By Malcolm Jomes for the Daily Beast, 2 January 2016 Critics turned up their noses in 1966 at Chimes at Midnight, Welles’s film about Shakespeare’s Falstaff. Now it’s being re-released and you can see what you missed. Even today, Orson Welles has a troubled reputation. There are still those who will argue that he peaked with Citizen Kane and never fulfilled his promise. Frankly, […]
By Nick Clark for the Independent, 1 January 2016 The Royal Shakespeare Company’s great history play cycle, The Wars of the Roses, is to be shown in its original glory for the first time in 50 years. The RSC described the cycle of Shakespeare plays Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III, broadcast on BBC1 in 1965, as being “one of the most significant and compelling […]
Reuters, 27 November 2015 A live broadcast of Judi Dench and Kenneth Branagh starring in Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” was the biggest cinema box office draw in Britain on the night of the screening, the show’s publicists said on Friday. The three-hour-long play, broadcast from London to 520 cinemas across Britain on Thursday night, took in 1.1 million pounds ($1.65 […]
By David Ng for the Los Angeles Times, 27 November 2015 When it comes to writing music for the plays of William Shakespeare, few living composers can claim as much experience as Patrick Doyle, the two-time Academy Award nominee who has collaborated with Kenneth Branagh on screen adaptations including “Henry V,” “Much Ado About Nothing” and “Hamlet.” Doyle has written music for more than […]
By Kounteya Sinha for The Times of India, 1 November 2015 ilmmakers from India have a new challenge – interpret Shakespeare and his masterpieces into modern-day films. Britain has floated major plans to celebrate Shakespeare’s 400th death anniversary next year. Shakespeare India forms part of Shakespeare 400 on Screen, a major film and television programme led by Film London to mark 400 […]
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