Romeo and Juliet on screen set in present-day Manhattan and featuring Lemmy (of Motörhead) as its chorus. Sporting the tagline "Body piercing. Kinky sex. Dismemberment. The things that made Shakespeare great.", "Tromeo and Juliet" premiered at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival and won several awards at independent horror and fantasy film festivals. Despite positive reviews from "The New York Times", "USA Today", "Entertainment Weekly" and "Variety", Shakespeare scholar Daniel Rosenthal described "Tromeo" as "the nadir of screen Shakespeare", calling it a "tedious, appallingly acted feast of mutilation and softcore sex". Cheah Chee-Kong's 2000 Singaporean film "Chicken Rice War" ("Jiyuan Qiaohe") adapts "Romeo and Juliet" as
Romeo and Juliet (1936 film) starred Katharine Cornell as Juliet, Basil Rathbone as Romeo, Brian Aherne as Mercutio, and Edith Evans as The Nurse. Rathbone is the only actor from the 1934 revival to appear in the film, albeit in the role of Tybalt rather than Romeo. On the stage Tybalt was played by nineteen year old Orson Welles. Thalberg's stated intention was "to make the production what Shakespeare would have wanted had he possessed the facilities of cinema." He went to great lengths to establish authenticity and the film's intellectual credentials: researchers were sent to Verona to take photographs for the designers; the paintings