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Interesting
Films to Review:
- Romeo
& Juliet (directed by Franco Zefferelli, classic)
- William
Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet (directed by Baz Luhrmann,
modern set and sound)
- Shakespeare
in Love (directed by John Madden, a look at period)
- Rosencrantz
& Guildenstern Are Dead (directed by Tom Stoppard,
a comic take on Hamlet)
- Midsummer's
Night Dream (directed by Michael Hoffman, modern)
- MacBeth
(directed by Roman Polanski, classic)
- Hamlet
(with Mel Gibson)
- Henry
V (directed by Kenneth Branagh)
- Richard
III (with Ian McKellern, set in 1930's)
- Cat
on a Hot Tin Roof (Tennesee Williams)
- Death
of a Salesman (with Dustin Hoffman)
- Waiting
for Guffman (directed by Christopher Guest, mockumentary
on a small town theatre production, very funny)
- Who's
Afraid of Virginia Wolfe (directed Mike Nichols, Elizabeth
Taylor and Richard Burton are amazing)
- Arsenic
and Old Lace (with Cary Grant, filmed like the stage play,
dark comedy)
- Glengarry
Glen Ross (written by David Mamet, intense)
- The
Making of Oedipus Rex (CBC, a new staging of Oedipus Rex,
filmed at Stratford)
- Mishima
(by Paul Schrader, biography of famed Japanese playwright
and author Yukio Mishima)
- The
Dresser (written by Ronald Harwood, relationship between
an eccentric stage actor and his valet)
- Amadeus
(directed by Milos Forman, Peter Schaeffer playwright,
a study of Mozart's life)
- Immortal
Beloved (with actor Gary Oldman, study of Beethoven's
life)
- Topsy
Turvy (directed by Mike Leigh, looks at the world of Gilbert
and Sullivan)
- Pollack
(actor Ed Harris, excellent biography of American "splatter"
artist Jackson Pollack)
- Vincent
and Me (very nice fantasy involving a child who meets
Vincent van Gogh)
- Vincent
and Theo (darker looker at van Gogh, his madness and his
genius
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