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	Looking For Richard
		Looking for Richard is an exploration of the Shakespeare cultural institution.
		The film Looking for Richard is designed to get students to reflect on their attitudes to Shakespeare and on the ways in which film can liberate his plays and his language.
		Richard Gloucester lays much of the blame for his early discontent on his shape not ‘being made for sportive tricks’ and yet emerges as someone overcoming his disabilities and achieving, albeit fleetingly, the Crown.
	www.filmeducation.org /secondary/LookingFR.html (4247 words)

	Looking for Richard: BeatnikPad Writing
		Al Pacino’s Looking for Richard is quite the suprising directoral debut, given its creator’s affection for gritty, intense characters and demanding melodramas.
		Richard III may be Shakespeare’s most difficult play to understand, but the format here of showing then telling allows even the easily confused to understand the goings on.
		Looking for Richard complements these films by creating an atmosphere of entertaining instruction, one that not only fosters an interest in the Shakespearean world, but one that also elucidates the difficult language and style.
	www.beatnikpad.com /writing/archives/000310.php (489 words)

	SPLICEDwire: "Looking for Richard" review
		"Looking for Richard" will undoubtedly live forever in English Lit classes, but in the classroom it won't captivate quite the way it does on the big screen.
		Directed by Al Pacino, this film is a Shakespeare primer that dissects The Bard's "Richard III" by analyzing it in detail, rehearsing it with modern speech and performing it with all kinds of name actors lending themselves to the rolls.
		The story, of a Machiavellian royal who plots his assent to the throne through seduction, betrayal and the murders of his brother and nephews, is played out in bits as it is narrated by Pacino, other knowledgeable thespians and scholars he interviewed for the film.
	www.splicedonline.com /96reviews/richard.html (351 words)

	Don't go 'Looking For Richard' with Pacino and friends
		Al Pacino's "Looking for Richard" is obnoxious self-indulgence of the highest order--a powerful reminder of the danger of letting egomaniacal method actors helm their own full-length features.
		In general, "Looking for Richard" is at its strongest when it sticks to these Shakespearean highlights, as a couple of the actors (though not Pacino) show a true penchant for the Bard, and for a moment or two there appears to be some sort of storytelling engine propelling the film ahead.
		As a whole, though, "Looking for Richard" is a shambles of disparate ideas that steadfastly refuse to connect under Pacino's supervision.
	www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V129/N42/05-pacino.42d.html (702 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: Through the 'Looking' Glass
		It’s that simple." Al Pacino, in "Looking for Richard," is speaking of his role as Richard III, Shakespeare’s murderous, humpbacked Plantagenet who hacks his way through the play that bears his name—and maybe it isn’t exactly that simple.
		"Looking for Richard," which Pacino also co-wrote and directed, is an astute, funny, loving and occasionally even beautiful documentary about actors preparing to do a play.
		Not only is his performance impressive, he must have contributed ideas to the staged scenes within the film: the tense, painful lead-up to Clarence’s stabbing; the ardent, convincing wooing of Lady Anne; the shot of Richard wandering all alone in a hilly expanse of high grass, searching vainly for a horse.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/review96/lookingforrichardrose.htm (225 words)

	@Herald: Al Pacino's Looking for Richard
		Looking for Richard opens and closes with flashes of Gothic architecture and New York cityscapes.
		Looking for Richard encourages non-readers to read, readers to value acting, and actors to value a deeper understanding of the text.
		When the film ends, we are able to sort out Richard III like a pile of laundry, and Pacino manages to leave us smiling on top of our heap, with little left to do but applaud his effort.
	www.yaleherald.com /archive/xxii/11.8.96/ae/richard.html (852 words)

	deseretnews.com - Movie review: Looking For Richard \| Deseret Morning News Web edition
		"Looking for Richard" is a fractured documentary intercutting brief interview discussions of William Shakespeare's work - particularly "Richard III" - with longer sequences culled from rehearsals and a full-dress performance of that play.
		"Looking for Richard" is also a love poem from Pacino to himself, as a purveyor of the arts who desires to make one of Shakespeare's more difficult plays more accessible to the common man.
		But "Looking for Richard" is seldom boring, and certainly Pacino is eager to please.
	deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,1084,00.html (371 words)

	Looking For Richard
		'Looking for Richard' is the portrait of a man and his friends doing just that.
		"Looking for Richard," which won the Independent Spirit Award in 1996 for best documentary, is one of the smartest and funniest movies every made about art, audiences and the creative process.
		Richard III is the last of the four plays in Shakespeare's minor tetralogy of English history.....for information on Richard III and other Shakespeare works of art, click on the link above.
	www.pacinoworldwide.com /id7.html (1269 words)

	Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews: Looking For Richard
		Looking for Richard, the review of which I am about to write, defies all the cliches and Cranky-isms I've managed to come up with over the last few years.
		There was a terrific adaptation last year by Richard Loncraine starring Ian McKellan, but Pacino does not try to present another adaptation of the play.
		Were Cranky able to set his own price for Looking For Richard, he would have paid.
	www.crankycritic.com /archive/lookingforrichard.html (704 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| Looking for Richard
		But Looking for Richard is not an investigation of Shakespeare's play; it's a vehicle for a slumming star, clowning around in a home movie.
		What makes Looking for Richard such a pain is that he never gives anyone else a chance, stepping on the rest of the cast in his play within a play, just as he pushes around anyone who disagrees with him during the rehearsal stage, even humiliating a friend he'd hired as a Shakespeare coach.
		Looking for Richard (PG-13; 119 min.), directed by Al Pacino and starring Pacino.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/10.24.96/look4richard-9643.html (564 words)

	Looking for Richard? The Richard III Society Has Some Ideas
		The real Richard III, he adds, was respected by his contemporaries, had a reputation for fair-mindedness even when it was at his own expense, and was supported even to the end of his reign by more of the English people than is often recognized.
		After his death, Richard's reputation was flened by historians writing in the reign of the Tudor monarchs as part of the effort to strengthen the Tudor's weak dynastic claim to the throne.
		The Richard III Society, founded in England in 1924, is dedicated to the study of late fifteenth century English history and culture and to a celebration of the life and times of Richard III.
	www.r3.org /pacino/release.html (593 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Looking for Richard at Epinions.com
		Richard III is a great play, even judged purely within Shakespeare’s canon.
		Looking for Richard is essentially a documentary based around Pacino’s attempts to stage the ultimate production of Richard III.
		Looking for Richard’s faults range from the trifling to the outright unforgivable.
	www.epinions.com /content_112201076356 (1209 words)

	LOOKING FOR RICHARD - Al Pacino's Loft
		Pacino, who's so often described as "intense" that the adjective has become a de facto part of his name, is a real delight to watch: Simultaneously goofily loose and totally focused, he's the galvanizing force behind both the film and the production within the film.
		Background: Al Pacino is the screen writer and director of "Looking for Richard" which had it's world premiere at Sundance.
		Years later I was asked to do Richard III as a movie, I had done it on stage, and I though I wouldn't do it as a movie.
	velvet_peach.tripod.com /fpaclfr.html (1354 words)

	Pacino's Star-Studded Primer on Shakespeare
		Al Pacino goes looking for Richard in ``Looking for Richard,'' and though he doesn't quite find him, he does get to dress up and hang out with famous friends.
		Pacino, who conceived and directed ``Looking for Richard,'' clearly made the picture with two audiences in mind: people who know absolutely nothing about Shakespeare, and people who can't get enough about Shakespeare.
		Richard's oration to his troops is shot from a low angle from which we can see Richard spraying saliva everywhere.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1996/10/25/DD17408.DTL (538 words)

	Richard III and the Film Looking for Richard - Associated Content
		The movie Looking For Richard is not a complete film based on Richard III by William Shakespeare, but rather a documentary organized by Al Pacino documenting his passion and struggle to make Shakespeare more available to the general public.
		Pacino is true to the story and also true to Richard, by clearly and accurately displaying his evilness and hatred towards the world as well as everyone around him.
		He shows Richard manipulating his entire family, when it is truly he who has caused Clarence to die.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/29870/error (508 words)

	Looking for Richard — Infoplease.com
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	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0161028.html (393 words)

	LOOKING FOR RICHARD
		"High spirited and infectiously energetic, Al Pacino's Looking for Richard is a master class in Shakespeare and acting conducted by an uncommonly passionate and delightful teacher.
		Ranging from as far as New York's streets to the reconstructed Globe Theatre in London Pacino is the voluble, mercurial centre of a film that ingeniously interweaves commentary on Shakespeare with analysis of, rehearsals for and key segments from a Richard III on film." - Godfrey Cheshire, Variety.
		Pacino's homage to Richard III includes appearances by Kevin Spacey, Winona Ryder, Alec Baldwin, Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, John Gielgud and Vanessa Redgrave.
	www.shef.ac.uk /city/showroom/1997/february/looking_for_richard.html (97 words)

	Papua New Guinea Forum - Looking for Richard Dellman
		Unless there is two Richard Dellman's, the only one I know is a photographer who has his own business here in our capital city.
		Yes, its a traditionally dressed young lady but Richard was in Goroka when it was taken at the Goroka Show.
		Richard is a very talented photographer and is well known in this neck of the woods for his work.
	www.pngbd.com /forum/showthread.php?t=5840 (799 words)

	Looking for Richard (1996) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		There are rehearsals with familiar actors, and actual performances, some seemingly on stage, some on sets, some on location, all of it interspersed with discussion about the play.
		The contrast between Pacino's stuttering attempts to summarize certain plot points and his magnificent animation as Richard is fascinating.
		Like the story (possibly apocryphal) about how Picasso, when asked to explain the meaning of one of his paintings, replied that if he could do that, he wouldn't need to paint, even inarticulate actors possess remarkable powers when inhabiting their roles.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0116913 (567 words)

