More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2019 (17 to 24 October)
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15 April
Except that it's been in Th'Agent's mind for (on and - largely - off) c. a week, here's to-day's #GratuitousLineFromShakespeare* :
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'Make me not sighted like the basilisk'
* Sparing anyone the inexactitude of the remembering (none on this occasion !), by finding (some) text...
[...] Perseverance, dear my lord,
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Keeps honour bright [...]#GratuitousLineFromShakespeare
[...] Out, vile jelly !
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Where is thy lustre now ?#GratuitousLineFromShakespeare
Cry, Trojans, cry ! lend me ten thousand eyes,
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And I will fill them with prophetic tears.
[...]
Cry, Trojans, cry ! practise your eyes with tears !
Troy must not be, nor goodly Ilion stand ;
* Our firebrand brother, Paris, burns us all !*#GratuitousLineFromShakespeare
Banquo : How goes the night, boy ?
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Fleance : The moon is down ; I have not heard the clock.#GratuitousLineFromShakespeare
'[...] it was
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thought she was a woman and was turned into a cold
fish for she would not exchange flesh with one that
loved her : the ballad is very pitiful and as true.'#GratuitousLineFromShakespeare
For what seems a ponderous take here, read :https://t.co/8nXZMyMycT
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The Thane of Cawdor lives. Why do you dress me
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In borrowed robes ?#GratuitousLineFromShakespeare
[... 'T]is a consummation
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Devoutly to be wish'd.
That soliloquy !
A heckuva lot of ground that's being raced through, *as if* in Real Time. Why ?
Is Leontes, really a sort of pastiche of jealousy (?), no more or less plausible (Act I, Scene 7) ?#GratuitousLineFromShakespeare
I'm sure that it's Anathema, Heresy and Sacrilege to say it, but a canter through morality, ethics and personal morals / mores if one likens it to, say, 'Paradise Lost' (12 Books) + 'Paradise Regained' (another 4), or even Macbeth's hesitation soliloquy ?https://t.co/yNfBJczg3p https://t.co/bq8hm7xdT5
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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)
