Shakespeare
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #44: Henry IV, Part 1 (2012)
44. Richard Eyre’s Henry IV, Part 1 (2012) There is no Richard II in episode two of The Hollow Crown, so already there was good reason to hope. Episode two presents Henry IV, Part 1. The title role is played not by Rory Kinnear, who performed the role admirably in Richard II, but instead by Jeremy… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #43: Richard II (2012)
43. Rupert Goold’s Richard II (2012) Dear readers, your indulgent rogue sometimes has a difficult time out of doors during those times when he is recognized as such a keen evaluator of the films made from Shakespeare. “Will you review this film?” they yip, and “Will you review that film?” they yap. I can’t stick… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #42: Discovering Hamlet (1990)
42. Mark Olshaker’s Discovering Hamlet (1990) Documentaries about Shakespeare tend to bore me, as they must. I may be a rogue, but I do have some bona fide academic credentials, and most documentaries cannot gracefully bridge the needs of the novice Shakespeare viewer and the not-novice. If there was an A&E Biography of Richard Burbage,… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #41: Omkara [Othello] (2006)
41. Omkara [Othello] (2006) With the exception of The Tempest, the plots of Shakespeare’s plays are not actually original to him. What is original is the exceptional psychological depth that he granted the characters in these plays, and the exquisite language with which he chiseled their psychologies into existence. So when artists adapt Shakespeare onto film,… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #40: Cymbeline (2014)
40. Michael Almereyda’s Cymbeline (2014) With his Hamlet, Michael Almereyda demonstrated some interesting interpretive choices marred by casting a mawkish, mumbling Ethan Hawke as Hamlet, and Ethan Hawke Ethan Hawked the shit out of that shitty film. With his Cymbeline, Michael Almereyda demonstrated some astoundingly feeble tawdry interpretive choices marred even further by casting a… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #38: Henry V (1944)
38. Laurence Olivier’s Henry V (1944) So last week I barely endured all the shit-mongering of Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet, which seemed even worse this time than the previous times I’ve watched it. Rather than careen at Almereyda’s Cymbeline, I took pity on myself and watched something—anything—else. What I picked was Olivier’s Henry V, which I… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #37: Hamlet (2000)
37. Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet (2000) When it comes to presenting Shakespeare well on film, sometimes it just isn’t enough to be a pretentious twat. Baz Luhrman has proven that once, and Michael Almereyda has proven that twice, the first time with Hamlet. This Hamlet stars a really goofy knit-cap. Underneath it, unfortunately for this movie,… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #36: Antony and Cleopatra (1972)
36. Charlton Heston’s Antony and Cleopatra (1972) Antony and Cleopatra is Shakespeare’s continuation of sorts of Caesar. The triumvirate of Roman leaders, Octavius Caesar, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Marc Antony is on the verge of breaking with Marc Antony since he has lapsed in his Roman duties and gone native with lust in Egypt with Cleopatra. Pompey,… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #44: Gender and Shakespeare in Soho
Shakespearing #44 by David Foley Father of Lies: Gender and Shakespeare in Soho Lisa Wolpe, founder and artistic director of the Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company, has recently been performing a couple of theatre pieces at the Here arts space on 6th Avenue and Spring Street in Soho. In one, Macbeth3, she plays the title… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #35: Julius Caesar (1970)
35. Stuart Burges’s Julius Caesar (1970) I’ve explained before how Caesar is a difficult play to like. Julius Caesar dies in Act III, Scene 1, but even before that most of the play is about noble Brutus, the man who would kill Caesar because he loved Rome too much to let it be ruled by… Continue reading
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