The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #78: O [Othello] (2001)
78. Tim Blake Nelson’s O [Othello] (2001) This nugget of a film fell between the cracks of the art house crowd and the teenagers who went to see Save the Last Dance, The Princess Diaries, and Final Destination. Admittedly, the premise didn’t seem promising: set Othello in a prep school with the tragic hero being Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #77: King Lear (2018)
77. Richard Eyre’s King Lear (2018) I basically hate Macbeth, and I like Lear even fucking less than that, sweet reader, but when the BBC released a film of the elderly tragedy starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, my hand was obviously forced into watching it. As I’ve said before, in Lear “There’s a lot Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #76: National Theatre Live: Hamlet
75. Robin Lough’s National Theatre Live: Hamlet (2015) My recent thesis, that successful stage productions should just be filmed rather than adapted for a purely cinematic version, isn’t being born out as well as I had hoped, even if The National Theatre Live’s 2015 version of Hamlet sparkles with greatness. “If thou hast nature in Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #75: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (2000)
75. Paul Kafno’s The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (2005) Normally, dear readers, cute middlebrow approaches to Shakespeare fill my heart with hate, so I was aggravated when a friend of mine just gave me a copy of The Reduced Shakespeare Company’s The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). The good news is that the Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #74: Hamlet (2015)
74. Margaret Williams’s film of Sarah Frankcom’s stage version of Hamlet (2015) The Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester’s gender-bending production film of its stage version Hamlet makes me dwell on this passage: Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #73: King Lear (2008)
73. Trevor Nunn’s King Lear (2008) I’ve taken a few months off my Shakespeariation, dear readers. I presume if you are reading this blog, you want to know which films to seek out, which to avoid due to being fatally boring, and which ones are weird enough to huff some glue to watch. Well, the Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #72: Richard III (2016)
72. Dominic Cooke’s Richard III (2016) This rogue who reviews Shakespeare films for you, dear readers, gets jaded sometimes. I expect these films to be good. Not just un-terrible, but quite seriously good. Henry VI Parts 1-3 were so good on The Hollow Crown that I approached its Richard III with some sense of crankiness. Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #71: Henry VI Parts 2 & 3 (2016)
71. Dominic Cooke’s Henry VI Parts 2 & 3 (2016) Season 2, episode 1 of “The Hollow Crown” ends somewhere in the middle of Henry VI, Part 2. Our callow King Henry VI was expecting to oversee the trial of Humphrey, Lord Protector of England, only to learn that Humphrey was—ummm—assassinated in the Tower. In his Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #70: Henry VI Parts 1 & 2 (2016)
70: Dominic Cooke’s Henry VI Parts 1 & 2 (2016) I am an outright Shakespeare junkie, dear readers. This you should know by now. Yet the prospect of outright speed-balling multiple Shakespeare plays in one sitting seems daunting, even to me. I am aware of festivals that mount all of The War of the Roses Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #69: Twelfth Night (1996)
69. Trevor Nunn’s Twelfth Night (1996) Songs in Shakespeare can be a tricky thing since his texts share lyrics, but not melodies. The normal theatrical approach to these songs is to keep them brief, and not to commit to melodies that are catchy or especially even musical, which kind of defeats the presumed delightful fucking Continue reading
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