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Hamlet, 1948.

A SERIOUS ACTOR doing SERIOUS ACTING. 0.

#1948 #laurence olivier #rated 0 #shakespeare week

West Side Story, 1961.

It's impossible to sum up my modern feelings about this much-adapted musical. Sorry. 0.

#1961 #robert wise #rita moreno #natalie wood #stephen sondheim #musical #rated 0 #shakespeare week

It’s Shakespeare week!

Is there any greater influence on film than Shakespeare? I mean maybe, what do I know. Anyway, there are a lot of direct, indirect, and vaguely-sort-of-based-on films that owe our intrepid reporter of human dynamics a shout out in their thank-you speech. Here are a few of the more obvious ones. It’s Shakespeare week!

#theme week #shakespeare week

Babel, 2006.

*searches in vain for eye-roll emoji*. 0.

#2006 #babel #alejandro gonzález iñárritu #rated 0 #around the world week

Lost In Translation

Even the older-man-young-woman thing between Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray couldn't stop me from really enjoying this. +1.

#2003 #sofia coppola #bill murray #scarlett johansson #rated +1 #around the world week

A Passage to India, 1984.

I guess there's just a thing about these Lean epics I'm not really here for? -1.

#1984 #david lean #rated -1 #around the world week

The Grand Budapest Hotel, 2014.

This is not the movie Wes Anderson should have won an Oscar for, but it's still a pleasure. +1.

#2014 #wes anderson #rated +1 #around the world week

Lawrence of Arabia, 1962.

Honestly if the reason everyone loves this movie so much is the visuals, maybe it should just have been some photographs I could flip through? -1.

#1962 #peter o'toole #alec guinness #david lean #rated -1 #around the world week #biopic

Out of Africa, 1985.

Sometimes you like a movie because it reminds you of how much you liked a book. 0.

#1985 #sydney pollack #meryl streep #robert redford #rated 0 #around the world week

Around the World in 80 Days, 1956.

Oh I don't know. This movie was a pretty good time if you can ignore the details. 0.

#1956 #david niven #cantinflas #rated 0 #around the world week

It’s around the world week!

In 2015, thanks to a major airfare mistake and a little bit of extreme sign-up bonus point accumulation, I spent the month of April literally flying around the world. I feel like someday in the not-too-distant future thinking about this is going to be like watching Mad Men when Don shakes out the family’s picnic garbage onto the ground and drives away. But until then, I’ll just spend this month with some pretty great memories of visiting new places.

#theme week #around the world week