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All That Shakespeare!

Various versions, both modern and timely to their day, have been made, and some are very tough seeing, and others are ... we don't even know how to rate them, because they are so far and apart from the regular forms we see in theater and film, and in this case specially theater in most of our home areas, because the high level performances of some of these will never make it to a small town.

Here are some samples ... not all of them but at least some of the ones I have seen and reviewed over the years. Many of these I did not review, btw, as I did not quite have words for, but I will finish the review of some of these I had not done before, assuming I can find them and see them again.

Oh my word ... I have listed only ten of these reviewed (marked with the X out of 52 listed?) I've seen at least two thirds of them with some of the older stuff being the toughest to get/find.

Michael Almereyda -- Hamlet (Hawke, MacLachlan, Shapard, Stiles, Schreiber, Murray)

Michael Almereyda -- Cymbeline (Hawke, Harris, Jovovich, Leguizamo)

Rodney Bennett -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Jacobi, Bloom, Stewart)

x Kenneth Branaugh -- Much Ado About Nothing (Branaugh, Thompson, Washington, Keaton)

Kenneth Branaugh -- As You Like It (Kevin Kine)

Kenneth Branaugh -- Hamlet (Branaugh, Jacobi, Christie, Winslet)

Kenneth Branaugh -- Henry V (Branaugh, Jacobi, Thompson, Dench)

x Peter Brook -- King Lear (Scofied, Cusack, Magee, Hogg)

Stuart Burge -- Julius Caeser (Heston, Robarts, Gielgud, Rigg)

Stuart Burge -- Othello (Olivier, Finlay, Smith, Jacobi)

Claude Chabrol -- Ophelia

Joel Coen -- The Tragedy of Macbeth (Washington, McDormand, Gleeson)

Bill Colleran -- Hamlet (Burton)

Paul Czinner -- As You Like It (Lawrence Olivier)

Christopher Dixon -- Kiss Me, Petruchio (Julia, Street, Papp)

Ralph Fiennes -- Coriolanus (Fiennes, Redgrave)

x Jean Luc Godard -- Godard's King Lear (Meredity, Ringwald, Allen)

x Peter Greenaway -- Prospero's Books (Gielgud, Pasco)

x Sir Peter Hall -- A Midsummer Night's Dream (Dench, Richardson, Holm, Rigg, Mirren, Warner)

Charlton Heston -- Antony and Cleopatra (Heston)

Michael Hoffman -- A Midsummer Night's Dream (Pfeiffer, Everett, Kline, Tucci, Flockhart, Bale, Marceau)

Derek Jarman -- The Tempest (Williams, Toyah Wilcox, Johnson, Birkett)

Akira Kurosawa -- The Bad Sleep Well (Mifune)

x Akira Kurosawa -- Ran (Nakadai, Nezu, Ryu)

Akira Kurosawa -- Throne of Blood (Mifune, Yamada, Shimura, Kubo)

x Richard Loncraine -- Richard III (McKellen and a huge cast)

Will MacKenzie -- Atomic Shakespeare (Shepherd, Willis)

x John Madden -- Shakespeare in Love (Fiennes, Paltrow, Firth, Dench)

Joseph Mankiewicz -- Julius Caeser (Mason, Gielgud, Brando)

Penny Marshall -- Renaissance Man (DeVito, Hines, Begley Jr)

Jonathan Miller -- The Taming of the Shrew (John Cleese !!!)

Trevor Nunn -- Twelfth Night (Kingsley, Stubbs, Bonham Carter,

Laurence Olivier -- Hamlet (Olivier, Simmons)

Laurence Olivier -- Richard III (Olivier, Gielgud, Richardson, Bloom)

Oliver Parker -- Othello (Fishburne, Jacob, Branagh)

Roman Polanski -- Macbeth (Finch, Annis, Shaw)

Michael Radford -- The Merchant of Venice (Pacino, Irons and Fiennes)

Tony Richardson -- Hamlet (Williamson, Hopkins, Faithfull)

Philip Saville -- Hamlet at Elsinore (Plummer, Shaw, Sutherland, Kinnear, Caine)

