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A lyrical treatment of Homer’s tale of Penelope, depicting her psychological struggle as she waits twenty years for her husband to return from the Trojan War. It draws on the long-take filmmaking style of...
Podcast. Weekly showdown hosted by Stephanie Crugnola that pits her against academics, actors and teachers to debate a Shakespeare-related ‘best of’ - with listeners getting the opportunity to vote on...
Viewfinder 99 was published in May 2015. Contents of this issue: OUT OF THE UNKNOWN Is it true that nothing dates so much as depictions of the future? Billy J Smart, Royal Holloway, considers this in...
Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda talks about his life and work. In a three minute segment (story 182 0f 233) he recalls a conversation he had with Akira Kurosawa about Shakespeare and the screen. A full...
Feature film. A Japanese version of King Lear, directed by Akira Kurosawa, transposed to 16th-century feudal Japan. An old man, now a warlord, cedes his kingdom to his eldest son and starts a power struggle...
Documentary, directed by Chris Marker, which records his days on location with Akira Kurosawa during the filming of RAN. Narrated by Robert Kramer, the film is divided into segments such as battles’,...
The story of MACBETH transposed to medieval Japan, with Macbeth as a samurai and drawing on traditions from Noh drama. Toshiro Mifune is Macbeth. In Kurosawa’s masterly interpretation of MACBETH ‘the...
Podcast. The double bill considered in this edition by hosts Adam and Thomas is Andrzej Bartkowiak’s reworking of Romeo and Juliet as an action movie, ROMEO MUST DIE (2000), and Akira Kurosawa’s Macbeth...
Nearly 20 years after his death, Toshiro Mifune remains a giant of Japanese cinema. Rich with archive footage and personal reminiscences from family and friends, this Keanu Reeves-narrated documentary shines...
Documentary. Explores the history of films based on Shakespeare’s plays. There are interview extracts with Laurence Olivier, Kenneth Branagh, Roman Polanski, Akira Kurosawa, Orson Welles, Franco...
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