On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 08:07:51 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:

> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 10:55:26 AM UTC-5, Graham wrote:
>> On 2020-12-08 4:02 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>> On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 4:59:28 PM UTC-5, wrote:
>>>> On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 2:45:29 PM UTC-6, GM wrote:
>>>>> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 12/7/2020 3:29 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yeah, that's gotta be tough. Kind of hard to beat those Navy stories.
>>>>>>> Speaking of which, today is December 7th. A date that will live in
>>>>>>> infamy. Sheldon wasn't even a gleam in his father's eye in in 1941.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Smithsonian Channel right now is running "lost tapes" about the attack.
>>>>>> It is history but certainly not what I consider entertaining.
>>>>> I like a good war documentary now and then, but war *movies* are one genre I've never cottoned to...
>>>> I don't like war, car chases, murders, explosions, superheroes, anything
>>>> of that sort. The movie I most often recommend, and one that few seem
>>>> to have seen is:
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYknOe7OluE
>>>
>>> Would it have killed you to post the title?
>>>
>>> A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1999. I own a copy on DVD.
>>>
>>> Here's another good movie with Stanley Tucci:
>>>
>>> The Whole Shebang
>>>
>>> <https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219408>
>>>
>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>
>> The best performance I have seen was at the Globe in London.
>
> Naturally. The Globe, plus live is always better.
>
>> Sis and I
>> had seats rather than standing in the pit of this replica of
>> Shakespeare's Globe.
>
> The best Midsummer Night's Dream I saw was at the Wayne
> State University student theater. Graduate students, for the
> most part.
>
>> As for movies of other Shakespeare's plays, The Merchant of Venice with
>> Al Pacino as Shylock is fantastic. "Looking for Richard" (about Richard
>> III) also with Pacino is worth looking for.
>
> We've seen both of those.
>
> I'm fond of Branagh's Much Ado about Nothing. Whedon's, not so much,
> even though I'm a big fan of most of his other work.
>
> I should see if I can stream Trevor Nunn's 1996 Twelfth Night.
>
> Cindy Hamilton

I saw a globe production of this with Mark Rylance in drag playing a
woman's part, as it would have been played in Shakespeare's time. I didn't
enjoy it half so much as my sister who had studied it for her =Grade 12
English.