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Lear is played by Paul Scofield, whose beard and large, sad eyes make him look distractingly like the middle-aged Hemingway.Perhaps because of Brook's direction, Scofield's readings are often uninflected and exhausted. He reads Shakespeare's poetry the way Mark Twain said women use profanity: "They know the words, but not the music." The acting style suits Brook's ideas about the play, but ...

Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/16/24 Full Review Alec B Even with a great cast I think this adaptation falls prey to one of the greatest dangers with "King Lear" . . . getting lost ...

In Richard Eyre's TV adaptation, Lear (Anthony Hopkins) is a military dictator in the present, gathering the troops - and the family - for the division of the kingdom. I've never been good ...

King Lear could never be the starting point for those keen to learn of Godard's work, but it's innovative. Rated: 3/5 Nov 26, 2019 Full Review Phil Hall Film Threat Shakespeare through the Godard ...

Elsewhere, it can be a murky adaptation. Quite literally - the film becomes increasingly de-saturated till it's almost black and white. Or really, a smudgey, dull grey. The modern setting sees ...

King Lear. Is Cracking Good Entertainment. A truly great version might be impossible, but this streamlined take is exquisitely acted. Anthony Hopkins in King Lear. Amazon. Here's a theory for ...

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 26, 2018. Dan Fienberg Hollywood Reporter. TOP CRITIC. Just because nobody could or should feel this is a definitive King Lear detracts only somewhat from ...

Film Review - King Lear (2018) Anthony Hopkins is King Lear in this stylish and invigorating adaptation of Shakespeare's classic. Produced by Amazon Prime and directed by Richard Eyre, King Lear is a highly original film with a brilliant cast, but never quite succeeds in achieving masterpiece status. This review contains minor spoilers.

True to the Shakespearean tragedy, the rest of the movie involves gnashing of teeth, fabulous tirades, disguises, double-crosses, violence, and death. Emily Watson and Emma Thompson, "King Lear ...

Anthony Hopkins's Lear is a frightening, ego-driven autocrat in 21st-century Britain. To watch Anthony Hopkins growl and squint and fume his way through this BBC/Amazon production of "King ...

There is a wonderful, childlike affinity between the Fool and Lear, which is one of the few relationships that really sparks. As a production it is packed with action and deft in its fight scenes ...

Kenneth Branagh in King Lear Johan Persson. Stage and screen actor Kenneth Branagh 's production of King Lear officially opened October 31, and the reviews are rolling in. Branagh both directs and ...

Filter by Rating: 8/10. A modern take on a Shakespeare tragedy. Tweekums 6 June 2018. Lear, an elderly king, has decided to divide his kingdom between his three daughters but first he asks each how much they love him to decide who should get the largest share. The elder two, Goneril and Regan, profess their love in false, obsequious tones but ...

Amazon's. King Lear. Captures the Heart of a Classic Shakespeare Tragedy. The color slowly drains out of the new King Lear as it goes along, as if to formalize its depiction of a nation bled dry ...

Danny Sapani's Lear is groomed, presidential, with a smooth inscrutability as he invites public flattery from his three daughters at what appears to be a political rally, with microphones ...

The critic Matt Wolf saw "King Lear" in London. Oct. 31, 2023. "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks," Lear famously lets rip in an open-air encounter with the elements that should strike at ...

Welcome to Yaël Farber's searing King Lear — a mighty production that fuses the sense of ritual so often central to the director's work with a modern setting to create a shattering piece of ...

King Lear: Directed by Richard Eyre. With Jim Broadbent, Jim Carter, Tobias Menzies, Emily Watson. An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

Having acquired power, Goneril and Regan expel their father from their homes. At the same time, Lear's prime minister, Gloucester, is betrayed by his son Edmund and his other son, Edgar, is forced ...

The Shakespeare travelator picks up momentum with Yaël Farber's wounding, fully compelling production of King Lear, which is in every way the opposite of the grievously shortened star vehicle that Kenneth Branagh made of this same play in the West End late last year.. Staged with due weight to the majesty of the text, alongside a commitment to an ensemble that inevitably grants Danny Sapani ...

Kathryn Hunter reprises a title role she first played for Kaut-Howson in 1997. Though it is now common for women to play male classical parts - and "authentic" casting for Lear would require ...

Broadway Review: 'King Lear' Starring Glenda Jackson. Tiny but mighty, Glenda Jackson carries this 'Lear' on her back. Shakespeare nailed it: "Though she be little, she is fierce.". Glenda ...

King Lear Reviews. Canadian actor Colm Feore is magnificent as Lear, King of Britain. His performance is full of the bravado and grandeur necessary to expose the Lear of Shakespeare's pen. Full ...

A non-verbal physical theatre interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear, by award-winning director Shu-wing Tang and performed by an all-female cast, is receiving its UK premiere at ...

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