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	'Cold Comfort Farm' (PG)
		But in "Cold Comfort Farm," where the men are morose, the women are sullen and the local pub is called The Condemn'd Man, misery was never this funny.
		John Schlesinger's "Cold Comfort Farm" is a radical (and most welcome) departure from the polite, stodgy tales of the British aristocracy we're used to seeing at the movies.
		The Starkadders live on their farm in Sussex, a place where no one seems to have heard of teatime and almost no one is well mannered, well dressed or, for that matter, clean.
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	Cold Comfort Farm: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel novel quick summary:
		More talented novelists in the tradition parodied by Cold Comfort Farm are D.
		Cold Comfort Farm has been adapted for television twice.
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	Review: Cold Comfort Farm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In some way, the Starkadders, who inhabit Cold Comfort, owe a debt to her father, but, while no one will say what it is, they agree to give her free room and board.
		The residents of Cold Comfort Farm are a strange lot.
		Cold Comfort Farm is not a vicious lampoon.
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	Cold Comfort Farm
		CCF is funny and sentimental in a British sort of manner.
		Cold Comfort Farm is filled with a fabulous collection of characters who Flora systematically converts to a Higher Sensibility.
		Cold Comfort Farm is a wonderful mixture of offbeat characters and strange situations that make for some of the grandest comedy on screen in some time.
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	Cold Comfort Farm
		"Cold Comfort Farm," made for British television with an infinitely lighter touch than Schlesinger brought to his recent "Eye for an Eye," describes the travails of Flora Poste (Kate Beckinsale), the sophisticated young miss who finds herself in dire financial straits.
		Sure enough, Flora winds up traveling to Sussex to live at Cold Comfort Farm, the well-named family seat of the Starkadders, who are her cousins.
		Also tottering through "Cold Comfort Farm" in various states of local color are Eileen Atkins as Flora's doom-laded cousin Judith, Sheila Burrell as the old lady upstairs, Maria Miles as the requisite poetic nymph and Freddie Jones passionately tending the sheep.
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	Readers' Group Review of Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
		A number of the group were already familiar with Cold Comfort Farm, a novel that commands enormous affection among its admirers.
		When I first discovered Cold Comfort Farm, many years ago, I particularly relished the fact that it seemed to be mocking D.H. Lawrence, who I was studying and who I detested.
		It is notable that Cold Comfort Farm is the only of her works that anyone has ever heard of.
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	Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This was the germ of Cold Comfort Farm.
		Cold Comfort Farm is a comic encyclopaedia of the fads and fancies of the period, and it is remarkable how many of them are still with us.
		"Cold Comfort Farm is a member of my family; he is like some unignorable old uncle, to whom you have to be grateful because he makes you a handsome allowance, but who is often an embarrassment and a bore; skipping about, and reminding you of the days when you were a bright young thing.
	www.catharton.com /stellagibbons/worksfarm.html (7891 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Cold Comfort Farm
		Cold Comfort Farm was Stella Gibbons\'s first novel, written while she was a young, unknown poet and journalist.
		Cold Comfort Farm is a parody of the regional or rural novel, a genre which was extremely popular in the first three decades of the twentieth century.
		The family at Cold Comfort is obstinately old-fashioned in its practices.
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	Dharma Bums: Cold Comfort Farm
		some of our loyal readers expressed an interest in "cold comfort farm" so here is a brief explanation of how we came to use that name, and a hint of the history of the place.
		in 1969 my first wife and i lived in london, and watched, on the telly as they say, a dramatization of a novel called "cold comfort farm." it was hilarious.
		my wife had a sign made, for my birthday, with "cold comfort farm" in fancy script and a border of flowers.
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	Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
		Moving in with her unsophisticated eccentric relatives, the Starkadders, on a rustic Sussex farm, Flora is hardly daunted by their primitivism but instead takes charge and imposes hygiene, order, and good manners on the dirty, superstitious lot.
		Despite protests from the bedridden, iron-willed matriarch of the Cold Comfort Farm, Ada Doom (Sheila Burrell), the feisty Flora endeavours to assist all the family members in fulfilling their dreams.
		Rugged farmhand Seth (Rufus Sewell) is whisked away to Hollywood; the burly Reuben (Ivan Kaye) is given the running of the farm he’s always craved; hell-fire preacher Amos (Ian McKellen) goes to America to spread God’s word and Elfine (Maria Miles) is married to the man of her dreams.
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	COLD COMFORT FARM (An Illusion review by Joan Ellis.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Except for the lagging as the film introduces us to the inhabitants and the rhythms of Cold Comfort Farm, the whole thing builds nicely to the final wedding breakfast, where a dozen or so Starkadders and assorted peripherals gather, dressed to the nines with all their eccentricities spilling out the seams.
