The UCLA Film Archive’s “The Nature of Things: Graham Greene on Film,” which runs weekends through Jan. 23 at Melnitz Hall’s James Bridges Theater, draws attention to the unusual relationship the ...

Written and directed by Rowan Joffe. Starring Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Helen Mirren, John Hurt and Andy Serkis. Running time: 111 minutes. Not rated. Brighton is sometimes considered little more ...

It’s a thankless enough task to adapt a masterful classic novel into a movie. But to do it when that novel has already been turned into a masterful classic film? We should at least give Rowan Joffe ...

Graham Greene created a chilling portrait of a young gangster Pinkie Brown in his novel, “Brighton Rock.” He also co wrote the landmark 1947 noir British film that starred a young Richard Attenborough ...

Helen Mirren has signed up to star in the remake of classic British crime drama Brighton Rock. The original 1947 film starred a young Richard Attenborough as criminal Pinkie Brown, who is forced to ...

The Two Pinkies: Whether played by Richard Attenborough (left) in 1947 or Sam Riley (right) in 2011, the tough-talking psychopath rests at the depraved moral center of Brighton Rock. He's obsessed ...

Every cheap boardwalk has its singular pleasures, and in the shops of Britain’s Brighton it’s a long stick of candy that’s hard as stone, achingly sweet and imprinted with the words “Brighton Rock” ...

Why don't film studios remake dodgy movies and improve them, rather than vice versa? The latest such example comes in the shape of Brighton Rock, which falters in comparison to the compelling and ...

Joffe’s film has little hope of acquiring the same mythic status as the 1947 John Boulting version, as he’s doubtless well aware. But Joffe’s line is that he didn’t set out to remake the Boulting film ...

Graham Greene’s brilliant 1938 study of a murderous boy gangster receives ineffectual screen treatment in this 1964-set version of “Brighton Rock.” Despite its vibrant evocation of the English seaside ...

Graham Greene’s brilliant 1938 study of a murderous boy gangster receives ineffectual screen treatment in this 1964-set version of “Brighton Rock.” Despite its vibrant evocation of the English seaside ...

You'll forgive a little anxiety going into the new adaptation of Graham Greene's 1938 novel Brighton Rock, from writer/director Rowan Joffe. You’ll forgive a little anxiety going into the new ...