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Well, I'll be wanting to see this one again.

Update: Okay, now that I've had something to eat, here are some actual thoughts about the film. Perhaps above all, Miranda and Ferdinand are vivid and appealing in a way they have never been for me before as the innocent young lovers. Mirren is powerful as Prospera, and yet at times I wondered if the ( Read more... )

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So I finally signed up for Netflix. It was the streaming that finally got me. I'll probably take advantage of the DVD-by-mail system now that I'm signed up, but I prefer the freedom of streaming. Now I need to look into getting some kind of device that would allow us to stream to the TV. I knew that various game consoles like Wii and X-Box would ( Read more... )

So I've been on a minor Shakespeare jag lately, it seems. Friday night I followed up the Shakespeare in the Park production of Romeo and Juliet with Baz Luhrmann's 1996 film version, which I've watched many times previously. It was interesting to watch it right on the heels of a production that included much more of the play's text, because it was ( Read more... )

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So I went to Shakespeare in the Park's production of Romeo and Juliet last night, and I didn't like it very much. The lovers had no chemistry (a fatal flaw!), poor acting made many of the characters tiresome (particularly the ranting Mercutio, played by a woman), and the direction was so incoherent that the whole thing felt like a ramshackle ( Read more... )

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