because life is too short
by John Murphy The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is self-indulgent in the best and worst sense. Peter Jackson, the hobbity Kiwi who transformed J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, into an Oscar-winning box-office behemoth, has earned his right to luxuriate in the cinematic world he began building over a decade ago. And [...]
[See also this post on the movie soundtrack by Patrick Doyle and We Few, We Happy Few] by Debra Murphy Seeing as how the Shakespeare bug has bitten almost every member of Clan Murphy, I am frequently asked by friends (and readers of Bardolatry) how best to 1) introduce oneself to the Bard, particularly in the [...]
[N.B.: See also Debra's appreciation of Branagh's Henry V, and our We Happy Few section of L.I.T.S. Lists.] Kenneth Branagh’s 1989 Henry V was not only a game changer in the realm of Shakespeare film adaptations, it also introduced us to a major new talent in the world of movie music, Patrick Doyle. From the [...]
Directed by Stanley Kubrick Starring Ryan O’Neal and Marisa Berenson appreciated by John Murphy The Northwest Film Center in Portland, Oregon hosted a Stanley Kubrick retrospective at the Portland Art Museum a few years back. The series offered eager fans (like your intrepid reporter) a unique opportunity to chart Kubrick’s development as a director, as [...]
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