Laurence Olivier, Leslie Banks, Basil Sydney, Eileen Herlie, Norman Wooland, 1948 ★★★★ Greard Butler, Ralph Fiennes, Harry Fenn, Jessica Chastain, Vanessa Redgrave, 2012 ★★★★ Brendan Hughes, Naomi Frederick, Laura Rogers, Dominic Rowan, Philip Bird, Jack Laskey, 2010 (Globe Theatre stage production) The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and CleopatraĬharlton Heston, Hildegard Neil, Eric Porter, 1972 As You Like It
I’ve also put star ratings next to the ones that I’ve seen, and, in some cases, links to reviews on my website. I’ve put the names of actors, and, in some cases, directors under each graphic. The links are to the US iTunes Store other country stores may or may not have all of these films, and others countries may have films that are not on this list. I started making this list for myself, but realized that others might find it useful. Here is a list of all the Shakespeare adaptations I could find on the iTunes Store.
#IAN RICHARDSON HAMLET FULL MOVIE MOVIE#
You may want to buy them, to add to your collection, or you may simply want to rent a movie of a Shakespeare play to watch one evening. Certainly the characters in "Asylum" richly earn their fates, and by the end we are forced to reflect that although they are indeed mad, at least the villain is acting reasonably under the circumstances.If you like Shakespeare, you may like to watch the many filmed adaptations of his plays.
The screenplay is by Patrick Marber, who wrote " Closer," a movie about four-way sexual infidelity involving characters who deserved each other. The director, David Mackenzie, made " Young Adam," also the story of a married woman attracted by a young and possibly dangerous man. Also of their wisdom, of course, but wisdom at this point has been left so far behind it's churlish to double back for it. In my notes I find many entries beginning with such words as:Īnd then several one-word entries followed by too many exclamation points, such as:īut I do not want to spoil these developments, and so will not reveal who drowns, except to say it's not every movie that reminds you of "Leave Her to Heaven." There is also a question, some distance into the film, of the plausibility of certain living arrangements. If I'm spinning my wheels, it's because we've arrived (already) at a point in the plot where major developments start to tumble over one another in their eagerness to bewilder us. They sit or stand across desks from one another and exchange technical jargon that translates as, "I hate you and your kind." Meanwhile the cinematographer, Giles Nuttgens, makes the asylum into a place so large, gloomy and forboding that we suspect maybe "Eyes With No Face" is being filmed elsewhere on the premises. There are lots of scenes involving British twits who are well-dressed but with subtly disturbing details about their haberdashery and styles of smoking. There is this to be said for Natasha Richardson: Required to play an asylum-keeper's wife who has sudden, frequent and heedless sex with an inmate, she doesn't leave a heed standing.Įdgar's diagnosis is "severe personality disorder with features of morbid jealousy." With admirable economy, the movie eventually applies this diagnosis to just about everyone in it except little Charlie, who is way too trusting, and not just of Edgar. He finds a friend in one of the patients, Edgar ( Marton Csokas), who becomes his buddy and sort of a father-figure, which would be heartening if Edgar had not been declared insane after murdering his wife, decapitating her, and so on and so forth.Įdgar undertakes to rebuild a gardener's shed that Stella wants to make use of. Charlie is not much loved by his parents. Max and Stella seem separated by a vast emotional gulf. Max: "May I remind you that I am your superior?" He's expected to serve as Max's second-in-command, leading to acid one-liners that McKellan delivers like dagger thrusts: All is not well in this family, but then nothing is right in the asylum, where the long-serving Peter Cleave ( Ian McKellen) resents being passed over for Max's job. Max Raphael ( Hugh Bonneville) has arrived to become the new superintendent he brings his wife Stella ( Natasha Richardson) and their son Charlie ( Gus Lewis). The story is set circa 1960 in a vast old asylum built in the Victorian era - one of those buildings looking like an architectural shriek.
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