2008 Films 6) Richard III (1995); and The Kingmaker

[nwhyte]

I was very strongly recommended to watch Ian McKellen's Richard III after I had read the script and listened to the Arkangel version. Well, wwhyte, nmg and liberaliser, you were right. It is an extraordinary tour de force, set in a grazingly Fascist Britain of the 1930s (so echoed in more recent books by Christopher Priest and papersky). McKellen himself is superb; the other

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[natural20]

I loved it when I saw it (when it first came out) and I think I may have get it again sometime soon. Definitely worth watching and rewatching.

[swisstone]

I haven't seen McKellen's Richard III for ages. I really must watch it again soon, if only to remind myself that there was a time when he bothered to act.

[drasecretcampus]

Have you seen Pacino's Looking for Richard? And Sher's The Year of the King was a formative piece of reading for me before I fell out of love with theatre.

[liberaliser]

Aaand welcome to the fan club. When you get to Othello, I strongly recommend tracking down the BBC production where he plays a very scary Iago to Willard White's Othello. The film with Laurence Fishburne is shinier, and still very good, but much less memorable.

[ehuscribbles]

And I recommend Laughton as Henry VIII ~m