Fun adventure with a schoolboy Sherlock (Nicholas Rowe) hot on the trail of a strange Egyptian cult, who kill anyone that gets in their way. Alan Cox plays the young Dr Watson and Sophie Ward is Elizabeth Hardy. Produced by Steven Spielberg, this was the first film to feature an entirely computer-generated character - a knight who evolves from a stained-glass window.
- 1/2/2014
- Sky Movies
William Shakespeare. The name may make you shudder with the memory of English classes or revel in your favorite of his works. For many he is the greatest English writer of all time, certainly the most well regarded by modern popular culture. People quote lines from plays they have never read and use words and phrases he created in everyday parlance, often without realising (‘A laughing stock’, ‘In stitches’, ‘Vanish into thin air’, ‘Method in my madness’ are all from his works.) The BBC’s 2002 poll of the ‘100 Greatest Britons’ placed him at number five between Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton and yet there are doubts as to this man really was. Academics have been making cases since the 19th century suggesting that Shakespeare did not write the plays credited to him and they were instead the work of one or a number of other writers at the time.
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- 5/6/2013
- by Terry Hearn
- Obsessed with Film
Chicago – I suspect there is a segment of the moviegoing population that will take one look at the title, “Anton Chekhov’s The Duel,” and flee in the other direction, most likely into “The Hangover Part II.” Chekhov is the sort of literary genius whose work is quoted by writers aiming to prove their own level of intellectualism. Yet his work is too good to be merely confined in art houses.
Israeli director Dover Koshashvili has created what is easily the most accessible cinematic adaptation of Chekhov to date. It’s perched delicately on the razor’s edge between wrenching drama and deadpan comedy, allowing several sequences to simultaneously succeed as both. There isn’t a stilted or inauthentic moment in the picture, evoking memories of the best Merchant Ivory productions, particularly 1985’s “A Room with a View.”
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.0/5.0
Like Koshashvili’s acclaimed 2001 drama, “Late Marriage,” Chekhov’s 1891 short story,...
Israeli director Dover Koshashvili has created what is easily the most accessible cinematic adaptation of Chekhov to date. It’s perched delicately on the razor’s edge between wrenching drama and deadpan comedy, allowing several sequences to simultaneously succeed as both. There isn’t a stilted or inauthentic moment in the picture, evoking memories of the best Merchant Ivory productions, particularly 1985’s “A Room with a View.”
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.0/5.0
Like Koshashvili’s acclaimed 2001 drama, “Late Marriage,” Chekhov’s 1891 short story,...
- 5/27/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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