Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Thomas Hardy"

Check out all of the posts tagged with "Thomas Hardy".

Far from the Madding Crowd **** (1967, Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Alan Bates, Terence Stamp) – Classic Movie Review 1762

Director John Schlesinger’s beautifully produced 1967 film of the Thomas Hardy novel Far from the Madding Crowd is a gorgeous-looking and emotion packed intimate epic. Christie, Finch, Bates, Stamp, Schlesinger, Roeg and Raphael – British cinema […]

Oct, 11

Jude *** (1997, Christopher Eccleston, Kate Winslet) – Classic Movie Review 1696

A lugubrious-looking Christopher Eccleston is hugely gloomy in director Michael Winterbottom’s depressingly downbeat 1997 film version of the Thomas Hardy tragic romance yarn Jude the Obscure. Lovestruck stonemason Jude Fawley (Eccleston) pursues his cousin, Sue […]

Sep, 20

The Woodlanders *** (1997, Emily Woof, Rufus Sewell) – Classic Movie Review 1688

With Ashley Rowe’s cinematography so atmospheric, you can just smell the English countryside. Director Phil Agland’s 1997 film is a meticulously realised but dark, dour and depressing adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s classic novel. It is distinguished […]

Sep, 20

Navigation

Please use the navigation to move within this section.