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By Demetrios Matheou This pale cinematic version of Evelyn Waugh's novel can't emerge from the shadow of the classic TV adaptation Film Brideshead Revisited Julian Jarrold 132 MINS, 12A How to Lose Friends & Alienate People Robert B Weide 106 MINS, 15 It may seem obvious and a journalistic knee-jerk to compare the first film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited with the "classic" television series of the Eighties, that is to say with something made 27 years ago and therefore irrelevant to much of the film's audience.

By Geoffrey Macnab First Night BRIDESHEAD REVISITED Locarno Film Festival LOCARNO, SWITZERLAND *** Swiss audiences are less preoccupied with the fate of Sebastian Flyte's teddy bear than their British counterparts.

The TV series was a cult smash and soon Brideshead Revisited hits the big screen. Sarah Todd visited the film set at castle howard to find out more. I was born the year Brideshead Revisited was shown on television," reveals Eleanor Course.

By Michael O'Sullivan For months now, "Brideshead Revisited" fans the world over have been atwitter over the possibility that the new feature film based on Evelyn Waugh's beloved 1945 novel would not include an appearance by Aloysius the teddy bear.