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Subgenre Sampler
Merchant of Venice, The (2004)
- Dir. Michael Radford
Feat. Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes… - Al Pacino seems at home in the Bard’s world compared to his more recent contemporary forays, turning in a thorough and morally ambiguous rendition…
Othello (2001)- Dir. Geoffrey Sax
Feat. Christopher Eccleston, Eamonn Walker, Keeley Hawes… - Andrew Davies' brilliantly distilled screenplay brings Othello's universal themes of love and obsession into the format of a modern crime drama set…
Hamlet (2000)- Dir. Michael Almereyda
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Julia Stiles, Bill Murray… - Setting Shakespeare’s play in the contemporary corporate world, the dir. of NADJA brings a fresh slant to the classic despite low–budget…
Merchant of Venice, The (2000)- Dir. Trevor Nunn
Feat. Henry Goodman - A wonderful TV version (taken from an acclaimed production) of Shakespeare's 'problem play', recreating the classic tale of debt, honour and love in…
O (Othello) (2000)- Dir. Tim Blake Nelson
Feat. Josh Hartnett, Mekhi Phifer, Julia Stiles - Continuing recent trends, this ‘updating’ of Shakespeare’s ”Othello” transfers the dialogue and setting into the US schoolyard, where Josh…
Titus (1999)- Dir. Julie Taymor
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Alan Cumming… - A ferocious, no–holds–barred reading by Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange and Alan Cumming of Shakespeare's early play, the baroque, and…
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…
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…
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…
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