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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
Cymbeline: Ethan Hawke, Dakota Johnson and Ed Harris highlight a weird Shakespeare update

Cymbeline: Ethan Hawke, Dakota Johnson and Ed Harris highlight a weird Shakespeare update

By Andrew O’Hehir for Salon, 10 March 2015 “Every good servant does not all commands,” muses Posthumus, the tormented young British warrior in Shakespeare’s “Cymbeline,” played by Penn Badgley in Michael Almereyda’s eccentric but addictive zero-budget, gang-war adaptation. He means that the best way to follow the orders of a lord or king is to follow your own conscience instead […]

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