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View ArticleFAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (2015) – Film Review
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View ArticleFAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (2015) – Film Review
The Latest Film Adaptation of a Thomas Hardy Novel Director: THOMAS VINTERBERG/2015 Novelist Thomas Hardy took the title of his book Far From the Maddening Crowd from the Thomas Gray poem, Elegy...
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Fandom Mashup Is Less Than The Sum Of Its Parts DIRECTOR: BURR STEERS/2016 I came of age before Jane Austen fandom was a thing. Yes, yes, I know that Jane died almost 200 years ago, and her novels have...
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