Looking for Richard (1996)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

i must have seen a different film!!

Fantastic!

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

I was so delighted that I watched this movie many times. How do you introduce many to a masterpiece of a genius? Pacino searches for him in England's history, at the streets, at the stages and rehearsals, with British actors and scholars, in a beggar that taught us about feelings, feelings in words, not only in gestures, actions, while showing the noble drama in its political subtleties. It shows the beauty not only of a language and story, but a great actor's view of a great play. Surely one of the best movies I have ever seen about a play of Shakespeare. A film that anybody who likes Shakespeare and poetry will watch many times in order to fully understand its beauty

I have to study Richard III and Looking For Richard for school and, lucky for me I like Shakespeare so I understand it. When I was told we were studying Looking For Richard as well, I was skeptical because often the English staff choose bad movies but I really did enjoy this film immensely.Al Pacino had a brilliant idea to try and make Shakespeare more accessible to the modern public, more so the modern American public and he does a brilliant job of this. It is different though because he does not really change it too much.The cast is also very good and contains a number of famous names. Even though I have to study this film for an English class I would gladly watch this film anyway which is a testament to the film. Absolutely fantastic.

I'm not sure I have ever given a -10- to anything I've ever reviewed here (including the fifty or sixty I have removed) - BUT - if you are an actor, director, scenarist, dialog writer, director or pretty much anything else in stage or cinema... and -haven't- seen this...You have -really- missed something remarkable.We have seen Pacino be artful (in the Godfathers, in "Glengarry Glen Ross," in "Sea of Love," in "Serpico"). We have seen him strike us dumb (in "Scarface," in "The Devil's Advocate," in "And Justice for All"). We have seen him slip us a mickey (in "Scent of a Woman," in "Dog Day Afternoon," in "Dick Tracy"). Here, however, we get to see him do -all- of this, -and- provide access to the man's boggling mind and force of charm.We can surely see here why – and how -- Al has gotten his way for decades (even though Richard himself only got –his- for two years).And see him do it in the context of the play that really "made" Bill Shakespeare when it hit the big time in 1633 -40 years- after it was written... along with a cast of stage monsters who make this 450-year-old revelation... Come... To... Life.Bear in mind, as well, how all this revelation must have been viewed a mere 125 years after all this blood-soaked chicanery in a court so similar to the one viewing it.For the king and queen who saw that first performance, this might have been rather like watching "Gone With the Wind" had it been screened for the first time in about 1880 when the world was as little changed from 1865 as 1633 was from 1485.Talk about "The Godfather," this is the -original-. The intrigues are like torpedoes coming from everywhere. NO one can be trusted. NO one is safe. And we get to see it here in a way no film version (of pretty much anything by Old Bill) has ever made so evident... and relevant.This is worth a trip to Blockbuster in a hail storm.

Al Pacino, tough guy- just the one you want to do Shakespeare, right? You bet! He did a great job in Merchant of Venice, and this project- "Looking for Richard"- makes me long to see the whole play. I enjoyed the discussions with various actors analyzing their respective characters and their transformation into those characters. Kevin Spacey, for example, was a very enjoyable as Buckingham; Kevin Conway, whom I enjoyed as the Irish sergeant in Gettysburg, played a terrific (emphasis on terror) Hastings whose betrayal by Richard and destruction at the council table leaves him dumbfounded.This film is billed as an introduction for those unfamiliar with Shakespeare, but as one who has seen three different movie productions of Richard III, I was engaged from the first, and watched it a second time with my wife and a third time because the performances, particularly by the well-known actors/actresses were so enjoyable. What could be better? Seeing the whole play! Why isn't that available?