My Most Anticipated 2021 Movies
A lot can change in a year, I believe it’s safe to say. At this point last December, I was thinking about the end of a decade of movies, in […]
Tag Archives: Shakespeare
The Class of 2020: My Favorite Movies
The Distracted Boyfriend meme is nowhere more applicable than in the life of a cinephile. Whatever movie I plan on seeing next, the thought will always occur to me before […]
An Enterprise of Great Pitch and Moment: My 10 Favorite Hamlet Movies
Probably the main reason that Hamlet has been such a popular subject for cinema from its very beginning — besides representing a grasp for artistic legitimacy in those early days, and […]
Hamlet on Film: Letterboxd Reviews
I’ve gotten to know this play pretty well over the last couple weeks, having as of this writing seen sixteen of the twenty-seven renditions I’ve lined up for this retrospective. […]
Announcing My 2020 Movie Retrospective: Hamlet on Film
Shakespearean cinema, like many of the other subjects I’ve approached in my annual film retrospectives, is something in which I’ve long wanted to become more fluent. There are boundless avenues […]
Double Feature: Orson Welles, Marilyn Monroe…and…Me?
It’s almost immaterial that one of these films is derived from a novel and the other from a memoir. An experiment: Watch Me and Orson Welles and My Week with Marilyn back-to-back […]
The Fantasy Biopic: Shakespeare in Love
Eagle-eyed observer that I am, it only took two major clues for me to make the connection between Shakespeare in Love and Amadeus. First is the presence of Simon Callow, which is […]
Patriotism With Both Eyes Open: The Manchurian Candidate
I hadn’t noticed this the first few times I’d watched the movie, but John Frankenheimer’s The Manchurian Candidate both begins and ends with a discussion about the Medal of Honor. (Technically, […]
Double Feature: My Darling Clementine and Tombstone
The shootout at the O.K. Corral is one of the defining stories of the American West. Famously lasting only thirty seconds, the altercation ended with three deaths and stamped the […]
My Favorite Movies: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
One of the most breathtaking things about movies, going back to their earliest days, is their capacity for making the impossible real. Whether this simply means bringing a long-forgotten past […]
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