Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Nov 16th 
Far from the Madding Crowd** 

(GB 1967)                  

The headstrong Bathsheba Everdene inherits her uncle's farm and deals with a variety of male suitors.
Beautifully photographed in authentic country with good attention to the farming lifestyle and period, except for its main star looking anachronistically 1960s in Hardy's 1870s. More measured than usual from this director, but deliberately so, and no less interesting for it. Remade this year (qv), as much of a tribute to the original as a revision.

Written by: Frederic Raphael, from the novel by Thomas Hardy.
Producer: Joseph Janni.
Director: John Schlesinger.
Starring: Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Peter Finch, Terence Stamp, Prunella Ransome, Fiona Walker, John Barrett, Freddie Jones.
Photography: Nicolas Roeg.
Music: Richard Rodney Bennett.
Editing: Malcolm Cooke.

Roger Ebert review

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