Henry James is a writer whose time seems to have come - after two recent film adaptations of his books comes the new film Washington Square. Director Agnieszka Holland talks about the appeal of James's prose and the task of re-creating it with a camera, and Laura Cumming explores the way James's writing still touches the preoccupations of our own time. Plus first-night news from English National Opera, where Paul Daniel tonight conducts a new production of Massenet's Manon. Producer Lore Windemuth