Looking for Richard
— Al Pacino gets behind and in front of the camera to tell us how much Shakespeare moves him.”
- Director: Al Pacino
- United States, 1992
“A four hundred year old work in progress” goes the tagline to Pacino’s first feature as director and the film itself took four years and six editors to make.
But the result is perfectly cohesive: a kind of documentary about the highs and lows of doing Richard III, glued together by Pacino’s mesmerising performance as compère in the documentary and Richard III in the drama.
The rapid cutting between documentary and drama did leave me feeling like I wanted to see two movies. It will be interesting to see how Pacino deals with similar content as director of the forthcoming Salomaybe?.
See also:
Sea of Love
A streetwise city cop thriller that crawls familiar kerbs but more or less delivers the package.
- Originally published: 2 Apr 2007 in Film
Bus 174 (Ônibus 174)
A fascinating documentary tracing the circumstances that led one young streetkid to take hostages on a Rio bus.
- Originally published: 28 Mar 2007 in Film
Buena Vista Social Club
All rockumentaries should be like this: memorable film on the great cultural discovery of the late 90s.
- Originally published: 4 Nov 2007 in Film
American Beauty
Watching one of 1999′s best movies, it’s easy to forget the seriousness of the issues being discussed here.
- Originally published: 12 Feb 2007 in Film
The Good Shepherd
This dry history of a mystery man’s motivations hides its intelligence rather too well.
- Originally published: 16 Oct 2007 in Film
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