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eBook – The Empire Striketh Back

eBook –  The Empire Striketh Back Full title :  William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back By : Ian Doescher  Iillustrations :  Nicolas Delort Score : 9/10 Year : 2014 Publisher : Quirk Books  eISBN :  978-1-59474-716-8 Based on  978-1-59474-715-1 (hard cover) Pages : 176 *  Language : English From Goodreads : Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the next two installments of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back  (and not reviewed as yet,  William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return.) Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter. Illustrated with beautiful black-and-white Elizabethan-style artwork, these two plays offer essential reading for all ages. Something Wookiee this way comes!  *** As he explains at the end, Ian Doescher
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Movie - Dreams (Kurosawa)


Movie: Dreams
Director: Akira Kurosawa (and un-credited Ishirô Honda) 
Score : 10/10
Year: 1990 
Country : Japan
Language : Japanese (very little speech, though)
Duration : 1h59

 Almost 2 hours divided in 8 segments in varying duration, each representing a dream the director Akira Kurasawa had... They provoke thought on themes such as beauty of the earth/ ecology, dangers of nuclear power, solitude, war... and a small trip into Vincent Willem van Gogh's art...



My favorite segments are the second, with the peach trees, and the last one which I'll let you discover, and least favorite was one about a snow storm, a bit too slow in its first half, and more interesting in the second part.
All in all, a good movie, with Kurasawa's technical knowledge, his visions are most personal and profound in their meaning.
I like the minimalist dialogue (I watched it in its original Japanese), costumes and thoughts each segment leaves.
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