The story will be known to many via the Merchant-Ivory film of the book, which starred Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins and won three Oscars in 1993. But this adaptation, by the writer and director Kenneth Lonergan (“Manchester by the Sea,” “You Can Count on Me”), is a rather more bracing vision of Forster’s tale of class, money and sexual mores among three families from different social strata, with obvious current correspondences: a seemingly unbridgeable gulf between the haves and the have-nots social and sexual constraints on women the rigidity of class divisions. Macdonald’s obsessing demonstrates, this new version of “Howards End,” which debuts Sunday on Starz, is a faithful rendering of the novel in terms of period detail (not to mention story and dialogue). “Those plates are too shiny, use some dulling spray,” she said. Macdonald was attending to the setup of an indoor shot of a well-to-do family at breakfast. Rather than filming some of the final outdoor scenes in the garden of a beautiful old house here, Ms.

The uncooperative weather last May, in this verdant, wooded region roughly 30 miles southwest of London, had forced a change in the shooting schedule for “Howards End,” a new, four-part television series based on E. GODALMING, England - With a surprisingly cheerful air, the director Hettie Macdonald surveyed the damply gray British version of a spring day.

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