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04 Jun, 2020
Matter of Britain pack with unusual minor cards
The Matthews are the great experts on imaginative reconstruction of Celtic religion and ritual today, and this tarot combines their knowledge (originally called the Hallowquest pack it relates to the Four Treasures of Britain), their expertise in tarot, and excellent artwork. It's possibly not for everybody. The major cards and the court cards refer to characters in Arthurian legend, but the minor cards are not figurative. Rather, they illustrate areas of Britain and locations in legend. For people who love the British countryside and see in it a connection to the spiritual, this is a bonus, and I love the minor cards. For people who prefer to stick to an illustrative tradition like the RWS, they may be puzzling. Well worth looking at a review online, but they are in my top ten tarot designs.
10 Oct, 2021
Makes a trilogy of filmed Othellos
Possibly the best filmed Othello out there.
There are three exceptional films of Othello available (I am not including staged versions on film eg from The Globe). The first is the brilliant b/w Orson Welles version, arguably one of the best-ever filmed Shakespeares. It has three drawbacks for the modern purist; Welles playing Othello is extraordinarily convincing, but is nonetheless not himself black; Desdemona is feebly cast; and the final scene is a bit of a mix-up with lines re-ordered etc. In filmic terms it has the best directon and camerawork of the three.
The second is the Branagh-Fishburne colour film, richly, erotically shot, Branagh a spinechillingly amiable Iago, Fishburne criticised for his spoken Shakespeare, but I don't think he's at all bad. Another weak Desdemona. Perhaps for a younger audience?
McKellen's Iago is easily a match for Branagh, and Stubbs an excellent feisty Imogen. Willard deals with his speech well I think. The setting and camerawork not lush like the Branagh, though not 'stagey' - it is a filmed verson of a stage play, however.
So it's really how you feel about Welles, Branagh and McKellen, and how do you feel about Iago being the much stronger-cast than the Othello, as in the second two? Again arguably, Iago is the most interesting character - but a terrific Othello restores the balance in Welles' case.
14 Aug, 2021
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Creepy and wonderful