- Far From the Madding Crowd
Have a hearty helping of Hardy this week with our review of Far From the Madding Crowd, starring Carey Mulligan as an eligible young woman besieged by prospective husbands. Ben Sachs takes a look at The D Train, starring Jack Black as a former high school loser now organizing a class reunion and James Marsden as the old classmate he hopes might ignite the party. But whatever you do, don’t miss the riotously funny British import Queen and Country, screening one week only at Gene Siskel Film Center. Directed by John Boorman (Point Blank, Deliverance), it’s a sequel to his earlier autobiographical feature Hope and Glory (1987; also screening this week) and a wild service comedy that ranks alongside MAS*H and Stripes.