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"A Harlot's Progress (2006) ... William Hogarth ... Koch Vision (2008)",
This review is from: A Harlot's Progress (DVD)
Koch Vision and BBC presents "A HARLOT'S PROGRESS" (2006) (120 mins/Color) (Dolby Digital) --- Toby Jones (AMAZING GRACE) plays English artist William Hogarth in this retelling of his life --- The film brings all the grubbiness of 18th century London to the screen as Hogarth's undoubted talent, and his infamous relationship with a prostitute, is outlined in vivid style --- Great contrasts and characterization --- William Hogarth (November 10, 1697 - October 26, 1764) was a major English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art --- His work ranged from excellent realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects" --- Much of his work, though at times vicious, poked fun at contemporary politics and customs --- Illustrations in such style are often referred to as Hogarthian --- BBC and Koch Vision release.
Under the production staff of: Justin Hardy - Director Clive Bradley - Screenwriter Clare Alan - producer Richard Blair-Oliphant - Original Music Douglas Hartington - Cinematographer Michael Harrowes - film editor A Harlot's Progress (also known as The Harlot's Progress) is a series of six paintings (1731, now lost) and engravings (1732) by William Hogarth. The series shows the story of a young woman, Mary (or Moll) Hackabout, who arrives in London from the country and becomes a prostitute. The series was developed from the third image: having painted a prostitute in her boudoir in a garret on Drury Lane, Hogarth struck upon the idea of creating scenes from her earlier and later life. The title and rich allegory are reminiscent of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. In the first scene, an old woman praises her beauty and suggests a profitable occupation, procuring her for the gentleman shown to the back of the image. She is a mistress with two lovers in the second, has become a common prostitute on the point of being arrested in the third, and is beating hemp in Bridewell Prison in the fourth. By the fifth, she is dying from venereal disease, and she is dead aged only 23 in the last. The protagonist is named after the heroine of Moll Flanders and Kate Hackabout. Kate was a notorious prostitute and the sister of highwayman Francis Hackabout: he was hanged on 17 April 1730; she was convicted of keeping a disorderly house in August the same year, having been arrested by Westminster magistrate Sir John Gonson. The series of paintings proved to be very popular, and Hogarth used his experience as an apprentice to a silversmith to create engravings of the images, selling a "limited edition" of 1,240 sets of six prints to subscribers for a guinea. Pirate copies of the engravings were soon in circulation, and Hogarth procured a 1735 Act of Parliament (8 Geo. II. cap. 13) to prohibit the practice. Soon after, Hogarth published his second series of satirical and moralistic images, A Rake's Progress, followed some years later by Marriage à-la-mode. The original paintings were destroyed in a fire at Fonthill Abbey, the country house of William Beckford in Wiltshire, in 1755. The original plates survived, and were sold by Hogarth's widow, Jane, to John Boydell in 1789; by him to Baldwin, Cradock and Joy in 1818, and then to Henry Bohn in 1835. Each produced further copies.(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) the cast includes: Toby Jones ... William Hogarth Philip Martin Brown ... Gaoler Zoe Tapper ... Mary Collins Geraldine James ... Mother Needham John Castle ... Sir John Gonson Kate Ambler ... Top floor whore Sophie Thompson ... Jane Hogarth Vicky Hall ... Sarah Roger Hammond ... Doctor Rock Adam Levy ... Nathaniel Hirsch Francis Magee ... James Dalton Nicholas Rowe ... Henry Fielding Oliver Ryan ... Samuel Scott Richard Wilson ... Sir James Thornhill Sarah Jane Wolverson ... Singing Prisoner SPECIAL FEATURES Disc #1 -- Harlot's Progress 1. The Foudling Hospital [4:52] 2. Starvation [3:27] 3. Covent Garden [11:43] 4. Fortunes [8:40] 5. Black Market Gin [6:52] 6. Mother Needham [4:46] 7. The Wig Box [14:17] 8. Beating Hemp [7:02] 9. A Visitor [6:43] 10. Moral Welfare [17:44] 11. Notorious Quack [11:45] 12. Closing Credits [1:31] Great job by Koch Vision --- looking forward to more high quality titles from the BBC Collection film market --- order your copy now from Amazon or Koch Vision where there are plenty of copies available on DVD, stay tuned once again for top notch releases --- where they are experts in releasing long forgotten films and treasures to the collector. Total Time: 120 mins on DVD ~ Koch Vision KOCV-6535 ~ (6/10/2008)
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Beautifully photographed and directed,
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From the first shot of A Harlot's Progress I was stunned by the way it was lit and photographed. English history across the ages was something that always fascinated me and the way this story was presented was incredibly perfect. Mr. Hogarth played by Toby Jones was incredibly played while the director left no stone unturned, to give us back the misery of the low classes of the time while the higher classes never hid their egoistical conceit.
A great drama very well directed and photographed. For those who love photography this picture was really beautifully lit. It needs a second viewing to grasp all the little details.
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" A Harlot's Progress " : A very moving and, in some ways, " scary " docudrama. I strongly recommend.
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