The Beautiful Contradiction of Adaptation
March 7, 2023
Poetry panelist and Interviews editor Kelley Gifford gives us some wonderful insight on book-to-film adaptations!… More The Beautiful Contradiction of Adaptation
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The British Bard and Bollywood
February 23, 2023
Poetry editor Aayushi Agarwal shares her encounters with Shakespeare through Hindi film adaptations, begging the question: how can movies be used as a tool of cultural empowerment and reclamation? … More The British Bard and Bollywood
Was “Shrek”s Lord Farquaad based on Shakespeare’s “Richard III?”
February 10, 2020
(If you’ve never seen Shrek (2001) or read Shakespeare’s play Richard III, let me warn you: Spoilers lie ahead! If you have seen Shrek, welcome to my conspiracy theory.) This theory started when I was taking an Introduction to Shakespeare course last year, and one of the assignments was to read Richard III, and watch… More Was “Shrek”s Lord Farquaad based on Shakespeare’s “Richard III?”
PATERSON: The Blue-Collar Poet and Writing with a ‘Day Job’ By: Nicholas DiBenedetto
April 5, 2017
Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson is Paterson in ways that I never realized something could be Paterson. The film’s star, Adam Driver, plays a bus driver and poet named Paterson, who lives in the city of Paterson, New Jersey, and whose favorite poet is William Carlos Williams (whose epic poem Paterson, is set in the same New… More PATERSON: The Blue-Collar Poet and Writing with a ‘Day Job’ By: Nicholas DiBenedetto
When Movie Adaptations Fail
March 23, 2015
The announcement of a movie adaptation of a favorite book is always an exciting one. It is the wonderful convergence of my love of reading and my firm standing as a movie geek. However, movie adaptations always come with risk: many times filmmakers get it right, but for every hit there is a miserable failure.… More When Movie Adaptations Fail
*—Top 10 Romantic Movie Lines for an Awful Poem—*
February 26, 2014
Each verse gets worse– a last-ditch effort to disseminate some quality teen angst before Valentine’s Month is over: I want you to draw me like one of your French girls But I am nobody’s little weasel. They say bread is life. And I bake bread, bread, bread. And I sweat and shovel… More *—Top 10 Romantic Movie Lines for an Awful Poem—*