Brideshead - Charles reminisces

[@olivergrumitt8033]

Even after almost 40 years Brideshead Revisited remains the finest, greatest, most memorable, most brilliant, Excellent drama series ever made. No other drama, in my opinion, comes close. In fact there are not enough superlatives In the English language to adequately describe its absolute brilliance. The nostalgia I have for Brideshead Revisited is as great As Charles Ryder had for Brideshead Castle. The film, while still good, of course is not in the same league as the TV production. However, for those who would rather watch Brideshead Revisited for 2 hours instead of 13, it is good enough.

[@susanfraser6371]

I loved the series so much that I organized my first trip to Europe in 1983 around it. I visited Castle Howard, Oxford, London and Venice. It was unforgettable.

[@MsSin8]

The best show I have ever seen. I couldn't stop thinking about Sebastian and Charles for days afterwards, the sadness of it all. Definitely a must-see for anyone who has loved and lost.

[@HuPAC2003]

This show allowed me to gain a fresh and deep slice of perspective with regard to life, with all of its sadness, love, beauty, and reality.

[@kathyg8535]

13 years on and people like me are still enjoying this beautiful montage - thanks so much for uploading

[@catherinedoyle1194]

I feel this series is one of the best and most beautiful that was made for TV!!!!

[@classy_dweller]

I so deeply love this film and its idyllic bygone time and its idyllic setting...

[@avian8338]

You're not alone

[@ickiepoo]

Absolutely beautiful. I think Brideshead Revisited is the best film ever done. The script, scenery, costumes, music, acting--everything came together in a perfect whole.

[@thomashogan16]

Like St. Sebastian, this film sends arrows through my heart and flesh. Its stark honesty points to life's secrets. And the constant Catholic joy and guilt. A masterpiece.

[@creolelady182]

I think I have seen this film about 10 times. First saw it in 1981 on PBS. Then I had to visit the place where it was filmed near Yorkshire England. Loved it! Worth every penny. I walked the grounds all by myself and then went to the Temple of The 4 winds.

[@lorenzosmith3112]

"BEAUTIFUL".

[@timoterho1762]

such noble music....

[@erpollock]

This film is truly a masterpiece. And after reading a few pages of the novel, I felt, there is no point in my own writing anymore. What could surpass the unsurpassable.

[@raygreen5926]

A veritable masterpiece and a work of art that will endure

[@valleybrook]

One of the best series made ever!

[@pipgolden1280]

The most beautiful story and then when you visit Castle Howard, it actually comes alive. The music is perfect! I watch it every year

[@tanetahi]

Yes - Simon Howard and his family, the descendants of the third Earl of Carlisle, who initiated its construction, live there. It is definitely worth seeing, if you can get up to Yorkshire.

[@samuelelias5949]

Charles and Sebastian: Contra Mundum...forever.

[@thomashogan16]

Indeed.

[@Bendaak]

Thanks for uploading - I'm a huge Brideshead Revisited fan.

[@grateful1850]

THIS video is the best I have seen of Brideshead Revisited.Thank you so much for this.To me it represents the kind of Britain I knew...gone forever!But we will always have our sweet memories.No one can take that away from us!

[@Pachelbel_PaperDarts]

Wonderfully selected and edited. I love both characters in the film as well as the theme which I think is very British. I want to have this music playing in the back as I walk down the isle at my wedding. Thank you so much. This is such a good quality clip.

[@suevialania]

Um classico! Perfeito! From Portugal with love!!! Saudades!

[@tanetahi]

Its is Castle Howard in North Yorkshire. Construction was started at the beginning of the Eighteenth Century - but the house wasn't completed for another hundred years. During that time changes were made to Vanbrugh's original design, and the result is that the house has two wings that don't match! The original part is Baroque, but the last wing was executed in Palladian style.

[@contralto25]

I'd live to see it all again. 🧡

[@thomasnicholls8610]

You can buy the DVD set

[@gladystoukie]

I love this series!!! The passage of Lord Marchmain's death I read to my father, shortly before his own death of heart failure!!! The book and the television series are masterpieces!! Thank you for posting!!

