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3 days ago · Romeo + Juliet. One of the most enduringly popular film versions of Shakespeare, Romeo + Juliet features a pre- Titanic, pre-save-the-climate Leonardo DiCaprio and future Homeland star Claire Danes playing the star-crossed lovers. Modernised (or at least, modernised for the 90s) by Baz Luhrmann , this stylish adaptation has guns, wacky hair and ...
1 day ago · $8.99. Shop Now. Shakespeare's famous tragedy Hamlet is set in Denmark and tells the story of Prince Hamlet, whose uncle Claudius has usurped the throne after murdering Hamlet's dad. The play is a ...
3 days ago · Eddie Izzard delivers solo 'Hamlet' with range, directness of a stand-up comedian English actor’s straightforward take on the tragedy at Chicago Shakespeare Theater prizes clarity above all.
1 day ago · The Hamlet and Its Director Are Inspired by Real Movies About the Vietnam War. Image Credits: Hopper Stone/HBO. ‘The Sympathizer’ is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Viet Thanh Nguyen, who created the character called the Auteur (called Nico Stamianos in the HBO series) and is working on a film called ‘The Hamlet’.
2 days ago · In the 1921 film Hamlet, Danish actress Asta Nielsen played the role of Hamlet as a woman who spends her life disguised as a man. Laurence Olivier's 1948 moody black-and-white Hamlet won Best Picture and Best Actor Academy Awards and is as of 2020, the only Shakespeare film to have done so.
2 days ago · Blanchett made her feature film debut with a supporting role as an Australian nurse captured by the Japanese Army during World War II, in Bruce Beresford's film Paradise Road (1997), which co-starred Glenn Close and Frances McDormand.
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1 day ago · Other examples of Shakespeare on film include Max Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Laurence Olivier's Hamlet and Al Pacino's documentary Looking For Richard. Orson Welles , a lifelong lover of Shakespeare, directed and starred in Macbeth , Othello and Chimes at Midnight , in which he plays John Falstaff , which Welles himself called his ...
