Comments on: Some excellence…

By: Angpang

Angpang — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:28:02 +0000

Excellent idea for a blog post, will check all your clips out with my upcomming tea breaks, but had to watch Rylance right now. Saw him as Hamlet in 1987 as a teenager so feel a little ownership of him.

Richard II was my A Level text, so I have huge chunks of that speech in my memory, and you’re right he made them sound totally new to me, and full of humour I had not noticed. It’s true you really need to see Shakespeare performed.

Must get to The Globe soon, too.

Thanks.

By: Christopher Daley

Christopher Daley — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:55:40 +0000

I love Ricky Jay.

Thanks.

By: Andrea Gillies

Andrea Gillies — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:51:58 +0000

I like your pick: it’s a sort of live action Commonplace Book, and we need more of those…

By: Mari Walker

Mari Walker — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:09:40 +0000

Nice selection. The Rylance clip is bloody brilliant.

By: Neal R.

Neal R. — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:07:12 +0000

Let me actually hit “paste” for the URL too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMqReTJkjjg

By: Neal R.

Neal R. — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:06:13 +0000

I enjoy this highly polished gem from “A Man For All Seasons”. A perfect scene in many ways. As much drama & danger, complexity of relationships, poetry, and rock-solid craft as in the entirety of most films. Robert Bolt is incomparable, of course. But Fred Zinneman’s rock-solid, katana-clear direction sends it over the moon…

By: Fiona Mackenzie

Fiona Mackenzie — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:00:05 +0000

Great post. Some of my favourites, and that card trick is awesome. Thank you. xxx