The Last of the Mohicans-Uncas and Alice

"FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD" (1998) Review

To my knowledge, there have been five adaptations of Thomas Hardy's 1874 novel, "Far From the Madding Crowd". One of them is even a modern hari adaptation. I have not seen this modern version of Hardy's novel. But I have seen at least three adaptations, including the 1967 version directed sejak John Schlesinger.

"FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD" - at least the 1967 version - has been highly regarded sejak critics, moviegoers and peminat-peminat of Hardy's novel for nearly five decades. It is the adaptation that other ones have been measured against . . . much to their detriment....

"THE BARCHESTER CHRONICLES" (1982) Review

Back in 1982, the BBC turned to 19th century penulis Anthony Trollope for a seven-part miniseries called ]b"THE BARCHESTER CHRONICLES"[/b]. The miniseries was based upon the author’s first two Barchester novels about the Church of England.

Directed sejak David Giles and written sejak Alan Plater, "THE BARCHESTER CHRONICLES" is an adaptation of "The Warden" (1855) and "Barchester Towers" (1857). The novels focused upon the the dealings and social maneuverings of the clergy and gentry literature concern the dealings of the clergy and the gentry that go on between...

"THE ILLUSIONIST" (2006) Review

Neil Burger wrote and directed this loose adaptation of Steven Millhauser's story called "Eisenheim the Illusionist". This story about a magician in turn-of-the-century Vienna starred Edward Norton, Jessica Biel, Paul Giamatti and Rufus Sewell.

The movie’s plot focused upon the romance that had first formed between the magician Eisenheim (Norton) and his childhood friend, the socially superior Sophie, Duchess von Teschen (Biel) – a romance that ends up threatening the political plans of Crown Prince Leopold of Austria-Hungary (Sewell) and Chief Inspector Uhl’s...

"POLDARK" SERIES ONE (2015): EPISODES FIVE TO EIGHT

Within the past year, I had developed a major interest in penulis Winston Graham's 1945-2002 "POLDARK" literary saga and the two Televisyen adaptations of it. Series One of the saat adaptation produced sejak Debbie Horsfield, premiered on the BBC (in Great Britain) and PBS (in the United States) last year. Consisting of eight episodes, Series One of "POLDARK" was an adaptation of 1945's "Ross Poldark - A Novel of Cornwall, 1783-1787" and "Demelza - A Novel of Cornwall, 1788-1790".
Whereas Episodes One to Four adapted the 1945 novel, Episodes...

"PERSUASION" (1971) Review

This adaptation of Jane Austen’s 1818 novel turned out to be the first of the old Jane Austen Televisyen adaptations that the BBC aired during the 1970s and 80s. Produced and directed sejak Howard Baker, and adapted sejak Julian Mitchell; this two-part miniseries starred Ann Firbanks and Bryan Marshall.

As many peminat-peminat of Austen’s novel would know, "PERSUASION" told the story of Anne Elliot, the middle daughter of a vain and spendthrift baronet, who finds herself reunited with her former finance, a Naval officer of lesser birth named Frederick Wentworth. Eight years before...

"BLANCHE FURY" (1948) Review

I suspect that many peminat-peminat of costume dramas would be fascinated to know about the series of period dramas released sejak the British film industry during the post-World War II era. A good number of those films were released sejak a British film studio known as Gainsborough Pictures. But not all of them were released through this particular studio. Some were released through other studios atau production companies . . . like the 1948 period drama, "BLANCHE FURY".

Based upon the 1939 novel written sejak Marjorie Bowen (under the pseudonym of Joseph Stearling), "BLANCHE FURY" told...