The Independent (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
... her marriage – and there is a lot of swooning and languishing over her that is reminiscent of Charles Ryder's obsession with the Flyte family in Brideshead Revisited. Novels begin to cross-pollinate as the book progresses. There are moments from Donna Tartt's The Secret History in a wild dinner scene, and shades of Pride and Prejudice when the narrator finds himself at Lady Serena's...
Little Green Footballs (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Charles Ryder has a video of Robert Malley (the Obama aide who may or may not be an Obama aide, depending on who you listen to), at the June 2007 American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Conference in Washington DC, sharing the stage with radical anti-Israel academic Sarah Roy and Palestinian diplomat Alif Safieh: A Future Obama Advisor speaks at the ADC Conference . There’s some...
Boxwish (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
“It’s the most beautiful house I’ve ever seen,” gushes Charles Ryder ( Matthew Goode ) about Brideshead, the impressive stately pile he visits in the period drama and he’s not alone in thinking that way. Castle Howard stands in for Brideshead, the ancestral home to the Marchmain family in Brideshead Revisited and since the film’s release last month the number of tourists heading to the...
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... images and moments that feel at once staid and quivering. Matthew Goode plays the central role, Charles Ryder, the aspiring painter who becomes enchanted first with his Oxford classmate Sebastian Flyte (Ben Whishaw) and then with his home, the enormous estate Brideshead, and then with his sister, Julia (Hayley Atwell). Charles can see nothing but beauty and glory in the Flytes'...
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
... images and moments that feel at once staid and quivering. Matthew Goode plays the central role, Charles Ryder, the aspiring painter who becomes enchanted first with his Oxford classmate Sebastian Flyte (Ben Whishaw) and then with his home, the enormous estate Brideshead, and then with his sister, Julia (Hayley Atwell). Charles can see nothing but beauty and glory in the Flytes'...
high up in the trees (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
... of this zine has been borrowed from Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. It is a line spoken by Charles Ryder's father, and in my copy of the book it falls on page 82. Postcards from… But for the moon nobody could see us.Edition of sixty.October, 2008.~ Lay claim to this zine ~This zine is the third in a loosely grouped series of postcard collage zines. Of the first two (I and II)...
