Favorite Drama and Movies

Movies/Video

Muppets and Sesame Street: I find the wonderful nuttiness of Frank Oz and his group just irresistable.

The Matrix: an entertaining political allegory for our post-democratic nation.

King of Hearts

Shrek: nice stuff about unwalling/unveiling and about inauthenticity

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Harrison Ford

The Princess Bride (1987) Cary Elwes

Casablanca

Lots of Opera on video, e.g. Carmen (with Julia Migenes-Johnson), the Met's Aida, Iolanthe with Maureen Forrester, the five-act Don Carlos with Domingo

Animated Movies generally, e.g. Who Killed Roger Rabbit

Shrek: lots of nice stuff about unveiling and unwalling

Sleepless in Seattle: aside from the chick flick side of it, there is some nice stuff about coming back to life.

Bull Durham

Amadeus

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Philadelphia Story (1948)

O Brother Where Art Thou

Moonstruck

Sound of Music

My Fair Lady


Live Drama

Taming, Tempest, Twelfth, and other Shakespeare comedies

"Noises Off": a crown jewel of britfarce.


Opera and Musical Theater - see the Music page


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