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Kurosawa’s Ran coming to Blu-Ray in the Us
23 December 2009 10:07 AM, PST
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We're not sure how it happened, but it looks like Lionsgate somehow acquired the rights to release Akira Kurosawa's epic Macbeth adaptation Ran on Blu-Ray in the Us and they're planning to do so on February 16th of next year. According to akirakurosawa.info, the Blu-Ray disc will include Chris Marker’s making-of documentary “A.K.”, a documentary on Kurosawa called “Akira Kurosawa: The Epic and the Intimate”, a Portrait of Kurosawa by Japanese cinema expert and interpreter Catherine Cadou, a documentary on Samurai art called simply “The Samurai”, an interview with a Japanese art of war expert, and a 20-page collectible booklet. Basically, the same features available on the UK Blu-Ray release.
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Kurosawa’s Ran coming to Blu-Ray in the Us
23 December 2009 10:07 AM, PST
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We're not sure how it happened, but it looks like Lionsgate somehow acquired the rights to release Akira Kurosawa's epic Macbeth adaptation Ran on Blu-Ray in the Us and they're planning to do so on February 16th of next year. According to akirakurosawa.info, the Blu-Ray disc will include Chris Marker’s making-of documentary “A.K.”, a documentary on Kurosawa called “Akira Kurosawa: The Epic and the Intimate”, a Portrait of Kurosawa by Japanese cinema expert and interpreter Catherine Cadou, a documentary on Samurai art called simply “The Samurai”, an interview with a Japanese art of war expert, and a 20-page collectible booklet. Basically, the same features available on the UK Blu-Ray release.
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This Week On DVD and Blu-ray: December 8, 2009
8 December 2009 1:20 AM, PST
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Ak 100: 25 Films by Akira Kurosawa (Criterion Collection)
Sure, there are some of 2009's bigger film releases hitting DVD and Blu-ray this week, but this set from Criterion is undoubtedly the release of the week. This set offers 25 of Akira Kurosawa's films, four of which had never been released on DVD, and an illustrated book featuring an introduction and notes on each of the films by Stephen Prince (The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa) and a remembrance by Donald Richie (The Films of Akira Kurosawa).
I was not sent a copy for review, but DVD Beaver has an extensive three page look at the set right here. If you are interested, it is selling for $284.99 at Amazon as of the posting of this round-up. A list of the films included is directly below followed by a
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Strange Trailer for Zhang's 'Blood Simple' Remake
19 November 2009 4:17 AM, PST
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There was a lot of outrage when it was announced that there would be a remake of Blood Simple, the breakthrough film from the Coen Brothers, even though the new version was being directed by Zhang Yimou, who is at least on the same level as the Coens, if not a better director.
I cautioned the naysayers - as I always do with movies that are transported to different cultures - that you really have no idea what that kind of remake will be like. Take Kurosawa's Macbeth adaptation, Throne of Blood or the master's Ran, an appropriation of King Lear (he's now in the Shakespeare Hall of Fame, incidentally). A good story is a good story, and if you're careful enough or inventive enough in the re-telling, there's no issue with trying to breathe new life into it.
As you will see from the first trailer for Zhang's film,
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- Colin Boyd
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Holiday Preview: A Repertory Calendar
3 November 2009 1:01 PM, PST
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Tim Burton invades New York, New Italian Cinema hits Los Angeles, Harold and Kumar spread holiday cheer in Austin and everywhere you look, they're celebrating All Tomorrow's Parties -- just some of the holiday film fun you can have this winter at your local repertory theater.
More Holiday Preview: [Theatrical Calendar]
[Repertory Calendar] [Anywhere But a Movie Theater]
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In November, the 92YTribeca Screening Room will have some special guests in the house when it hosts the already sold out "A Conversation with Wes Anderson and Jason Schwartzman" on November 10th, with the two longtime collaborators discussing their latest film "Fantastic Mr. Fox." But tickets are still available for the night before (Nov. 9th), when actor Ben Foster and director Oren Moverman will screen their acclaimed new post-war drama "The Messenger". Much of the rest of the month is devoted to Cinema Tropical's Ten Years of New Argentine Cinema series with screenings of Adrián Caetano's immigration
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- Stephen Saito
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New 'Hamlet' to Get the Horror Treatment, Star Emile Hirsch
27 August 2009 8:55 AM, PDT
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Now here‘s an interesting concept: "Hamlet" as a horror movie.
Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa’s version of "Macbeth", has some genuinely spooky moments, but I cannot recall any movies based on Hamlet getting the same treatment. Even when the ghost of Hamlet’s father appears, it tends to be done in a stately manner, which would seem at odds to the fact that it’s the dead come back to life.
So I am not as quick to dismiss news that Catherine Hardwicke will be helming the umpteenth version of William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, only aimed at a younger crowd and emphasizing the supernatural elements. Emile Hirsch will be starring as the tormented titular character, and in an interview with Collider for Taking Woodstock, compared it to a certain horror movie classic. More importantly, he confirmed that it will be done in the original verse.
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Are You Ready for a 3-D Version of "Hamlet?" It's Also a Musical!
13 August 2009 10:51 PM, PDT
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A 3-D musical version of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" is being planned by Elsinore Films.
The movie will be the first of six adaptations of Shakespeare's plays based on musical version by U.K. theater company Shakespeare 4 Kidz (is that the medieval spelling of kids?).
The other five films in the series are "Macbeth," "Romeo and Juliet," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Twelfth Night" and "The Tempest."
British playwright John Godber is set to direct.
The first three films in the series will be produced back to back over 18 months.
As far as "Hamlet" is concerned, the producers want to include a ghost that hovers in front of your eyes, cannon fire that flies into the auditorium, and a sword fight with multiple angle views.
Hhhmmmmm, the best 3-D movies are the ones with less gimmicks, just keep that in mind :happy
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Hamlet Being Remade for Kids
13 August 2009 3:30 PM, PDT
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Elsinore Films is producing a 3-D musical "Hamlet" targeting the "Harry Potter" and "High School Musical" market. The movie will be the first of six adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays, based on musical versions created by UK theater company Shakespeare 4 Kidz. The other five pics in the series are "Macbeth," "Romeo and Juliet," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Twelfth Night" and "The Tempest." The first three films will be made for $7 million and will be produced back to back over 18 months. Lensing will take place in Canada and the UK. "Hamlet" lends itself to a 3-D treatment. The producers hope to include a ghost that hovers in front of the audience's eyes, cannon fire that flies into the auditorium and a sword fight that appears to happen all around viewers.
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Shakespeare Gets 3-D Treatment
13 August 2009 2:46 PM, PDT
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Elsinore Films is planning a series of six William Shakespeare movie adaptations — in 3-D. The movies will be based on the hit musicals created by Shakespeare 4 Kidz, the British company that attempts to make the playwright's archaic language palatable for children. Hamlet is due first, with Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest to follow.
In a statement released on its website, Shakespeare 4 Kidz hyped up the idea of using modern cinematic techinque to add new dimensions to the Bard's work.
Not only will the story of Hamlet be told in a unique and exciting way, but the addition of the latest 3D technology brings added excitement to cinema audiences: a ghost that hovers in front of your eyes, cannon-fire that flies into the auditorium, and a final sword-fight that seems to literally be all around you, are just some of the features promised in the first film,
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Hamlet 3D: The Musical Hopes to Capture Teen Audience
12 August 2009 4:19 AM, PDT
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I know what you are thinking. High School Musical and all of its sequels were great. But it would have been a lot better with Shakespearian dialogue. Well, guess what? According to Variety, Elsinore Films producer Mark Thomas is gearing up to make Hamlet 3D: The Musical, as inspired by both High School Musical and Harry Potter. This new adaptation of William Shakespeare's famous play will be aimed at teenagers, and will be the first in a series of six films.
All six of these films are based on musical versions created by U.K. theater company Shakespeare 4 Kidz. John Godber will direct the first installment. The next five films include Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest.
With this new Hamlet being in 3D, Thomas hopes to have a ghost that hovers in front of the audience, cannon fire that flies into the auditorium,
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Kashmira Irani (Amber) to do a tele-film
26 June 2009 7:11 AM, PDT
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Kashmira Irani has had made a niche audience with her enduring performance in ‘Amber-Dhara’. Now she is all set to come back on small screen not with a show but a short telefilm on Star Plus.
