Dear Ellenopoly, I did indeed recognise Daniel Day-Lewis in A Room with a View, but he was Helena Bonham-Carter's screen fiance, not Winona Ryder's.

Incidentally, it was not Day-Lewis's performance in "Last of the Mohicans" which made it into a fair remake as far as I was concerned, but those of Maurice Roeves, Jodhi May and especially Wes Studi.

A remake over which my parents and I remain stubbornly divided: How green was my Valley. They maintain that the original, made in 1941, had more of the authentic author's dialog, better singing, and being in black and white, the coal dust shows up better; I hold with equal vehemence that it piles on the sentiment implausibly thick, and the accents don't ring true.