Founder's Briefs

- Notes from Karl Sikkenga -

May 13: First XI Shakespeare Movies: ‘That must be Nigel with the brie!

• 10 Things I Hate About You . . . . . Patron production of Sarah Lawrence College.
• Scotland PA . . . . . Profanity in red Pennsylvania.
• Macbeth . . . . . The desolation of Fassbinder’s fiefdom; Cotillard’s otherness.
• Strange Brew . . . . . The Elsinore Brewery; the ghost of an arcade video game.
• Romeo & Juliet . . . . . Lavish, sinful Zeffirelli.
• Othello . . . . . Branagh’s best line reading; ‘Ha; I like not that.’
• Richard III . . . . . McKellen’s chilling ‘You have a daughter.’
• Ran . . . . . Violence, poetry, and pain.
• A Midwinter’s Tale . . . . . It’s the shouting that makes the sword-fight.
• Titus . . . . . Best watched through the fingers of one hand.
• Twelfth Night . . . . . Bonham Carter’s lascivious triumph.