Charles Dickens’ great masterpiece David Copperfield begins with uncertainty: Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages ...

Charles Dickens’ “The Personal History of David Copperfield,” published in 1850, has a lively new film adaptation currently playing in theaters. Armando Iannucci is best known for his razor sharp ...

Dev Patel pondered a logical question when he was asked to star in "The Personal History of David Copperfield." Why was he chosen to portray the famed Las Vegas illusionist onscreen? Patel, 30, ...

For a filmmaker best known for lacerating satire, director Armando Iannucci manages something delightful in his newest movie, “The Personal History of David Copperfield”: He blows the cobwebs off of ...

The movies haven’t always been good to Charles Dickens. “There’s a lot more to him than has been conveyed in adaptations,” said Armando Iannucci, the satire-adept creator of HBO’s “Veep” and director ...

I have read David Copperfield many times now, and every time I pick it up again I think, Oh, it can’t be as good as I remember. It’s the story of a young boy who overcomes adversity and grows up to be ...

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You might think that Charles Dickens would be resistant to the Armando Iannucci treatment, which so far has resulted in a string of vicious political satires that raised the insult to the level of art ...

Armando Iannucci (The Thick of It, Veep, and The Death of Stalin) has always brought a modern farcical energy to his political works and has now turned that same energy into his own adaptation of ...