King Lear (Criterion Collection)

Thematic elements and snatches of dialogue are all you'll find of the Bard in Jean-Luc Godard's audacious, nonlinear anti-adaptation, which concerns the efforts of Shakespeare's hapless descendant Will Jr. V (Peter Sellars) to reconstruct his ancestor's work for a blighted post-Chernobyl civilization. The director's sole (primarily) English-language work stars Burgess Meredith, Molly Ringwald, Julie Delpy, Leos Carax, Woody Allen, and Norman Mailer. 90 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English DTS HD stereo Master Audio; Subtitles: English (SDH); featurettes.