About his version of Romeo and Juliet, in which he inserted new dialogue and entirely new scenes:

"When people say we should have filmed the original, I don't attack them for that point of view, but to see the original in its absolutely unchanged form, you require a kind of Shakespearean scholarship, and you need to understand the language and ( Read more... )

From Cat and Girl:


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So apparently there's a new movie out, written by John Orloff and directed by Roland Emmerich, which recycles that old theory that the Earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare's plays, only with incest and explosions. Holger Syme didn't like it. In fact, he ripped it a new one:

The problem with Anonymous isn’t primarily that it gets so many things wrong. ( Read more... )