Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideEven though this is the 25th time that Tolstoy’s classic novel has been brought to the screen, I think this is the first version that I have ever seen. The latest rendition has been re-written by leading playwright Sir Tom Stoppard, and I gather it sticks closely to the original plot even though he’s squeezed it into 2 hours. (Thank … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe protagonist in this small drama is Laversky, who allegedly is a high up civil servant but never seems to do a stroke of work and whiles his days away just gambling a moment and drinking. He’s shacked up with his rather beautiful mistress in a seaside resort but the she gets word that her husband … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIt’s hard to distinguish if some of the criticism leveled at this, the fourth adaption of Thomas Hardy’s fourth novel, is because the director of this English classic is Danish, or because ardent cinephiles are miffed that anyone should try surpassing John Schlesinger’s 1967 definitive version starring Julie Christie. Nevertheless this new pared down adaptation … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideHave no great expectations of Mike Newell’s new much abridged version of Charles Dicken’s classic story but you will at least get a real visual treat that Oscar nominated cinematographer John Mathieson has created here with his dramatically lit sweeping landscapes. Of all the previous 18 + times this story has been brought to the big and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAustralian filmmaker Justin Kurzel’s starts his awe-inspiring take on Shakespeare’s most violent tale of Macbeth on the battlefield on the mist-drenched Scottish heath that he stages dramatically like an epic, but bloody opera. It sets the pace for what turns out to be one of the most enthralling adaptions of the Bards work on the … Continue reading