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Valentine's Day Double Feature "Romeo + Juliet" and "10 Things I Hate About You"
Celebrate Valentine's Day with a special showing of two beloved 90's film adaptations of Shakespeare's most notable works at the Davis.
Saturday, February 13th, 12:00 PM, Collins Cinema, Wellesley College
The Davis Museum and DMSAC (The Davis Museum Student Advisory Committee) team up to celebrate Valentine’s Day with a special showing of two beloved 90’s film adaptations of Shakespeare’s most notable works: Romeo + Juliet (starring Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio) and 10 Things I Hate About You (starring Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger and Joseph Gordon-Levitt; inspired by Taming of the Shrew). The screening will kick off the Shakespeare on the Global Silver Screen film series at the Davis, which features films inspired by the works of Shakespeare. The film series complements That Right Promethean Fire: Shakespeare Illustrated, an exhibtion on view at the Museum February 10-June 5.
12:00pm: Romeo + Juliet (1996, Dir. Baz Luhrmann)
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Baz Luhrmann helped adapt this classic Shakespearean romantic tragedy for the screen, updating the setting to a post-modern city named Verona Beach. In this version, the Capulets and the Montagues are two rival gangs. Juliet (Claire Danes) is attending a costume ball thrown by her parents. Her father Fulgencio Capulet (Paul Sorvino) has arranged her marriage to the boorish Paris (Paul Rudd) as part of a strategic investment plan. Romeo attends the masked ball and he and Juliet fall in love. Read a 1996 Rolling Stones review of the film here.
3:30pm: 10 Things I Hate About You (1999, Dir. Gil Junger)
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In 10 Things I Hate About You, Bianca Stratford (Larisa Oleynik) is a tenth grader who has never gone on a date, as her parents have a little rule where Bianca isn’t allowed to go out with boys until her older sister gets a boyfriend. The problem is, while her older sister Kat (Julia Stiles) is attractive and intelligent, she’s also a mean-spirited misanthrope who rubs nearly everyone the wrong way -- especially boys. But Bianca and the guy she has her eye on, Joey Donner (Andrew Keegan), are eager to get their romance on the road, so Joey fixes Kat up with Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger), a new kid in town who may be just bitter and mysterious enough to suit her. (nytimes.com)
All of the films are free and open to the public.
