Here we are in the fifth act talking about by far our favorite adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.
Okay sure. It’s not a perfect movie. It may not even be a particularly good movie.
By far the oddest and most obscure choice on our list, itʼs also the one we’ve relished doing since landing on it (which goes hand in hand with the strangeness of this choice if we’re being honest).
Today we’ll be covering two films. The first of which so brilliantly adapts the most famous scene in all of Shakespeare that not even Steven Spielberg dared touch it in his remake.
With the release of Elemental, a new unconventional retelling of Romeo and Juliet, we thought we’d look back at some of our favorite adaptations of the classic Shakespeare story.
I bet you didn’t know The Graduate was a book! The Graduate is one of the best American films to come out of the 1960s, standing amongst such classics as The Apartment, Rosemary’s Baby, and In The Heat of the Night.
Screw Roger Ebert on this one. He gave this movie a two out of four! However, his distaste for Fight Club stems from a dismissal of the film’s message and, honestly, a misunderstanding.
The story follows two brothers, Hazel and Fiver. Think of Hazel as Mario and Fiver as Luigi, only in this instance the younger, weaker brother has purpose because Fiver is a seer.
This week is Book Adaptation Week so open up your reading glasses and grab your notebooks. We’re getting literary!
To close out Pride Week we’re going to look at where queer cinema is today and where it may go in the next couple of years. Our pick for today is Fire Island. Now, why this film out of the modern queer canon?
Let’s take some time to look at documentaries, real life people, and watching their all too real experiences.
