... ... . ... date film reviews 8 April Hamlet,
Prince of Denmark (1980) (BBC, TV) dir.
Rodney Bennett. With: Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom,
Patrick Stewart
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0080835] reviews 15 April Hamlet
(UK, 1948) dir. Laurence Olivier. With
Laurence Olivier as Hamlet. Music: William Walton
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0040416] Leonard Maltin Review (****) 22 April Hamlet
silent m. (Germany, 1920/1921) dir. Sven Gade and
Heinz Schall. With Asta Nielsen as Hamlet.
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0012249] Hamlet on the Ramparts:
Asta
Nielson (commentary,
video stills) 29 April Gamlet
(USSR, 1964) dir. Grigori Kozintsev. Music:
Shostakovich
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058126] Taylor, Neil. "The Films of
Hamlet" (course pack p. 109f) 6 May Hamlet
(UK, 1969) dir. Tony Richardson. With Nicol
Williamson, Anthony Hopkins, Marianne Faithful.
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0064400] Taylor, Neil. "The Films of
Hamlet" (course pack p. 110f) 13 May Hamlet
(UK, USA, F; Spain 1990) Franco Zeffirelli.
With Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates, Paul
Scofield, Ian Holm, Helena Bonham Carter
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0099726] Leonard Maltin Review (***) date not yet decided Hamlet.
(UK, 1992) dir. Kenneth Branagh. With Kenneth
Branagh, Julie Christie, Richard Briers.
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0116477] 27 May Hamlet
(USA, 2000/I) (play) dir. Michael
Almereyda. With Ethan Hawke as Hamlet. Modern
adaptation.
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0171359] Almeryda, Michael:
"Hooking
Up Hamlet" (article
first published in New York Times 3 June Hamlet
(1976) dir. Celestino Coronada with Helen Mirren,
Anthony and David Meyer as Hamlets. ("The Naked
Hamlet")
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0074603] - 10 June To
be or not to be comedy, (USA, 1942)
dir. Ernst Lubitsch. With: Carole Lombard and Jack
Benny - 17 June The
Bad Sleep Well / Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru
(Japan, 1960) dir. Akira Kurosawa. (free
adaptation) 24 June Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern Are Dead (UK, USA 1990)
dir. Tom Stoppard. With Gary Oldman, Tim Roth.
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0100519] - 1 July Hamlet
liikemaailmassa / Hamlet goes Business
(Finnland, 1987) dir. Aki Kaurismäki
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0093139] - ... April
2002
Universität
Basel, Englisches Seminar
Proseminar:
Literature and Culture Studies summer term 2002
Hamlet,
Prince of Denmark
film programme
videos will be shown at Deutsches Seminar, Filmkeller
("Wandelbar")
Mondays, 6.15 pm
Entrance fee: SFr. 2.-
preparation:
editions
- Shakespeare
dictionaries
- reading
Hamlet
(study questions and quizzes) - Inszenierung
von Stefan Bachmann im neuen
Schauspielhaus
- links
- questions
course
programme
bibliography
film programme
Language: English
216 min. (3 h.36 min.)
Taylor, Neil. "The Films of Hamlet" (course
pack p. 111f)
Language: English
155 min. (2. 35 min.)
Brilliant adaptation of Shakespeare's play about
Danish prince "who just couldn't make up his mind."
Hauntingly photographed in Elsinore, Denmark. Won
Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor (Olivier), Art
Direction-Set Decoration and Costumes.
other
reviews
Dirk
Jasper Filmlexikon
Taylor, Neil. "The Films of Hamlet" (course
pack p. 107f)
Language: German subtitles
123 min. (2. h. 3 min.)
Language: Russian
140 min. (2 h. 20 min.)
Language: English
114 min. (1 h. 54 min.)
Language: English
130 min. (2 h.10 min.)
Agreeable re-do of the Shakespeare staple with
Gibson giving an energetic interpretation of the
Melancholy Dane. In fact, Mel comes off better than
co-star Close (Gertrude); Bates, as Claudius, is
the standout in the stellar cast...
other reviews
review
(R. Ebert, Sunday Times
1991)
Taylor, Neil. "The Films of Hamlet" (course
pack p. 112f)
Language: English
242 min. (4 h. 2 min.)
Language: English
112 min. (1h. 52 min.)
Review
by Ann Thompson
other
reviews
Language: English
(65 min)
STAR TREK, episode 13 : The Conscience of a
King (with William Shatner) Plot based on
Hamlet, w. an "Arcturian Macbeth" with faux
Shakespearean dialog
Language: English
(ca. 60 min.)
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0035446]
Language: English
99 min. (1h. 39 min.)
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0054460]
Language: Japanese, English subtitles
151 min. (2h. 31 min.)
Language: English
117 min. (1 h. 57 min.)
Language: Finnish, English subtitles
86 min. (1. 26 min.)
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