Posts tagged Shakespearean
MOVIE REVIEW: Viceroy's House
MOVIE REVIEW: Viceroy's House

The most superlative aspect of Viceroy’s House and its chronicle of national history for the countries of India and Pakistan is the personal passion behind the project.  Bend it Like Beckham and Bride and Prejudice director Gurinder Chadha is the granddaughter of family displaced by the largest migration of people in recorded human history that occurred during the Partition of India of seventy years ago.  There is an undeniable core of importance and respect present in the film that shows the great care of Chadha and all involved.

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2017, 2 STARS, Foreign Film, Independent Film, MOVIE REVIEWDon ShanahanLandmark Century Centre Cinemas2017, 2017 Fall Movies, Viceroy's House, Gurinder Chadha, Bend it Like Beckham, Bride and Prejudice, Partition of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Louis Mountbatten, Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Lily Travers, Hastings Ismay, Michael Gambon, Jawaharlal Nehru, Tanveer Ghani, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Denzil Smith, Mahatma Ghandi, Neeraj Kabi, Manish Dayal, The Hundred-Foot Journey, Huma Qureshi, Gangs of Wasseypur, Ben Smithard, A.R. Rahman, Rashtrapati Bhavan, Lee Daniels' The Butler, The Butler, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespearean, film review, movie review, film commentary, movie commentary, foreign film, India, World War II, Dominion of India, life lessons, life lessons from film, life lessons from films, life lessons from movies, historical drama, romantic dramas, film critic, movie critic, Don Shanahan, Donald Shanahan, Every Movie Has a LessonComment
MOVIE REVIEW: Macbeth
MOVIE REVIEW: Macbeth

51st Chicago International Film Festival Highlight special presentation

When you have a film adaptation of a William Shakespeare play as arresting, brawny, and commanding as Justin Kurzel's "Macbeth," one has to throw the theater snob rant out the window.  They are exactly like the "book is better than the movie crowd" only more under-served.   We get it.  No cinematic adaptation is ever going to satisfy everyone.  My advice is get over the nit-picking and soak in a movie and treat it as a different medium entirely than the static stage.  This new "Macbeth" is an event, not a play, and a darn good one.

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2015, 4 STARS, MOVIE REVIEWDon Shanahan51st Chicago International Film FestivalMacbeth, Justin Kurzell, Jed Kurzel, Justin Kurzel, Sean Harris, Jack Reynor, Marion Cotillard, William Shakespeare, Shakespearean, Film adaptations, films based on plays, films based on Shakespeare, ambition, life lessons from films, life lessons from film, life lessons from movies, movie review, movie commentary, film review, film commentary, Chicago Film Festival, 51st Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, Steve Jobs, Don Shanahan, Donald Shanahan, 2015 Holiday Movie Preview, Every Movie Has a LessonComment