Check out all of the posts tagged with "Hamlet".
Writer Tom Stoppard turns director to supervise the 1990 film Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the movie of his wordy (or dialogue driven) play about two of the minor characters from Hamlet – courtiers who […]
Director Grigori Kozintsev’s 1964 world cinema masterpiece Hamlet is quite unlike any other version with a very cinematic vision shown by director Kozintsev, especially in his dramatic depiction of the towering castle of Elsinore and […]
Director Tony Richardson shoots his 1969 film Hamlet during the run of his acclaimed stage production of the play at London’s Roundhouse Theatre (The Roundhouse in Chalk Farm was a great venue in the late […]
Writer/ producer/ director Aki Kaurismäki’s 1987 Finnish black comedy film Hamlet Goes Business [Hamlet Liikemaailmassa] is an entertaining, irreverent black-and-white satirical film noir reading of the Bard. Cult director Kaurismäki’s highly personal telling of the […]
Co-writer/director Franco Zeffirelli’s 1990 Shakespeare movie has an unexpected star in Mel Gibson, who personifies the much-tormented Prince of Denmark lustily and honourably, giving a strong, earnest performance. It was a brave thing to do since Gibson’s only […]
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