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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 12, 2019 12:43:03 GMT
Charles Dickens - prolific film ideaman with many movies and television programs based upon his works of fiction. There are also several films with Dickens as a real or fictionalized character. Essays, commentary, reviews and (of course) images welcomed, encouraged and appreciated ! Duplications are fine ! Hoping to see his entire filmography represented in the thread eventually. But please … no current politics here. 
Great Expectations (1946)  Watch for a young Alec Guinness  |
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Sept 12, 2019 13:04:33 GMT
Has anyone else seen Twist (2003)? It's a Canadian modern twist on Dickens' Oliver Twist, set in the hustler district of modern-day Toronto. I'll let the IMDB synopsis explain it for you: A gay re-telling of Charles Dickens' classic Oliver Twist. Updated to current times, moved out of the poor house and onto the streets, the tale is told from the point of Dickens' character, Artful Dodger--now Dodge. The prosaically beautiful Oliver falls into the hands of down-and-out young men. Dodge takes the young man under his wing and instructs him in the unforgiving arts of drug abuse and prostitution. As Oliver's innocence dissolves, both young men confront inner and outer demons and, strangely, it is Dodge who finds he cannot escape his past.  I saw it many years ago. I guess I liked it, it was nothing extraordinary, just interesting. Not your usual Dickens tale!  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 12, 2019 14:35:28 GMT
paulslaugh I did a A Christmas Carol / Scrooge quest a couple of years ago and found some of the really old film and tv adaptations ... including a snippet from a mostly lost silent version. Interesting comparing all of the treatments of this one rather short story. So many possibilities !
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 12, 2019 14:36:47 GMT
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Sept 12, 2019 14:41:50 GMT
It surprised the Dickens outta me! 
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 12, 2019 14:46:21 GMT
paulslaugh I did a A Christmas Carol / Scrooge quest a couple of years ago and found some of the really old film and tv adaptations ... including a snippet from a mostly lost silent version. Interesting comparing all of the treatments of this one rather short story. So many possibilities ! Did you assemble the pix/vids in order of the narrative? I just watched them as I located them ! There was a thread going so possibilities and recommends kept popping up . One I really liked was the version on the short lived The Famous Teddy Z
It's on YouTube and it's quite funny ! Season's Greetings from Al Floss
"It's Christmas time and Al, the Grinch tells Teddy and Laurie that they have to come in tomorrow to wait for something important to be delivered. When they complain to Al. he retorts by saying that years ago when he was starting, his mentor Maury Chekof did the same thing to him, so he has no sympathy for them. Later that evening Al's at home and Maury shows up as a ghost and tells Al he's going to be visited by three ghosts. And he is and they show him how his life was, is and could be. "
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 12, 2019 14:53:02 GMT
paulslaugh That will be fun... looking forward to seeing it ! As you may have noticed, I like... ok .. love community picture albums so hopefully we will be encouraged to add to the theme !
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 12, 2019 15:08:18 GMT
David Copperfield (1935)"A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world." Director: George Cukor Writers: Charles Dickens (by), Hugh Walpole (adaptation)  
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Post by divtal on Sept 12, 2019 17:39:58 GMT
I love Dickens ... reading, and watching. My favorite film adaptation is Great Expectations (1946), directed by David Lean. George Cukor's David Copperfield is a close second. And, of course Alistair Sim is a divine Scrooge. The BBC has done some wonderful presentations that were serialized for television. My favorite, among those is Nicholas Nickleby, done in 6 installments. I also bought the DVDs of their Bleak House, and The Pickwick Papers.I, vaguely, recall seeing an episode of the old Perry Mason series that had an "Oliver Twist-like" plot. Google at your service ... they found it for me.
