AB Wire published at The American Bazaar, 11 March 2015 The New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) will screen director Vishal Bhardwaj’s Shakespeare trilogy – Maqbool, Omkara and Haider – as a feature of the 2015 festival, which will be held from May 4-10, at the Village East Cinemas, in Manhattan. Bhardwaj is one of India’s foremost film directors whose […]
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 […]
By Ed Caesar for GQ, 20 January 2015 From Shakespeare to Steven Spielberg, the actor his peers agree is the greatest of his generation is breaking character and stepping off the stage to lend his gifts to two Hollywood blockbusters (and playing Thomas Cromwell in the BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall). When GQ met theatre’s star turn we found a man powered by inner conflict […]
By Stephanie Zacharek for LA Weekly, 21 January 2015 There’s something bracingly honest about The Humbling, Barry Levinson’s movie about a 67-year-old Shakespearean actor, played by Al Pacino, who, after being struck with crippling anxiety, gets his mojo restored — some of it, anyway — by a manipulative muse (Greta Gerwig). Based on the 2009 Philip Roth novel of the same […]
Review by Paul Worts, London Film Critic June, 2014 Billy Shakespeare: Bard to the Future Written and directed by self-confessed Shakespeare ‘groupie’ Deborah Voorhees, Billy Shakespeare is a modern-day love letter to the immortal bard delivered in an envelope of sideswiping parody at Hollywood. Placing William Shakespeare in modern-day L.A., the film explores the artistic conflicts that inevitably […]
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