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...coincidences, fateful encounters and cataclysmic sexual passions, which lash the participants with an implacable frenzy. Of his 14 novels, Far from the Madding Crowd, with its relatively happy ending, is probably the most adaptable to film-and, indeed, it went through two silent treatments. In this version, Screenwriter Frederic Raphael has managed to preserve the book's broad vision while clarifying its bucolic speech. His most valuable ally is Director John Schlesinger (Darling), who displays the best sense of Victorian time and place since David Lean in Great Expectations, alternating his stars with a brilliant cast of minor players...
Holder of the Keys. Although Jesus frequently encountered angels-such as the ones who ministered to him after the 40 days' fast in the desert-the Bible mentions only three by name. By common agreement of angelologists, these three-Michael, Gabriel and Raphael-rank at the very top of God's celestial hierarchy. Michael, whose heavenly hosts tumbled Satan and his evil legions into hell, is the holder of the keys to heaven. Gabriel presides over paradise and, according to none other than Mohammed, was the angel who at God's command dictated the Koran. Raphael...
...ROAD. Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney flash backwards and forwards on a twelve-year marital fray-for-all neatly scripted by Frederic Raphael (Darling) and cleverly directed by Stanley Donen (Charade...
...gazes at his pregnant wife and their eight children and roars with laughter. An Italian and his wife, scouring Florence in search of a Raphael painting, find that only the foreign tourists know where it is. A farmhand in a field stops pitching hay-long enough to nurse her baby...
...Frederic Raphael, who won a 1965 Academy Award for Darling, has written a script that makes up in salt what it lacks in plot, although his dialogue, as Don Marquis once put it, sometimes merely strokes a platitude until it purrs like an epigram ("The only thing that fits into a pigeonhole is a pigeon"). Flashing back and forth through twelve years of togetherness and apartheid, Director Donen makes sure that this particular Road never quite reaches a dead end. In the final moments, Hepburn and Finney, reconciled, look lovingly at each other in the car. He sighs, "Bitch...