Tedious, superficial biography of José Rizal Mercado y Alonso, the national hero of the Republic of Philippines whose novels about Spanish injustice, show trial and execution by Spain for political agitation (though he advocated education, not violence) inspired revolution and the achievement of independence. Rizal was, principally, a medical doctor. Apart from flashbacks, most of […]
Daily Archives: February 8, 2008
One of the two greatest plays in the English language (the other, messier one being his King Lear), William Shakespeare’s Hamlet has been updated to the present semi-famously a couple of times in movies, by Helmut Käutner (The Rest Is Silence, 1959) and Akira Kurosawa (The Bad Sleep Well, 1960), in both cases reorganized in […]