Julius Caesar

I am surprised to see this come from Hollywood and with Brando from all people as Anthony....!Overall the movie is good but lacks life. It doesn't take you to the edge as it really should given the fact the subject... Full review

Watching Julius Caesar in 2007, I still think it is a work of art. Being a Shakespeare student myself, I know that his plays are very demanding and on that Joseph L. Mankiewicz has stood up to my expectations. While reading... Full review

Well if you're going to bring the Bard to the big-screen you may as well do it properly. Bring in some of the best actors of the day, build some impressive sets, back it with a Miklós Rózsa score and... Full review

A solid film. Well executed, good actors, good script (obviously), but yes it is slow. Marlon Brando, who played Julius Caesar's right-hand man, excelled as character Marc Antony. The most notable part scene of this film was very after Julius... Full review

I've always thought that Bill Shakespeare wrote Julius Caesar as a kind of contrast between the society he lived in and the Roman society of Julius Caesar and his contemporaries. With all their problems Elizabethan England was struggling to be... Full review

50 years after the fact, the most interesting angle on Mankiewicz' 'Julius Caesar' is perhaps the blend of acting styles that characterizes it. With Mankiewicz dialogue is all, and it is a source of endless fascination to me how he... Full review

A lot of people don't like Shakespeare much. Maybe they're intimidated by the language or the complicated plots. It's understandable. The Bard came up with some real clunkers: "Comedy of Errors," "Love's Labour Lost." And it's hard to read the... Full review

1953's JULIUS CAESAR was a milestone in it's time, and still is, perhaps, the finest American production of a Shakespeare play ever recorded on film. Until Joseph L. Mankiewicz's production, only Laurence Olivier's British versions of HAMLET and HENRY V... Full review

I am certainly a fan of the bard's work. Therefor I was pleasantly surprised to see this movie and hear that it was almost the complete original text they used for the dialogue. Without subtitles it was a chore to... Full review

William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer of all time... His plays, written in the 16th and early 17th centuries for a small repertory theater, are today performed more often and in more countries than ever before..."Julius Caesar"... Full review

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Highlight of the film is the thesping.....Any fears about Marlon Brando appearing in Shakespeare are dispelled by his compelling portrayal as the revengeful Mark Antony.....James Mason, as the noble, honorable Brutus, is equally excellent.....John Gielgud, as the 'lean and hungry' Cassius is superb.....Louis Calhern's Caesar is another triumph..... ... Full Review

Brutus fears that Caesar is robbing him of a glorious personal destiny. Calhern is terrific as Caesar and Edmond O'Brien adds tension whenever he's on screen. ... Full Review

April 20, 2009 | In 1945, when I was 13, in England, my father died. And at 13, you become a man in the Jewish religion. ... Full Article

Just in time for the Ides of March, City Theatre at Sacramento City College presents a slick, modern take on Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Don't make the mistake of thinking that the title tells you who the play is about, though;... ... Full Article

Time was when education in the West meant something.It included studying the classics in their original languages (e.g. The Iliad and Odyssey in Greek, Julius Caesar's Gallic War in Latin). ... Full Article

My alma mater, BITS Pilani (then known as Birla Engineering College) was as much a centre of academic excellence, as it was a hub of cultural activity. ... Full Article

An examination of the relationship between political power and personal conscience, Joseph Mankiewicz's traditional Julius Caesar (1953) is a veritable master class for aspiring thespians. ... Full Article

Joseph L. Mankiewicz directed this exquisite version of William Shakespeare's play. Louis Calhern is Julius Caesar, whose conquests have enabled him to rise to the status of Roman dictator. ... Full Article