- In an L.A. Weekly report on UCLA’s Graham Greene film fest, David Chute argues that the “richly imagined genre films” are the strongest of the bunch. (Greene’s thoughts on screenwriting are worth looking into.)
- The works of Edgar Allan Poe are slated to be rereleased, in graphic novel form.
- Via About Last Night, “Things I will not do when I direct a Shakespeare production on stage or film”:
1. The ghost of Hamlet’s father will not be played by the entire ensemble underneath a giant piece of diaphanous black material….
13. Richard II’s minions will not be made to wear pink….