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...laid out for them, both the Queen and Prince Philip maintained their poise and ready sense of humor, provided more than a million West Africans with a new view of the erstwhile "imperialist oppressors." Said Prime Minister Macmillan in the House of Commons, moving a "loyal address to the throne": "I venture to say that of the many journeys which she and His Royal Highness have so tirelessly undertaken, none has been crowned with greater success than this...
When Hamlet's mother sold herself and the throne for a pair of reechy kisses, all of Denmark trembled and sickened. It is hard to tremble at the revelations of The Rest Is Silence--partly because there was already something rotten in Germany before old Claudius was murdered, but more because these are pathetic, not tragic figures. What remains of the play is a kind of literary parlor trick--there is a certain fascination in trying to figure out what will appear from the real Hamlet in the next scene--and nothing more. To call this film worth seeing would...
...Throne of Blood. A barbarically splendid Japanization of Shakespeare's Macbeth; both brutalized and energized by Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa, the Elizabethan tragedy becomes a noh play of demonic majesty...
...Throne of Blood (Toho; Brandon...
...among the supreme creators of cinema. Rashomon (1952) introduced him to U.S. audiences as a powerful ironist. The Magnificent Seven (1956) demonstrated his mastery of movies as pure movement. Ikiru (1960), one of the screen's great spiritual documents, revealed him as a moralist both passionate and profound. Throne of Blood, a resetting of Macbeth among the clanking thanes and brutish politics of 16th century Japan, is a visual descent into the hell of greed and superstition, into the gibbering darkness of the primitive mind. It is a nerve-shattering spectacle of physical and metaphysical violence, quite the most...