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Director and photographer Paul Joyce, recalls his meetings with Patricia Highsmith and reviews Ripley on Netflix. I have to declare an interest when talking about the new and superb adaptation of Ripley by Patricia Highsmith, currently unwinding on Netflix, for I met and got to know her reasonably well. So this is my part of the Ripley-Highsmith tale. In 1977, the German director Wim Wenders undertook one of the earliest attempts at incarnating arguably Patricia Highsmith's most famous of c...

For Tom Ripley's imposing Venetian home, production designer David Gropman turned to a real 15th-century palazzo and its furnishings.

A guide to the week’s best and worst TV shows and movies from The Daily Beast’s Obsessed critics.

Why is Tom obsessed with Caravaggio in "Ripley"? Here's a guide to the art in the Netflix series.

Did you enjoy the monochrome vibe of Ripley or find it distracting? Steve Zaillian had his reasons for the stylistic choice.

The new eight-episode limited series "Ripley" stars the beloved Andrew Scott in a dark, calculating, and alluring run at the character Tom Ripley, based on Patricia Highsmith’s first in a best-selling series of books.

Writer-director Steven Zaillian breaks down the magic behind Netflix’s adaptation of “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” in all of its black-and-white beauty.

NetflixPatricia Highsmith’s classic 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley has been made into two sterling films: 1960’s Purple Noon starring Alain Delon, and 1999’s The Talented Mr. Ripley headlined by Matt Damon, Jude Law, and Gwyneth Paltrow. Nonetheless, Netflix’s new Ripley stands head and shoulders above its predecessors (and most modern TV offerings) as an adaptation par excellence.Over the course of its eight exhilarating episodes, all of them shot in breathtaking...

The Netflix adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley is brilliantly shot in black and white. It's a meticulously built piece of filmmaking and looking at it shot by shot is a profound pleasure.

The Ripley editors explain how they put the audience in Tom's mindset as he figures out how to dispose of a body on Episode 3 of the Netflix series.