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Too bad the budget for shows like this and I Claudius couldn't have been stretched to cover the cost of 35mm film. Sigh. I think the wonderful BBC production of Pride and Prejudice from the 1990s was filmed 16mm, but it was done so well it looks almost like 35mm. Another BBC/Masterpiece Theater...

Since I was a kid, I have been so often impressed with what British writing and acting talent can do. In 1977, when I was 12, I watched enraptured as "I, Claudius" on Masterpiece Theater (also from videotape) took me away to a world of such political backstabbing and madness, and yet with...

Yes, Glenda Jackson gives a powerful and impressive performance: Mercurial and majestic, alternately kind and vindictive, and above all strangely convincing from youth to old age. I'm on episode five of six now, and each one is like a polished play or mini-movie. The production values are often...

How is the Judith Anderson version of Elizabeth I? That's very rare. So far of the ones I've watched the Glenda Jackson one seems like it's the most historically accurate and complete. I suppose there have been enough versions of Elizabeth I, but I wonder what the team behind The Crown could...

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex is currently $12.99 at Amazon. I think this is one of the best films of 1939. As the review here says the restoration from the three-strip Technicolor negative is spectacular. This movie has started me on a whole binge of watching dramatizations of Queen...

Matt H. writes in his excellent review: "....Screenwriters Norman Reilly Raine and Aeneas MacKenzie have retained some but not all of the blank verse from Maxwell Anderson’s stage play, and many will likely find the film overly talky without benefit of many scenes shot outside the principal...