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Review: Tamara Drewe
Arterton, Evans avoid the madding crowd
Stephen Frears's witty film version of Posy Simmonds's graphic novel — itself a loose adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1873 novel Far from the Madding Crowd — hews closely to its immediate source while lightening the tone and adding sly, Hardy-esque detail.
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JEFFREY GANTZ
| October 13, 2010
Interview: Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall on her new book, North Korea, and Bible-thumping conservatives
If only there were more trees to be torn down, we could utilize them . . . to fill newspapers with the endless depressing stories out there about the environment and all its hapless inhabitants.
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LANCE GOULD
| September 23, 2009
Truly Tess
Hardy, for once, gets his due
Any film/TV adaptation of Hardy is in fact rare.
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JEFFREY GANTZ
| December 29, 2008
Arise and hail
Revels goes to Thomas Hardy's Wessex
"At first blush, Thomas Hardy seems an unlikely figure to associate with Revels." With due respect to Revels artistic director Patrick Swanson's program statement, this Hardy fanatic of almost 50 years begs to differ.
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JEFFREY GANTZ
| December 16, 2008
Learning curves
SpeakEasy’s The History Boys; Trinity’s Paris by Night
From Mr. Chips to Miss Jean Brodie, charismatic teachers have been the stuff of drama.
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CAROLYN CLAY
| May 08, 2008
Lady Chatterley
English literature is sexier in French film
Hands and Coulloc’h are marvelous together, their nearly wordless love scenes genuinely, stunningly erotic.
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PEG ALOI
| July 11, 2007
Québec libre
Michel Brault and Claude Jutra at the HFA
The rise of the Quebec movie industry coincided with the awakening of French-Canadian cultural and political consciousness in the late ’60s.
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STEVE VINEBERG
| March 20, 2007
Breaking in the New Year
Far from the maddening crowd
Far from the maddening crowd
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JANICE CHECCHIO
| January 24, 2007
Not TV
Mailer, Lethem, Amis, Ashbery deliver good reads
Big names, new names, and a handful of poets provide worthwhile reading this winter to distract you from the Sopranos reruns on A&E.
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JOHN FREEMAN
| December 28, 2006
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