama. It does not get any better.

[ryko26]

"celebrating 50 years of great ITV drama..." has there been been ANY "great ITV drama" in the last 10 or even 20 years?

[josodeloro]

Haha! xD

[YUMMYngbird]

I loved the book for the characters and the language, but the ending.. I just don't see the logic in Waugh's making Charles religious.

[kellehj6]

All the characters are religous- its what Waugh described as the effect of divine grace on thie lives. Thats what the book is all about (amonst other things of course)

[YUMMYngbird]

Yeah, in a way. How God pulls people to him like a fisherman, or as Jesus, the fisher of men. But Charles is not religious by his own will before the end.

[misskaderzin]

I know he's at least twice my age but I'm always impressed how amazingly well Jeremy Irons has aged, there's still something very sexy about him (poss. to do with his voice?) - Anthony Andrews on the other hand not so much...

Thank you for posting!

[pyropos]

I still remember how I love this TV Series when I was a girl!!!!!!

[meladorimagpie]

thanks so much for uploading this! i'm in the midst of watching the series now!

[davidshep45]

When I first saw this series way back in the 80's I fell in love. I loved the characters and the slow pace in which the movie moves along. I hated to see it end. It left me yearning for more.

[MRMETHOS1]

Same here. I was ten and happened to turn the tv onto PBS. I was instantly hooked; years later I understood the connection, my dad was a suffering alcoholic and I related to the characters on that sad level. In college I wrote a paper on the story and aced the course. Today as a writer, I have read much, but this one is still my very, very most favorite. And forget any remakes of the original series; it stuck by the book. The remake does not.

[arielavio]

MRMETHOS1 thanks for your story, it was like a haiku. You must be a very good writer.

[sheriwhispers]

Timeless story, that down through the years remains a great piece of Literature, an film, these types of people are still with us today in different degrees . great story so much truth

[lochness11]

I recommend the full Brideshead Revisited,on 4 DVD's.(Collectors Edition).Interested in life? Buy it.Closed mind? Not recommended.

[Melimoo]

thank you for posting!

[ladyblakeney2191]

Who narrated this documentary?

[sirninian]

Simon Callow.

[ladyblakeney2191]

Oh thank you! That was going to kill me.

[bolderiks]

Mike, I think your sense of humor is ok.

Cheers !

[creolelady182]

I think there is an episode in one's life that one remembers for a lifetime. I loved this series and yet these people's lives were totally different from my then unhappy life. This backwoods Louisiana girl could relate to the challenges of the aristocratic Marchmnain family. Television can not get any better than this. I was also charmed by the characters and the locations that I made a trip to Castle Howard 4 years ago. It was worth every penny and then some and I vow to return.

[mikemosocw]

you sound like a real sad loser!

[creolelady182]

I was trying to make a point you stupid idiot on how this fantastic series was universal in scope.

[mikemosocw]

we don't need allthat bullshit! self indulgent poser!

[creolelady182]

why don't you blow your brains out, that is if you have any and you don't

[mikemosocw]

you need to get things in to some sort of perspective, writing that I should blow my brains out because i made my opinions known, you must be a very sad individual. Now apologies!

[Neurotrash1982]

you, mike, are possibly the most pathetic troller I have yet encountered in all the years I have wandered the internets. noone actually buys it you know.

[mikemosocw]

haven't you got anything better to do other than to persecute others? i happen to be in a wheel chair, i am paralysed from the neck down, i get my kicks from voicing my opinion, is that so bad?

[Neurotrash1982]

hahaha! keep trying boy. as if someone who *would* be paralysed from the neck down would be excused from treating other people right. but obviously this is just you fooling yourself into thinking everyone who doesnt share your misplaced cynicism about the internet is automatically going to fall for that juvenile nonsense of yours. you fail. now go back to ED.

[bolderiks]

Dear Mike, you not only think as a monkey, but I bet you even look like one...

[mikemosocw]

you may be right.

[MultiSigrun]

@creolelady182 how exciting i would love to see the castle specially the chapel..

must be golly!

[MrPogle]

Thanks so much!

[Jetrojack04]

Brilliant! I love this book and movie and this documentary is spectacular. Thank you so much for posting it.

[rumpraisin]

Seeing this reminds me of a party I was at at an abandoned stately home similar to the one in Brideshead. There was a piano in virtually every room because the owner fancied himself as a composer. The host of the party used to enjoy rolling the pianos outside and smashing them up.

[lochness11]

WONDERFUL! Your clips encapsulate very well my copy of the full film, clips of which I have posted on my YouTube site.The comments in this documentary are so,so,spot on.Spiffing.

[dlbarch]

Excellent! Thank you for re-posting the fifth installment. Pure joy to watch. You are the best!

[dlbarch]

Great posting, but I also couldn't view the fifth installment. Just that infuriating "loading" circle.

[europecinema]

Though the fifth part works fine to fine, I have posted it again (the clip is called Documentary on the series Brideshead Revisited (5copy2/5)

[sirpercy2191]

Thank you for posting this! I shall never become sick of Anthony Andrews or Brideshead.

[chillertheater]

What a wonderful documentary! I could not see the fifth segment, for some reason, but really enjoyed the rest. Thanks so much for posting it!

[europecinema]

The fifth part works perfectly to me... You should try again! And thanks for your kind comment!

[dollybirdie]

Thank you so much!

[rosapurpurea]

Goodness! I've never saw this before! Jeremy Irons was sooo young...(and so naked apparently... ;) Thanks for sharing!!!!

[pauloxaxb]

Thank you very much!

[bunnycure]

Thank you, it's really marvelous to see this!

[europecinema]

My pleasure... Thanks for having stopped by!