“It’s a short tele film based on 26/11 (26 July). Well I can’t talk much about this project as I am under the contract with the channel,” says Kashmira.
When asked of has she finished the shooting, the actress replies, “We are yet to shoot the end of this tele film. Next I am looking forward is for my theatre show in January. I am doing a play of William Shakespeare, Macbeth.”
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Wait... What? Anthony Head's in a Futuristic 'Macbeth'??
2 June 2009 9:45 AM, PDT
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Okay... Did you know that there's another Macbeth movie in the works, one other than Terrence Howard's modernized version in the Caribbean? And that it is taking an even more surprising spin on William Shakespeare's classic? And it stars the most excellent Anthony Stewart Head of Buffy and Repo fame (as Duncan, not Macbeth)?
Apparently this project has been in the works for eons (here's news about it in 2006, with no mention of the futuristic angle). But as excellent as it sounds to have Head play Duncan as "a spitting, cigar-chomping criminal leader, with a soft Glaswegian accent that can turn in an instant from warm and affectionate to fatally menacing," the pic is in trouble. Sure, that's obvious from the fact that it's been three years and nothing, but that's not all.
SciFi Wire reports that reshoots are needed, and Head doesn't seem to keen to continue.
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Photo: Only Authentic Image of William Shakespeare Discovered
11 March 2009 8:30 AM, PDT
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Professor Stanley Wells, chairman of the trust and one of the world's leading experts on Shakespearian studies, unveiled the only authentic image of William Shakespeare that has remained for centuries in the possession of the Cobbes family. The portrait is reportedly the only surviving one painted while the writer was still alive, in about 1610, when Shakespeare was 46 years old. So what does this have to do with movies? Shakespeare is the writer of the following works that were turned into movies: "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet," "Macbeth, "The Merchant of Venice," "Othello" and many others. Up to now, only two images have been accepted as authentic representations of what Shakespeare may have looked like. One is the engraving by Martin Droeshout published in the First Folio of 1623. The other is the portrait bust in Holy Trinity Church. Both are posthumous: Shakespeare died in 1616. Painting: (click to enlarge)
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MacBeth Comes To The Hipgnosis Theater 4/3-4/19
5 March 2009 6:07 PM, PST
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The Hipgnosis Theatre Company proudly presents William Shakespeare's Macbeth, one of his best-known and darkest works, directed by John Castro. Macbeth runs from April 3 to 19, 2009 in a limited engagement at the Clemente Soto Velez Center (Flamboyan Theater), located at 107 Suffolk Street, between Rivington & Delancey, in NYC. Official opening is April 3. The play follows on the heels of the company's acclaimed 2008 production of Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, which received a 2008 NY Innovative Theater Award nomination for Outstanding Production Of A Play.
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MacBeth Opens 3/6 At The Roxy Regional Theater
17 February 2009 11:47 AM, PST
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William Shakespeare's MacBeth 8pm will open on Friday, March 6. Plays Saturday, March 7; Friday, March 13, 2pm on Saturday, March 14
An anatomy of the relationship between ambition and corruption, MacBeth is one of Shakespeare's most bloody and fear-filled tragedies. Often regarded as archetypal, the play tells of the dangers of the lust for power and the betrayal of friends. Based loosely on the historical account of King Macbeth of Scotland many superstitions are centered on the belief the play is "cursed", referring to it instead as "The Scottish play".
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Oregon Shakespeare Festival Opens Its 74th Year On 2/20-22
27 January 2009 10:48 AM, PST
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The Tony Award-winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival opens its 74th year the weekend of February 20-22 and celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Elizabethan Stage. In honor of that milestone, Osf is dedicating the 2009 season to principal theatre and scenic designer, Richard L. Hay, acknowledging his creative work that spans more than 50 years at Osf and includes the design of all three theatre spaces, beginning with the current Elizabethan Stage in 1959, half a century ago.
"I am deeply moved as I reflect on the achievement and commitment of our extraordinary theater artist, Richard Hay," Osf Artistic Director Bill Rauch said, "whose dedication to our artform and to Osf is an inspiration to all of us. The remarkable spaces he designed allow for a connection between actors and audiences that make Osf's theater experience unique and richly satisfying. And he remains an unstoppable creative force, designing scenery for two world premiere adaptations
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