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 Joe Riley There's one very good reason why Evelyn Waugh's magnumopus has never been adapted for the big screen before.

Lavish period movie Brideshead Revisited has attracted mixed reviews in the US ...

FILM OF THE WEEK BRIDESHEAD REVISITED (12A) Julian Jarrold (133 mins) ** STARRING Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Hayley Atwell It is almost impossible to watch this new version of Brideshead Revisited without the double distraction of what has come before.

By Steven Rea Last year's Toronto International Film Festival launched more than a few exceptionally good, and, as things turned out, Oscar- contending titles: "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,""Eastern Promises,""Juno,""Michael Clayton,""No Country for Old Me" and "Persepolis" among them.