Kurosawa’s magesterial masterpiece about an aging warlord reworks Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ through the lens of a true story from sixteenth century Japan.
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What to stream: Anthony Hopkins is ‘King Lear’ on Amazon, ‘Hold the Dark’ on Netflix, ‘Solo’ on VOD
Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … Anthony Hopkins plays King Lear in the Amazon Prime Original miniseries, which relocates the setting to a military dictatorship in contemporary England, and Emily Watson, Emma Thompson, and Florence Pugh plays […]