The Personal History of David Copperfield
A fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal History of David Copperfield, set in the 1840s, chronicles the life of its iconic title character as he navigates a chaotic world to find his elusive place within it. From his unhappy childhood to the discovery of his gift as a storyteller and writer, David’s journey is by turns hilarious and tragic, but always full of… From TMDB
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60 of 88 · most liked firstENRAGED by the newfound knowledge that The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) has an average rating of 6.4/10 on IMDb, who are the people who disliked it, were they all born without a soul, or capacity for joy
positive · AI labelView post →Books to Films 📚=🎞️ David Copperfield (1849–1850) by Charles Dickens was adapted to film many times. The most notable include the 1935, 1969 & 2019 (The Personal History of David Copperfield). As the book is 900 pages most films compress & lighten the bildungsroman structure. 🏫👦✍️ #filmsky #booksky
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm going to charge into the comments to beg anyone who sees this to watch The Personal History of David Copperfield because Dev Patel shines as the lead and this very beautiful hilarious moving movie got buried in the pandemic and Fox acquisition.
positive · AI labelView post →Bit late doing it this week, but: #Lastfourwatched It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966), The Raven (1963), Young Frankenstein (1974), and The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019). @letterboxd.social #filmsky 🎬📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →Hi Michael, hope you’re doing ok. It’s been a rewatch for me this week. Channel 4 The Personal History of David Copperfield. Great casting and I find it really creative when a lot of Charles Dickens adaptations can be stuffy. It has Tilda Swinton too. m.imdb.com/title/tt6439...
positive · AI labelView post →If you're looking for a film to curl up with, The Personal History of David Copperfield (Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Peter Capaldi) is on Film4 at 4.30pm. Presumably streaming later, if you're out having hobbies and a life.
neutral · AI labelView post →Where In Hull Did They Film The Personal History of David Copperfield? With yet another film production arriving in the city, our location wizard Joe Sargieson tracks down Dickens destinations. Supplementals: tinyurl.com/2rntudvt @hulllibraries.bsky.social @aiannucci.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →The Naked Spur (1953) dir. Anthony Mann Hard Boiled (1992) dir. John Woo A Letter to Three Wives (1948) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) dir. Armando Iannucci 2 Minutes Late (2 minutter for sent, 1952) dir. Torben Anton Svendsen
neutral · AI labelView post →Aaaaaargh So many other have said Orlando,.so Edward Ii The Eternal Daughter Three Thousand Years of Longing The Personal History of David Copperfield
neutral · AI labelView post →Had a wonderful Easter dinner with family. Teacup went to her grandparents for the next couple of days when we were done, and now D and I are watching “The Personal History of David Copperfield” (2019) which has been on the list of movies I’ve wanted to watch for a while.
neutral · AI labelView post →• Yo No Soy Esa 🕰️ • Poor Things 🧍🏻♀️ • The Personal History of David Copperfield 📝 • Crooked House 💥 #FirstWatches Jan 📌
neutral · AI labelView post →There are only three perfect movies: The Mummy Returns, Lilo and Stitch, and The Personal History of David Copperfield
positive · AI labelView post →You know what was a woefully overlooked film? Ianucci's The Personal History of David Copperfield. It was so SUMPTUOUS and creative. There was an evocative literary quality to it; I felt like I was in the book itself. And the cast! Swinton, Laurie, Wong, Patel, Whishaw, Capaldi, Christie!
positive · AI labelView post →I’m so happy she’s stayed in the limelight and in fashion too! (I love her so much in The Personal History of David Copperfield)
neutral · AI labelView post →The Personal History of David Copperfield. Lads, now THIS is how you reimagine a literary classic. Available now on Channel 4: www.channel4.com/programmes/t...