Martin Shardlow -- The Black Adder (Atkinson, Blessed, Gray, East)

Edwin Sherin - King Lear (Earl Jones, Julia, Auberjonois)

John Sichel -- The Merchant of Venice (Olivier and Plowright)

x Tom Stoppard -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Roth, Oldman, Dreyfus, Ian Richardson)

Julie Taymor -- Titus (Hopkins, Lange, Feore, Rhys Meyers)

Dave Thomas/Rick Moranis -- Strange Brew (Thomas, Moranis, Sydow)

x Orson Welles -- Chimes at Midnight (Welles, Richarson, Gielgud)

Orson Welles -- Macbeth (Welles, Nolan, O'Herlihy, MacDowall)

Robert Wise -- West Side Story (Wood, Beymer, Tamblyn, Moreno, Chakiris)

Feng Xiaogang - The Banquet (Li, You, Wu)

Franco Zeffirelli -- Romeo and Juliet (Whiting, Hussey, McEnery)

Franco Zeffirelli -- The Taming of the Shrew (Taylor, Burton, York, Hordern)

Franco Zeffirelli -- Hamlet (Gibson, Close, Bates, Scofield, Holm, Bonham Carter)

Some of these you know for such things as the music. Who can ever forget the music for Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet. Few people will EVER forget West Side Story on stage or the album by Bernstein.

Polanski's Macbeth had the music by The Third Ear Band, and one of the things here had Gryphon do their music for the show, though I really have no idea how it was used. Never heard about this detail.

Edited by moshkito - August 10 2021 at 07:29

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presdoug Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 24 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 8614	Post Options Post Reply Quote presdoug Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: August 10 2021 at 07:47
	Composer Hector Berlioz wrote some absolutely lovely music inspired by Romeo and Juliet, a complete Symphony with chorus and solo singers as well as orchestra. Was any of the Berlioz music used in the film mentioned here, I wonder?

