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Shakespeare Retold DVD

NR (Not Rated) :: BBC Worldwide :: Released: 2007-07-24

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Shakespeare Retold Summary The four cutting-edge productions in this collection bring Shakespeare alive for a 21st century audience. Macbeth is the chef in a three-star restaurant, slicing apart his celebrity boss, Duncan. Beatrice and Benedick are rival co-anchors on a nightly newscast whose open hostility masks passion of a different kind. Titania and Bottom carouse together in a tawdry theme resort called Dream Park. And

Synopsis:
item Type: dvd Movie
item Rating: nr
street Date: 07/24/07
wide Screen: no
director Cut: no
special Edition: no
languageenglish
foreign Film: no
subtitlesno
dubbed: no
full Frame: no
re-release: no
packaging: sleeve Please Note: This Supplier Will Be Closed On 11/24, 11/25, 12/26, 1/2 For The Holidays. The Shipping Cut Off Is 12/10 To Try And Have The Products Delivered By Christmas.

Shakespeare Retold, BBC's four-episode Shakespeare project, is more fulfilling when compared to past filmic adaptations of the maestro's plays, since its experimentation ventures well beyond previous versions of the same stories. In the past, adaptations relied on strict adherence to the original scripts (see Orson Welles' and Polanski's Macbeths, or Franco Zefferelli's lavishly accurate renditions of The Taming of The Shrew and Romeo and Juliet). Though Welles as Macbeth and Liz Taylor as Kate are stiff competition, however, these parts are ever open for reinterpretation. But not until Leonardo di Caprio as Romeo dropped a hit of ecstasy on screen did adaptations stray so far into the narrative experimentation that this series relies on. The stories retold, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, and A Midsummer Night's Dream so loosely keep their Shakespearian frameworks that unassuming viewers may miss the link. For example, in Macbeth, Joe (James McAvoy), the ambitious sous chef, kills his restaurant's owner to inherit the kitchen's three Michelin stars. Does this mean now that every movie about murderous jealousy is Shakespeare Retold? In The Taming of the Shrew, conservative politician Kate, valiantly portrayed by Shirley Henderson, is coerced into marriage by her political advisor to win Prime Minister votes. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Puck (Dean Lennox Kelly) is a hippified nerd who drops onto the camera lens something like liquid acid before spinning a mundane tale of broken engagement. Shakespeare modernized without his language, or original settings, hardly feels like Shakespeare at all. Shakespeare Retold, will undoubtedly please some fans and enrage others. Though Shakespeare professors will relish this new attempt to contemporize Shakespeare, the four films comprising Shakespeare Retold not only diminish the potency of these classic tales, but also beg the viewer to question what Shakespeare tales really are. —Trinie Dalton

Shakespeare Retold [2 Discs] DVD Techincal Details Cast: Bill Paterson, Keeley Hawes, James McAvoy, Shirley Henderson
Aspect Ratio: Unknown
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Running Time: 360 mins
UPC: 794051289025
Binding: DVD
Studio: BBC Worldwide
Release Date: 2007-07-24
Region Code: 1
Specs: Closed-captioned, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen

Language & Subtitles English (Unknown - Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), English (Original Language - Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo),

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