positive · AI labelView post →#Films&TV2026 The Personal History of David Copperfield. Lovely, warm, gentle and witty. Grotesques aplenty and sentimental as anything, but I adore Armando Ianucci's writing. 4.5/5
positive · AI labelView post →The Personal History of David Copperfield (2020) by Christopher Willis. I literally gasped when the first piece kicked into full swing, and by film’s end I was bawling in my seat. Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous music.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Personal History of David Copperfield (dir: Aramando Iannucci), Little Women (Greta Gerwig), The Death of Stalin (Iannucci again), Evil Under the Sun (Guy Hamilton), When Marnie Was There (Hiromasa Yonebayashi), Silence (Scorsese)
neutral · AI labelView post →Choose 20 #FeelGoodMovies that have stayed with you. One per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just the poster. Day 16: The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019)
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh, and I forgot The Personal History of David Copperfield!
neutral · AI labelView post →23 April 1990 – Dev Patel, 35, English actor. Skins (2007) Slumdog Millionaire * The Best/The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel * The Newsroom * Chappie * Lion (OscarNom) * Hotel Mumbai * The Personal History of David Copperfield (as Charles Dickens) The Green Knight * Monkey Man (2024 + director)
neutral · AI labelView post →📽️ The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) Dir: Armando *Iannucci
neutral · AI labelView post →First film i’m watching today is The Personal History of David Copperfield, love this gem #Movies #Filmsky #Films
positive · AI labelView post →I loved the Personal History of David Copperfield. Can Dev Patel be in everything please?
positive · AI labelView post →I’m here to spread the word of The Personal History of David Copperfield and it’s an underrated Dev Patel gem!
positive · AI labelView post →Whether I turn out to be the hero of my own story or whether that station will be held by anybody else these moments must show. —David Copperfield, The Personal History of David Copperfield #RandomMovieTVQuotes
neutral · AI labelView post →Bit of a missed opportunity. Was obviously going for a similar feel to The Personal History of David Copperfield, but with a Lemony Snicket vibe, but ended up somewhat confused as to what it was trying to be. 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’ here, and Dev Patel was bloody brilliant in the title role.
positive · AI labelView post →📽️ The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) Dir: Armando *Iannucci
neutral · AI labelView post →He wrote The Personal History of David Copperfield, so I'm not shocked at all.
neutral · AI labelView post →Iannucci does this well anyway, but it was such a good example of "everyone is an asshole deep down and that's why we're all OK." If that makes any sense. (Also, why do I not own The Personal History of David Copperfield on Blu-ray?)
unlabelledView post →14 April 1958 – Peter Capaldi, 68, Scottish actor. Local Hero (1983) Soft Top, Hard Shoulder (+ writer) Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life (writer, director, Oscar) The Thick of It * In the Loop * Paddington * Field of Blood * Dr Who * The Personal History of David Copperfield * Benediction (2022)
unlabelledView post →watched The Personal History of David Copperfield (d. Iannucci, w. Iannucci, Blackwell, Dickens)
unlabelledView post →his most recent film, The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019), wasn't super great but he's kinda just retired now.
unlabelledView post →Ooh - The Personal History of David Copperfield (with Dev Patel and Tilda Swinton) started on Film4 an hour ago, so is hopefully available on Channel4.com. #FilmSky
unlabelledView post →Film-wise: at 6.40pm, The Personal History of David Copperfield on Film4. At 9pm, American Gangster on Film4, As Good As It Gets on Comedy Central, Long Shot on BBC3, The Dry on Sky Showcase or In The Line Of Fire on Great Action. At 12.20am, Scarface on Film4 #telly
unlabelledView post →Today's other charity shop DVD purchases, for the record: * Four Lions * Galaxy Quest * Kung-Fu Panda 2 * The Personal History of David Copperfield * Tom-Yum-Goong (aka The Protector, aka Warrior King) * Tom & Jerry Classic Collection Vol 2 (it has The Cat Concerto on it!) GRAND TOTAL: £2
unlabelledView post →MY FAIR LADY (1964) M*A*S*H (1970) THE GOODBYE GIRL (1977) THE THIN RED LINE (1998) FANTASTIC MR FOX (2009) INHERENT VICE (2014) THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD (2019)
unlabelledView post →The Personal History Of David Copperfield Behind The Scene🔥 #ThePersonalHistoryOfDavidCooperfield #PeterCapaldi #BehindTheScenes
unlabelledView post →7. The Personal History of David Copperfield Armando Iannucci. 2019 Adaptación literaria Pues me ha gustado mucho porque me gusta a mí una feel-good-movie británica con una dirección de producción impecable. Y porque me ENCANTA Dev Patel también. La tenéis disponible en Filmin
unlabelledView post →The Personal History of David Copperfield. (I think that’s the correct title, ‘David Copperfield’ is definitely in it). I loved the 2019 adaptation.
