First tho.....what if Shakespeare had written the script for one of my fave films THE BIG LEBOWSKI?
Now for some proper bard
First up the excellent recent BBC productions under the umbrella series THE HOLLOW CROWN. All are the "short" 2hr versions of the play and stuffed with top quality actors
- Richard II
- Henry IV Part 1
-Henry IV Part 2
- Henry V
Now for some other notable Toob versions of Shaky stuff
- Orson Welles' MacBeth
- Orson Welles' Chimes At Midnight
- Richard Burton's Hamlet (1964 live on stage)
- A performance of Mark Twain's "Is Shakespeare Dead" about whether Shaky actually wrote the plays.
- the quiz show QI Shakespeare Special
http://www.youtube.com/user/sasijayaram/videos - source for the QI episode and lots more to see there
and now for some other interesting finds
- Orson Welles' 1930s War Of The Worlds broadcast that caused widespread panic in the USA
- The classic Sidney Lumet 1957 version of 12 Angry Men
- the classic version of Moby Dick
- Hitler: Rise to Evil starring Robert Carlyle as the young Hitler
- Hara Kiri: Death Of A Samurai - stunning 2011 Takeshi Miike remake of the seminal 1950s samurai classic of revenge and honour. Fully subbed in english...an utter masterwork.
Ah verily I am as joyful as a swine in a sty full of slops, caring not for the troubles the morrow may bring.
Enjoy chums


