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- Winner of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Shakespeare in Love depicts a young Shakespeare stuck in a love affair. Other good William Shakespeare documentaries and biographical films include Anonymous, A Waste of Shame, and Miguel and William.
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The Best Shakespeare Movies. by orvarhaf • Created 8 years ago • Modified 8 years ago. Faithful- and loosely adapted works of Shakespeare for the big screen.
Oct 11, 2024 · The 11 Best Shakespeare Movies With Great Acting, Ranked. Hundreds of years after he lived and worked, William Shakespeare is still considered one of the greatest writers in history. His...
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- Romeo + Juliet (1996) Directed by Baz Luhrmann. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, John Leguizamo. Drama, Romance (2h) 6.7 on IMDb — 73% on RT. The thing that makes Romeo + Juliet stand out is Baz Luhrmann's contrast between the film's modern-day setting and its use of Ye Olde English dialogue.
- Ran (1985) Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu. Action, Drama, War (2h 42m) 8.2 on IMDb — 96% on RT. At first glance, Ran doesn't look particularly Shakespearean.
- 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) Directed by Gil Junger. Starring Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Comedy, Drama, Romance (1h 37m) 7.3 on IMDb — 71% on RT.
- The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) Directed by Joel Coen. Starring Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Alex Hassell. Drama, Mystery, Thriller (1h 45m) 7.1 on IMDb — 92% on RT.
- Chimes at Midnight (1965) Film. Drama. Atop our list sits Orson Welles, further negating the perception that Citizen Kane was his only masterpiece. (Chimes was the director's personal favorite of all his films—the one he hoped to "get into heaven" with.)
- Macbeth (1971) Film. A tragedy was born out of tragedy: Reeling from the murder of his wife Sharon Tate by members of the Manson cult, Roman Polanski embarked on this harrowing adaptation of Shakespeare's tale of a doom-laden Scottish royal (Jon Finch).
- Ran (1985) Film. Action and adventure. Merging King Lear with legends of an actual 16th-century Japanese warlord, Akira Kurosawa marshals more than a thousand extras into a magisterial pageant of blood: bright primary colors clashing on behalf of leaders who are uniformly unworthy.
- Othello (1952) Film. Drama. Filmed sporadically over three years in Morocco and Italy, Orson Welles's 90-minute account of the Venetian Moor who loved not wisely but too well is another of his famously troubled projects.
- Henry V
- Romeo & Juliet
- Othello
- Hamlet
- Much Ado About Nothing
- 10 Things I Hate About You
- My Own Private Idaho
- Macbeth
- Chimes at Midnight
- William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
Master of the British stage, handsome and magnetic Laurence Olivier is often cited as the greatest theater and screen actor of the 20th century. His Technicolor directorial debut, the first highly successful Shakespeare motion picture, features groundbreaking battle sequences and sumptuous art direction. Henry V was partially funded by the British ...
The quintessential, rigorously faithful take on Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy has been a staple of classrooms for decades and counting. To this day, director Franco Zeffirelli‘s drama stands out for being surprisingly violent and racy, with raw performances. Timeless. Related: The Best Movies of 2021, Ranked
Orson Welles takes some liberties with the Bard—and flexes his incomparable filmmaking genius—in this vivid black-and-white fever dream that took home top honors (what would later become the Palme D'Or) at the 1952 Cannes Festival. Arguably the greatest (or at least the most cinematic) of all Shakespeare films, nothing about Welles' take on Othello...
Hamlet is regarded as perhaps Shakespeare's magnum opus. Though it's hard to deny that anyone ever played the narcissistic title character with more fire and intensity than Olivier in 1948, Kenneth Branagh's 70mm, four-hours-plus film stands tall as the greater film overall. Kate Winslet plays Ophelia; this was a year before Titanic became the bigg...
Branagh stars alongside a knockout thespian cast including Emma Thompson, Robert Sean Leonard, Kate Beckinsale, Michael Keaton and Denzel Washington in a financially successful romantic comedy acclaimed for its accessibility and entertainment value. Keanu Reeves' casting was somewhat controversial; his shirtless scene was widely praised.
Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger charm in a superior teen rom-com inspired by The Taming of the Shrew. Later adapted for the small screen; 20 episodes of the show ran from 2009-2010 on ABC Family.
Reeves played opposite River Phoenix in Gus Van Sant‘s poetic, sexy and sad update of Shakespeare‘s Henry IV. Phoenix’s performance as a narcoleptic male hustler with devastating abandonment issues earned universal praise, including the Venice Film Festival’s Volpi Cup for Best Actor. His death in 1993 was a shattering loss for film.
The most captivating Macbeth since Olivier in 1955 is undoubtedly Michael Fassbender opposite a characteristically killer Marion Cotillard in Justin Kurzel's visually arresting epic that's genuinely epic. Despite being a box-office bomb, Macbeth received considerable critical praise, especially for the leads and production values.
Welles' long-lost masterpiece (now available in a sparkling Criterion restoration) is a dramedy war film starring the film icon as Shakespeare's Falstaff, a chubby clown with surprising depth—and a master of wordplay. This is Welles' favorite film in his entire oeuvre.
A year before Titanic catapulted him to the top of the A-list, Leonardo DiCaprio starred in the highly kinetic middle chapter of Baz Luhrmann's "Red Curtain Trilogy" alongside Claire Danes. Madcap, Oscar-nominated Romeo + Juliet is one of the quintessential modernized takes on Shakespeare.
Dec 5, 2019 · Of all the movie adaptations of William Shakespeare's work — from Brando to Branagh to Denzel — these are the very best Shakespeare movies.
Mar 12, 2024 · Our guide to the best Shakespeare film adaptations of all time, from Hamlet to Macbeth. More than four centuries later and we still can’t get enough of Shakespeare’s thrilling, tortuous plots.
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