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Classic Film Review: Stoppard has His Way with “Hamlet” for laughs — “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead” (1990)
In search of some vintage laughs among the “classic” collections of my favorite streamers, I stumbled back into the great British playwright Tom Stoppard’s lone directing credit, his star-studded big screen adaptation of “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead.” I saw … Continue reading
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Tagged gary-oldman, hamlet, richard-dreyfuss, rosencrantz, shakespeare, theatre, tim-roth, tom-stoppard
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Classic Film Review: Looking for Lean Laughs from “Blithe Spirit” (1945)
The shifting sands of editor-turned-director David Lean‘s career took him through early adaptations of Noël Coward scripts, included some definitive adaptations of Charles Dickens and eventually settled on the sweeping epics which is he best known for today — “Bridge … Continue reading
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Tagged comedy, david-lean, margaret-rutherford, movie-review, noel-coward, review, rex-harrison, theatre
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Classic Film Review: Welles’ “Othello,” a Masterpiece in Black and White and Blackface
The lore and backstory behind Orson Welles‘ years-in-the-making production of “The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice” has come to overwhelm the movie itself. He was so strapped for funds, filming this in Europe as his American directing career … Continue reading
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Tagged classic-film-review, micheal-macliammoir, orson-welles, othello, shakespeare, theatre, tubi, william-shakespeare
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