It’s a testament to the quality of Shakespeare’s stories that more than 400 years after they were written, they’re still being adapted for film. Hollywood has returned to the Bard for ...
Robison, William B. 2020. Lancastrians, Tudors, and World War II: British and German Historical Films as Propaganda, 1933–1945. Arts, Vol. 9, Issue. 3, p. 88.
If the plotline sounds familiar, that’s because the story was loosely based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The clue is there with the characters’ names – R and Julie and the film even ...
Like any great Shakespeare production, the film has moments of comedy. A scene where the actor’s avatars attempt to jump onto a blimp, hundreds of feet in the air, has a slapstick quality that ...
Youth, velocity, charisma, and undeniable star power—the film itself became a rallying cry for a new crowd of Shakespeare movies, often cast with Hollywood’s young royalty and geared toward ...
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death, Shakespeare's Globe has assembled an all-star cast to make 37 short films - one for each play - and here's the twist: each lavish 10 ...
With a mostly Polynesian cast and crew of 400, New Zealand film director Don Selwyn is making the world's first Maori-language Shakespeare film. Many in the local film industry greeted his ...