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  1. Feb 23, 2016 · This social progressivism is the focus of “ Global Citizen: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie ,” a major retrospective of the architect's work that debuted at New York City’s National Academy Museum and is now moving to the Boston Society of Architects' (BSA) Space, which is near Safdie Architects' headquarters in Somerville, Mass., to run from March 16 to May 22. Presenting several ...

    • Romeo & Juliet
    • Romeo and Juliet
    • Romeo + Juliet

    Every generation seemingly gets their Romeo and Juliet, but this adaptation by Downton Abbey scribe Julian Fellowes barely gets the blood pumping. Lavishly produced, with sumptuous costumes and gorgeous location work in Verona and Mantua, the emphasis on ornate visuals all too often buries the doomed romance at the film's center. It doesn't help th...

    Directed by Philadelphia Story and My Fair Lady helmer George Cukor, this 1936 adaptation is as Old Hollywood a treatment the play ever got. Produced by MGM, the film is stately to a fault, and one can feel Cukor's hesitance to break the mold of what's thought of as a traditional take on Shakespeare. That might all be fine, but the casting nearly d...

    As polarizing as any film Baz Luhrmann ever made, Romeo + Juliet famously modernizes the Bard's play, setting it on Verona Beach and transforming the conflict between the Montagues and Capulets into a full-blown mafia war. The film's frantic, MTV style is sure to alienate many, but it also serves to create one of the only truly successful films at ...

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  3. Dec 9, 2019 · With Bronstein, the brothers turned her memoir into a movie: “Heaven Knows What,” an astonishingly grim film that Benny Safdie once described as a “nonfiction drama.”

  4. Romeo + Juliet, 1996. Director: Baz Luhrmann. Notable cast: Claire Danes, Leonardo di Caprio. Unlike Cukor and Zeffirelli, who both set their adaptations in medieval Italy, Luhrmann moved the action of Shakespeare’s play to America in the twentieth century. Verona, therefore, becomes “Verona Beach,” home to warring gangs and a police ...

  5. Safdie brothers. Joshua Safdie [1] (born April 3, 1984) [2] and Benjamin Safdie [1] (born February 24, 1986) [3] are independent American filmmakers and actors based in New York City, who frequently collaborate on their films. They are best known for writing and directing the crime thriller films Good Time (2017), starring Robert Pattinson, and ...

  6. Romeo + Juliet. William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (often shortened to Romeo + Juliet) is a 1996 romantic crime film directed, produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann. It is a modernized adaptation of William Shakespeare 's tragedy of the same name, albeit still utilizing Shakespearean English.

  7. Moshe Safdie: The Power of Architecture is a film portrait of the dynamic, Canadian-Israeli architect who first burst on the world stage while still in his twenties with the groundbreaking building, Habitat '67.

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