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"David Lean again, in perhaps the best translation of a Dickens novel to the screen, and surely the greatest of Dickens’s novels too. Crisp, brilliantly cast, a flawless rendition of the period, and amazingly faithful to the novel, Great Expectations is the model that every Masterpiece Theater rendition of an English classic strives to emulate, only better, far better than that."

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Kate Mara recommended The English Patient (1996) in Movies (curated)

The English Patient (1996)

1996 | Drama, Romance, War

8.9

(7 Ratings)

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"Okay, what else? Oh, The English Patient. These are in no particular order, by the way. I just love a sweeping romance. It’s one of the best scores ever. I love cinematic music. I think music is so important to a film and the music in that film is, to me, pretty perfect. And I love a tragic love story."

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Owen Kline recommended Love and Death on Long Island (1998) in Movies (curated)

Love and Death on Long Island (1998)

1998 | International, Comedy, Drama

(0 Ratings)

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"TWO criminally underrated John Hurt movies in one list?!? This is about a stuffy, old English author with a distaste for the lowbrow who happens to step into the wrong movie, Hot Pants College 2. He becomes infatuated with its teen heart-throb star (Jason Priestley) and goes on to stalk and befriend him. Just a brilliantly written slow-burn character study."

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Betty Fussell recommended Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1) in Books (curated)

"In my 30s when I taught college English, freshmen had to take a Great Books course, so I got to teach Oedipus and Aristotle — a real disconnect for Americans whose gods were Reason and Progress. For years I kept a black and white photo of a stone-carved head of blind Oedipus next to a photo of Ezra Pound just before his death."

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Kelly MacDonald recommended The Pursuit of Love in Books (curated)

"I loved this book and couldn’t believe it took me so long to come across it. It’s about growing up and the grown ups that haven’t quite. Set in a properly upper class English world that I’ve only ever witnessed in books, I was tickled to read about these kids hiding and conspiring in airing cupboards (just like I did as a kid)."

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