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Ian McKellen on Richard III and Shakespeare on film: ‘You can have a wonderful “Shakespeare movie” with hardly any Shakespeare in it all…’

By RobertBradburnPosted on May 1, 2016Posted in Event Review, Film Interview, Film Review, Interviews, London Film Cast Q&A, London Film EventTagged BFI, BFI Shakespeare on Film, Ian McKellen, Richard III, Richard Loncraine

UK-USA 1995 Directed by Richard Loncraine 103 min Digital 15 Playing in the BFI’s Shakespeare on Film Season. RATING: ★★★★★ Back on the big screen in a new Park Circus digital restoration, and part of the BFI Shakespeare on Film Season, Richard III is looking mighty fine at age 21. A bombastic and zippily-paced adaption […]

Sir Ian McKellan spearheads the newly-launched BFI Shakespeare on Film project

By RobertBradburnPosted on January 25, 2016Posted in Event Review, Film Seasons, London Cinema Event, London Film EventTagged BFI, BFI Shakespeare on Film, Ian McKellen

Who better to launch the BFI’s nationwide celebration of the Bard – The BFI Presents Shakespeare on Film – than the actor who has played, on stage and screen, some of his most memorable characters, including Richard III and Macbeth? Today, Ian McKellen was at BFI Southbank, in his role as the chief spokesperson for the project, to discuss […]