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The Merchant of Venice *** (2004, Al Pacino, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins, Jeremy Irons, Alan Corduner) – Classic Movie Review 6207
Writer-director Michael Radford’s much admired 2004 movie version of the William Shakespeare tragic play is gorgeously filmed where it is supposed to happen in Venice. Al Pacino has a field day as the Merchant Shylock, charismatically […]
Looking for Richard **** (1996, Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey) – Classic Movie Review 4189
Al Pacino’s super 1996 home movie documentary on William Shakespeare’s play Richard III and its meaning and significance is a riveting mix of documentary and drama. His cameras follow an all-star cast and crew throughout […]
Ran ***** (1985, Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Mieko Harada, Pîtâ) – Classic Movie Review 3733
Director Akira Kurosawa’s thrilling, marvellous-looking 1985 version of William Shakespeare’s play King Lear is transposed to 16th-century feudal Japan, with the senile old man now a warlord called Lord Hidetora Ichimonji (Tatsuya Nakadai) who cedes his kingdom […]
Throne of Blood ***** [Kumonosu-jô] (1957, Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki) – Classic Movie Review 3732
Director Akira Kurosawa’s 1957 film masterpiece is a superb and stirring Japanese take on William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, topped off with a particularly rousing and exciting climax. It comes complete with a great central performance by […]
Richard III **** (1995, Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Maggie Smith, Robert Downey Jr, Nigel Hawthorne) – Classic Movie Review 3645
Director Richard Loncraine’s 1995 Shakespeare movie gives Ian McKellen a showcase where he dazzlingly re-creates his stage performance as the mad English monarch Richard III, fired by vaulting ambition, hate and revenge on humankind for […]
Othello **** (1952, Orson Welles, Micheál MacLiammóir, Suzanne Cloutier, Robert Coote, Fay Compton) – Classic Movie Review 2448
Orson Welles gives a noble, layered, tempered performance of great majesty and power as Othello, The Moor of Venice, in his lovingly made film of the William Shakespeare play which won the joint Palme D’Or […]
Henry V **** (1989, Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Judi Dench, Emma Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 2092
Director Kenneth Branagh’s gritty 1989 film version of the play by William Shakespeare is a labour of love and a tour de force. Branagh, in his directorial debut, received Oscar nominations for Best Actor and […]