Richard III
Another indulgence, but after all, Richard is theatre, literature and cinema’s quintessential anti-hero, and never more so than in Olivier’s gloriously all-out performance, the complete antithesis of his Henry V. I don’t really have anything to say about it (I’m obsessed with the character, the play, this film, even Al Pacino’s documentary about the play, [...]
Once more into the cinema…
This was always going to be an indulgence, because I could probably quote reams of Henry V verbatim, particularly Olivier’s version. And having never seen it on the big screen, I found it impossible to resist.