Great Expectations (1998 film) were done by Francesco Clemente, an Italian painter. The actors sat for him in private. A gallery of some of the paintings is available for viewing at Fox's website devoted to the film. Great Expectations (1998 film) Great Expectations is a 1998 contemporary film adaptation of Charles Dickens’s 1861 novel of the same name, co-written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón and starring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria, Robert De Niro, Anne Bancroft and Chris Cooper. It is known for having moved the setting of the original novel from 1812-1827 London to 1990s New York. The film is an abridged
Great Expectations (1974 film) by Freddie Young. It was filmed in Eastmancolor and it was entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival in 1975. The film was originally intended to be a musical, perhaps inspired by the commercial and critical success of Carol Reed's Oscar-winning "Oliver!" CinemaTV Today reported in 1974 however that 'in an unprecedented move, the bulk of the score for Sir Lew Grade and NBC's musical version of "Great Expectations" has been scrapped seven weeks into shooting'. "Films Illustrated" reported that the film would contain 'only a traditional score by Maurice Jarre' after the idea of a film musical version