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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #88: The Tragedy of Hamlet (2002)
88. Peter Brook’s The Tragedy of Hamlet, 2002. There are too many Hamlets, and I’ve had my surfeit. This blog’s at a trickle. There’s too much Shakespeare, and I don’t care anymore. When will someone...
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #87: All is True (2018)
87. Kenneth Branagh’s All is True, 2018. I have a fraught relationship with Kenneth Branagh’s cinematic Shakespeare work. As an actor, he perhaps has no equal, certainly among his own generation. As a...
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #86: The Merchant of Venice (1973)
86. John Sichel’s The Merchant of Venice, 1973. This isn’t the first made-for-television version of The Merchant of Venice I have reviewed, dear readers. I found it for free in its entirety on...
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #85: Henry IV (2018)
85. Phyllidia Lloyd’s Henry IV (Part 2 of The Donmar Warehouse’s All-Female Shakespeare Trilogy), 2018 Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 are difficult plays to like, at least for me. Let me remind you of the...
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #84: Julius Caesar (2018)
84. Phyllidia Lloyd’s Julius Caesar (Part 1 of The Donmar Warehouse’s All-Female Shakespeare Trilogy), 2018 Last time I discussed Phyllidia Lloyd’s Tempest,and I am glad I watched these out of...
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #83: The Tempest (2019)
83. Phyllidia Lloyd’s The Tempest (Part 3 of The Donmar Warehouse’s All-Female Shakespeare Trilogy), 2019 I have a fondness for prison theater. When Beckett directed a trilogy of his plays at San...
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #82: Hamlet (1964)
82. Grigori Mikhaylovich Kozintsev and Iosef Shapiro’s Hamlet I am not sure why I enjoyed this Russian Hamlet so much. Jaded churl that I’ve become. I have had a surfeit of Hamlet (this is my eighth...
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #81: The Merchant of Venice (1972)
81. Cedric Messina’s The Merchant of Venice So Maggie Smith portrayed Portia in a 1972 BBC production ofThe Merchant of Venice, and since this wasn’t part of the BBC’s dreadful complete Shakespeare...
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #80: Filming ‘Othello’
80. Orson Welles’s Filming ‘Othello’ I’ve neglected this blog for nearly a year, dear readers. I had suffered a surfeit of Shakespeare, something I didn’t think was possible. Fucking Hamlet again, I...
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #79: 10 Things I Hate About You [The...
70. Gil Younger’s 10 Things I Hate About You [The Taming of the Shrew] (1999) Romeo and Juliet is Shakespeare’s only story fixated on teenagers in love, but Karen McCullah and Kristen Smith adapted...
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #78: O [Othello] (2001)
78. Tim Blake Nelson’s O [Othello] (2001) This nugget of a film fell between the cracks of the art house crowd and the teenagers who went to see Save the Last Dance, The Princess Diaries, and Final...
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #77: King Lear (2018)
77. Richard Eyre’s King Lear (2018) I basically hate Macbeth, and I like Lear even fucking less than that, sweet reader, but when the BBC released a film of the elderly tragedy starring Anthony...
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #76: National Theatre Live: Hamlet
75. Robin Lough’s National Theatre Live: Hamlet (2015) My recent thesis, that successful stage productions should just be filmed rather than adapted for a purely cinematic version, isn’t being born out...
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #75: The Complete Works of William...
75. Paul Kafno’s The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (2005) Normally, dear readers, cute middlebrow approaches to Shakespeare fill my heart with hate, so I was aggravated when a...
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The Rogues 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...
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film: King Lear (2008)
73. Trevor Nunn’s King Lear (2008) I’ve taken a few months off my Shakespeariation, dear readers. I presume if you are reading this blog, you want to know which films to seek out, which to avoid due...
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #72: Richard III (2016)
72. Dominic Cooke’s Richard III (2016) This rogue who reviews Shakespeare films for you, dear readers, gets jaded sometimes. I expect these films to be good. Not just un-terrible, but quite seriously...
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #71: Henry VI Parts 2 & 3 (2016)
71. Dominic Cooke’s Henry VI Parts 2 & 3 (2016) Season 2, episode 1 of “The Hollow Crown” ends somewhere in the middle of Henry VI, Part 2. Our callow King Henry VI was expecting to oversee the...
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #70: Henry VI Parts 1 & 2 (2016)
70: Dominic Cooke’s Henry VI Parts 1 & 2 (2016) I am an outright Shakespeare junkie, dear readers. This you should know by now. Yet the prospect of outright speed-balling multiple Shakespeare...
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #69: Twelfth Night (1996)
69. Trevor Nunn’s Twelfth Night (1996) Songs in Shakespeare can be a tricky thing since his texts share lyrics, but not melodies. The normal theatrical approach to these songs is to keep them brief,...
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