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If Looking Liking Move - Romeo + Juliet (1996)
A look at Baz Luhrmann's 1996 film Romeo + Juliet starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. I have mixed feelings on this one...
Matt Juliano
Oct 23, 202430 min read
Macbeth in Japan - Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood"
A look at Akira Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood," a 1957 film adaptation of Shakespeare's "Macbeth"
Matt Juliano
Oct 7, 202419 min read
Enter Four Murderers - M4cbeth
Enter Four Murderers - M4cbeth. An in depth look at four Macbeth films
Matt Juliano
Sep 23, 202458 min read
LMP - The Fodor Quartet
Here's the collected blog posts I did about the first piece of the Lazarus Music Project : Josephus Fodor's String Quartet No.1, Op.11...
havemando1
Aug 29, 202437 min read
A Big Housecleaning - "Yojimbo" (1961) and "A Fistful of Dollars" (1964)
Part 1 of a series on film Westerns, starting with A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and the film it is a direct remake of, Yojimbo (1961)
Matt Juliano
Aug 8, 202423 min read
Wonder Woman: A Deep Dive into Her Character and Her Comics
A deep dive into one of my favorite comic book heroes: Wonder Woman. A close look at this kind of overlooked icon, her character, her meani
Matt Juliano
Jul 21, 202439 min read
No muckle on the spule-bane - "The Bride of Lammermoor"
A look at Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel "The Bride of Lammermoor" and some comparisons with the opera it inspired "Lucia di Lammermoor"
Matt Juliano
Jun 24, 202418 min read
Completely Enveloped in an Atmosphere - Orlando Ballet's "Casanova"
A review and analysis of Orlando Ballet's 2024 US premier of the ballet "Casanova" by Kenneth Tindall, Kerry Muzzey, and Ian Kelly.
Matt Juliano
Jun 6, 202416 min read
Impaled on a Sharpened Stake - "The White Buffalo" (1977)
A look at the Moby Dick adjacent but largely forgotten film "The White Buffalo" and all the really interesting ways it's not very good.
Matt Juliano
Apr 30, 202418 min read
Remorse and Bitter Tears - Opera Orlando's "Lucia di Lammermoor"
A look at Opera Orlando's 2024 production of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor."
Matt Juliano
Apr 27, 202417 min read
Moby Dick: Tokyo Drift - The 2017 Graphic Novel
Part 3 of my series on Moby Dick and its adaptations, looking at Christophe Chaboute's 2017 graphic novel.
Matt Juliano
Apr 22, 202410 min read
2 Moby 2 Dick - "Moby Dick" (1956)
Part 2 of a series on Moby Dick, looking at the 1956 film starring Gregory Peck. Spoilers: It's pretty good.
Matt Juliano
Apr 14, 202418 min read
Into the Choppa - A Tour of the "Predator" Films
A tour of the Predator films. (Well, 4 of them, plus the B-movie bonus "Without Warning.")
Matt Juliano
Mar 31, 202428 min read
A Dip into the "Language" of Comics
A dive into the medium specific techniques and "language" of comic books.
Matt Juliano
Mar 24, 202422 min read
Waiting for a Denouement - "Anna Karenina"
A dive into Leo Tolstoy's 1878 masterpiece "Anna Karenina."
Matt Juliano
Feb 27, 202413 min read
Painting Her Own Reality - Opera Orlando's "Frida"
A look at Opera Orlando's 2024 performance of Robert Xavier Rodriguez's 1991 opera "Frida" about the life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo
Matt Juliano
Feb 4, 202416 min read
William Wordsworth: Education of a Prophet* (Flashback)
Flashback to a college essay I wrote circa 2000 about William Wordsworth's "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"
Matt Juliano
Jan 11, 20247 min read
"Moby Dick" - Pelagic Horror and Nihilism
Part 1 of a series on Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick," looking at style, structure, and the themes of proto-cosmic horror and nihilism.
Matt Juliano
Jan 7, 202417 min read
A Year of Dracula, Part 3 - Dracula 1931 and 1992
A look at the two Dracula films "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992) and "Dracula" (1931), focused on their adaptational choices.
Matt Juliano
Dec 29, 202313 min read
A Year of Dracula, Part 2 - "The Last Voyage of the Demeter" (2023)
A deep dive into the 2023 film "The Last Voyage of the Demeter," a fantastic horror movie adaptation of "Dracula" that, sadly, bombed.
Matt Juliano
Dec 23, 202320 min read
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