Tag Archives: Time Regained

At the Cinema | A Closed Book – Tom’s hammy, Daryl’s cheesy: Do they make a tasty duo?

Posted on 19 February 2010 by Jason Best

  Prolific French-based Chilean filmmaker Raul Ruiz has spent five decades making everything from impenetrable avant-garde films to classy art-house movies (notably his 1999 Proust adaptation Time Regained). Notwithstanding this eclectic career, it still comes as a surprise to find … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Time Regained – Raul Ruiz’s masterly screen version of Proust: as delicious as a Madeleine dipped in tea

Posted on 7 September 2009 by Jason Best

For years, the cognoscenti have agreed on two things about Marcel Proust’s epic 2,500-page, seven-volume semi-autobiographical novel A la recherché du temps perdu – it’s the greatest novel ever written and it’s un-filmable. Over the decades, the challenge of putting … Continue reading →

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