A scene from the BBC miniseries Dombey and Son.
Though they originally played out on paper, Dickens’s tales have routinely made the leap to the big screen. Celebrating that cinematic success, a three-month retrospective of Dickens adaptations premiered in London in January. Screening the many movie and television renderings of the writer’s canon from the 1930s to the 21st-century, the retrospective also features discussion sessions on Boz’s dramas. The exhibit will later embark on a tour across the country and overseas, with a stop at New York’s MoMA.