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Feature film. Haunting and unsparing in the realism, Polanski’s unique and pessimistic vision confronts both the dark comic elements and terror of the play’s violence. Jon Finch and Francesca Annis are...
Feature film. Theological thriller in which some critics have seen parallels with Hamlet in its theme of madness. In a gothic castle called Center 18, the US military attempts to establish whether a group...
Feature film. A comic spoof drawing irreverently on both the Shakespeare play and the 1877 story by Jules Laforgue. Hamlet (Carmelo Bene) is a would-be playwright. He suffers from inept Freudian analysis by...
A film adaptation by Ronald Harwood of his own play, based on the touring career of Donald Wolfit, for whom Harwood was the dresser. The story relates the complex relationship between Sir, an ageing...
Oscar-winning feature film adaptation of the play directed by and starring Laurence Olivier.
Feature film. ` A serious case of this-is- Shakespeare-so it-must-be art’. Anthony John is a great but unbalanced classical actor. Outwardly gentlemanly, he is taken over by any role that he plays, and...
Film version of Shakespeare’s play derived from Richard Eyre’s National Theatre production. Set in a context of 1930s’ fascism, where Mosley’s troops have taken power.
A film based on the Broadway production by Max Reinhardt. A combination of German expressionism and Hollywood realism. Hal Mohr’s cinematography is ‘astonishing, a surreal visual fantasy of dancing...
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