Peter O'Toole, left, and Jeremy Northam will star alongside Sam Neill and Bryan Brown in "Dean Spanley" from Toa Fraser, whose debut film -- "No.2" -- won the Audience Prize (World Cinema) at the ...

While set in respectable Edwardian Britain, this engaging period lark is far from straight-laced. A playful sense of whimsy is ever-present in the adaptation of Lord Dunsany’s 1936 book, which gently ...

SUCH an unpromising title — it sounds as if it could be a biopic about a West Coast midfielder — but such a lovely, quietly surprising film. Dean Spanley, directed by New Zealand filmmaker Toa Fraser, ...

A whimsical 1936 novella about a conversation with a dean who believes he was a dog in a previous life might not seem to lend itself to film. But the movie, starring Peter O'Toole, and filmed ...

With a stellar cast including Peter O'Toole, the offbeat comedy drama Dean Spanley, which was filmed in the region, is already being tipped for Oscar nomination. Dean Spanley is an Edwardian curiosity ...

Bizarre and unbelievable – though that's rather not the point - 'Dean Spanley' is among the oddest films of 2008. Set in a faithfully rendered if somewhat flat Edwardian London, it tells the story of ...

At first, it was ponderous, it was difficult and - for a moment - the idea of walking out was tempting. Then, like magic, inside a scene or two, Dean Spanley revealed its quirky brilliance. It's more ...

England, 1904. Henslowe Fisk and his ailing father decide to go to a lecture on re-incarnation. While there, they meet Dean Spanley. Later encountering the Dean Henslowe decides to ask the man to ...