Shown: January 13, 2015 at 6pm
Director : John Schlesinger
Country : UK
Release Date : 1967
Duration : 169 mins
Language : English
Subtitles : No
WINNER : NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW FOR BEST FILM 1967
On this epic version of Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd John Schlesinger worked with acclaimed collaborators – actors Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Terence Stamp and Peter Finch; writer Frederic Raphael, cinematographer Nicolas Roeg and composer Richard Rodney Bennett – to great effect. A sumptuous classic.
“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.” (Mark Kermode – The Observer)