Seely, Joyce JohnsonBiblio.com
(Joyce, James; Strick, Joseph)Biblio.com
James Joyce's Ulysses; cover title
1967rif. 207481New York: National Publisher's Inc 1967. Wrappers gently used. 4to unpag. 32pp in printed card wrappers illustrated throughout. Illustrated souvenir program from the film adaptation of Joyce's landmark novel by Joseph Strick. A gadfly director Strick embraced the challenge of being the first to adapt Joyce's masterpiece into film taking motivation from the many doubters and naysayers who thought him a fool for trying it. He initially aimed to film the entire novel word for word in an epic production that would have run nearly twenty hours. Unable to secure any funding for such a project he had to reduce it two hours. Shot in contemporary 1960s Dublin with a superb cast of Irish actors including Milo O'Shea as Leopold Bloom Barbara Jefford as Molly Bloom Maurice Roeves as Stephen Dedalus and T.P. McKenna as Buck Mulligan it took Strick three years to complete the film which was released in New York in March of 1967. It generated immediate controversy and was censored at the Cannes festival and in Britain and entirely banned in Ireland until 2000. Although barred from theatrical release private clubs were able to screen the film for Irish audiences. Famously it was the first film in the U.K. to contain the word "fuck." Nor was it especially warmly received by critics or the community of Joyceans. In later years however appreciation has grown for Strick's achievement. National Publisher's Inc unknown
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