Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 70 170m
Director: John Schlesinger
Cast: Alan Bates, Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Terence Stamp
Synopsis:
The heiress to a substantial farm near Casterbridge is pursued by a shepherd, a soldier, and the local squire.
Review:
Ravishingly filmed and perfectly cast, this is still the best screen Hardy around. Schlesinger has the ideal Bathsheba Everdene in the volatile but authentic Christie, with whom this was his third collaboration, and Bates and Finch are both beautifully understated in their dignified roles. Fiona Walker also impresses, as Liddy, but it is Nicolas Roeg's cinematography that elevates the picture to true grandeur, never forcing the colour, but painting delicately shaded images with carefully supplemented natural light, setting off both the landscape and Christie's finely sculpted features. One of the last great Hollywood interventions in British film production during the sixties.
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 70 170m
Director: John Schlesinger
Cast: Alan Bates, Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Terence Stamp
Synopsis:
The heiress to a substantial farm near Casterbridge is pursued by a shepherd, a soldier, and the local squire.
Review:
Ravishingly filmed and perfectly cast, this is still the best screen Hardy around. Schlesinger has the ideal Bathsheba Everdene in the volatile but authentic Christie, with whom this was his third collaboration, and Bates and Finch are both beautifully understated in their dignified roles. Fiona Walker also impresses, as Liddy, but it is Nicolas Roeg's cinematography that elevates the picture to true grandeur, never forcing the colour, but painting delicately shaded images with carefully supplemented natural light, setting off both the landscape and Christie's finely sculpted features. One of the last great Hollywood interventions in British film production during the sixties.
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 70 170m
Director: John Schlesinger
Cast: Alan Bates, Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Terence Stamp
Synopsis:
The heiress to a substantial farm near Casterbridge is pursued by a shepherd, a soldier, and the local squire.
Review:
Ravishingly filmed and perfectly cast, this is still the best screen Hardy around. Schlesinger has the ideal Bathsheba Everdene in the volatile but authentic Christie, with whom this was his third collaboration, and Bates and Finch are both beautifully understated in their dignified roles. Fiona Walker also impresses, as Liddy, but it is Nicolas Roeg's cinematography that elevates the picture to true grandeur, never forcing the colour, but painting delicately shaded images with carefully supplemented natural light, setting off both the landscape and Christie's finely sculpted features. One of the last great Hollywood interventions in British film production during the sixties.