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WOODY ALLEN MIGHTY IN `APHRODITE'.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Review)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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June 21, 1996|
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Byline: Mike Pearson Rocky Mountain News Entertainment Editor
Mighty Aphrodite: Miramax. VHS-Laserdisc. 104 min. Rated R.
Mighty Aphrodite is Woody Allen's best film in a decade.
You can argue that he's written funnier material, that his earlier films have been lighter, darker or just about anything else. But Allen alone is the master of the urban comedy, a genre given to exploring the neuroses of people who live and work in big cities. Only, his is a satiric empathy raised to the level of fine art.
To begin with, Mighty Aphrodite is ...
 "Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)")
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Power play; Role of Richard III physically draining, technically challenging and bloody fun.(TIME OUT)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
; ...disconcerting about the famous painting of King Richard III (artist unknown and much reproduced...as William Shakespeare once put it. Richard III had reason to feel uneasy. His short...than 200 years later, Shakespeare's Richard III immortalized a view of the king as an...
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SHAKESPEARE ON FILM.
Magazine article from: Quadrant
; TITUS, RICHARD III AND LOOKING FOR RICHARD THIS MEDIUM...found the way. In Henry V, Hamlet and Richard III Olivier created a filmic theatricality...could appear plausible in Henry V and Richard III by using designs based on medieval...
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Richard III; Shakespeare's play will appear for three summer performances.(ETC.)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
; ...Actually, if you find William Shakespeare's Richard III a fascinating and compelling study in...putting on its outdoor production of Richard III at four Blackstone Valley locations...artistic director, and the director of Richard III. The first park will be Whitin Park...
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(movie reviews)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter
; Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite (Miramax) might not succeed...to create further problems. Mighty Aphrodite doesn't really explore the faltering...reversal is not only appropriate to Mighty Aphrodite but a payback for the director...
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(book reviews)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; The Religious Life of Richard III: Piety and Prayer in the North...Limited, 1997. Pp. xiv, 209. $72.00.) Richard III is easily the most controversial...such as Cicero and Seneca. But Richard III did not apparently share either...
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The First Quarto of King Richard III.
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies
; The First Quarto of King Richard III. Ed. by PETER DAVISON. (The New...pound]35;$49.95. Shakespeare's King Richard III is available to us in two early...Davison's representation of quarto Richard III fails to engage many of the implications...
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 "The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)")
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The March madness of Shakespeare.(Columns)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
; ...trying to understand Shakespeare's Richard III by reading Cliffs Notes. (What, you...that only increased my mounting fear: Richard III has 3,619 lines, making it among the...bathroom with shouts of Long Live King Richard III! still ringing in my ears. Unlike at...
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Richard III.
Magazine article from: Cineaste
; Laurence Olivier's Richard III has been available on videotape...the way for Richard's downfall. Richard III features what might be termed an...subject of Shakespearean cinema. Richard III is the most purely theatrical of...
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Dueling `Richards' seize local stages.(TIME OUT)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
; ...not what William Shakespeare wrote in Richard III as the evil king desperately stands...at least two outdoor productions of Richard III, Shakespeare's play about the hunched...Algonkuin Theatre Company production of Richard III will be on the move in the Blackstone...
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Two silent Shakespeares: Richard III and Othello. (Home Video).(Movie Review)
Magazine article from: Cineaste
; ...from the silent era. James Keane's 1912 Richard III is presented in a restored print from...Institute with a score (effectively a Richard III symphony) by Ennio Morricone. The disc...final scene of Othello. Keane's 1912 Richard III, which has a claim to be the first American...
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