Film review: GREAT EXPECTATIONS, from Built For Speed

With their wonderful, ornate prose and vivid imagery, Charles Dickens’ novels seem ideally suited to cinema adaptations.  David Lean realized this potential magnificently with his atmospheric 1946 version of Great Expectations.  Less successful was Alfonso Cuaron’s miscalculated modern day version of Great Expectations with Ethan Hawke and Robert de Niro. The latest adaptation of this novel, from British director Mike

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Charles Dickens in Four Minutes

Hear the story of Charles Dickens in 4 minutes. He has been the best and most influential English writer since Shakespeare. Broadcast on Songs of Hope on Sunday 2012 12 23 on 88.3 Southern FM. Songs of Hope website: http://songsofhope883.wordpress.com/ Keywords: Christianity, faith, God, hope, Lord, religion, spirituality, gospel, Christian, history, music, stories, Charles Dickens

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