Still Life (play) in Paris in 1968 under the title "Brève Recontre" (presented in tandem with "Nous Dansons"), and in the same year, along with "Fumed Oak", it formed the basis for a musical, not by Coward, called "Mr. and Mrs". The film was remade in 1974 starring Richard Burton and Sophia Loren. In 2008, a stage version of "Brief Encounter" was presented in London at the Haymarket Cinema and on tour by Kneehigh Theatre using a combination of the text of "Still Life" and the screenplay. In May 2009, Houston Grand Opera premiered an opera in two acts based on "Brief Encounter",
Still Life (2006 film) the former, and an 81% (out of 10 reviews) rating from the latter as of February 2008. At the end of 2008, "Village Voice" and "LA Weekly"'s annual film poll of film critics placed the film as the 4th best film of the year, and "Film Comment", official journal of the Film Society of Lincoln Center's annual end of year critic' poll of 100 film critics placed "Still Life" as the 6th best film of the year, with a total of 521 points. The film was voted the third best film of the past decade in a survey by the