		"Cold Comfort Farm" is another small victory rooted firmly in the enviable talent the British have for poking fun at themselves.
		The farm chugs along under the unseen hand of Aunt Ada Doom (Sheila Durrell), who opens her bedroom door only to retrieve the meal trays that are left outside it.
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	Books : Cold Comfort Farm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The language and turn of phrase in Cold Comfort Farm is absolutely superb, some of which are unique to Stella Gibbons, but I find have already infiltrated my everyday thoughts.
		She knows their people who live on farms in Sussex are bound to be deeply unhappy, Amos about religion, Judith about her son Seth, Reube about his muddy fields, Elfine about her poetry and Aunt Ada Doom with something can never forget that she saw something nasty in the woodshed when she was two.
		Her parents died of a sudden illness when she is only 20.She decided to go to live with relatives on cold comfort farm in sussex(The Starkadders-her cousins at cold comfort farm).They are deeply unhappy and miserable all of the time.
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	Cold Comfort Farm . Tucson Weekly . 06-13-96
		The winners are a dark, troubled clan called the Starkadders who, as it turns out, live on the cursed acres of Cold Comfort Farm under the shadow of some unspeakably nasty, vaguely sexual past.
		Though Cold Comfort Farm is set in the 20th century, Flora Poste has the same indomitable spirit as those ladies in dresses, and her world is similarly limited by her gender.
		Her daughter Judith (Eileen Atkins) is afflicted with a similarly psychotic disposition and has pictures of her son Seth (Rufus Sewell), whom she loves with an unmotherly love, arranged in a shrine in her room.
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	Stella Gibbons - Conference At Cold Comfort Farm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		By 1949 Cold Comfort Farm had sold 28000 in the hardback edition and 315,000 in a Penguin paperback.
		Reuben's efforts to farm the land have been interfered with by a man from the Ministry of Agriculture- "brast 'un fer a bowler-hatten skowkerd!"- and, final humiliation, Big Business the bull has lent himself to artificial insemination.
		Whether she took this advice or not, by the time of Conference at Cold Comfort Farm, Elfine had borne four sons.) The returning Starkadders shatter the English Heritage decorum of the farm.
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	Metroactive Movies \| Cold Comfort Farm
		Especially timely is the way Cold Comfort Farm lampoons childhood trauma as an excuse for manipulation and misbehavior.
		The best of a bad lot of potential imposees are her cousins, the Starkadders of gloomy Cold Comfort Farm in Howling, Sussex.
		Cold Comfort Farm (PG; 95 min.), directed by John Schlesinger, written by Malcolm Bradbury, based on the novel by Stella Gibbons and starring Joanna Lumley, Kate Beckinsale and Ian McKellen.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/05.30.96/comfort-9622.html (668 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Cold Comfort Farm (xhtml)
		Finally she decides to accept an invitation to live with the Starkadders, whose Cold Comfort Farm is well-named, an oasis of despair in a slough of despond.
		But Flora is a modern heroine, and calmly sets about upsetting all the traditions of Cold Comfort Farm and refurbishing the lives of its inhabitants.
		One of the gifts of the movie is its physical presence; Cold Comfort Farm and the nearby hamlet of Beershorn Halt are designed and photographed as if vagrants had spent decades defacing a once-charming locale.
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	Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons - Reader's Paradise Forum - GardenWeb
		She noticed the stunted trees that could not grow in the sulphur-laden atmosphere, the cottage windows that were grimy with smoke, the cottage gardens that were starved for the smoke-hidden sun.
		Cold Comfort Farm is so British -- make that ENGLISH -- in its attitude that it is a bit of an inside joke.
		Frieda, I've loved CCF for years recognizing at first reading that it was a satire on Mary Webb a popular contemporary writer in the first 25 years of the 20th Cent.
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	Comfort Inn Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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	LIEYE.COM: MOVIE REVIEWS - Cold Comfort Farm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		3D - LI In a summer of blockbuster special effects extravaganzas, John Schlesinger's Cold Comfort Farm is a bit of breezy British bubbly.
		Set in pre-war England, Cold Comfort Farm is a little reminiscent of the upcoming Emma, another Jane Austen novel adapted for the screen.
		If you can't find Cold Comfort Farm at a theater near you, wait for a rainy day, brew some tea, bake a few scones and cuddle up with the video release.
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	Cold Comfort Farm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The dilapidated English country manse where almost all of Cold Comfort Farm takes place is a perverse mangle of wood and iron that looks like a Gothic redesigned by a constructivist.
