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Lights, Camera, Shakespeare
13 July 2009 1:29 AM, PDT
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Shakespeare may be all about the words, but it's the images and music you remember most from "The Bard Goes Global," a well-curated film series starting Wednesday at the Walter Reade Theater.
Again and again, feasts for the eyes supersede the versification.
Take Grigori Kozintsev's criminally overlooked "King Lear/Korol Lir" (1971). Many of its scenes rate as pure, head-spinning genius: the way we peer down on Lear and his Fool as they struggle against howling winds, with Dmitri Shostakovich's score matching the storm in shrieky gusts.
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- By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI
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