Brides head revisited6/19/2023 The ocean liner is stitched together from various locations. Charles and Sebastian’s ‘Oxford’ picnic was also filmed in the estate’s grounds.īrideshead Revisited location: the ocean liner: Eltham Palace, Eltham, London The round picture that Sebastian claims to hate so much, and the large crucifixion were both painted especially for the film. Vanbrugh went on to design Blenheim Palace, another popular film location (seen in Barry Lyndon and Kenneth Branagh’s 1996 Hamlet, among others), while his own house, Vanbrugh Castle in Greenwich, is featured in Neil Jordan’s Mona Lisa.Īlthough open to the public, you won’t be able to see all of the paintings in the film at Castle Howard. Begun in 1699, it was inhabited by 1709 but took over 100 years to be completely finished. Commissioned by the Earl of Carlisle, the house was the first architectural design by playwright John Vanbrugh ( The Relapse, The Provok’d Wife), with a little practical assistance from Nicholas Hawksmoor. And, as for the TV series, the sumptuous Castle Howard in North Yorkshire, with its scale, its style and – importantly – its fountain, couldn’t be bettered. The important location for ‘Brideshead’ itself was obviously a challenge. After the legendary TV series in 1981, a two-hour film was always going to suffer in comparison but, although the first half-hour feels like the story-so-far for somebody who’s missed the first episode, there’s lot to admire, not least a few stunning performances.
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