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ORIGINAL TITLE

Richard III

YEAR

1995

RUNNING TIME

107 min.

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COUNTRY

(New) Visual section

DIRECTOR

Richard Loncraine

SCREENWRITER

Richard Loncraine & Ian McKellen (Play: William Shakespeare)

COMPOSER

Trevor Jones

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Peter Biziou

CAST

Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey Jr., Nigel Hawthorne, Maggie Smith, Adrian Dunbar

STUDIO/PRODUCER

MGM

AWARDS

1995: 2 Nominations for Oscar: Best Art Direction, costume
1995: Nominated for Golden Globe: Best Actor Drama (Ian McKellen)
1996: Berlin Film Festival: Silver Bear - Best Director
1996: 2 BAFTA Awards: Best Costume and Production Design. 5 Nominations

GENRE

Drama | Historical. The 30s

SYNOPSIS/PLOT

This film adaptation of a critically acclaimed stage production of Shakespeare's historical drama stars Ian McKellen in the title role. The setting is a comic-book vision of 1930s London: part art deco, part Third Reich, part industrial-age rust and rot. The play's force is turned into a synthetic high by art directors and storyboard sketchers, all of whom have a field day condensing the material into disposable pop imagery. This is a fun film, more than anything, so infatuated with its own monstrous stitchery that even the most awkward casting (Annette Bening and Robert Downey Jr.) seems a part of the ridiculous design. McKellen is the best thing about the movie, his mesmerizing portrayal of freakish despotism and poisoned desire a thing to behold.

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