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Great Expectations

March 2023

  • Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham in Great Expectations.

    Adapt and survive: why Dickens still endures on page, stage and screen

    The new version of Great Expectations is the BBC’s seventh, while A Christmas Carol is the most adapted English classic ever. What is it about these stories that keeps us wanting more?

October 2022

  • Robbie Coltrane in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

    ‘He was so kind to the Harry Potter kids’: director Mike Newell on Robbie Coltrane

    The Goblet of Fire director remembers a kind collaborator, a wonderfully authoritative character actor and a true eccentric

May 2020

  • Low expectations ... Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham in the 2011 BBC adaptation of Great Expectations.

    What the Dickens! Do we really need another TV Great Expectations?

    The literary classic is getting the Tom Hardy and Steven Knight treatment for BBC One. Great if you’re a newcomer – not so great if you’ve seen it a trillion times before

July 2015

  • Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I of England

    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best… spinsters

    From Elizabeth I to Eleanor Rigby, we cast aside Jane Austen’s universal truth to pick our favourite single women

March 2015

  • Douglas Booth

    Douglas Booth: 'I'm a 90-year-old trapped in a young body'

    He’s mates with Miley Cyrus and can play anyone from Bullingdon boy to Boy George. Just don’t call actor Douglas Booth handsome

November 2012

  • Great Expectations

    The Guardian Film Show audio
    The Guardian Film Show podcast: Great Expectations and Sightseers - audio

    On this week's show with Henry Barnes, Peter Bradshaw and Catherine Shoard, we talk to director Mike Newell about his adaptation of Great Expectations and chat to the disarmingly charming stars of offbeat English holiday/murder film Sightseers. Also up for review are Thomas Vinterberg's chilling The Hunt, and Rise of the Guardians, an animation in which the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Father Christmas realise they need a new member of the team to help fight the evil Bogeyman

  • Jeremy Irvine and Holliday Grainger in a film still from Great Expectations

    Reel review
    Great Expectations - video review

    Henry Barnes Peter Bradshaw and Catherine Shoard review Mike Newell's adaptation of Great Expectations

    • The Guardian film show
      The Guardian Film Show: Great Expectations and Sightseers - video review

    • Film talk
      Great Expectations: Jeremy Irvine and Mike Newell on filming Dickens - video

    • Ralph Fiennes: 'I get angry easily, but I repress it'

September 2012

  • Great Expectations, What Maisie Knew and Frances Ha - Toronto film festival video

    A raft of literary adaptations are getting their first screenings at the Toronto film festival, says Catherine Shoard

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