Richard III
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nearly everyone in the royal court, including his eventual wife, Lady Anne, and his brother George, Duke of Clarence, Richard orchestrates a bloody rise to power before finding all his gains jeopardized by those he… From TMDB
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60 of 133 · most liked firstChristopher Nolan is a genius because he figured out that if you put enough French horn in your plot-driven SFF movie, people will think they're watching a Royal Shakespeare production of Richard III
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching RICHARD III (1995). Director: Richard Loncraine. Ian McKellen, Annette Bening. Updating Shakespeare's villainous Richard to 30's England under the rise of fascism? This one blew me away on first watch many years ago. #filmsky 📽
positive · AI labelView post →“Now is the Winter of our discontent Made glorious Summer by this sun of York” RICHARD III (1955) Remembering the late, great, Oscar-winning legend of the Theatre, Film & TV — LAURENCE OLIVIER — born 119yrs ago today.
neutral · AI labelView post →This outcome, good for Richard Taylor, archaeology & truth, was sadly predictable. As I wrote when the film in question was launched: a tale of dreams and delusions:see next post 1/2 Substantial damages awarded to academic over Steve Coogan Richard III film - BBC News www.bbc.com/news/article...
neutral · AI labelView post →Wednesday movie: Richard III (1912) ***½
positive · AI labelView post →TFH Guru Bernard Rose revisits Looking for Richard, Al Pacino's passionate and entertaining journey into Shakespeare's Richard III. trailersfromhell.com/looking-for-...
neutral · AI labelView post →#GoodOmens3 fandom: If you'd like to see the Michael Sheen 'Slorch' nose in action, watch the original 'master of disguise' Laurence Olivier in Richard III, a film he directed, produced and starred in. Untouchable in diction, movement and presence.
neutral · AI labelView post →Sunday movie: Richard III (1911) ***
neutral · AI labelView post →Richard III. LEAVE ME ALONE. Anyway, it's Ian McKellan's fault. That AU fascist thirties Britain film he did made me love Shakespeare.
positive · AI labelView post →The way they cut Ian McKellan delivering the "Now is the winter of our discontent" soliloquy in the 1995 film version of "Richard III" is so good. The jump from stiff and very performed to extremely intimate is 👌
neutral · AI labelView post →"I went on this auction. I am now the owner of the nose that Olivier wore as Richard III in that film, that thing that haunted me from being a child, and not only that, I have worn it in something. In the last part of Good Omens, where my character has to be in disguise and I wear Olivier's nose"
neutral · AI labelView post →Things are often interpreted differently or outright changed in film adaptations. On that note I highly recommend the Ian McKellen-written and starring film adaptation of Richard III.
positive · AI labelView post →#filmsky do yourself a favor & watch Ian McKellen's 1995 Richard III movie. Downright trumfian! 🎬
positive · AI labelView post →A Richard III movie is the last place you'd expect an unflattering portrayal of a real person. www.bbc.com/news/article...
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's film: Richard III (1995) - hat tip to @cinefeast33.bsky.social for the recommendation!
neutral · AI labelView post →“Dick” gives us a side of Nixon we don’t usually get. We’re used to Shakespearen tragedy, Richard III Nixon and scheming evil Nixon. This movie gives us something simpler and understandable: Ego makes you stupid.
neutral · AI labelView post →10 non-horror movies to get to know me Moonraker A Private Function 2001 The Towering Inferno Billy Liar Way Out West Superman the Movie Kiss Me Deadly Richard III (Loncraine) The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover
neutral · AI labelView post →My review of the 'A Taste of Loyalty' film premiere, which looks to bring a different interpretation of Richard III to the big screen. The vision is ambitious, the passion infectious, and the potential enormous. A BOAR-ILLIANT success 🐗 nathenamin.substack.com/p/a-taste-of...
neutral · AI labelView post →an aside: Do yourself a favor and search out and watch Ian McKellen's performance in the 1995 film 'Richard III'!
positive · AI labelView post →That reminds me of a lovely movie about trying to locate Richard III's final resting place. #TheLostKing directed by #StephenFrears based on "The King's Grave: The Search for Richard III" by Philippa Langley & Michael Jones. youtu.be/iJeGgMIXgRY?... (watch first minute- may reveal too much!)
