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My favorite Shakespeare is Othello and there are some good ones, the Lawrence Fishburn from the 90s is decent, and there is an Olivier floating around that is excellent. But, try the Zeffirelli version of Verdi's opera Otello for my all time favorite Iago.
Titus (1999), Julie Taymore directs, Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange, DEFINITELY NOT A COMEDY https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120866/?ref_=ext_shr
Macbeth (1971). No matter how you feel about Polanski as an (alledged) human, it's quite a film https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067372/?ref_=ext_shr. There is also a Michael Fassbinder Marrion Cottiard from 2015 that I havent seen, but am curious about.
Kenneth Branaugh did a bunch of Shakespeare in the 90's which were mostly pretty good.
If anyone can suggest a good film version of The Tempest I'd love to know about it.
Taymor's Titus still blows my mind. I recommend it to everybody.
The first Shakespeare I watched was Branaughs Henry V. It actually got me into Shakespeare a bit.
His Hamlet was filmed on 70mm, giving it some great color and depth though I can't sit still long enough to watch it in one sitting.
In general, you can't beat The Reduced Shakespeare Companys "Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged."
Shakespeare Abridged is fantastic, yet it seems like it has zero cultural cachet. Did it completely fall off the internet? Or does it only exist for high school students? In either case more people should see it and more people should talk about it.
"As you know, it is impossible to perform Romeo & Juliet with only three people. So we're going to use two."
A few weeks ago, it was still on YouTube
Helen Mirren as Prospero is good: https://youtu.be/lcnp8apSJ1k
Sounds good, I'm in.
I'm kinda shocked how many of these are on YouTube, never even occurred to me to check.
Thanks
https://youtu.be/BcnN2DrBBV8?si=wBk4vSSG2pI9d4lM