A Double Life is a 1947 American film noir which tells the story of an actor whose mind becomes affected by the character he portrays. It stars Ronald Colman and Signe Hasso. It is directed by George Cukor, with screenplay by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin. Ronald Colman won the Academy Award for Best Actor […]
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10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 American teen romantic comedy film directed by Gil Junger and starring Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Larisa Oleynik. The screenplay, written by Karen McCulla Lutz and Kirsten Smith, is a modernization of The Taming of the Shrew, retold in a late-1990s American high school […]
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McLintock! is a 1963 American Western film, starring John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara, directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. Loosely based on The Taming of the Shrew, the project was filmed in Technicolour and Panavision, and produced by Wayne’s company, Batjac Productions. Tough cattle baron and town namesake George Washington “G.W.” McLintock lives as a bachelor […]
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You Made Me Love You is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Stanley Lupino, Thelma Todd and John Loder. The plot is a modern reworking of The Taming of the Shrew. In London, songwriter Tom Daly falls in love at first sight with a beautiful blonde he spies while at […]
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Today we feature three movies that owe their storylines to the plot of William Shakespeare’s play ‘The Tempest. It is one of his later plays and is usally described as a tragi-comedy, in that it appears to be a full blown tragedy but actually concludes with a happy ending. Yellow Sky is a 1948 American […]
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Our Shakespeare play today is the perennial favourite ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. As you might expect the actual play has been captured many times on film, from the earliest days of cinema in 1909 to the latest in 2017. That being said, the number of movies that adapt the story are relatively few. I chosen […]
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Today we turn our attention to Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night, which legend has it was written specifically for a performance at the court of Queen Elizabeth I. Whilst there a several versions of the play on film, I have been able to identify three that merely use the premise for their storyline. Just One of […]
Ikkokukan Cover Band
I first came across Ikkokukan by accident on YouTube. It proved to be a very serendipidous accident because I feel that I have uncovered a hidden gem. At the moment they only have 27 people following them but I feel that they deserve far more and so I am adding this extra post to my […]
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Our final reflection on movies based around the story of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, takes a slightly different tack. Here, scenes from the play are being rehearsed as part of the drama surrounding the meeting of the Bard and Viola De Lesseps. Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 romantic period comedy drama film directed by […]
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In our third visit to movies inspired by the plays of Shakespeare we continue to look at adaptions of Romeo and Juliet. The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride is a 1998 American animated direct-to-video musical movie. It is the sequel to Disney’s 1994 animated feature film The Lion King, with its plot influenced by Romeo […]