Virginia Woolf Filmography

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Mrs. Dalloway

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone, Rupert Graves, Michael Kitchen, John Standing

Synopsis: This adaptation of the novel by Virginia Woolf stars Vanessa Redgrave as Clarissa Dalloway, a woman in her mid-'50s living in London five years after the end of WWI. As Mrs. Dalloway prepares an elaborate dinner party at the home she shares with her husband, a prominent politician, she finds Read More

1997
Orlando

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Lothaire Bluteau, John Wood, Charlotte Valandrey

Synopsis: Independent filmmaker Sally Potter's gender-bending epic, which views four centuries of sexual politics through the eyes of a sex-switching main character, is based on the 1928 novel by Virginia Woolf. The androgynous title character is played with delicate quietude by Tilda Swinton. The story Read More

1992
To the Lighthouse

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Like the Virginia Woolf novel which it interprets, this 1983 BBC production has three parts: "The Window," "Time Passes," and "The Lighthouse." The first focuses on one day in the life of the Ramsay family -- the father and mother, their eight children, and four guests -- while they vacation on Read More

1983
Golven

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Aat Ceelen, Michel van Rooij, Truus Te Selle

Synopsis: This is a story of the relationships between six people preparing for a good-bye dinner for their common friend Percival (Gerardjan Rijnders), and as the actors prepare for their roles by getting into costumes and character, the story -- or lack of it -- begins. Voiceovers narrate the thoughts of Read More

1982
Great Frost

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: The Great Frost was an episode of the "Simple Gifts" TV series, originally telecast on New York's PBS outlet WNET. This weekly, 15-minute series offered an overview of several examples of artistic expression. The two artists spotlighted on Great Frost are painter Seymour Chwast and novelist Read More

1979
A Room of One's Own

Crew: Book Author