Leaving aside Kurosawa's Japanese epic "Ran” and "A Thousand Acres," the 1997 adaptation of novelist Jane Smiley's relocation of Shakespeare to Iowa, there hasn't been a successful screen version of "King Lear." But the epic scale, and near permanent soundtrack, of Sam Mendes’ much feted but strenuous new National Theater production suggests the helmer is thinking in filmic... Read more »
SOURCE: Variety at 02:35PM on January 24, 2014