In the course of a remarkable filmmaking career that spanned more than 50 years, Brazilian-born Alberto Cavalcanti (1897-1982) created some of the most poetically realistic and socially poignant films ...

Literature Film Quarterly is the longest-standing journal of international adaptation studies. Though we often feature articles that deal with text-to-film relationships and processes of storytelling, ...

Alberto de Almeida Cavalcanti was a Brazilian-born film director and producer. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, the son of a prominent mathematician. He was a precociously intelligent child, and by the ...

Restored by the BFI’s National Film Archive and released on DVD and Blu-ray by Optimum as part of their Ealing Classics restoration programme, Alberto Cavalcanti’s Went the Day Well? is a vivid ...

Think of Britain's Ealing Studios and sophisticated, gently mordant comedies such as "Kind Hearts and Coronets" (1949) and "The Lavender Hill Mob" (1951) will likely come to mind. But Alberto ...

During his lifetime Charles Dickens’s novels were often adapted for the stage. For many illiterate Victorians, plays were the only place they could meet his famous larger-than-life characters. Two ...

Went the Day Well? is not one of the best-known Ealing films. When it was released, in 1942, the critical response was lukewarm to day the least: Kinematograph Weekly dismissed it as “fair average ...