Posts Tagged ‘Richard Burton’

  • Inglorious Basterds and the War Adventure
    First  things  first  this  is  not  a post  on  Quentin  Tarantino’s  latest  flick,  which  needless  to  say  i am  keenly  awaiting.  Not  the  least  because  its  directed  by  Tarantino  himself,  but  because  it  belongs  to  the “War Adventure”  genre,  or  in  effect   an  action/adventure  movie  with...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at April 21st, 2009 at 06:04 am
  • The Last Lear: Bachchan’s best? Maybe, may be not, but….
    In a Shakespearean tragedy, one cannot but get sucked into the emotional cauldron. Be it Othello or King Lear or Macbeth or Hamlet, its all about great emotional upheaval when it comes to the core of the Bard’s plays. In Rituparno Ghosh’s The Last Lear, Amitabh Bachchan’s (as well as most of the cast’s) first full-fledged English role, Harish ‘Harry’...
    by Runumi G at September 11th, 2008 at 11:09 am