WHERE HAVE THE LITERARY FILMMAKERS GONE?

“The posh literary film (or PLF) is one of the relatively new petit-bourgeois enjoyments. Since the 1980s, indeed, we’ve had nearly all of EM Forster, a good deal of Henry James, more than half of Jane Austen, a bit of Orwell and Wilde and Graham Greene and, any minute now, no doubt, a Technicolor account of Pope’s Dunciad, starring every British actor who ever failed O-level English – which would make it a cast of thousands.” – The Telegraph (UK)