Flambards Collection Set
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Movie Reviews of Flambards Collection Set
Movie Review: Life At Flambards
Summary: 5 Stars
I Started Watching Flambards In 1981 But It Wasn't Until 1998 That The Series Was On Vhs Now I Want To Own It On Dvd What I'ev Learned Through Out The Story As It Is Played Out From Beginning To End Is That What Was Life Like In The 20th Century Unconpared With Life In The 21st Century The Episode I Like The Most Is Were Christina Stay With Willam All Night To Fix One Of The Air Planes And By The Following Morning She Gets Caught By Her Aunt Who Was Awakened By The Police Early That Morning And Wanted To Why Christina Stayed Up After Not Telling Anyone Why She Did It In The First Place But All Was Put To Rest After Willam Decides To Have The Opporation To Fix His Right Leg After He Broke It During The Hunting Season Witch Was About The Same Time Christina Had Arrived At Flambards She Would Soon Learned That Everything Was Not What It Appeared To Be Right From The Start She Dispyes Her Uncle For Not Being A Careing Person She Thought He Would Be But Lives With Only Fox Hunting And Horses As His Reward Haveing Been Put In A Wheel Chair After Being Throwen From A Horse During A Fox Hunt Years Befor And Relying On His Oldest Son Mark To Hold Up The Family Houner But As Time Go's By Christina Earns Mark's Trust And Asks Her To Marry Him But She Has Decided To Take Willam As Her Husband And After Two And Half Years Of Being Together Christina's Hart Brakes When She Recive A Tellagram Informing Her That Willam Was Lost And Returns To Flambards Only To Discover That She Is With Child Her Self And Adopts Mark's Son Tizzy Who Tells His Aunt That His Uncle Dick Has Returned From The Fighting And Go's On A Search Through London To Find Dick When Christina Finaly Find Dick She Asks Him To Come Back And Run Flambards Again But He Reminds Her About Of What Happened Years Befor When Mr Russell Fired Him For Not Takeing Christina's Horse Sweetbriar To The Kennals After Mark Caused The Horse To Fall During The Hunting Season But Dick Returns To Flambards Only To His Dimay That Mark Turns Up Again Caughing A Rift Between Him And Christina Developed When He Learns Of Flambards Depts Had Been Piling Up For Quite Sometime And Sells Everything To Christina And After That Flambards Was In Good Hands Again For The First Time In Meny YearsMovie Review: Still, the best dramatic television film ever! Now on DVD!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
The best dramatic series ever aired on television, December 2, 1998 Reviewer: A viewer from Phoenix, Arizona This is the headline from the review I wrote on December 2, 1998, and left anonymous. It was my first review on Amazon.com. I haven't done many to date, but the reason I started came from the joy and inspiration from this fine television series. Those who know this series are passionate in their praise. Years after seeing it, most remember the scenes, faces, and music from this show more vividly than almost any other film experience they've had. Many agree that they "lived" the show moment by moment, as if it were really happening. This kind of power in cinema comes from true artistic performance, across the board; the writing, the acting, the settings, the music, were as perfect as could be. Lovers of this series of books and TV episodes cried out for tape versions and reprints. They have been overjoyed when the VHS set was released and re-released. But now the series has been released on DVD, for any videophile, the preferred medium for video archive.Is the DVD set what you would expect? Well, it is not perfect. The blemishes of an old film master show less forgivingly on DVD, particularly in some early episodes. Sometimes, there is a flicker or a scene that seems a little blurry. Sometimes, the up and down sound master also requires the DVD sound remote to be close at hand. DVD sparkles on new technology-driven movie masters. For a 22+ year old film set, without a pure master, the DVD images are less crisp and the sound has less punch. But for those who know and love Flambards, this DVD set is still a blessing, worth every bit of its price. I hope through this DVD release (long overdue) more people can discover and experience the overwhelming beauty of this fine series.
Movie Review: Astoundingly Good
Summary: 5 Stars
So, I'm 50 years old; I've always loved the kind of quality BBC programs that we see on masterpiece theater, and complained about the fact that most american tv (with rare exceptions) is such garbage, comparatively. Now this particular series, however--It is in fact simply unforgettable. I must echo so many of the other reviewers' sentiments. There we were in the early 80's when this series first aired on PBS (i.e., not able to just google it and buy it like nowadays), and as soon as I saw the first episode, and building with each one, I was simply awed by it. During all this time from then until now, "Flambard's" would flash through my mind occasionally because of how much I fell in love with it. I hoped for the longest time that PBS would show the series again (as they do with some other series) but alas, it seems they haven't seen fit to do so. I have intended ever since the 80's to try to locate and buy the tapes. Finally, I am in a position to do so, and thanks to the internet... I just ordered the VHS tapes AND the DVDs. It tells something about a miniseries like this when someone can see it in their 30's (or with other reviewers, age fill-in-the-blank) and the impression of it stays so strong for the rest of their life. It is a precious example of the type of show that is so good it is art; conceived and written by the original author, and transformed by everyone involved in making the show itself into a production that so magnificently conveys the essence of the human experience it mesmerizes you. Finally, I'll have Flambards again! And not just for myself--it's the type of media that one wants to pass on to friends and family...Movie Review: A lovely depiction of the novel.
Summary: 5 Stars
I adored this series when it first aired in 1978, I was 12 at the time and staying at my Gran's during the summer it was first aired in England. It became a ritual for us both to watch the show without interuption. We would work hard in the lead up to Friday evenings, do the housework, prepare and eat the evening meal, wash up, have baths and settle to watch Flambards with a bag of fruit bonbons to share.
The story was a wonderful encapsualation of dominant themes from the early 20th century, aviation, the decline of the gentry, emerging war in Europe and the rise of the rights of Women. All these issues are deliciously brought to life in the life of the characters but particularly through Christina, William and Christina's friend Dorothy. It was a delightful show which signalled the importance of 1900's and 1910's for a new generation (it was news even to my Gran who was born in 1926) and it displayed the valor of the human spirit shining through diversity. Important, overlooked, historically educational, emotive nad beautiful. I have special memories of this series as it now signals times past for me, my Gran died in 1990 and life is not as it was in 1978, now. For me this signals the increased value of Flambards and stories like it, for not only are they highly dramatic and engaging stories but they are perfectly clear windows into forgotten and unknown portions of history.
Movie Review: The Incomparable "Flambards"
Summary: 5 Stars
I first saw this series on PBS in 1980; in fact, with two different PBS stations, I ended up watching each part 3 times a week! Each subsequent viewing was as wonderful as the first. Christine McKenna was simply luminous as Christina Parsons, the orphan girl sent to live at her uncle's Essex estate in the years preceding World War I and coming to know her two cousins, arrogant Mark and brilliant, scientific William, as well as Dick, the gentle stableboy, as William took steps into the new world of aviation despite the abuses of his wheelchair-bound father. This is a beautifully-filmed series that is unfortunately not really showcased by the DVD transfer, but it doesn't matter, it is Flambards complete and unedited (unlike the 1980 PBS broadcast that combined parts 1 & 2 into a single hour-long episodes and A&E's "chopped-to-flinders-for-commericals" version). Actors Edward Judd (as the choleric Uncle Russell), Alan Parnaby as Will, Steven Grives as Mark, Peter Settelen as Will's fellow-flyer Sandy, and Carol Leader as the unconventional Dorothy are also outstanding. And there is David Fanshawe's memorable soundtrack as well, with haunting themes, sprightly interstices, and the nostalgic "Song of Christina" ballad. I was lucky enough to find the LP soundtrack in the Harvard Coop many years ago and play the music with delight even today. Not to be missed!