Subgenre Sampler
Shakespeare: 126 Films to Buy & Rent
- Anonymous (2011)
- Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis…
- Enjoyable hokum posits that the true writer of Shakespeare's plays was in fact the Earl of Oxford. Some of Britain's finest thesps – including…
- Coriolanus (2011)
- Dir. Ralph Fiennes
Feat. Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Jessica Chastain…
- Ralph Fiennes directs this fierce adaptation of Shakespeare's second–longest play, transposing the Bard's text to modern day Rome, where…
- Hunky Dory (2011)
- Dir. Marc Evans
Feat. Minnie Driver
- Feel–good period drama plays it safe in its rose–tinted remembrance of the '70s, where an earnest drama teacher (Driver) brings together…
- Private Romeo (2011)
- Dir. Alan Brown
Feat. Seth Numrich, Matt Doyle, Hale Appleman
- Utterly disarming and inventive retelling of Romeo and Juliet, set in an all–boys Military Academy where love blooms between two cadets.
- Tempest, The (2010)
- Dir. Julie Taymor
Feat. Helen Mirren, Felicity Jones, Djimon Hounsou…
- Julie Taymor takes on The Bard once more with distinctly eye–popping results, and in a further deviation gives Helen Mirren the role of…
- Hamlet (2009)
- Dir. Gregory Doran
Feat. David Tennant, Patrick Stewart, Oliver Ford Davies
- An outstanding, visually sumptuous Royal Shakespeare Company modernization of the Bard's much–filmed play, with David Tennant mercurial in the…
- Me and Orson Welles (2009)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Zac Efron, Claire Danes, Christian McKay…
- Dir. Richard Linklater impeccably evokes the charms of 30's New York for this traditional backstage drama that has great affection for the era and…
- King Lear (2007)
- Dir. Trevor Nunn
Feat. Ian McKellen, Frances Barber, Sylvester McCoy…
- The Royal Shakespeare Company's 2007 adaptation sees McKellen as his commanding best in the titular role, with an equally terrific performance from…
- Othello (2007)
- Dir. Wilson Milam
Feat. Tim McInnerny, Eamonn Walker, Zoe Tapper
- Live recording of the Shakespearian tragedy of racial tension and raging jealousy, performed here for the first time at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.…
- As You Like It (2006)
- Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Bryce Dallas Howard, Romola Garai, Alfred Molina…
- Kenneth Branagh transplants the Bard’s comedy to old Japan in this talent–stacked tale of woman's flight from persecution and into the arms…