no flashy updates or anything with ethan hawke in it.

i also hated oliviers hamlet and much prefferred the one by the guy emma thompson was fucking (i know his name, just can't spell it)...the 1996/7 one with kate winslet. or was it helena bonham carter? no kate winslet i think.

anyway, i also like that that version is complete and hamlet is fuckable. too bad it's not out on dvd.

other ones that do the plays in their entirety would be appreciated.

i remember seeing the polanski macbeth in school and remember it being good.

adaptations like west side story allowed, or slight ones kurosawa's throne of blood? no, thought not

i think you mean kenneth branagh. i can't look at his face without partial nausea. he's directed about five shakespeare films usually with thompson, but he was best as iago in othello, which he didn't direct.

you didn't mention michell pfeiffer's as titania in midsummer night's dream

when i'm in total art stud mode i love prospero's books

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You preferred Branagh's overstuffed Hamlet to Olivier's? whatev. My god that was painful. Like that scene with Depardieu and Polonius. Ugh.

Throne of Blood beats any literal adaptation. Hands down.

Does Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead count?

If not, my favourite by far is the Zeferelli version of Romeo& Juiliet. It just breaks my heart every time.

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we watched Polanski's Macbeth in skool

i've been looking for a dvd ever since?

maybe i just really really like Macbeth

that might be a good point. it's been a long time since i saw it.

i think oliviers had a better atmosphere about it, whereas parts of branagh's elsinore looked as though it had been set designed by ikea.
it might just be that i liked branagh's actual portrayal of hamlet better than olivier's.

The Merchant of Venice.

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i liked Mel's adaptation of Hamlet.

I liked this one too, if you're talking about the one with Al Pacino on it. Don't know if there's another version, though.

i HATE kenneth's hamlet... i just don't buy kate winslett as ophelia, i actually way preferred mel gibson's version with helena bonham carter and the awesomnity of glenn close. erm. also big fan of the version of much ado about nothing with kenneth and emma... not even keanu can kill that for me. and polanski's macbeth.

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oooh and i forgot laurence fishbournes othello. H-A-W-T.hawt.

uhm. also i liked baz's version of r&j. im gonna go to hell for that but its true.

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ophelia sucks. i pity the actress insufferable enough to pull off a truly convincing ophelia.

the fact she's referenced in so much yeast infected soft rock is a testament to her lameness.

i hate to subscribe to the "they're all gay" school of literary analysis, but i truly think a little cock on cock action and hamlet would have been fine.

I found a weird letter on a train to kenneth brannagh once.

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i like olivier's henry V

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I dig Branagh's version of "Hamlet", although his character should not have silver hair. Winselt as Ophelia kicked ass. and the 1960s version of "Midsummer Night's Dream", with Judi Dench as Titania. I also saw part of a movie of Macbeth with Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth. that was pretty intense. I watched half of "Throne of Blood" in my university's library, then gave up because it was making me depressed.

my favorite movie version of "Romeo and Juliet" is the '96 Baz Luhrmann one. the Zeferelli version is too floofy/sappy/traditional for my liking, even though you do get to see that whathisname actor's ass in the "morning after" scene.

I like Branagh & Thompson in Much Ado About Nothing.
Ben Elton's quite funny in that.

My favourites would be the Polanski Macbeth and Zeffirelli's [sic?] Romeo and Juliet. I don't enjoy Baz Luhrmann films, and hated his R+J. I saw a great BBC Macbeth once that just had people standing around on a completely bare stage talking, but somehow I was captivated.
And I saw a crazy Australian Twelfth Night with about half the late 90s cast of Blue Heelers. I liked it.
Fishburne's Othello is good, but it doesn't blow me away. Mel's Hamlet? Mercifully abbreviated. That old Julius Caesar with Marlon Brando as Brutus? Priceless!

Respect to Tromeo and Juliet as well.

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Hahaha Tromeo and Juliet.... that film is warped

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I adore that movie.

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Shakespeare is like cockroaches: they can withstand nuclear winter, he can withstand Keanu. Woah. Dude.

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