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Posts Tagged "William Shakespeare"
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King Lear **** (1983, Laurence Olivier, Colin Blakely, Leo McKern, Robert Lindsay) – Classic Movie Review 10,164
Director Michael Elliott’s 1983 TV movie King Lear stars Laurence Olivier in his last great gasp as the Shakespearean royal father, more sinned against than sinning, a role he was so desperate to record that […]
King Lear [Korol Lir] ** (1970, Jüri Järvet, Elza Radzina, Galina Volchek) – Classic Movie Review 10,162
Director Grigoriy Kozintsev’s 1970 Russian film King Lear [Korol Lir] stars Jüri Järvet as a modest, one-note (bad-tempered) Lear leading a number of unstriking performances in this disappointment from the director of the great Russian […]
King Lear **** (1970, Paul Scofield, Irene Worth, Cyril Cusack, Jack MacGowran, Alan Webb, Patrick Magee) – Classic Movie Review 10,160
‘Know that we have divided In three our kingdom: and ’tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age; Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburthen’d crawl toward death.’ Well […]
Julius Caesar ** (1970, Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, John Gielgud, Richard Johnson, Robert Vaughn, Richard Chamberlain, Diana Rigg, Jill Bennett, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 10,159
Director Stuart Burge’s 1970 British film of William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar has the misfortune of following the classic 1953 version of Julius Caesar with Marlon Brando and James Mason. John Gielgud plays Caesar this […]
Antony and Cleopatra ** (1972, Charlton Heston, Hildegard Neil, Eric Porter, John Castle, Fernando Rey, Freddie Jones) – Classic Movie Review 8700
Director Charlton Heston’s 1972 Antony and Cleopatra gives Heston his chance to play Marc Antony in this school-play-type film version of the Shakespearean tragedy. Heston looks noble and is full of enthusiasm but is unsubtle […]
All Is True *** (2018, Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen) – Movie Review
Director Kenneth Branagh’s All Is True (2018) is a thoroughly enjoyable, bitter-sweet look the troubled final days of William Shakespeare. It is a good, honourable, solid, old-fashioned film – the kind the Brits ought to […]
Romeo and Juliet *** (1936, Leslie Howard, Norma Shearer, John Barrymore, Basil Rathbone, Edna May Oliver, C Aubrey Smith) – Classic Movie Review 6298
In a lavish labour of love, MGM producer Irving Thalberg miscasts his wife Norma Shearer and a poetic Leslie Howard as the star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet for director George Cukor’s careful and intelligent 1936 […]