I thought Shuchet was fine  - but nothing special. I don't know if the part itself is all that great compared to some of the others.

" Aumerle killing Richard.  Thoughts?"

" do you think that Shakespeare was relying on his audience's pre-exisitng love for Henry V?"

When I was watching Richard II tonight they made an announcement that it would be available online on thirteen.org (the NYC PBS affiliate) so you might be able to catch it there.

Did you see Bright Star? It was a really underrated film and Wishaw was first rate as John Keats.

Have you ever seen Chimes at Midnight?

It's a good film - so much better than the Olivier one, which I sort of cannot stand.

I saw a production of Henry V where at the opening they spent a good ten minutes with the English court going through incredible feats of twisted logic as to why Henry V deserved to be King of France.. They had all these absurd pie charts and people drawing arrows and diagrams and what was brilliant was that it was…

Julie Taymor did a great job with Titus.

Richard II just aired where I live, and I thought it was great (the following 3 plays have not aired yet).

I wonder if the chaos and clusterfuck of the War of the Roses that really comes to a head in the Henry VI plays is somehow a part of English history that they would rather not think about - ergo perhaps those plays are not very popular there.

As others said, there are the Henry VI plays that link up Richard II and the Henry plays with Richard III.

Does anyone else get a "The Unusuals" vibe off the previews for this show?

As an American who can only comment on the universal aspects of films about the lives of people in other parts of the world,  I far prefer Ray's earlier films because the cinematographer he was working with (Subrata Mitra) was an absolute genius and his work was really an essential aspect to making those films great.

" Charu’s desire is more for knowledge, beauty, and simple human contact than for Chatterjee himself."

I agree - Sherlock does some really wonderful stuff.

As much as I love Lubitsch, I don't think his silent historical epics hold up well at all - especially compared to his early comedies. The Wildcat - made a year earlier than Loves of  A Pharoh - is pure delight from beginning to end.

I'd sell my soul for a Dodge Charger

You like it better than Sunrise?

This use of clearly artificial sets seems to have made quite an impression in Japan that pops up from time to time over the years.