As You Like ... Samurai Warriors??

A trailer via Shakespearegeek for Kenneth Branagh's new movie production of As You Like It. Branagh seems to be pulling out all the stops in too-clever-by-half gimmickry - mixed race leads are a rather tired attempt to be "different," and what matters really is their ability to speak the lines not what they look like. What I'm unsure about is the somewhat inexplicable appearance of Japanese Samurai Warriors and geishas. The Forest of Arden apparently contains a Buddhist temple... Kevin Kline is Jaques and Alfred Molina Touchstone - nice casting there.

After a quick scan on IMDB, I see that it was released in Italy in '06, although Shakespearegeek's entry suggests a September 07 release for us. hmmm.

Linkage

For movie fans: news of a fascinating new documentary, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema. You can read about it and listen to excerpts at Open Source

I'm not entirely sure why you'd want to, but for those with too much time on their hands you can Shake up a Sonnet by rearranging lines from all Shakespeare's sonnets.

The latest in the lolcat craze: Schrodinger's lolcat

And finally, I'm going to join the throng of people recommending this beautiful and fascinating video:

Book Meme

gillo (among others) originally posted this, and I couldn't do it then because it was end of term and I was too busy. I was reminded of it today, so now that I do have time, here goes. These things are always fun.

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Equal Time For Cats

My Cat Has Attitude
Originally uploaded by Debbie G.

One of the things I did this morning was a photoshoot with my cat Clio. As you can see, she's beautiful, and knows it. I thought it was time I gave some blog space to the feline part of my family.