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	Hi, I intentionally left behind many other things, like India and some other Far East countries did a lot of things that were based on some Shakespeare materials, but the quantity was so big that I could not keep up, and I have to admit that I did not see very many of them. Probably a minimum amount. I wanted to do them some justice since Shakespeare is appreciated much further than we know, but when it comes to productions of it, specially in film, the quantity is less, and it seems that most of the work done was done for TV. England also had a lot of it done for TV, which I did not include because most of it never even made it to the States.
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moshkito Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 04 2007 Location: Grok City Status: Offline Points: 17487	Post Options Post Reply Quote moshkito Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: August 10 2021 at 07:23
	All That Shakespeare! Various versions, both modern and timely to their day, have been made, and some are very tough seeing, and others are ... we don't even know how to rate them, because they are so far and apart from the regular forms we see in theater and film, and in this case specially theater in most of our home areas, because the high level performances of some of these will never make it to a small town. Here are some samples ... not all of them but at least some of the ones I have seen and reviewed over the years. Many of these I did not review, btw, as I did not quite have words for, but I will finish the review of some of these I had not done before, assuming I can find them and see them again. Oh my word ... I have listed only ten of these reviewed (marked with the X out of 52 listed?) I've seen at least two thirds of them with some of the older stuff being the toughest to get/find. Michael Almereyda -- Hamlet (Hawke, MacLachlan, Shapard, Stiles, Schreiber, Murray) Michael Almereyda -- Cymbeline (Hawke, Harris, Jovovich, Leguizamo) Rodney Bennett -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Jacobi, Bloom, Stewart) x Kenneth Branaugh -- Much Ado About Nothing (Branaugh, Thompson, Washington, Keaton) Kenneth Branaugh -- As You Like It (Kevin Kine) Kenneth Branaugh -- Hamlet (Branaugh, Jacobi, Christie, Winslet) Kenneth Branaugh -- Henry V (Branaugh, Jacobi, Thompson, Dench) x Peter Brook -- King Lear (Scofied, Cusack, Magee, Hogg) Stuart Burge -- Julius Caeser (Heston, Robarts, Gielgud, Rigg) Stuart Burge -- Othello (Olivier, Finlay, Smith, Jacobi) Claude Chabrol -- Ophelia Joel Coen -- The Tragedy of Macbeth (Washington, McDormand, Gleeson) Bill Colleran -- Hamlet (Burton) Paul Czinner -- As You Like It (Lawrence Olivier) Christopher Dixon -- Kiss Me, Petruchio (Julia, Street, Papp) Ralph Fiennes -- Coriolanus (Fiennes, Redgrave) x Jean Luc Godard -- Godard's King Lear (Meredity, Ringwald, Allen) x Peter Greenaway -- Prospero's Books (Gielgud, Pasco) x Sir Peter Hall -- A Midsummer Night's Dream (Dench, Richardson, Holm, Rigg, Mirren, Warner) Charlton Heston -- Antony and Cleopatra (Heston) Michael Hoffman -- A Midsummer Night's Dream (Pfeiffer, Everett, Kline, Tucci, Flockhart, Bale, Marceau) Derek Jarman -- The Tempest (Williams, Toyah Wilcox, Johnson, Birkett) Akira Kurosawa -- The Bad Sleep Well (Mifune) x Akira Kurosawa -- Ran (Nakadai, Nezu, Ryu) Akira Kurosawa -- Throne of Blood (Mifune, Yamada, Shimura, Kubo) x Richard Loncraine -- Richard III (McKellen and a huge cast) Will MacKenzie -- Atomic Shakespeare (Shepherd, Willis) x John Madden -- Shakespeare in Love (Fiennes, Paltrow, Firth, Dench) Joseph Mankiewicz -- Julius Caeser (Mason, Gielgud, Brando) Penny Marshall -- Renaissance Man (DeVito, Hines, Begley Jr) Jonathan Miller -- The Taming of the Shrew (John Cleese !!!) Trevor Nunn -- Twelfth Night (Kingsley, Stubbs, Bonham Carter, Laurence Olivier -- Hamlet (Olivier, Simmons) Laurence Olivier -- Richard III (Olivier, Gielgud, Richardson, Bloom) Oliver Parker -- Othello (Fishburne, Jacob, Branagh) Roman Polanski -- Macbeth (Finch, Annis, Shaw) Michael Radford -- The Merchant of Venice (Pacino, Irons and Fiennes) Tony Richardson -- Hamlet (Williamson, Hopkins, Faithfull) Philip Saville -- Hamlet at Elsinore (Plummer, Shaw, Sutherland, Kinnear, Caine) Martin Shardlow -- The Black Adder (Atkinson, Blessed, Gray, East) Edwin Sherin - King Lear (Earl Jones, Julia, Auberjonois) John Sichel -- The Merchant of Venice (Olivier and Plowright) x Tom Stoppard -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Roth, Oldman, Dreyfus, Ian Richardson) Julie Taymor -- Titus (Hopkins, Lange, Feore, Rhys Meyers) Dave Thomas/Rick Moranis -- Strange Brew (Thomas, Moranis, Sydow) x Orson Welles -- Chimes at Midnight (Welles, Richarson, Gielgud) Orson Welles -- Macbeth (Welles, Nolan, O'Herlihy, MacDowall) Robert Wise -- West Side Story (Wood, Beymer, Tamblyn, Moreno, Chakiris) Feng Xiaogang - The Banquet (Li, You, Wu) Franco Zeffirelli -- Romeo and Juliet (Whiting, Hussey, McEnery) Franco Zeffirelli -- The Taming of the Shrew (Taylor, Burton, York, Hordern) Franco Zeffirelli -- Hamlet (Gibson, Close, Bates, Scofield, Holm, Bonham Carter) Some of these you know for such things as the music. Who can ever forget the music for Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet. Few people will EVER forget West Side Story on stage or the album by Bernstein. Polanski's Macbeth had the music by The Third Ear Band, and one of the things here had Gryphon do their music for the show, though I really have no idea how it was used. Never heard about this detail. Edited by moshkito - August 10 2021 at 07:29
	Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com