William Shakespeare
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Watching Movies: Beautiful Vampires
I don’t think I got Jim Jarmusch until today. I saw ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’ at the magnificent Astor Theatre earlier today and it was glorious. The central characters of the film, Adam (Tom Hiddleston) and Eve (Tilda Swinton) are vampires. They are impossibly old, they are reclusive – in the world but not of…
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Watching Movies: Bloody Shakespeare
Ok, so I should probably admit right off that this only barely counts as a movie; it was the National Theatre Live’s recording of ‘Coriolanus‘. This was staged as a play in the Donmar Warehouse in London, filmed, and shown at the Nova. ‘Coriolanus’ is one of Shakespeare’s lesser known plays, and is a political…
Fleur Blüm 