news, views and reviews of Shakespeare on film (and in the Pacific Northwest)
May 13th, 2007 by John Murphy
The following are videoclips from Kenneth Branagh’s 1996 Hamlet, which will soon (August 2007) be available on DVD:
(Click here for our review of this film.)
“To be, or not to be…” (Act III, scene 1)
“How all occasions…” (Act IV, scene 4)
Shakespeare's Othello meets Spenser's Faerie Queene in this new and provocative mystery-thriller set in Milwaukee.
This is the story of James Ireton, a gifted young Shakespeare scholar haunted by a tragic past and recurring nightmares of a Knight, a Lady and a vicious Dragon. James thinks they’re just dreams, but when two people close to him fall victim in a seemingly motive-less series of brutal murders, James discovers there may be a very real Dragon preying in the shadows of his life. Worse, if he doesn’t find a bit of St. George in himself, the woman he loves may prove the Dragon’s ultimate victim.