The China of the past is what feature film director John Curran was seeking when he scouted locations for The Painted Veil, which opens next week. It's based on the Somerset Maugham book set in China ...

What It Is: A made-in-China version of the W. Somerset Maugham novel about a distant doc, his lovely wife and his fight against cholera. Now Playing: In New York and Los Angeles, with more cities to ...

The movies can't get enough of W. Somerset Maugham. According to a posthumous tribute to him at the 2004 Telluride Film Festival, he is "cinema's most popular author of the 20th century ... with ...

More veils but balanced against the greater luminosity and clarity of 16mm The result is I feel my most optimistic film like letting light into my super8 shadow world ...

“As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue,” scoffs Kitty Fane, heroine of W. Somerset Maugham‘s 1925 novel “The Painted Veil” – the line remains intact in the new film version. This touches on ...

John Curran will direct Edward Norton in period drama “The Painted Veil” for Warner Independent Pictures and Stratus Film Co., with Naomi Watts in negotiations to star. WIP will take North American ...

Naomi Watts supplies the grit and soul in this adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s novel. A stifled London flapper in the 1920s, she marries a bacteriologist for convenience and follows her stolid ...