I just recently rewatched Shakespeare in Love and it was a s good, if not better than I
remember it. John Madden’s film of the fictional and comic fantasy of how the
greatest romantic tragedy in literary history came to be was my favorite film
of 1998. I saw it Christmas Day, part of a moviegoing tradition I diligently
maintained from 1997 through 2005, and then again a few weeks after. I bought
the DVD in 1999 and have watched it a few times over the years and now I have
the Blu-Ray (yes, I’m a dinosaur) so I can enjoy it in HD whenever I please. I
was one of few people to accurately predict its victory in the Best Picture
Oscar contest. In the Oscar pool I used to manage, only three people out of
about thirty made that pick over Saving
Private Ryan.