	Looking for Richard - DVD - Title L Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Richard III is a great play, even judged purely within Shakespeare?s canon.
		One of his greatest tragedies, and almost indisputably the finest of his historical pieces, with all sorts of quotable bits.
		Looking for Richard is essentially a documentary based around Pacino?s attempts to stage the ultimate production of Richard III.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /dvd-title-l/looking-for-richard (214 words)

	Amazon.com: Looking for Richard: DVD: Al Pacino,Penelope Allen,Vincent Angell,Madison Arnold,Alec Baldwin,Larry ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This strange and charming documentary by Al Pacino, in which he also stars, is an exploration of several topics: Shakespeare and his hump-backed villain, the impulse to act, the way actors work--and Pacino's single-minded effort to make the Bard accessible to all audiences and not just the effete few.
		"looking for Richard" is an introductory to the complexities and richn ess of Shakespeare and those who act and perform his plays.
		One hopes that Pacino gets more directing opportunities, but he shows with Looking for Richard that he is (and probably always been) a master of the craft.
	www.amazon.com /Looking-Richard-Al-Pacino/dp/B00005JNHV (2526 words)

	BBC - BBC Four Cinema - Looking For Richard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A search not simply for Shakespeare's murderous monarch, Richard III, but for the playwright himself, the secret of his astonishing durability and the way in which actors and audiences connect with his works.
		He conceived, co-wrote, co-produced and directed the movie, but ensures it never becomes one man's vision by seeking the witty and often surprising opinions of his peers and the public.
		These key scenes provide a tantalising glimpse of Pacino's interpretation of Richard, and by clarifying the malevolence, drive and sense of destiny in the character, he emphasizes the Shakespearean qualities inherent in his most famous role, Michael Corleone from The Godfather trilogy.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/cinema/features/looking-for-richard.shtml (376 words)

	Laramie Movie Scope: Looking for Richard
		August 4, 2001 -- "Looking for Richard" is an odd, but effective, montage of ideas about "Richard III," and Shakespeare in general, collected by master actor Al Pacino and friends.
		The film shows us only a quarter or so of this play, said to be the most often performed of the bard's works, but it has some very good explanations of the historical background of the play.
		Since Richard does not need Lady Anne to achieve power, none of the experts consulted in the film seems to be able to come up with a good explanation for the scene between Richard (Pacino) and Lady Anne (Winona Ryder).
	www.lariat.org /AtTheMovies/lookingforrichard.html (655 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Looking For Richard (xhtml)
		The many characters in ``Richard III'' would have been roughly as familiar to the groundlings in Shakespeare's Globe theater as the figures in the O.J. Simpson case are to us.
		If it's true, as Al Pacino claims in ``Looking for Richard,'' that ``Richard III'' is Shakespeare's most frequently performed play, it also is true that most people leaving the theater would not be able to pass a quiz on the family tree that Richard climbs (or chops down) on his way to the crown.
		The camera follows Pacino for months or even years (his hair grows and is cut, his beard appears and disappears) as he discusses ``Richard III'' in workshops and coffee shops, in Central Park and inside Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon (where the crew sets off a fire alarm).
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19961025/REVIEWS/610250303/1023 (680 words)

	Looking for Richard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Pacino's Looking for Richard is a triumph of documentary storytelling intercut with a stellar production of the bard's Richard III.
		Anne and Aidan Quinn as the avenging Lancastrian Henry Tudor of Richmond.
		The most accessible aspects of Looking for Richard involve Pacino and co-writer Frederic Kimball planning upcoming scenes, scouting locations, questioning iambic pentameter, discussing Richard's motivation, visiting Shakespeare's birthplace in search of an epiphany and rehearsing death scenes on city sidewalks.
	www.rambles.net /looking_rich96.html (345 words)

	Looking for Richard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In my case, the phrase "yeah, yeah, let's move on" sprang to mind virtually every five minutes...but keep in mind that I'm not part of the film's target audience.
		I was further irritated by the coy way that Pacino pretended not to know lots of elementary things that anybody who had ever performed the play (he's performed Richard several times) would have learned during the first week of rehearsal, so that others could explain them to him (that is, to us).
		All that said, I must stress again that Looking for Richard wasn't made for folks like me, and hence in this case my opinion is even more dismissible than usual.
	www.panix.net /~dangelo/look.html (128 words)

	Looking for Richard
		Looking for Richard provides us with an inside view of the deceitful darkness of Richard’s soul—as he stops at absolutely nothing in his mad pursuit of England’s throne.
		As the story unravels, Richard successfully employs every cunning, underhanded scheme at his disposal in order to accomplish his evil end.
		Old Queen Margaret, widow of Henry VI, pronounces a prophetic curse, which becomes tragically self-fulfilling—as we witness the death of King Edward IV and the subsequent murders of Edward’s immediate and legitimate successors—all coldly calculated by Richard.
	www.textweek.com /movies/looking_for_richard.htm (415 words)

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