Posted in Shakespeare on Mar 4th, 2009
Buy BBC Hamlet on DVD from Ambrose Video
Buy BBC Hamlet on VHS from Ambrose Video
It is also available from Ambrose Video as part of a boxed set of 5 DVDs of the BBC Shakespeare Tragedies. (Enter “BARD” in the appropriate discount code box for a special $2 discount for bardolatry.com readers!) Or buy the set [...]
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Posted in Christmas, Family, Musical on Dec 10th, 2007
Directed by Ronald Neame
Starring Albert Finney and Alec Guinness
Music and Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse
Albert Finney was only thirty-four years old when he took on the iconic mantle of Ebenezer Scrooge, the covetous old sinner, in this entertaining musical treatment of Charles Dickens’ Christmas classic. Perhaps only a young man could have performed Scrooge with such [...]
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Posted in Shakespeare on Apr 28th, 2007
John has just logged a new review, of Tim Supple’s 1999 Twelfth Night, starring Parminder Nagra. And we’ve got vidcaps up for it, too!
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Posted in Family, Fantasy on Mar 11th, 2007
I saw this first installment of Narnia with members of our mythopoeic book group, then we all came back to our place to chat about it. We’re all huge fans of the books, of course, but of the eight of us who saw the film, I suspect I liked it least. Am I simply becoming [...]
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