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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 characters, the shape-shifting, inchoate, anti-hero, Tom Ripley. In a bizarre act of casting, Wenders...

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.