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to the Thomas Hardy Association Film Page’s News section.
Here you will find the most recent, up-to-date information on new
productions based on Hardy’s works, releases and re-releases of existing
film and TV programs on DVD and in other home entertainment formats, and
other items relating to Thomas Hardy and the moving image.
If you have information on upcoming productions or releases, please
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PRODUCTION: BBC’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles A
four-part, four-hour television serial based on Tess of the d’Urbervilles will begin production in |
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The
serial’s executive producer, Kate Harwood, calls Hardy perhaps “the
most neglected of our great literary authors” (why and how?), and says
of Tess, "Hardy's
novel explores love, betrayal and the emotional burden of secrets locked
away at the heart of a passionate, loving relationship which, when
unlocked, implode with heart-breaking consequences.
David Nicholls' adaptation brings Hardy's tragic heroine, Tess, to
life with verve, passion and sensitivity."
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RUMOR:
Far from the Madding Crowd in Posted: 20 March 2008 Recent
reports have emerged on the Internet that Cate Blanchett and Russell Crowe
will star in an adaptation of Hardy’s 1874 novel Far
from the Madding Crowd. The
film, titled North of Cheyenne and
set in the present, is described in press releases as follows: “After a
woman inherits a sprawling RUMOR:
ITV’s Return of the Native A
site that offers rundowns of more than five hundred current and future
productions on British television runs this intriguing description of a
forthcoming ITV-1 series to be called Rural Classics: |