Shakespeare
on
Film
&
"Almost"
Shakespeare
on
Film
(You should note that this
list must be incomplete, given the enormous numbers of cinematic treatments
of Shakespeare's plays coming out every year)
(Personal preferences*)
Comedies
Taming of the Shrew (S. Taylor; 1929)
Taming of the Shrew (Zeffirelli; Burton & Taylor)
Taming (Jonathan Miller; with J. Cleese) *
Moonlighting TV version of Taming (B. Willis & C
Shepherd)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
(M. Reinhardt; 1930s Hollywood
star-studded cast)
MND (D. Eriksen)
MND (Peter Hall) *
MND (Michael Hoffman)
A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy (Woody Allen)
The Merchant of Venice (Laurence Olivier)
Much Ado (Branagh) *
Twelfth Night (Trevor Nunn, 1996)
Tragedies
Hamlet (Olivier)
*
Hamlet (T.
Richardson)
Hamlet (Branagh) *
Hamlet (Zeffirelli) *
Hamlet (Kozintzen—Russian) *
Hamlet (Ragnar Oyth—Swedish) *
The Lion King (Disney’s Hamlet)
King Lear (Richard Eyre) *
King Lear (Peter Brook)
Ran (Lear—Kurosawa; Japanese) *
"The Conscience of the King," Star Trek TOS (Lear)
Romeo and Juliet (G. Cukor; 1936)
Romeo (R. Castellani)
Romeo (P. Czinner; ballet with R. Nureyev)
Romeo (Zeffirelli) *
Shakespeare’s Romeo (Luhrmann)
West Side Story (Romeo and Juliet meets Broadway)
Julius Caesar (J. Mankiewicz; with M. Brando) *
Julius Caesar (S. Burge; with C. Heston) *
Othello (Wells) *
Othello (S. Burge; with Olivier)
Othello (with Laurence Fishburne and Kenneth Branagh)
Othello (with W. Marshall & J. Agutter)
Macbeth (Wells) *
Macbeth (Polanski) *
Throne of Blood (Macbeth)
Men
of Respect (W. Reilly; Macbeth)
Titus Andronicus
Histories
Richard III (Olivier) *
Richard III (I. McKellen)
Looking for Richard (Pacino; about acting Shakespeare)
Henry V (Olivier) *
Henry V (Branagh) *
My Own Private Idaho (Henry 4, pt. 1)
Chimes at Midnight (O. Wells; Henry 4, pts. 1 & 2) *
(bad sound)
Romances
The Winter’s Tale (F. Dunlop; 1968)
Prospero’s Books (with J. Gielgud)
The Tempest (J. Cassavetes)
Forbidden Planet (50s sci-fi version of The Tempest)
All 37 plays of Shakespeare are also available on video tape and DVD
from the BBC
