As We Like It

Episode 6: Michael Fassbender's Macbeth

Jonathan Cox, Aven McMaster, and Mark Sundaram

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Join Mark, Aven, and Jon as we watch and discuss the 2015 film version of Macbeth. A visually stunning but very muted film, this movie keeps the time period intact but is presented in a very contemporary manner.

Episode 5: Akira Kurosawa's Ran

Jonathan Cox, Aven McMaster, and Mark Sundaram

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In this episode, Jon, Mark, and Aven watch and discuss Akira Kurosawa's 1985 movie Ran. A fusion of King Lear with Japanese history, Ran is an incredibly intricate, well-made, and bleak movie so rich with detail and reinterpretation that any discussion on it could last well beyond its nearly three-hour running time.

Episode 4: She's the Man

Jonathan Cox, Aven McMaster, and Mark Sundaram

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Jon, Aven, and Mark temporarily skip over Ran to watch 2006's She's the Man. This movie takes 10 Things I Hate About You's approach to Twelfth Night, albeit less successfully than 10 Things took on The Taming of the Shrew. 

Episode 3: Much Ado About Nothing

Jonathan Cox, Aven McMaster, and Mark Sundaram

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In this episode, Aven and Mark show Jon one of their favorite movies, Kenneth Branagh's 1993 adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing. The movie is by far the most traditional of the three they've watched, and also, the most charming.

Episode 2: 10 Things I Hate About You

Jonathan Cox, Aven McMaster, and Mark Sundaram

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In this episode, Aven and Mark watch one of Jon's favorite movies, 1999's 10 Things I Hate About You, for the first time. A modernized retelling of The Taming of the Shrew, the movie goes out of its way to address a lot of the somewhat problematic moments in the original.

Episode 1: Julie Taymor's The Tempest

Jonathan Cox, Aven McMaster, and Mark Sundaram

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In this inaugural episode, Jon, Aven, and Mark discuss their intentions behind the project and why they chose to start with Julie Taymor's 2010 movie The Tempest.