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directed by Christine Edzard...
Some such logic must underpin the recent state of cinematic adaptations of Shakspeare's work; Kenneth Branagh, Franco Zeferelli, Derek Jarman (substitute Marlowe for the bard), and now Christine Edzard, director of "As You Like It," all strive to expose the movie-going public to the genius of Shakespeare. Everyone should have a chance to see his work; they, quite rightly, porvide...
...Edzard, not content with physical accessibilit, seeks to render As You Like It more intell normally accessible too, by setting it in the modern day. Her contemporary analogy, while imaginatively filmed and well acted, does not fit Shakespeare's play--by using an analogy at all, no matter how apt, she mistakes the reason why Shakespeare doesn't normally attract mass audiences nowadays...
...works can fit any format: modern comedy (Bill Murray in Scrooged), musical cartoon (the Disney gang' s Oliver & Company) or period piece (Christine Edzard' s daunting six hours of Little Dorrit...
What leisure time he had left over from this schedule, the mayor spent at home, with his wife Hanna, and their son Edzard, 22. (He has two other children by a previous marriage-son Harry, now a British subject, who is studying at Manchester University, and daughter Hella, who is ill and lives in Western Germany.) His leisure wants were simple: cigars to smoke and a library to browse in. "All we own," Frau Reuter said, "is a sofa, some armchairs and a few rugs. Everything else is rented. My husband is really only interested in his books, but they...