news, views and reviews of Shakespeare on film (and in the Pacific Northwest)
Posted in McKellen, the Bard on stage on Dec 26th, 2007
Paul Taylor of the UK’s Independent has an article on what he considers a stellar year for the Bard…at least in Britain!
He begins:
Shakespeare – unlike the dollar or Amy Winehouse – can claim to have had a very good 2007. True, it’s hard to remember when he last had a bad year, though there have [...]
Welcome news for Shakespeare-on-film fans: According to the Telegraph.co.uk, “Sir Laurence Olivier’s stirring adaptation of Henry V, credited with lifting morale during the Second World War and considered a masterpiece of British cinema, is returning to the screen in full, Technicolor glory…”
The film has been re-released nationwide in England, but we’ve heard no news yet [...]
Posted in "Put money in my purse!", McKellen, the Bard on stage on Sep 6th, 2007
The Guardian U.K. has posted a stimulating blog on the question of why we Yanks, especially we bardolatrous Yanks, seem to love those British actors.
(Ah me, Ian McKellen is now doing Lear in NYC…put money in my purse!)
Here’s the article.
Posted in "Put money in my purse!", King Lear, McKellen on May 31st, 2007
A good friend of mine is across the pond, as they say, studying abroad in London. As a theater major, she’s doing some exhaustive “homework” taking in a whole slew of London stage productions. Naked Harry Potter, for one (Daniel Radcliffe in Peter Shaffer’s Equus) to which Rachael reports that “he’s definitely growing up.”
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Posted in Bard funnies, Branagh on May 29th, 2007
a.k.a, Rowan Atkinson and Colin Firth (hubba hubba) as the Bard.
(Apologies to our beloved Ken Branagh.)
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Shakespeare's Othello meets Spenser's Faerie Queene in this new and provocative mystery-thriller set in Milwaukee.
This is the story of James Ireton, a gifted young Shakespeare scholar haunted by a tragic past and recurring nightmares of a Knight, a Lady and a vicious Dragon. James thinks they’re just dreams, but when two people close to him fall victim in a seemingly motive-less series of brutal murders, James discovers there may be a very real Dragon preying in the shadows of his life. Worse, if he doesn’t find a bit of St. George in himself, the woman he loves may prove the Dragon’s ultimate victim.