Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Hamlet (1997)
- Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Julie Christie, Jack Lemmon… - A flash and vigorous reading of Shakespeare's tragedy of the melancholy Dane, hatched by Kenneth Branagh and a bevy of incongruous thesps. An…
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (Romeo + Juliet) (1997)
- Dir. Baz Luhrmann
Feat. Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, Pete Postlethwaite… - Visionary director Baz Luhrmann takes his STRICTLY BALLROOM crew to the Americas and conjures a cinematic universe of striking originality and…
Looking for Richard (1996)- Dir. Al Pacino
Feat. Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Winona Ryder… - Al Pacino's pet project, and his directing debut, explores the American actor's paradoxical obsessions with Shakespeare, debunking some of the…
Richard III (1996)- Dir. Richard Loncraine
Feat. Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Robert Downey Jnr.… - Transposed to a fascist 1930s Britain, Shakespeare's classic tale of power politics easily renews its timeless appeal. Ian McKellen commands every…
Tromeo and Juliet (1996)- Dir. Lloyd Kaufman
Feat. Jane Jansen, Will Keenan, Valentine Miele - Tromatized version of 'Romeo and Juliet' resets the world's most famous love story in contemporary Manhattan, with body piercings, kinky sex and…
Twelfth Night (1996)- Dir. Trevor Nunn
Feat. Helena Bonham Carter, Richard E. Grant, Nigel Hawthorne… - William Shakespeare is rediscovered yet again, in one of his wittier flights of fancy, served up with such 90s icons as Helena Bonham Carter, Richard…
Othello (1995)- Dir. Oliver Parker
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Irene Jacob, Laurence Fishburne - Shakespeare's great tragedy of love, jealousy and sheer bloody malice is spiked with a 90s erotic edge. While its stylistic choices only partly…
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)- Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Denzel Washington, Keanu Reeves… - Kenneth Branagh plunders the Bard again and pulls off a rare breed of romantic escapism. Here he somehow modifies the traditional text for an…
Prospero's Books (1991)- Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. John Gielgud - A radically stylised take on Shakespeare's The Tempest, with John Gielgud in the title role upstaged by the graphic opulence on display. Like a good…
Discovering Hamlet (1990)- Dir. Mark Olshaker
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Patrick Stewart - Invaluable documenting of Derek Jacobi's 1988 production of Hamlet with a young Kenneth Branagh in the lead. Focussing solely on the rehearsal…
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