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March Did you know that Jane Austen penned 80's teen comedy Clueless? Or the the Coen Brothers' O Brother Where Art Thou? is a Homeric Odyssey?
Cinema has been adapting and re-adapting works almost as long as the form has existed, such as 1922's Nosferatu, made when the rights for Dracula couldn't be purchased.
Shakespeare, of course, has been re-imagined and adapted in several ways, from setting MacBeth in a 1970's burger shack (Scotland, PA) to Romeo court Juliet on a New York fire escape (West Side Story), and shooting King Lear as a sweeping epic in feudal Japan (Ran).
Even classic films are re-imagined and re-invented, like several of the films of Akira Kurosawa Already a great adapter of classic literature, and inspired by the westerns of John Ford, his Yojimbo was adapted to be Clint Eastwood's star-making picture A Fistfull of Dollars, which in turn brought about the 20's gangster epic Last Man Standing.
From singing, dancing Dickensian orphans to moving Kurtz from Africa to Viet Nam, they're all $2 for the month of March at Reckless Video.
3 Men And A Baby 3 Godfathers Tokyo Godfathers 3 Godfathers Magnificent 7 7 Samurai Bugs Life 7 Samurai Good Thief Bob La Flambeur Barbwire Casablanca Scrooged Christmas Carol Roxanne Cyrano Truth About Cats & Dogs Cyrano Cruel Intentions Dangerous Liaisons Nosferatu Dracula Shadow Of A Vampire Dracula Clueless Emma Frankenweinie Frankenstein Bride And Prejudice Frankenstein Bad Sleep Well Hamlet Strange Brew Hamlet Apocalypse Now Heart Of Darkness My Own Private Idaho Henry IV Outland High Noon Lonely Hearts Honeymoon Killers Birdcage La Cage A Foul Point Of No Return La Femme Nikita 12 Monkeys La Jetee The King Lear King Of Texas Lear Ran Lear The King Is Alive Lear Throne Of Blood Macbeth Scotland PA Macbeth Men Of Respect Macbeth Satan Met A Lady Maltese Falcon A Little Night Music Midsummer Nights Dream Midsummer Nights Sex Comedy Midsummer Nights Dream Smiles Of A Summers Night Midsummer Nights Dream No Reservations Mostly Martha Warriors Odyssey O Brother Where Art Thou? Odyssey Oliver Oliver Twist Boy Called Twist Oliver Twist O Othello Hook Peter Pan Bride And Prejudice Pride And Prejudice My Fair Lady Pygmalion West Side Story Romeo & Juliet Tromeo And Juliet Romeo & Juliet El Dorado Rio Brave Assault On P13 Rio Bravo Chicago Roxy Hart I Have Found It Sense And Sensibility You've Got Mail Shop Around The Corner Snow White A Tale Of Terror Snow White 10 Things I Hate About You Taming Of The Shrew I'm Going Home Tempest Forbidden Planet Tempest The Missing The Searchers Fist Full Of Dollars Yojimbo Last Man Standing Yojimbo Adaptation The Orchid Thief
It's an ever changing cinematic world out ther, and Reckless Video's Spotlight section puts special attention on the movies that reflect what's happening right now. From a trend that's being popularized by a new, big budget release to a star that's grabbing headlines to movies that simply focus on a particular time of year, Reckless will single these films together for the easy access of something that needs a spotlight shone.
