Catholic Film Reviews

Happy birthday, Lord Larry!
Yesterday, May 22, was Laurence Olivier’s 100th birthday, in honor of which  BBC Radio 4’s "Archive Hour" of May 19 included a discussion of Laurence Olivier’s legacy as an actor. It is still available on streaming audio for at least a few days. Here’s the blurb:

Mark Lawson reassesses Laurence Olivier’s reputation. 100 [...]

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The renowned Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC has published a new website entitled Shakespeare in American LIfe. The site includes a “Stage and Screen” section with a “Shakespeare in Hollywood” subsection that would appear to be worth the time of anyone interested in Shakespeare on screen.

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…according to Daniel Rosenthal, author of Shakespeare on Screen and the soon-to-be-published 100 Shakespeare Films. The Guardian UK has an article on Rosenthal’s thesis here.
Here’s how the article begins:
Shakespeare is box-office poison – or so the thinking goes. But if you look at the hundreds of blockbuster epics, westerns and rom-coms based on his work, [...]

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