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Posts Tagged "King Lear"
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King Lear **** (1983, Laurence Olivier, Colin Blakely, Leo McKern, Robert Lindsay) – Classic Movie Review 10,164
Director Michael Elliott’s 1983 TV movie King Lear stars Laurence Olivier in his last great gasp as the Shakespearean royal father, more sinned against than sinning, a role he was so desperate to record that […]
King Lear [Korol Lir] ** (1970, Jüri Järvet, Elza Radzina, Galina Volchek) – Classic Movie Review 10,162
Director Grigoriy Kozintsev’s 1970 Russian film King Lear [Korol Lir] stars Jüri Järvet as a modest, one-note (bad-tempered) Lear leading a number of unstriking performances in this disappointment from the director of the great Russian […]
King Lear **** (1970, Paul Scofield, Irene Worth, Cyril Cusack, Jack MacGowran, Alan Webb, Patrick Magee) – Classic Movie Review 10,160
‘Know that we have divided In three our kingdom: and ’tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age; Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburthen’d crawl toward death.’ Well […]
The Carer ***½ (2016, Brian Cox, Coco König, Anna Chancellor, Emilia Fox, Karl Johnson, Roger Moore) – Movie Review
The 2016 film The Carer is all about a legendary old thespian, played with the utmost skill and relish by a perfectly cast Brian Cox as the increasingly ill Sir Michael Gifford, suffering from an […]
The Dresser *** (1983, Tom Courtenay, Albert Finney, Edward Fox, Zena Walker, Eileen Atkins, Michael Gough) – Classic Movie Review 4079
Producer-director Peter Yates turns Ronald Harwood’s 1980 hit play about veteran barnstorming-style ham Shakespearean actor-manager and his camp personal assistant dresser into the 1983 British film The Dresser, with Harwood writing his own screenplay. The […]
Ran ***** (1985, Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Mieko Harada, Pîtâ) – Classic Movie Review 3733
Director Akira Kurosawa’s thrilling, marvellous-looking 1985 version of William Shakespeare’s play King Lear is transposed to 16th-century feudal Japan, with the senile old man now a warlord called Lord Hidetora Ichimonji (Tatsuya Nakadai) who cedes his kingdom […]
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