The devastating reviews for his sweeping 1970 Irish romantic drama "Ryan's Daughter" caused Oscar-winning filmmaker David Lean to lose his creative mojo. "The notices were vitriolic," he confessed to ...
It's the early 1920s. Britons Adela Quested (Judy Davis) and her probable future mother-in-law Mrs. Moore (Peggy Ashcroft) have just arrived in Chandrapore in British India to visit Adela's unofficial ...
I was aware of David Lean’s cinematic adaptation of A Passage to India (1984) before I encountered E.M. Forster’s original novel, which celebrated its centenary in 2024. While the film was being shot ...
University of Birmingham provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. E.M. Forster’s final novel and masterpiece, A Passage to India, celebrated its centenary in 2024. It tells the ...