The Bloomsbury Group &ct.
Films based on works by, and about members of the Set and their associates.
The Bloomsbury Group includes:
• Virginia & Leonard Woolf
• Vanessa & Clive Bell
• E. M. Forster
• Lytton Strachey
• Roger Fry
• Duncan Grant
• John Maynard Keynes
• David Garnett
Associated contemporaries include:
• T. S. Eliot
• Vita Sackville-West
• Katherine Mansfield
• Dora Carrington
• Lady Ottoline Morrell
In the comments I have written the name of the author where applicable
Also see:
• Victorian Writers
The Bloomsbury Group includes:
• Virginia & Leonard Woolf
• Vanessa & Clive Bell
• E. M. Forster
• Lytton Strachey
• Roger Fry
• Duncan Grant
• John Maynard Keynes
• David Garnett
Associated contemporaries include:
• T. S. Eliot
• Vita Sackville-West
• Katherine Mansfield
• Dora Carrington
• Lady Ottoline Morrell
In the comments I have written the name of the author where applicable
Also see:
• Victorian Writers
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- DirectorHumphrey JenningsStarsMichael RedgraveMyra HessJohn GielgudThis brief documentary-style film presents the status of Great Britain near the end of the Second World War by means of a visual diary for a baby boy born in September, 1944. Narration explains to "Timothy" what his family, his neighbors, and his fellow citizens are going through as the war nears its end, and what problems may remain for new Englishmen like Timothy to solve.E. M. Forster
- StarsWalter GoreSally GilmourMichael BaystonDavid Garnett
- DirectorGeorge HoelleringStarsJohn GroserDonald BissetClement McCallinThe tape version, if one exists, may be 114 minutes but the film, on original release, ran the same 140 minutes in the USA as it did in England. It is an experimental transposition of the Eliot play to the screen and, as such, and Eliot a poet, the film deals more with sound and meaning than it does film movement, i.e., static shots with voice overs. It is the story of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his struggles against temptation and personal vanity prior to his murder in the great Cathedral.T. S. Eliot
- StarsBarbara CouperAngela BaddeleyLennox MilneKatherine Mansfield
- DirectorGlen Byam ShawStarsMichael DenisonDulcie GrayNan MunroA rich but unhappy widow has scandalized her in-laws by re-marrying to a much younger Italian. When she dies in childbirth, complications ensue.E. M. Forster
- DirectorChristopher Mason
- StarsVanessa RedgraveJeremy BrettPhyllida LawThe life of Katherine Mansfield (Vanessa Redgrave), a prominent writer of the early twentieth century, interwoven with adaptations of some of her best-known short stories.
- DirectorJack GoldStarsTom BellShope ShodeindeElton CharlesSet in the early days of the reign of Queen Victoria provides an unusual historical representation of a black person's experience of England.David Garnett
- DirectorAnnette AponStarsAat CeelenThea KorterinkMichel van RooyVirginia Woolf
- DirectorColin GreggStarsRosemary HarrisMichael GoughSuzanne BertishA family spends their last summer at the seashore, before personal tragedy and the outbreak of World War I destroy their world.Virginia Woolf
- StarsWendy HillerHarry AndrewsMaurice DenhamAfter decades as a politician's wife, 85-year-old Lady Slane retires to a cottage after her husband dies. Struggling to rediscover her identity, she contends with intrusive family members.Vita Sackville-West
- DirectorJames IvoryStarsJames WilbyRupert GravesHugh GrantTwo English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekeeper Alec.E. M. Forster
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsJudy DavisVictor BanerjeePeggy AshcroftCultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.E. M. Forster
- DirectorJames IvoryStarsMaggie SmithHelena Bonham CarterDenholm ElliottLucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) shares a brief romance with George Emerson in Florence. Yet as she tries to move on with her life and look for marriage elsewhere, can she truly forget the events of that summer?E. M. Forster
- DirectorJohn ReidStarsJohn GielgudJane BirkinFéodor AtkineIt was only after her death that the work of New Zealand writer, Katherine Mansfield, became well known, thanks to her editor and husband, John Middleton-Murry. She had left New Zealand to travel around France, and she died there from tuberculosis. Thirty three years later, Middleton-Murry is invited to France to approve a new edition of her collected letters and journals, and there he meets a young woman, Marie Taylor (also from NZ) who reminds him strongly of his dead wife. As the two become friends, Marie starts reading old correspondence between Mansfield and her husband, and discovers the true nature of their relationship and that Mansfield's dying wishes regarding her writings have been ignored by the manipulative, and less-than-honest, Middleton-Murry.
