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, Looking [...]
Posted on 23rd August, 2007 at 6:00pm in media and tagged with anti-heroes, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Laurence Olivier, Richard III, Shakespeare, sumptuous technicolor.
East, then, on clattering stock. A few (ill-fated) resolutions for this year’s Edinburgh Festival
Posted on 16th August, 2007 at 10:30am in media and tagged with calming fish, charity muggers, Children of Glory, Comrades in Dreams, Death Proof, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Henry V, I Served the King of England, I'm a Cyborg But That's OK, ill-fated resolutions, In Search of a Midnight Kiss, In the Shadow of the Moon, John Waters: This Filthy World, McLaren Animation, Ratatouille, Richard III, Seachd - The Inaccessible Pinnacle, Skills Like This, Stardust, Tekkonkrinkreet, The Counterfeiters, The Italian, The Surprise Movie, Weirdsville, World Animation, W[delta]Z.
