What is your favorite play-to-film adaptation?

I personally love Julie Taymor's Titus but I think it might be a little intense for my students.
 

As much as I have a complete unadulterated hard-on for the ineffable, this time, Proust wins.

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I'm off to Oslo in the morning.
 

My mother used to make costumes for TheatreWorks in Colorado Springs. They sure did a lot of amazing playwrights' work, come to think of it. Do you know Marat/Sade? By Peter Weiss? My mother did costumes for that - raggedy straight jackets for the perverse actors and actresses - screaming humans on stage. That was during a specifically rough time ( Read more... )