While I was looking for new materials to help teach "Romeo and Juliet," I found the 1936 version of the play and naturally I was intrigued. I'm assuming that most people know the basic plot and have seen other versions of the film, if this is not the case you may want to stop rea...
To begin with, Zeffirelli's film is the first production of "Romeo and Juliet" I am familiar with in which the romance is taken seriously. Always before, we have had actors in their 20s or 30s or even older, reciting Shakespeare's speeches to each other as if it were the words that ...
“Romeo and Juliet” remains the magical high point of his career. To see it again is to luxuriate. It is intriguing that Zeffirelli in 1968 focused on love, while Baz Luhrmann’s popular version of 1996 focused on violence; something fundamental has changed in films about and for young peo...
But they became close because they loved Juliet, they have the same morals and they're a similar sort of character. "They just wanted to be happy and they made each other happy. They both deserve to be happy. It would have been interesting to see what would have happened if Romeo ...
Private Romeo: Directed by Alan Brown. With Hale Appleman, Charlie Barnett, Adam Barrie, Chris Bresky. A modern take on Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'. Set at an isolated all-boys military academy, it follows the forbidden relationship between two cade