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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 Curator of Schlock #124: Magic
The Curator of Schlock #124 by Jeff Shuster Magic (Written for the screen by William Golding from the novel by William Golding. Oh wait! That’s William Goldman.) Okay. You’re Curator of Schlock has a confession to make. I’m afraid of dolls. I’m not talking about Barbies or Cabbage Patch Kids, but those creepy porcelain things they Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #2: Titus (1999)
#2: Titus (1999) If a postmodern, ahistorical approach to Shakespeare repulsed me in the hands of Baz Luhrmann, that aesthetic charms the shit out of me in the hands of Julie Taymor in her adaptation of the brutal, early Shakespeare play, Titus Andronicus. For example, the campaigning of those who would be emperor of Rome, Continue reading
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