Reading and Roaming
FILM I recommend Far from the Madding Crowd! Beautiful countryside, beautifully filmed, and Carey Mulligan is a lovely Bathsheba, intelligent, definite and almost elfin. And the men—Francis Troy has the required rakish dark hair and eyes, Boldwood (don’t you love Hardy’s choice of names!) is older, but not as sinister seeming as in the novel, …
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TIDY TIDBITS: Film & Theater This was a week when we gorged on culture, films especially. The Sarasota Film Festival (SFF) is celebrating its 17th year, and over the course of ten days 270 films, a mix of documentaries and feature films, are screened. We were late getting tickets, having been away, but still managed …
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This Week’s Movie Boyhood I loved Boyhood. We watched it almost in one sitting with only a short break and it was so real. It’s fiction, a scripted story, but because of its pace, it seems like a documentary. Mason, the boy, is amazing, but there is something satisfying about watching the parent actors, Patricia …
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Movie recommendations: Before the holidays, we saw several of the Oscar contenders and I would recommend them all. This is a season of men, all of these films portray famous or infamous males, all but one no longer here. I’ve listed the films in order of my preference. Imitation Game. Alan Turing was a genius …
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