Hamlet
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #74: Hamlet (2015)
74. Margaret Williams’s film of Sarah Frankcom’s stage version of Hamlet (2015) The Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester’s gender-bending production film of its stage version Hamlet makes me dwell on this passage: Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #26: Strange Brew [Hamlet] (1983)
26. Strange Brew [Hamlet] (1983) Ever since I noticed that Jon Finch, who played the title role in Polanski’s Macbeth, looked like Max Von Sydow, I’ve been suffering from some degree of Sydowmania. The Swedish actor who played chess with Death in The Seventh Seal has recently lent his gravitas to The Force Awakens and… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #12: Hamlet (1996)
#12: Hamlet (1996) With his Hamlet (1996), the gulf between Kenneth Branagh’s acting and that of his Hollywood peers widens. In the early going of Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Denzel Washington doesn’t quite know what to do. In the early going of Hamlet, Jack Lemmon (like Washington, one of the finest actors Hollywood has… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #4: Hamlet (1990)
#4: Hamlet (1990) Franco Zeffirelli is a creature of opera, and was friends with Maria Callas. He directed the version of La Traviata I attended at the Met. Yet when he directs films of Shakespeare, he avoids the bombast and hyperbole of the operatic mode altogether. His Hamlet is earthy. The problem with Hamlet, as… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #23: Hamlet
Shakespearing #23 by David Foley Hamlet For a certain kind of theatre/English lit nerd, Hamlet was our Catcher in the Rye. Hamlet not Holden was the disaffected hero who awakened our sense that we were surrounded by phonies in a messed-up world. I remember being puzzled to learn that scholars argued back and forth about… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas # 52: La Mer
In Boozo Veritas # 52 by Teege Braune La Mer Caught amidst the tension of a dual nature, I have suffered. In the struggle between an unfortunate tendency towards anxiety and hesitation and an urge towards impulsivity and spontaneity, anxiety has admittedly most often won out. Like Hamlet, this has been the catalyst for my greatest… Continue reading
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