neutral · AI labelView post →From what I remember it was a significant memory from watching the film it was in (Richard Iii i think?) and it scared him, somehow he came across it in an auction and was like "I need that" lmao
neutral · AI labelView post →Woah there I can forgive your taste in music and food but Sir Ian’s Richard III was a smart and interesting retelling of the play for film When you’re changing the medium the content follows
positive · AI labelView post →This week's film agenda? • From last week, I still haven't seen Solaris, Gangs of New York, Death Rides a Horse and Richard III. Aside from that, I was thinking... • Wake in Fright • Death Race 2000. • The Little Foxes. • Sweet Smell of Success.
neutral · AI labelView post →right now SÝN is playing THE SUBSTANCE straight after a kid's fantasy movie)and Sjónvarp Síminn is playing YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE. RÚV meanwhile is playing THE LOST KING, some tax dodge film nonsense about Richard III. Icelandic TV is being incredibly schizo this evening....
neutral · AI labelView post →So, without saying his best movie? Okay. Richard III
positive · AI labelView post →If Shakespeare on film, the “Richard III” with Ian McKellan. If a retelling of a Shakespeare play on film “10 Things I Hate About You”.
positive · AI labelView post →Hollywood refused to make the movie adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard III because they were worried viewers would think the first two Richard movies must've been flops
neutral · AI labelView post →I have avidly watched several cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare, Some several times (Ian Mckellen Richard III ❤️), I was in AP English in highschool, a good portion of which was Shakespeare…I still can’t fully understand wtf iambic pentameter means. It sure sounds cool though.
neutral · AI labelView post →That decade was a great one for Shakespeare adaptations & " inspired by" films. This film, Much Ado About Nothing, three great Hamlets (Campbell, Branagh & Almereyda), Richard III w/McKellen, Titus, 10 Things I Hate About You, 12th Night...
neutral · AI labelView post →Putting this here because of reasons. Most powerful memory of this film was my English tutor practically fanning himself with his notes, exclaiming just how sexy he found Olivier as Richard III.
neutral · AI labelView post →I love these modernization of old plays like this. My favorite example in film is the 1995 adaptation of Richard III and the 2015 King Lear.
positive · AI labelView post →Superb choices. Big fan of Bean (for a long time) but equally impressed with the rest, particularly Aneurin Barnard—he was perfect as the tragically doomed Richard III in The White Queen. So excited to see them bring the film to life.
neutral · AI labelView post →So I found out Price did a 1962 movie called Tower of London where he plays none other than King Richard III. Shakespeare by way of Roger Corman! Poster says: DO YOU HAVE THE COURAGE TO SPEND 83 MINUTES IN THE TOWER OF LONDON? www.imdb.com/title/tt0056...
neutral · AI labelView post →Actually reading Richard III, after watching the film with Dom Curry 🍛
neutral · AI labelView post →The best reason to remake a movie is to let different people take a crack at it and try out something different. Just like restaging a play. I want to see what different people would do with RICHARD III, why wouldn’t I want the same thing with [insert movie everyone thinks is sacred here]?
neutral · AI labelView post →Olivier’s legendary interpretation of Richard III looms large and his 1955 film is still one of my favourites. David Troughton (whose father Patrick doubled Olivier in long shots) was superb in 1995 at the RSC and again in the Arkangel audio Shakespeare. I wish I had seen Anthony Sher at the RSC.
positive · AI labelView post →He was lithe and electrifying in Wild Honey @ the National. As he’d been in Bent. He gets bored easily so never wise to see him near the end of a run. Riveting in Richard III - and then the film. His second Lear was much better than the first. Wish I’d seen his Macbeth live. But it’s on YouTube
neutral · AI labelView post →He was. Amazing that Southern Comfort was his first major film role after 'Cast member of Richard III' in the Goodbye Girl and 'Hankie saleman' in Cruising (!).
