Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
The movie focuses on willful, flirtatious Bathsheba Everdene, a beautiful young woman who inherits a picturesque farm from her uncle and is romantically pursued by three very different men.
7 February 1904, Kensington, London, England, UK
2 December 1894, Wyke Regis, Dorset, England, UK
12 November 1903, London, England, UK
1925, England, UK
5 April 1941, New Malden, Surrey, England, UK
12 December 1936, Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK
28 September 1916, South Kensington, London, England, UK
13 January 1944, Chelmsford, Essex, England, UK
12 September 1927, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
24 May 1944, London, England, UK
17 April 1940, Hertfordshire, England, UK
May 12, 2015
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.
March 15, 2015
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.
May 09, 2013
[Schlesinger] displays the best sense of Victorian time and place since David Lean in Great Expectations.
March 13, 2015
Everything in this extraordinary evocation of island life is seasonal; these folk, their affections and fortunes, shift with the winds and tides.
January 26, 2006
Another classic bites the dust.
May 09, 2013
Thomas Hardy was not the most dynamic novelist in English literature, but this sluggish 1967 film still does him a serious disservice.
May 09, 2005
Pictorially excessive but dramatically barren.
July 06, 2010
Christie has few real opportunities to branch out of her rather muted and pouty lead.
April 29, 2015
[VIDEO ESSAY] Visually lush, and powerfully acted by a quartet of England's finest actors, John Schlesinger's "Far From the Madding Crowd" is admirable in spite of its imprecise narrative focus and flaws in its direction.
March 12, 2015
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 ...
March 09, 2015
One of the most entrancing and elemental landscape films ever shot in these isles.
March 13, 2015
Mostly this is a triumph ...