[@staudtwerner]

friday 09.01.09 I went back to the place I had the most wonderful time of my life, Hotel Waldschaenke in Ried in Bavaria. At the next day just after I woke up, the fog was leaving and the Benediktenwand and the pasture before were kissed by the sun. all memories came down on me. I saw my brother running, my mother drining her coffee, my father talking with herr auer about god, politics and so on. after so many years I felt, I now have the strength to make it. waldschaenke revisted! thank you.

[@Theresabrown1805]

I loved this mini series saw it recently on ITV4 in the UK one of the best mini series ever made in my opinion such a fantastic story. Brings back memories of my childhood when this mini series was first broadcast I loved the theme music aswell.

[@classy_dweller]

I love so much this film !!!

[@canadianfreespirit]

just lovely. I fell in love with the theme the very first time I ever heard it. and I love your video selections. especially Sebastian smoking under the tree. my favourite scene of all. thank you so much for putting this together.

[@ickiepoo]

Absolutely beautiful! I loved the series when it first came out, and still watch it at least once a year. Great job!

[@phmwu7368]

What a place... castle Howard in Henderskelfe - North Yorkshire, 22 kilometers North of York, 300 kilometers North of London. "The Stray" , an amazing long road brings You to the castle Howard roundabout obelisk. An amzing experience to walk on these grounds!

[@allenpinnix5241]

well done--- I have read the book so many times it is like I am looking back and reminiscing myself about lost friends and better times long ago

[@snowschessacademy381]

I watch this in its entirety once every year on DVD, and listen to the audio book (read brilliantly by Jeremy Irons) shortly thereafter. Talk about rising above it all with sublime joy. It helps that I was in college when it first came out, and I watched every episode without fail.

[@groutguy]

Wonderful, wonderful job :]

[@sherrielee8871]

They were such beautiful youths

[@starsweet4]

thanks.. i was looking for this music, heard it on will & grace

[@lorenzosmith3112]

Still love watching this after so many years. GO JEMERY!

[@samuelelias5949]

I went to Castle Howard in 1984 and people I met along the way kept saying, "Oh yes, Brideshead!" I watch the series every year or so on dvd and every time I hear the score and witness young England after the Great War I get tears in my eyes; I think of the world of Winston Churchill, Lloyd George, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and Lady Diana Spencer. I also make it a point to read the novel once every two years or so; it still seems as if it were the first time as it did for me reading it as a Peace Corps volunteer in Africa in 1982. Oh yes, I did romanticize then as I do now. The love story of Charles and Sebastian is only equaled by that of David and Jonathon in the King James Bible.

[@avian8338]

Beautiful and relatable feelings, but you err when bringing Diana into the equation. She (wittingly or unwittingly, probably the latter) did her utmost to damage the monarchy and by extension the societal role which people of her class represented and meant for that erstwhile England. The attitudes of the elites do very much trickle down, and it is in her wake that we have an England of faux sensibilities and selfish consciences.

[@samuelelias5949]

I may have erred chronologically in that Diana was born long after the Great War and so she doesn't fit into the generation born in the late 19th and early 20th century as were the characters in Brideshead. However, Diana does remind me somewhat of lady Julia in that she was born in privilege and may have seemed a bit shallow, and perhaps somewhat ornamental. However, like lady Julia, Diana found solace in Christian charity and thus redeemed herself.

[@avian8338]

@@samuelelias5949 Oh what a complete load of guff

[@dougr.2398]

samuel elias “young England” or “younger England”? I would place “young England” as the time of Arthurian Legend or prior!!

[@luisecawthorne1025]

@@avian8338Diana and the Spencer’s are part of the aristocracy. Just because things in reality didn’t follow the script is no reason to be snide. Just as in Brideshead there are 2 sides to every marriage and the Charles in reality did plenty of damage, virtually a parallel. If fate hadn’t intervened it would be even more tragic now

[@James-h3r8l]

....so beautiful! I love the romance here, something I don't think exists today, or at least not the same way!

[@pix046]

Yes, I belive you are saying they are good friends of a mutually admiring nature with no strings attached. They love each other in a good friends way. Nothing wrong with that. Nothing that the Russian President would object to. At least as long as children are not present. no, really, I know what you mean and I approve.