unlabelledView post →That's more than fair. On DC, I very much enjoyed the Dev Patel vehicle "The Personal History of David Copperfield" which was fresh and engaging and ... pretty much the last film I saw at the cinema before lockdown.
unlabelledView post →I personally think they should do colourblind casting for everything. If you have seen 'The Personal History of David Copperfield', that is case and point! A brilliant film with an exquisite cast. Also, this would boil the piss of so many people (divs).
unlabelledView post →I'm a massive fan of the criminally underrated The Personal History of David Copperfield so probably that
unlabelledView post →"He welcomed recent films such as The Personal History of David Copperfield, which starred Dev Patel, but: “They’re putting actors in them to play the parts, but they’re not actually looking at the history itself, of our relationship with the British. What about the dramas that are actually true?"
unlabelledView post →Whether I turn out to be the hero of my own story or whether that station will be held by anybody else these moments must show. —David Copperfield, The Personal History of David Copperfield #RandomMovieTVQuotes
unlabelledView post →📽️ This week's The Next Reel episode is live! We close our Institutions Eating Themselves series with "The Personal History of David Copperfield," Iannucci's color-conscious spin on Dickens. Which adaptation of his work has aged best for you? #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...
unlabelledView post →📽️ Members get early access to our Institutions Eating Themselves finale — "The Personal History of David Copperfield." Iannucci squeezes a 34-hour Dickens audiobook into two visually inventive hours. Live now for members, everyone else next week. #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...
unlabelledView post →New Episode • The Personal History of David Copperfield https://trustory.fm/thenextreel/the-personal-history-of-david-copperfield/
unlabelledView post →The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) Directed by Armando Iannucci https://onesheet.org/movie/the-personal-history-of-david-copperfield-2019/
unlabelledView post →📽️ The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) Dir: Armando *Iannucci
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unlabelledView post →📽️ The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) Dir: Armando *Iannucci
unlabelledView post →'The Personal History of David Copperfield' by Frank Reynolds circa 1920.
unlabelledView post →The (movie) The Personal History of David Copperfield 1080p (iTunes)(CA) C$4.99 (Drama) (iMDB) 6.6 Cast: Dev Patel, Aneurin Barnard, Peter Capaldi, Morfydd Clark, Daisy May Cooper, Rosalind Eleazar
unlabelledView post →Have not seen it (want to!), but how about The Personal History of David Copperfield?
unlabelledView post →Finally watching #ArmandoIanucci The Personal History of David Copperfield. What a cast. I wonder if they cost plenty dollar?
unlabelledView post →FILMS🎬: 2017 - The Man Who Invented Christmas (Kate Dickens) 2019- Crawl (Beth Keller) 2019 - The Personal History of David Copperfield (Dora Spenlow & Clara Copperfield) 2019 - Eternal Beauty (Jane) 2019 - Saint Maud (Maud) 2023 -Starve Acre (Juliette) 2026- Hamlet (Ophelia)
unlabelledView post →4OD 📽️ 12 Years a Slave Beau is Afraid Bone Tomahawk Censor Dancing at Lughnasa Enys Men Harvey Heat High-Rise Infinity Pool Jethica Lifeboat Local Hero National Anthem Never Grow Old The Personal History of David Copperfield Slow West Withnail & I The Worst Person in the World The Zone of Interest
unlabelledView post →‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’. (I only watched the first half, but couldn’t bear watching any more.)
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