Word: victorianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FROM THE MADDING CROWD. Director John Schlesinger and Scenarist Frederic Raphael, who collaborated on Darling, now join in bringing Thomas Hardy's Victorian novel vividly to the screen-with the help of solid performances by Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Peter Finch and Terence Stamp...
...MOTHER'S HOUSE. This splendid, moody film takes place in a penumbral pile of Victorian architecture in a London suburb, where seven orphaned children hide the death of their mother and try to maintain their old life with a mixture of love of one another and fear of the outside world...
...West. Founded in 1852 as a seminary-refuge for wealthy girls fleeing the crude gold-mining camp atmosphere of San Francisco, it later thrived on offering an exclusive Vassar-style education without the need for transcontinental travel. Today, Mills accents music, art, dance and drama, boasts some fine Victorian architecture, lets its girls enforce their own honor code in exams and conduct, and observes such quaint traditions as the seniors' tearful last tour of the campus by lantern light, pausing at sites they want to remember...
Before he became a novelist, Thomas Hardy was an architect. Though he seldom practiced his profession, he never quite abandoned its principles. Like Victorian buildings, his books were sturdily constructed, gloomy, and based on strong, pseudo-classic foundations -mostly imitation Greek tragedy. The film of Far from the Madding Crowd remains faithful to that arrangement -and therein lie its virtues and flaws...
...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 who serve as a Greek chorus in tragicomic peasant roles...