Much Ado
Jun 23, 2013 1:33:34 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2013 1:33:34 GMT -5
Good morning to you all! To all those who survived the Scottish play last night at the Globe, what a night it turned out to be. Congratulations to all!
Shakespeare's Globe - Macbeth
Collapse of corporate jaws. Collapse of Tinseltown civilisation as we know it. Whatever next? James Cameron asks to film the plays of 'Racine' on his mobile phone? Steven Spielberg wants to make the 'Oresteia' with his next-door neighbours and a box Brownie? Writing in the FT, Nigel Andrews concludes thus:
FT - Cinema reviews: Man of Steel, Much Ado About Nothing and more
(5 stars out of 5)
Due to unprecedented demand from around the world, everyone reading 'The Third' is cordially invited to the movies promptly at 15:45 (BST) this afternoon, Sunday 23 June 2013.
Barbican - Cinema - Much Ado About Nothing (12A)
Much ado about nothing? If you cannot make it in person today, here is the trailer online:
YouTube - Much Ado About Nothing - Official Trailer (HD) Joss Whedon
I propose some toast: to Joss, Much Ado and all of you! Three cheers from kleines c and the gang (Sunday morning breakfast coffee)!
Shakespeare's Globe - Macbeth
Collapse of corporate jaws. Collapse of Tinseltown civilisation as we know it. Whatever next? James Cameron asks to film the plays of 'Racine' on his mobile phone? Steven Spielberg wants to make the 'Oresteia' with his next-door neighbours and a box Brownie? Writing in the FT, Nigel Andrews concludes thus:
" 'Folie de modestie'; blockbuster director’s backyard Bard bid; call it what you will, this reviewer knows what to call it. Heaven on a screen. Whedon used to have actor friends around in the evenings, apparently, to read Shakespeare plays on a casual, clam-bake basis. One day they turned up and there were lights, cameras and the call of “Action!”
You cannot turn an Ingres violin into a full, working orchestra? Oh yes, you can. This 'Much Ado' is a stupefying triumph. As if in a maxillary Mexican wave, the dropped jaws have travelled from the studio office to us, the audience. After one awkward moment, when the dark-suited Mafia-ish guys and party-frocked gals in the Bel Air villa first start speechifying in iambics, all is easy, agile, exhilarating wordplay. This Beatrice (Amy Acker) and this Benedick (Alexis Denisof) are very funny conducting their prideful, rapier badinage. The Claudio/Hero plot – the wedding vowers fouled by a wedding-eve calumny – is done with such brisk éclat that Whedon should teach “economy of effect” at the Royal Shakespeare Company. The clownish policemen Dogberry and Verges (Nathan Fillion, Tom Lenk), so often overplayed to gussy up Shakespeare’s (perceived) lackwit low comedy, are downplayed here as dumdum LA cops – bird brains in bad suits – and are hysterical. Clearly Bill got the Bill right after all. Certainly Whedon has done.
Maybe the achievement isn’t that bewildering. You cannot be a complete idiot if you write postmodern vampirism into the TV suggestions book ('Buffy'), floor the pedal skilfully for 'Speed' (Whedon’s script) and later concoct the gonzo Pirandellianism of 'The Cabin in the Woods'. Now is the time for Hollywood to pay Whedon a large sum of transfer money and start him working on 'Man of Steel 2'."
You cannot turn an Ingres violin into a full, working orchestra? Oh yes, you can. This 'Much Ado' is a stupefying triumph. As if in a maxillary Mexican wave, the dropped jaws have travelled from the studio office to us, the audience. After one awkward moment, when the dark-suited Mafia-ish guys and party-frocked gals in the Bel Air villa first start speechifying in iambics, all is easy, agile, exhilarating wordplay. This Beatrice (Amy Acker) and this Benedick (Alexis Denisof) are very funny conducting their prideful, rapier badinage. The Claudio/Hero plot – the wedding vowers fouled by a wedding-eve calumny – is done with such brisk éclat that Whedon should teach “economy of effect” at the Royal Shakespeare Company. The clownish policemen Dogberry and Verges (Nathan Fillion, Tom Lenk), so often overplayed to gussy up Shakespeare’s (perceived) lackwit low comedy, are downplayed here as dumdum LA cops – bird brains in bad suits – and are hysterical. Clearly Bill got the Bill right after all. Certainly Whedon has done.
Maybe the achievement isn’t that bewildering. You cannot be a complete idiot if you write postmodern vampirism into the TV suggestions book ('Buffy'), floor the pedal skilfully for 'Speed' (Whedon’s script) and later concoct the gonzo Pirandellianism of 'The Cabin in the Woods'. Now is the time for Hollywood to pay Whedon a large sum of transfer money and start him working on 'Man of Steel 2'."
FT - Cinema reviews: Man of Steel, Much Ado About Nothing and more
(5 stars out of 5)
Due to unprecedented demand from around the world, everyone reading 'The Third' is cordially invited to the movies promptly at 15:45 (BST) this afternoon, Sunday 23 June 2013.
Barbican - Cinema - Much Ado About Nothing (12A)
Much ado about nothing? If you cannot make it in person today, here is the trailer online:
YouTube - Much Ado About Nothing - Official Trailer (HD) Joss Whedon
I propose some toast: to Joss, Much Ado and all of you! Three cheers from kleines c and the gang (Sunday morning breakfast coffee)!