In Trevor Nunn’s 1996 “Twelfth Night,” possibly the best, or at least among the top, film adaptations of this comedy, Toby Stephens plays Orsino as a languid, distant melancholic. So it took me a number of double-takes to recognize the same actor — now fiery red-headed, apparently his natural coloring — 20 years later, asContinue reading “Twelfth Night ramblin’”
Category Archives: ShakesFilm
Shakesfilm: Richard Burton’s 1964 *Hamlet*
On Monday, August 22nd, at Tuscaloosa’s Bama Theatre, the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies presents Richard Burton’s 1964 *Hamlet,* the first film in our Shakespeare in Film Series for 2016-17. Film starts at 7:30pm, and the concession stand will be open.Free and open to the public! For more information about the film, visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Burton%27s_HamletContinue reading “Shakesfilm: Richard Burton’s 1964 *Hamlet*”
IF Spring 2016
Just a brief note about everything IF will be doing this spring: There will be a production of Aristophanes’ The Assembly Women, directed by Steve Burch, on March 25th at the Tuscaloosa Cultural Arts Center. The production will be part of “Women, Democracy, and the Ideology of Exclusion from Antiquity Through the Early 20th Century”, an international conferenceContinue reading “IF Spring 2016”
Strode presents Love’s Labour’s Lost
The Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies presents its final film of the 2014-15 Shakespeare Film Series, Kenneth Branagh’s 2000 Love’s Labour’s Lost. Free and open to the public. The Facebook Event Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare The King of Navarre and his three attendant lords make a pact to forswear women for threeContinue reading “Strode presents Love’s Labour’s Lost”
Forbidden Planet, Wednesday!
Join us this Wednesday, March 11th at 7:30pm in Tuscaloosa’s Bama Theatre for Forbidden Planet! If you consider yourself a film or science fiction geek and haven’t seen Forbidden Planet before, consider this Wednesday your chance to get right with the world before your geek license is revoked. This movie sets up so many tropes that will come toContinue reading “Forbidden Planet, Wednesday!”
Deliver Us From Eva, Program Notes
Here you can find the program notes for last week’s screening of Deliver Us From Eva. The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare Although we are accustomed to thinking of Shakespeare as the author of The Taming of the Shrew, this title is first formally established in reference to an anonymous play entered in theContinue reading “Deliver Us From Eva, Program Notes”
West Side Story
For those of you who came to see The Tempest last night, thanks so much for supporting what we do! Now, take a deep breath. Release it. That’s about how much time you have before our next offering: the 1962 film West Side Story at the Bama Theatre, Monday, January 19th at 7:30pm. Here are the program notesContinue reading “West Side Story”
Dec 16th’s Shakesfilm: To Be or Not To Be
This year the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies begins a Shakespeare on Film series at the Bama Theatre in downtown Tuscaloosa. All films are free and open to the public. We’ve scheduled a range of films, some you’ve no doubt seen and loved, others you’ve not. Next up is To Be or NotContinue reading “Dec 16th’s Shakesfilm: To Be or Not To Be”
Shakespeare Behind Bars, and program notes for The Bad Sleep Well
The next Shakespeare Film at the Bama Theatre will be Shakespeare Behind Bars, which was postponed last month due to tornado warnings. Also, if you missed The Bad Sleep Well last week, you can find Brett Chatham’s program notes here: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet (~1600) Despite its reputation among Shakespeareans, The Bad Sleep Well is not “Kurosawa’s Hamlet.” To clarify,Continue reading “Shakespeare Behind Bars, and program notes for The Bad Sleep Well”
Sprockets and Springes 