Anonymous (2011) Trailer -a Sony Pictures release
http://www.sonypictures.com/previews/movies/anonymous/clips/3720/
Sony Pictures video: 10 Reasons Why Roland Emmerich Believes Shakespeare Is a Fraud
http://www.sonypictures.com/previews/movies/anonymous/clips/4153/
ITN video: Anonymous cast defend controversial Shakespeare movie
http://youtu.be/HRKFPouYTbs
Los Angeles Times
Roland Emmerich's 'Anonymous' shakes up Shakespeare scholars,
Shakespearean scholars are scandalized by Roland Emmerich's 'Anonymous,' premiering Friday, which depicts a nobleman as the secret author of the Bard's plays.
By Rebecca Keegan, Los Angeles Times,
October 27, 2011
A statue of William Shakespeare in the playwright's hometown of Stratford-Upon-Avon was covered by a sheet Tuesday in protest; a debate enlivened a New York cultural festival; American university campuses have played host to surprisingly prickly encounters between professors and filmmakers.
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The Guardian
Roland Emmerich: Appetite for deconstruction
Why is Roland Emmerich, purveyor of disaster-movie schlock, wading into the debate over the authorship of Shakespeare's plays?
By Damon Wise, guardian.co.uk,
27 October 2011 17.00 EDT
Roland Emmerich knows there's a subtext to the compliment when people tell him they like his new film, Anonymous. "Were my other movies so bad?" asks the Stuttgart-born director in his clipped Teutonic accent. But it's not so much that those other movies were bad – it's that they bore almost no resemblance to reality. In the last 15 years Emmerich has presided over an alien invasion (Independence Day), the trashing of New York (Godzilla) and the end of the world not once but twice (The Day After Tomorrow and 2012). So it comes as quite a surprise that his latest project, though just as rich in CGI, is quite an intelligent, if somewhat broad historical drama that portrays William Shakespeare as a drunk and posits the Earl of Oxford as the true genius of English literature.
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I'll be seeing this film sometime this week at the AMC Aventura 24.
I'll be seeing this film sometime this week at the AMC Aventura 24.
HBB Trivia: I have roughly about a dozen books about Shakespeare here with me in HB, but when I lived on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. I used to live three blocks away from the Folger Shakespeare Library, and always attended their annual birthday party for dear Wills.
Years later, one of my housemates actually worked there.