[@James-h3r8l]

....I don't know everything seems so " in your face" these days.

[@TriestWien]

Bellissimo sceneggiato visto alla televisione nel 1983(Italy).

[@suevialania]

Beautifull!

[@creolelady182]

No doubt about it hotwok19, Brideshead Revisited was and still is the best televison mini series that I have had the pleasure of watching. Great characters with depth. Unfortnately , I can not say that I find that in televison today

[@luisecawthorne1025]

There aren’t any 12 episode tv series made any more!

[@augustomariante]

Thanks for the good video and the information about the Howard Castle - a masterpiece! I love Brideshead Revisited. Perhaps, the best novel of Evelyn Waugh - there is some touch of Proust in the atmosphere. Antonio Augusto from Brazil.

[@unalterable]

Never seen a youtube montage that i liked before

[@midcitygym]

Excellent

[@mauricebear6238]

Sir I agree, stunning and from ITV too. I cannot see it beaten. But my heart sank when you informed me that Hollywood are to do a remake of said masterpiece

[@manticoretuga]

EPIC..EPIC...EPIC.....

[@sealforvr]

My father was fortunate to grow up in that kind of setting. He and his older brother were driven about in their father's Pierce Arrow Landaulet. Then sent off to school at Phillips Andover and Fountain Valley, then Princeton. He was very much of his class but it left him unable to really parent well or relate to others, while my uncle ended up killing himself.

[@cheekysmiley]

Very kind of you, thanks. :o) Completely agree about the music.

[@bodsnvimto]

Been there (Castle Howard). The road that leads Charles back is actually just a lane down to the lake, which goes no further. Admission to the castle is at the other side. The real entrance is nowhere near as attractive for the purposes of the programme. The fountain that Sebastian fell into, & the staircase on which Charles was dumped, were exactly what I'd hoped to see, mind.

[@dezboss]

I certainly think that he's bisexual. You can have very close platonic and straight 'love' between two males. Childlike in a way. It happened a lot in those days with boys who had been at boarding schools. I went to Shrewbury myself, I saw it to an extent with some boys there. But then, Evelyn Waugh supposedly had gay affairs and put a lot of his life experiences in this story. I think it's one of those things that the readers and viewers can decide between themselves.

[@thomasnicholls8610]

The nature of the relationship between Charles and Sebastian is the eternal enigma of this novel/TV series

[@luisecawthorne1025]

I’ve read that too about Evelyn Waugh, and I think he was bi as well

[@eugeneclasby518]

@@luisecawthorne1025 There is no evidence whatever for that assertion.

[@luisecawthorne1025]

@@dezboss yes I agree, because I’ve just read that a new book published in 2012 that Waugh had at least 3 male affairs. The Catholic conversion seems to have come late. Either Gielgud or Olivier were too, but I suppose to get on in theatre in Britain to get married was the done thing. Not that different from Hollywood, just recently something was published about what the “real Rock Hudson” was like

[@btd3375]

When it was against the law, you covered your a&& as well as possible. Including a sham marriage just to stay out of prison.

[@flannerymonaghan-morrs4740]

I, despite liking the main theme, muted it and played it with Staind's "Its Been Awhile", which actually fits the situation that Sebastian and Charles are in by the end of the novel, and Sebastian's/Charles's immense guilt about the Marchmain family and themselves.......

[@rondunn4336]

Brideshead and Jewel in the Crown, both masterpieces

[@stashcode]

the final stair scene is so sad.

[@Gatsby84]

Nice!

[@javiergarciaflorez2103]

Sebastián teme su casoplon😢

[@javiergarciaflorez2103]

Julia ❤

[@javiergarciaflorez2103]

Huerfanos de la tormenta 😊😊 1:47

[@javiergarciaflorez2103]

El descubrimiento del Barroco 🇪🇸

[@javiergarciaflorez2103]

Charles.que porvenir te espero❤ 1:35

[@isabelledetaillefer2726]

Just binged watched Brideshead AGAIN last week. The only other series that hooked me like this was Winds of War/War and Remembrance. They just don't make them like that any more.

