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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
Brilliant writing and acting. Bravo!!
This is a title I would love to see released in DVD. I've got it in VHS, but...! Let's have something that teachers can reliably use in classrooms to show brilliant adaptations of Shakespeare! What a brilliant job by Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss, and Gary Oldman. Anyone who saw this when it came out would have foreseen their brilliant careers. But more than that, I (an old English prof) enjoyed the marvelously ingenious take on Hamlet. Please, someone who has control of this property, release it on DVD.
Stars and Bars (1988)
Kudos!
Oh, how I would love to own this on DVD! A marvelous job by Daniel Day
Lewis, Harry Dean Stanton, Joan Cusack and Glann Headley. In my opinion
it
is a deep South tour-de-farce. I guess you have to have lived there to
appreciate the humorous poke at what lies behind the moss-covered trees
that
line the backroads of the South. It reminds me of Out on a Limb, a
similar
Southern dark comedy with Matthew Broderick. Both are hysterical
weekends
with people whose family trees "don't branch!!" You'll never see Lewis
doing this whimsy again, except perhaps as the pansy boyfriend in "Room
with
a View" which he did at about the same time. Both characters are played
with equal artistic integrity he grants all his roles. Kudos and many
laughs to all!