Kurosawa remade Macbeth and King Lear. Both in awesome fashion.
As pointed out, those are Throne of Blood and Ran. Kurosawa also did Hamlet: The Bad Sleep Well.
Hermanos! The devil has built a robot!
Numero Cinco ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Hayden - Mar 08, 2010 7:28:53 am PST #11108 of 28344
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Sue - Mar 10, 2010 3:05:58 am PST #11109 of 28344
hip deep in pie
Trailer for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead. [link]
sumi - Mar 10, 2010 4:14:44 am PST #11110 of 28344
Art Crawl!!!
That looks like fun!
Katerina Bee - Mar 11, 2010 2:18:42 pm PST #11111 of 28344
Herding cats for fun
Oh, and Moonlighting did a Shrew parody. In which Bruce Willis sang and played the harmonica. @@
I gotta remember to look up a copy of that episode; I was such a fan when this aired.
I have a book built around Shakespeare called This Body. It started with a dying junkie whose body was suddenly inhabited by someone really into the modern play-going Shakespeare scene. It was a nice take on "now I get to start over in this nice young healthy body and forget all my dreary responsibility." I quite liked it.
shrift - Mar 13, 2010 6:27:44 pm PST #11112 of 28344
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I've read Robert B. Parker's Appaloosa, Resolution, and I'm in the middle of Brimstone. Do any of his other novels have a similar dynamic to the laconic life partners Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch?
Even if they don't, I'd welcome recommendations from the rest of his oeuvre.
Scrappy - Mar 14, 2010 2:39:34 pm PDT #11113 of 28344
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Oh, and Moonlighting did a Shrew parody. In which Bruce Willis sang and played the harmonica.
Loved that. "Until we meet again, sometime in Act Five."
Maysa - Mar 14, 2010 8:23:21 pm PDT #11114 of 28344
Have any of you guys seen the BBC's Shakespeare Retold series they did a few years ago? There was a very cute version of Taming of the Shrew with Shirley Henderson (one of my favorites) and Rufus Sewell (always hot).
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Mar 15, 2010 1:45:56 am PDT #11115 of 28344
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
The BBC series was excellent. I used their updated Much Ado with my students who were studying the play.
Dana - Mar 15, 2010 3:38:00 am PDT #11116 of 28344
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Much Ado is my favorite. Damian Lewis! Sarah Parrish!
§ ita § - Mar 15, 2010 3:50:50 am PDT #11117 of 28344
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Much Ado was great. I especially loved Damian Lewis at the start.