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Diane Venora is an American stage, television and film actress. She graduated from the Juilliard School in 1977 and made her film debut in 1981 opposite Albert Finney in Wolfen . She won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress for Bird (1988).
Romeo + Juliet - another contemporary-set Shakespearean film adaptation, which also features Diane Venora. 10 Things I Hate About You and O - contemporary adaptations of The Taming of the Shrew and Othello, respectively, both also featuring Julia Stiles. Scotland, PA - a contemporary adaptation of Macbeth
William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet (stylized as William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet) is a 1996 romantic crime film directed, produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann. It is a modernized adaptation of William Shakespeare 's tragedy of the same name , albeit still utilizing Shakespearean English .
Despite her classical training as an actor, it was her first venture into Shakespeare. In Michael Almereyda 's modernized Hamlet , Ethan Hawke plays Hamlet as a film student, while Diane Venora plays Gertrude, wife to the former and present CEOs of "Denmark Corporation".
Over fifty films of William Shakespeare's Hamlet have been made since 1900. [1] Seven post-war Hamlet films have had a theatrical release: Laurence Olivier's Hamlet of 1948; Grigori Kozintsev's 1964 Russian adaptation; a film of the John Gielgud-directed 1964 Broadway production, Richard Burton's Hamlet, which played limited engagements that same year; Tony Richardson's 1969 version (the first ...
Musgraves' divorce from singer-songwriter Ruston Kelly, and the aftermath had inspired her to write the album, and has further took inspirations from Greek tragedies and Romeo and Juliet, the famous play by William Shakespeare. The visual companion to the album was characterized as having "a sense of heightened reality" as the creators intended ...
Songwriter Diane Warren has been nominated for an Oscar 15 times, but has never won. She could be looking at a 16th nomination in the coming days as her new documentary arrives in theaters.
Shakespeare on Silent Film: An Excellent Dumb Discourse (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 201–216 (on silent American Romeo and Juliet films). Martin, Jennifer L. "Tights vs. Tattoos: Filmic Interpretations of 'Romeo and Juliet'." The English Journal. 92.1 Shakespeare for a New Age (September 2002) pp. 41–46 doi:10.2307/821945.