- DirectorBarrie GavinStarsThomas AllenPhilip LangridgeRichard Van AllanAn opera by Benjamin Britten, on a libretto by E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier, adapted from the story by Herman Melville. Billy Budd is a young sailor aboard a British man-o'-war, persecuted by his master-at-arms, Claggart. Accused of mutiny, Budd accidently strikes Claggart dead, leaving Captain Vere with no choice but to hang him.E. M. Forster
- CreatorPatricia HodgeStarsJanet McTeerDavid HaigCathryn HarrisonMelodrama detailing the real-life love affair between feminist writer Vita Sackville-West and novelist Violet Keppel against the backdrop of post-World War I England and opposition by Vita's politician husband Harold Nicolson. Vita and Violet's romantic relationship becomes increasingly obsessive which spawns destructive feelings of possessiveness and jealousy between them.
- DirectorPatrick GarlandStarsEileen AtkinsA one-woman show based on the writings of Virginia Woolf, the tragic writer who committed suicide in 1941.Virginia Woolf
- DirectorJames IvoryStarsAnthony HopkinsEmma ThompsonVanessa RedgraveSet in the early 20th century, class distinctions and troubled relations affect the relationship between two families and the ownership of a cherished British estate known as Howards End.E. M. Forster
- StarsAnn CrumbMichael BallKevin ColsonA young soldier falls in love with a starving stage actress.David Garnett
- DirectorDerek JarmanStarsClancy ChassayJill BalconSally DexterA dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language. A series of sketches depict the unfolding of his life from boyhood, through the era of the first World War, to his eventual Cambridge professorship and association with Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes. The emphasis in these sketches is on the exposition of the ideas of Wittgenstein, a homosexual, and an intuitive, moody, proud, and perfectionistic thinker generally regarded as a genius.
- DirectorBrian GilbertStarsWillem DafoeMiranda RichardsonRosemary HarrisIn 1915, Tom and Viv elope, but her gynecological and emotional problems disrupt their honeymoon. Her father is angry because Tom's poetry doesn't bring in enough to live, but her mother is happy Viv has found a tender and discreet husband.
- DirectorDeborah WarnerStarsFiona ShawA film version of a performance by Fiona Shaw of T.S. Eliot's great poem. First published in 1922, " The Waste Land " remains a startlingly modern work, and this film offers a unique opportunity to reassess its relevance today. A first film by the acclaimed theatre director Deborah Warner, the production has been shot in a spare, simple but remarkably powerful manner, revealing both the comedy and the tragedy of the poem. Long takes complement and capture the richly varied tones and sometimes startling shifts in Fiona Shaw's performance.T. S. Eliot
- DirectorChristopher HamptonStarsEmma ThompsonJonathan PryceSteven WaddingtonThe platonic relationship between artist Dora Carrington (Dame Emma Thompson) and writer Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce) in the early twentieth century.
- DirectorCharles SturridgeStarsHelena Bonham CarterJudy DavisRupert GravesAfter a rich Edwardian widow impulsively marries a handsome but poor Tuscan dentist and dies in childbirth, her English in-laws try to gain custody of the baby.E. M. Forster
- DirectorSally PotterStarsTilda SwintonBilly ZaneQuentin CrispAfter Queen Elizabeth I commands him not to grow old, a young nobleman struggles with love and his place in the world.Virginia Woolf
- DirectorMarleen GorrisStarsVanessa RedgraveNatascha McElhoneMichael KitchenIn 1923 London, socialite Clarissa Dalloway's (Vanessa Redgrave's) well-planned party is overshadowed by the return of an old suitor she had known thirty-three years earlier.Virginia Woolf
- DirectorStephen DaldryStarsMeryl StreepNicole KidmanJulianne MooreThe story of how the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives.
- DirectorEric Neal YoungStarsHermione LeeFrances SpaldingMolly HiteBiography documentary on the writer for "The Hours" DVD special features.
- DirectorFiona SamuelStarsClaire Van BeekSarah GrahamKate ElliottThe life of Katherine Mansfield, a New Zealand writer, who moved to Edwardian England when she was 19 and became part of the modernist circle of writers there like D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.
- StarsJames NortonEve BestRupert Penry-JonesAn intimate and emotional drama for BBC Two about the revolutionary Bloomsbury group.
- StarsMatthew MacfadyenHayley AtwellPhilippa CoulthardThe social and class divisions in early 20th century England through the intersection of three families - the wealthy Wilcoxes, the gentle and idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.E. M. Forster
- DirectorNick CohenStarsChristina CartyImogen StubbsNatasha WightmanA cinematic adaptation of Virginia Woolf's short story, 'Kew Gardens.'Virginia Woolf
- DirectorChanya ButtonStarsGemma ArtertonElizabeth DebickiIsabella RosselliniThe fascinating true story of the love affair between socialite and popular author Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf.
- DirectorTom HooperStarsJames CordenJudi DenchJason DeruloA tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life.T. S. Eliot