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Macbeth trailer: Michael Fassbender does not disappoint in first look at Shakespeare remake

Macbeth trailer: Michael Fassbender does not disappoint in first look at Shakespeare remake

By Daisy Wyatt for the Independent, 4 June 2015 The first anticipated trailer for Macbeth has been released, showing Michael Fassbender as one of Shakespeare’s most bloodthirsty tragic heroes. Directed by Justin Kurzel, the long-awaited film stars Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose, Rust and Bone) as a beautiful but icy Lady Macbeth. The dramatic trailer shows Fassbender covered in blood in scenes narrated in a Scottish […]

June 12, 2015 · 0 comments · Film, Popular Culture
400 years after his death, Shakespeare’s sonnets live on in your smartphone

400 years after his death, Shakespeare’s sonnets live on in your smartphone

By Anya van Wagtendonk for PBS Newshour, 23 April 2015 After William Shakespeare died, on this date in 1616, his contemporary, Ben Jonson, wrote that “He was not of an age, but for all time.” Johnson [sic.] was spot on, because nearly 400 years later, the Bard lives on in the era of the smartphone. That’s where the New York […]

April 30, 2015 · 0 comments · Film
The influence of Lady Macbeth in House of Cards

The influence of Lady Macbeth in House of Cards

By Ben Pomeroy for The Week, 14 April 2015 In the works of William Shakespeare, destiny, betrayal, and murder are all but required for any successful rise to power. That treacherous triad is also on full display in Netflix’s addictive political drama House of Cards. The first two seasons made Frank Underwood’s Shakespearean influence quite plain. But the third season gives us […]

April 19, 2015 · 0 comments · Film, Popular Culture
Shakespeare’s Sonnets, All 154, Reimagined Through a New York Lens

Shakespeare’s Sonnets, All 154, Reimagined Through a New York Lens

By Stuart Miller for The New York Times, 5 April 2015 Billy Magnussen climbed slowly and silently up an outdoor stairway in northern Manhattan on a blustery afternoon. He stopped briefly to wave to the woman draped in a shawl awaiting him two landings above. But once he reached her, he returned to the bottom of the John T. Brush […]

April 7, 2015 · 0 comments · Film, Uncategorized
Cymbeline, Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet, and Why Shakespeare Is So Hard to Adapt for the Screen

Cymbeline, Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet, and Why Shakespeare Is So Hard to Adapt for the Screen

By Moze Halperin for Flavorwire, 13 March 2015 When a director does Shakespeare today, it seems there are three options most commonly selected, each of which has its drawbacks. The first is to do a loyal interpretation, maintaining the original setting and time specified by the Bard (for if you’re the type that chooses loyalty, you also may use this […]

March 17, 2015 · 0 comments · Film, Popular Culture, Reviews
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