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Post by divtal on Sept 12, 2019 17:59:34 GMT
Has anyone else seen Twist (2003)? It's a Canadian modern twist on Dickens' Oliver Twist, set in the hustler district of modern-day Toronto. I'll let the IMDB synopsis explain it for you: A gay re-telling of Charles Dickens' classic Oliver Twist. Updated to current times, moved out of the poor house and onto the streets, the tale is told from the point of Dickens' character, Artful Dodger--now Dodge. The prosaically beautiful Oliver falls into the hands of down-and-out young men. Dodge takes the young man under his wing and instructs him in the unforgiving arts of drug abuse and prostitution. As Oliver's innocence dissolves, both young men confront inner and outer demons and, strangely, it is Dodge who finds he cannot escape his past. I saw it many years ago. I guess I liked it, it was nothing extraordinary, just interesting. Not your usual Dickens tale! Thanks for the recommendation. I just looked for on IMDb, and will watch it on Prime Video soon .
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Post by teleadm on Sept 12, 2019 18:25:38 GMT
 The Pickwick Papers 1952. The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick (on the right) and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find.
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 12, 2019 18:32:14 GMT
In Superman 2, Clark Kent says he didn't hear about the bomb in Paris because he was "reading Dickens."
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Post by teleadm on Sept 12, 2019 18:58:41 GMT
 Magwitch sudden appearance in Great Expectations 1946, made me jump when I was a kid.
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Post by OldAussie on Sept 12, 2019 23:56:39 GMT
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Post by Catman on Sept 13, 2019 1:12:28 GMT
In 'The Unquiet Dead' episode of the first series of the Doctor Who revival, the Doctor and Rose team up with Charles Dickens to solve the mystery of a zombie plague on Christmas Eve in 1869 Cardiff.  |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Sept 13, 2019 3:53:06 GMT
Hard Times (1977) An excellent ! 4 part British mini-series..Was first filmed silent in the UK in 1915, status unknown ? Hard Times 1854 first appeared in Dickens's own weekly publication Household Words, to boost sales it was originally published in weekly instalments and boost sales it did ! The novel and faithful adaptation from Arthur Hopcraft tells the story of Thomas Gradgrind and his dutiful daughter Louisa against the backdrop of the industrial north. Unlike his other London based tales Hard Times is set in fictional Coketown, partly modelled on the industrial mill town Manchester, which is where the serial was filmed. The book reflects English society and satirises the social and economic conditions of the era. Dickens wished to educate readers about the working conditions of some of the factories in the industrial towns of Manchester, and Preston, and in his own words he hoped to.... "strike the heaviest blow in my power" 
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Post by biker1 on Sept 13, 2019 4:47:42 GMT
top 5..
great expectations (1946-uk)
david copperfield (1935-uk)
a tale of two cities (1935)
little dorrit (1987-uk)
nicholas nickleby (2002-uk)
bio..
the invisible woman (2013-uk)
Felicity Jones (an English Scarlet Johannson) plays Ellen Ternan, the mistress of a married Dickens in the 1850s. A well done period piece with Ralph Fiennes playing Dickens, as well as directing. Felicity Jones is first rate.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Sept 13, 2019 5:34:08 GMT
A favourite from the BBC an excellent production in six parts of Charles Dickens 1842 story first published in monthly installments Martin Chuzzlewit (1994) The novel and adaptation a satire on selfishness with a satirical take on the United States, included are a number of wonderful characterizations notably the villain Seth Pecksniff... A tremendous performance from Paul Scofield as Old Martin Chuzzlewit  |
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Post by kijii on Sept 13, 2019 5:44:46 GMT
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Post by divtal on Sept 13, 2019 17:11:15 GMT
top 5.. great expectations (1946-uk)
david copperfield (1935-uk)
a tale of two cities (1935)
little dorrit (1987-uk)
nicholas nickleby (2002-uk)bio.. the invisible woman (2013-uk)Felicity Jones (an English Scarlet Johannson) plays Ellen Ternan, the mistress of a married Dickens in the 1850s. A well done period piece with Ralph Fiennes playing Dickens, as well as directing. Felicity Jones is first rate. Biker1, thank you for the info on The Invisible Woman. I hadn't heard of it, but will certainly watch it. I recently ran across a YouTube video, about Catherine Dickens, and how a promising marriage, between two accomplished people, ultimately fell apart. Of course, Charles Dickens affair, leading to divorce, is prominently featured It's strangely illustrated in modern cartoon mode. That's a bit distracting, but the story is interesting. It runs about 10 minutes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhbQo83IqmI
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