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ehle64
Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 8:20 am Reply with quote
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I'll go for De Palma -- can't do slasher flicks.

bocce -- still into moderating?
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whiskeypriest
Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 12:51 pm Reply with quote
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Not really up enough on DePalma, per se, to participate, and none of his movies are a particular favorite. In fact, I couldn't tell you the last time I watched one of his movies. But don't let that stop you.

I kind of like the idea of each of us, in rotation, hosting a film forum on a topic of our choosing - director, actor, theme, what have you.

Have we ever done Shakespeare on Film?

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Joe Vitus
Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 1:17 pm Reply with quote
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I think that's a great idea.

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billyweeds
Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 1:29 pm Reply with quote
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Joe Vitus wrote:
I think that's a great idea.


I agree, and we could include modern adapations of Shakespeare as well as "pure" Shakespeare films. That is, movies like 10 Things I Hate About You, Hamlet 2000, O, etc.

(Come to think of it, those three films could also be the start of a Julia Stiles forum.)


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Joe Vitus
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I really enjoyed 10 Things I Hate About You. A Shakespeare movie forum would be really cool.

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billyweeds
Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 1:32 pm Reply with quote
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That's definitely got my support.

I would like to include Men of Respect, the Macbeth adaptation with John Turturro, something I've been meaning to see and this will give me the impetus to do so.
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whiskeypriest
Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 1:38 pm Reply with quote
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My Own Private Idaho, West Side Story... Kurosawa's Noh Shakespeares....

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billyweeds
Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 1:40 pm Reply with quote
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whiskeypriest wrote:
My Own Private Idaho, West Side Story...


Kurosawa's King Lear riff, Ran.

In fact, maybe we should limit the forum to modern rethinkings of Shakespeare. There certainly are enough of them, and many of them are probably more unseen than, say, Olivier's and Branagh's Henry V movies.
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Joe Vitus
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I've never seen Throne of Blood or Ran. Big omissions in my movie-going experience.

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billyweeds
Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 1:43 pm Reply with quote
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Modern adaptations would include the aforementioned Hamlet 2000, which preserves the original text but in totally modern context, Love's Labour's Lost, which keeps the Shakespearean lines but adds Cole Porterish songs, and Romeo + Juliet, the Baz Luhrmann take which keeps the text but makes it a gangster saga.


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whiskeypriest
Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 1:46 pm Reply with quote
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billyweeds wrote:
whiskeypriest wrote:
My Own Private Idaho, West Side Story...


Kurosawa's King Lear riff, Ran.

In fact, maybe we should limit the forum to modern rethinkings of Shakespeare. There certainly are enough of them, and many of them are probably more unseen than, say, Olivier's and Branagh's Henry V movies.
Branagh's Henry V may qualify as a rethinking - or perhaps unrethinking - of that play. But part of the interest in the rethinkings would be comparing them to the more traditional versions.

Julie Taymor, by the by, is supposedly (per imdb) doing a version of The Tempest, with Helen Mirren as Prospera [sic].

I'd love the excuse to hunt down Prospero's Books and - especially - Chimes at Midnight.


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billyweeds wrote:
Modern adaptations would include the aforementioned Hamlet 2000, which preserves the original text but in totally modern context, Love's Labour's Lost, which keeps the Shakespearean lines but adds Cole Porterish songs, and Romeo + Juliet, the Baz Luhrmann take which keeps the text but makes it a gangster saga.
Ian McKellan's Richard III is one of my favorite more or less modern dress Shakespeares. Would Rozenkrantz and Guildenstern are Dead count?

There may be too much here to really concentrate on.

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billyweeds
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Taymor also did the overlong but intensely interesting Titus, with a miscast Anthony Hopkins but a blazing, amazing Jessica Lange as Titus Andronicus and the creepy, evil queen who is his nemesis. It also qualifies as a rethinking, having little to do with the usual Titus Andronicus.
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Good God! Sorry all. I'll delete, but a woman has claimed her father was teh Zodiac killer.

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