Tag: Shakespeare
Blimey! Here's 100 British Flicks That Are The Dog's Bollocks – VIII
My oh my, what a mixture of British filmmaking talent on display in part eight. Mr Shakespeare shows up once again, banging his tragic love…
Blimey! Here's 100 British Flicks That Are The Dog's Bollocks – IV
An eclectic mix of British cinema coming your way. Music influenced by Belle and Sebastian. Kid gangsters, and adult, kind of. There’s heartache in rural…
Julie Taymor's TITUS: Guess Who’s Going to be Dinner
The bard was not only brilliant at loftier themes like self-awareness, politics and the contemplation of the many forms of love, he could also mash-up horror, sex, violence, torture and cannibalism with the best of them – then and now. And he does it all in iambic pentameter, the playwrights’ equivalent to Ginger Rogers doing everything her partner does, only backwards and in heels.
Genre Blast: The Play’s the Thing – From Stage to Screen
When a powerful play is adapted to incorporate some of the technical features possible with film, the end result can be transporting. A savvy director and crew will mine the dramatic work for opportunities to maneuver the camera in such a way as to take the audience out of their seats and place them in the middle of the action (just as one would with any other film genre). The playwright’s words should not be treated as a wall that defines the boundaries of the film, but as a door that opens into another medium of expression.
