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Dec 13, 1996 · But in this world I am forced instead to review “The Secret Agent,” an overcast new film made from a different novel by Joseph Conrad (from, indeed, perhaps the least filmable novel he ever wrote).
Jul 18, 2016 · Stephen Moss. Mon 18 Jul 2016 02.02 EDT. I t is a brave screenwriter who takes on Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent (BBC1, Sunday), which film critic Roger Ebert called “ perhaps the least...
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Reviewing the first episode for The Guardian, Stephen Moss began by noting the bravery of adapting a book "which film critic Roger Ebert called 'perhaps the least filmable novel [Conrad] ever wrote'". Moss observed that, "In the book, the first secretary makes a brilliant, witty, scathing case for attacking science – indeed, attacking time ...
Reviewing the first episode for The Guardian, Stephen Moss began by noting the bravery of adapting a book "which film critic Roger Ebert called 'perhaps the least filmable novel [Conrad] ever wrote'". Moss observed that, "In the book, the first secretary makes a brilliant, witty, scathing case for attacking science – indeed, attacking time ...
Jul 16, 2016 · Ever since, the years that sees an adaptation of The Secret Agent is unlikely to have been a good one for democracy. The BBC put the book on the screen twice in quick succession, in 1967 and 1975 ...
Jun 26, 2013 · A factually-based account of the exploits of Harvey Birch, a secret agent in the American War of Independence. The impecunious spy "belonged to a condition in life which rendered him the least ...
It seems that an adaptation was made in 1996 by Christopher Hampton that was savaged by critic Robert Ebert, who called the novel "the least filmable novel he ever wrote." Given these facts, it was a bold decision for the BBC to attempt their own miniseries version of The Secret Agent (2016) written by Tony Marchant with Charles McDougall as ...
