The Boston Globe, January 3rd, 1997
Like rock stars and hemlines, "classic" novels come and go. "Nostromo," Joseph Conrad's 1904 tale of imperialist exploitation in the fictitious South American nation of Costaguana, once was ranked among the century's greatest English-language novels. Now one might have to attend grad school to find it on anyone's required reading list. In hewing too closely to its source, the "Masterpiece Theatre" broadcast of the WGBH/BBC six-hour co-production of the novel (airing Sunday through Tuesday nights at 9, Channel 2) shows why. Director Alastair Reid's lavish visual style (which will be wasted on 1...
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