[@mnlpsvsapo]

I´ve seen this sitcom when I was a child. In those days I was too innocent and I didn´t realize about the feelinga of the two male characters. But I remember the scandal that arose in my country at that time -I´m from Portugal and I think the year was 1982 or 1983. Anyway, I still consider tris the best BBC production ever.

[@bobbiwib]

@BaronVonLichtenstein oh my dear chap - trolling is SO last century...

[@jpandyaraja]

thanks for the info....i will definately visit it next month if i am in the U.K...Does anybody actually live in there ? rgds jr

[@starsweet4]

i think that was why they used this music in the show.. ;)

[@Moomitrolly]

Why 'fix' perfection? I love the DVD, great, classic season!

[@QED_]

Did you see the time capsule set in the pavement (?)

[@javiergarciaflorez2103]

3:04 el chatou lafite del 25🎄

[@tomata182]

Does anyone know of any sites or sources where they would discuss the philosophy behind the novel "Brideshead Revisited"? I have been assigned to read the book for my Lit class and need some help.

[@cheekysmiley]

Hope it inspired you to watch the entire series. :o) It´s a masterpiece in every possible way.

[@javiergarciaflorez2103]

Ya la contare entera.esperarme 1:32 1:32 1:33 1:33 1:33 😊😊😊

[@creolelady182]

Television just doesnot get anybetter than this. I should know , I am a television fiend when it comes to great programming especailly if the programming is from great Britain. The most recent "Brideshead just does not compare

[@starman4464]

this is the most beauttyful theme ever, and the most beautyful show, a story about the love of two men. What i have never found out was if Charles and sebastian was in love with eachother, i think they were. They had a strong, almost love friendship. But thats the mystery about the story,. Could they be gays, and wont admit it? i think from my analysis, from what i ahve read, a story about forbidden love.. Reply ·

[@lawrencegoodsell1799]

my thoughts exactly. Its such a great story. Maybe they were lovers or they had an intense romantic friendship.

[@andrewclark180]

To be honest, it's so much more than that. When asked if Charles and Sebastian were gay Waugh replied "It doesn't matter" and he's right. Even if they are it's clearly only the case for a small part of their friendship. The story is about friendship, love, family, and ultimately what matters most in life. It's not an accident that Charles converts (and Sebastian returns) to Roman Catholicism by the end of the story. Regardless of what our own religious opinions and views are, Brideshead is a story about the struggle of life and finding peace through all the trials we face.

[@cheekysmiley]

Oops - noticed that only now, cheers.

[@cheekysmiley]

It´s the soundtrack belonging to the series.

[@javiergarciaflorez2103]

Rs la serie mad elegante que vimos mi Antigua novia y yo 2:48 2:49 2:49 2:50

[@suzycreamcheesez]

@tich302001 whose death?

[@jpandyaraja]

would you kindly tell me where the castle is ?........

[@sunking45]

It's in Yorkshire. It's called Castle Howard.

[@javiergarciaflorez2103]

Un Lord jajaja Laborista.quien lo supone!!¡

[@javiergarciaflorez2103]

¡Que pena 😿! 1:08 1:11

[@cheekysmiley]

Aloysius is how they spell it on the DVD.

[@samuelelias5949]

Today marks the 21st anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Let's let the kind lady rest in peace, okay?

[@dougr.2398]

samuel elias this remark is out of place. Please place it in its proper thread when you can?

[@perkiomenville]

Why are they driving around in these rickety old cars?

[@Theresabrown1805]

in the story do you think sebastian is gay? and he loves Charles. They have a true friendship which lasts throughout the mini series until his death would you suppose that sebastian was inlove with Charles and wanted his friendship to be separate from the rest of his family?

[@Ilona1966]

Que excelentes series emitía TVE hace años, que diferencia con la basura amarillista que invade la televisión actualmente, al menos la de mi país. Como para casi todo en esta salvaje sociedad capitalista, la calidad está reñida con la gratuidad.

[@starsweet4]

umm what?

[@28Nina28]

what???

[@cd3694]

It’s beautiful but so elitist. I mean really, Sebastian growing up in the most magnificent environment, are we really supposed to feel sorry for him.

[@brunovanhove1832]

Wat is de wereld lelijk geworden bij toen ,!