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 95th Birthday to the lovely Claire Bloom, Emmy/Grammy/Tony-nominated British film, stage, and television actress, famous for her roles in LIMELIGHT, RICHARD III, LOOK BACK IN ANGER, THE HAUNTING, THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, CHARLY, CLASH OF THE TITANS, DOC MARTIN, and more.
neutral · AI labelView post →Als machtlüsternen Mordbuben hat Shakespeare seinen "Richard III." gezeichnet. Folgerichtig rückt Christoph Mehler die Figur in seiner Inszenierung am Saarländischen Staatstheater Saarbrücken in die Nähe heutiger Film- und Fernsehpsychopathen. www.nachtkritik.de/nachtkritike...
neutral · AI labelView post →Then you get The Lost King, a movie about finding Richard III, which led to a lawsuit. Maybe they can make a movie called Suing The Lost King.
neutral · AI labelView post →I want to see an epic movie about the Battle of Towton with all the heavy foreshadowing about how Richard III is going to kill like half the leading Yorkists in the film.
neutral · AI labelView post →When the 1995 movie version of Richard III was in the cinema's, the joke at the time was that Americans asked if they had missed the 'Richard' movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →RICHARD III (1955) * Watch 3 I've seen this film three times in the past two years. Something about it pulls me back Maybe something to do with the corpulent orange king Scorsese, deeply involved in the restoration, loves the colors Also, Richard's a straight-up mob boss
positive · AI labelView post →I stumbled into getting a ticket (slips, partially blocked) in 1990 for McKellen’s Richard III—it was the stage version of what later became the 1995 film—even with the bad seat, it was a joy to behold!
neutral · AI labelView post →Next up for Greengrass is The Uprising coming in September, about the 1381 peasants' revolt against King Richard III, that arose in part from the fallout of the Black Death. Hmmm, methinks there may be parallels.... #moviesky #filmsky #botd
neutral · AI labelView post →Discovering that Michael Sheen performed a passionate poem about Radstock, the nowhere-much not-quite-town where Bathonians can afford mortgages, seems as incongruous as… well, that bit of Al Pacino’s Richard III film where he mentions Ludlow. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
neutral · AI labelView post →I still want my theoretical Richard III movie (directed by Ari Aster)
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie about me should begin with my discovery that somehow Richard III was still alive in the back of our wagon, and while my friends stabbed him some more I look at the camera and say "I always wanted to be a monarch!" I am not sure why Socrcese's profound betrayal made me think of that.
neutral · AI labelView post →Saw his one-man show, Acting Shakespeare, in Princeton, NJ, in the early 1980s. Saw him again in Richard III at Brooklyn Academy of Music (he toured with it before he made the movie). Absolutely phenomenal in both.
neutral · AI labelView post →25 May 1939 – Ian McKellen, 87, English stage, film actor. David Copperfield (1966) A Touch of Love * Bent (Olivier Award) Amadeus (Tony Award) * And the Band Played On * Richard III (+ writer, director) * Gods and Monsters/Lord of the Rings (both OscarNom) * The Hobbit * X-Men * The Dresser (2015)
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm envious, I never got on with the Olivier Richard III film but this version really clicked with me
negative · AI labelView post →Not that anybody asked, but I saw McKellan perform that Richard III on stage in late 1990 at the then-newish opera house in Cairo, absolutely blew me away. I like the film a lot, but the energy of the play was just transcendent.
neutral · AI labelView post →A little better , thanks youngest son is coming around again later. For movie night .. thinking Richard III
neutral · AI labelView post →McKellan's Richard III film is great. Never seems to get enough attention.
positive · AI labelView post →one from each genre (w film ref too): Much Ado (Whedon's 2012 film is a great treatment) Richard III (Loncraine & McKellen!) Lear (absolutely love Kozintsev's film) bsky.app/profile/svat...
neutral · AI labelView post →A number of years ago, Al Pacino and Frederik Kimball (had to get his names off the credits) did a film, Looking for Richard, in which Pacino and a whole slew of performers, experts, and random people deconstruct Richard III and act out scenes in costume.
neutral · AI labelView post →BBC News - Man wins 'substantial damages' over portrayal in Steve Coogan Richard III film - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
neutral · AI labelView post →Each film features a gripping leading performance by Olivier, immortalised with stunning 4K restorations: Henry V (1944) Hamlet (1948) Richard III (1955) 1500 copies only. Henry V (1944) – Imprint Collection #413 The first of Olivier’s trilogy, Henry V was nominated for four Academy Awards and
neutral · AI labelView post →It's always frustrating to see film lovers act as if dialogue is a depurification of the art of cinema. Since the dawn of movies, filmmakers have thought, "Wouldn't it be great if people could talk in them?" Intertitles were first used in 1898! There's a film version of Richard III from 1912!
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