		On screen, Cold Comfort Farm is like a cross between Wodehouse and an English version of a Hollywood hillbilly farce like 1945's Murder, He Says.
		The movie doesn't have a graceful arc because the book lacks one -- Gibbons needed to tie up all the loose ends to make Flora's reorganization of the farm complete, and not all of her transformations are as satisfying as the one she works on Elfine.
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	MMI Review: Cold Comfort Farm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A BBC adaptation of Stella Gibbons' popular 1932 novel, "Cold Comfort Farm" centers on Flora Poste, a bright, sophisticated and recently orphaned young woman.
		With few options to choose from, she goes to live with her rural relatives, the Starkadders of cold Comfort Farm.
		Although everything about "Cold Comfort Farm" shines--the script, the acting, the sets--the movie soars on the strength of Kate Beckinsale, a future star who plays Flora.
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	COLD COMFORT FARM - Stella Gibbons - Penguin Readers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When the sukebind is in the bud, orphaned Flora Poste, expensively, athletically and lengthily educated, descends on her relatives at Cold Comfort Farm.
		There are plenty of them - Judith, alone in her grief; Amos, called by God; Seth, smouldering with sex; Elfine, who needs a little polish; and, of course, Great Aunt Ada Doom, who saw 'something nasty in the woodshed'.
		Cold Comfort Farm has the sunniness of a P. Wodehouse and the comic aplomb of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop' Independent
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	Cold Comfort Farm - Celebrity Ltd. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Flora is determined that it is her duty to bring order in to this cold comfort farm and tidy the lives of these uncivilised relatives as she is an excessively tidy person likes a mess and she change cold comfort farm successfully
		When she arrives, she finds a clan of inbred Sussex hillbillies, including her grimly religious uncle, depressed aunt, "highly sexed" cousins, a very fertile farm girl, and the crazed matriarch, Aunt Ada Doom, who "saw something nasty in the woodshed." Even worse, a pompous writer is infatuated with her.
		For the most part, "Cold Comfort Farm" does seem orderly and tidy -- Flora drags it into the 20th century, sends people off to better lives, and arranges marriages, including one for her fey cousin to a young aristocrat.
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	Emanuel Levy : Review - Cold Comfort Farm
		Seattle Festival, May 1996--John Schlesinger reveals again his masterly touch in Cold Comfort Farm, a deliciously eccentric, fabulously acted comedy of manners, based on Stella Gibbons' popular 1932 novel.
		But under Flora's resourceful energy and ingenious influence everything changes: the farm gets a new vibrant look, the handsome Seth becomes a movie star (in a truly hilarious scene), his harsh mother gets romantically involved, the stingy matron goes to Paris, there are new attachments--and a big wedding that brings everybody together at the end.
		Boasting a characteristically British combination of frivolity, eccentricity, and wicked humor, Cold Comfort Farm is as expertly realized as Schlesinger's best TV work, An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution.
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	Cold Comfort Farm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Her cousin at the farm had written to her, saying that "her man" had done a wrong to Flora’s father years ago, and they would do anything to make atonement to “Robert Post’s Child,” but that regarding the deed itself, not a word would cross her lips.
		Of course, Cold Comfort Farm is very much like its name, dirty and squalid, and peopled with very eccentric characters.
		Her cousin is rather insane, and has two sons (Seth, the oversexed young man who likes “talkies,” and Reuben, who thinks Flora is after the farm), a daughter (who likes to run free and recite poetry) and a brother (a hellfire preacher).
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	SPLICEDwire: "Cold Comfort Farm" review
		The central character in "Cold Comfort Farm" is sort of a young flapper version of Holly Golightly, in reverse.
		Adorably prim and chirpy, Kate Beckinsale (Claudio from Kenneth Branagh's "Much Ado About Nothing") is charming and wonderful as a girl that just can't mind her own business, but interferes in a way that most don't seem to mind to awfully much.
		In a manner of weeks the pretty but loopy farm daughter is engaged to the most eligible bachelor in the county, the son's been packed off to Hollywood with a star-making producer and the father (Ian McKellan) has left for America to preach fire and brimstone.
	www.splicedonline.com /96reviews/ccfarm.html (278 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Modern Classics): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When she is orphaned at 20, she decides her only option is to go and live with her relatives, the Starkadders, at Cold Comfort Farm.
		Cold Comfort Farm is a genuinely funny modern classic.
		What follows is Flora's attempt to 'civilize' the inhabitants of the farm and organise their lives in a series of entertaining events.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0141182652 (679 words)

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