Far from the Madding Crowd (Blu-ray)
"I shall manage everything with my own head and hands," Bathsheba Everdene tells the local men about the estate she inherits.
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Blu-ray BD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 2.40:1
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 51 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: February 10, 2015
- Originally Released: 1967
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, Peter Finch & Alan Bates | |
| Performer: | Prunella Ransom, Alison Leggatt & Freddie Jones | |
| Directed by | John Schlesinger | |
| Edited by | Malcolm Cooke | |
| Screenplay by | Frederic Raphael | |
| Original story by | Thomas Hardy | |
| Composition by | Richard Rodney Bennett | |
| Produced by | Joseph Janni | |
| Director of Photography: | Nicolas Roeg |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 4/5 --
Helped by the shimmering photography of Nicolas Roeg and hindered by a straitjacket of a script by Frederic Raphael, this laudable, lengthy adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel might have benefited from a less respectful treatment.
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Radio Times
With the emphasis on plot rather than character only Julie Christie finds a part she can turn round in, suggesting convincingly Bathsheba's curious combination of coquetry with integrity.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Rating: 4/5 --
Splendidly lusty fare, its feet deep in the mud of the English countryside, its head in the lens-flared glare of a dreamy tragi-romantic sky.
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Observer (UK)
Rating: 3/5 --
It's maybe not up there in the pantheon of British classics, but there's something highly relaxing and radical about the fact that Schlesinger articulates this classical story with breathy longeurs ...
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Little White Lies
Rating: 5/5 --
A perfect example of a film that captures the spirit of the source-material, whilst boldly exploiting and exploring the potential of the cinematic medium.
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The List
Rating: 5/5 --
Christie carries the film with her own insouciant vulnerability. A classic.
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Guardian
Rating: 3/5 --
The length gives room for Nicholas Roeg's outstanding cinematography, which delivers an authentically rustic English epic.
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Total Film
Description by OLDIES.com:
"I shall manage everything with my own head and hands," Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie) tells the local men about the estate she inherits. Everything? No. Regarding romance, she can only follow her wayward heart.
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- UPC: 888574131869
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