“Stop giving me that look, Yorick. Your infinite jest isn’t helping.”
Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover:
Since 1992 my hometown of Indianapolis has presented the Heartland International Film Festival, a multi-day, multi-theater celebration of cinema held every October. Local moviegoers have the opportunity to see over a hundred new works in the realms of documentaries, narrative features, shorts, and animation made across multiple continents from myriad points of the human experience. Heartland’s 35th edition runs October 7-18 and will be my fourth time diving in. I’ve made plans to catch at least six films in all, maybe more if time permits…
Next up: the British late-stage biopic Elsinore, which premiered last month at the Telluride Film Festival. Not just the next entry in the Hamlet Cinematic Universe after last year’s Hamnet, it’s a tour de force for actor Andrew Scott, who doesn’t merely breathe new life into the Bard — he pays tribute to another actor who breathed new life into the Bard before he in turn breathed his last.
