DVD: hamlet (renaissance widescreen collection)

DVD: hamlet

DVD:

55 reviews
Danny DeVito, Gregory Hines

Walt Disney Video, 2003

A FAVORITE MOVIE FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY!
This is a heart-warming, FABULOUS movie! I show it to my students before teaching HAMLET. Character transformations, funny, tear-begging at the end... A MUST-SEE!!!

Hamlet

190 reviews
Mel Gibson, Glenn Close

Warner Home Video, 2004

Shakespeare for everyone
This is my favorite version of any Shakespeare play. Gibson is pitch perfect in the role. I actually think he does a better Hamlet than Laurence Olivier! I have never seen Gibson act so well. This is a robust Hamlet that anyone can understand. Gibson makes Hamlet a man of action who is tortured by what has happened to his family. Although madness creeps up on him, he struggles to act honorably. ...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet (Two-Disc Special Edition)

324 reviews
Kenneth Branagh, Julie Christie

Warner Home Video, 2007

finally, usable Hamlet!
The most powerful rendition of our beloved Hamlet and the most usable format for the classroom! Teaching three different classes and being able to cue up to the spot we left off sets the most organized tone! Anyone need copies of VHS versions?

The Legend of the Black Scorpion

9 reviews
Ma Jingwu, Ge You

Dragon Dynasty, 2008

Good stuff
I have gotten slightly addicted to asian films since watching the AZN Channel (which, sadly, is no more) so I picked up some films from Amazon. This was one of them and I was very impressed by it. Visually it's stunning, the sub-titles are easy to follow. I highly recommend it.

In Her Shoes (Widescreen Edition)

131 reviews
Cameron Diaz, Anson Mount

20th Century Fox, 2006

Beautiful, romantic story
This is a must for any fan of Cameron Diaz, and it's a sister-bonding romantic story that is so well cast~ starring Shirley Maclaine as the womens' long-lost grandmother. And the fabulous Toni Collette will just tug at your heart strings. The best part of the film for me is the E.E.Cummings love poem at the end! Highly recommended for all ages. Just a little bad language and sex. The penultimate ...

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 4 (Girl in Gold Boots / Hamlet [1961] / Overdrawn at the Memory ...

64 reviews
Sonny Chiba, Kappei Matsumoto

Rhino Theatrical, 2003

Zaney Sci-Fi fun and commentary
good fun stuff and watching some awful films that you wonder how they were ever made but the guys cover them well and add much needed commentary to them.

Henry V

156 reviews
Brian Blessed, Richard Briers

MGM (Video & DVD), 2000

...shall think themselves accurs'd they did not watch (this DVD)
"This story shall the good man teach his son; and Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, from this day to the ending of the world, but we in it shall be remembered. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, this day shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now-a-bed shall think themselves accurs'd they ...

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

155 reviews
Gary Oldman, Tim Roth

Image Entertainment, 2005

YES!
I believe it was Joe Orton, play write, that said, "I wish I'd written that!" upon seeing this play in England, in the 60's. I feel the same. Tom Stoppard at his hysterical best. Hamlet fans, have fun,[except for the whinny dude playing Hamlet], Gary Oldman, always fantastic. Tim Roth, perfect. Richard Dreyfuss....not so much. One,[or two], miscasts won't spoil it for you, though.

Hamlet

129 reviews
Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan

Miramax, 2001

Modern Shakespeare
Great video. I used it in the classroom and showed several clips to coincide with the text. The casting director made some great choices and the director stays true to Shakespeare's story as he would want it told. The "To be or not to be" soliloquy is done beautifully--very introspective and spoken as Hamlet walks through a Blockbuster. There are a few things taken out of order, but only done ...

Hamlet - Criterion Collection

57 reviews
Laurence Olivier, Peter Cushing

Criterion, 2000

A masterpiece played by a genius actor
Hamlet one of the most known masterpieces of Shakespeare brought to us by Sir Laurance Olivier, a giant actor.

The Banquet (Special Edition) DVD

11 reviews

Mega Star (HK), 2006

MANY SAY THIS IS THE CHINESE MILLENNIUM . . .
I started viewing Chinese movies when THE EMPEROR AND THE ASSASSIN, HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS, and, of course, HERO hit. This magnificent, majestic movie, THE BANQUET, just seals the deal. Every aspect is wonderful. It's ballet and opera and action and human nature exposed and all film elements raised to another level. Even Wm. S would be wowed. It's grace and elegance and impact. Even the wire ...

The Silly Age

1 review
Mercedes Sampietro, Susana Tejera

TLA, 2008

Good movie
I liked this movie and didn't care that i spent my money on it. It was well written and well acted and you could follow it even if you don't speak spanish.

Hamlet

18 reviews
Lewis Arlt, Blair Brown

Lions Gate, 2001

The most believable Hamlet
I teach Shakespeare classes to adults and have a personal collection of seven VHS and DVD versions of Hamlet. Campbell Scott is by far the most believable, and my students have chosen it as their favorite version. Claudius is pefect--a smiling smiling villain absolutely capable of secucing his sister-in-law and murdering his brother. The casting of Polonius, Ophelia and Laertes worked well. The ...

In Her Shoes

60 Minutes - The Pursuit of Happiness (February 17, 2008)

CBS, 2008

Airdate: 02/17/08 Denmark, with its five-and-a-half million people, is the happiest country in the world, so says a study by a British university. America is #23 on the happiness scale, well behind Canada and Costa Rica. Morley Safer travels to the land of Hamlet and Hans Christian Andersen, where he discovers the surprising reasons that Danes are at the top of the happy heap. This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. ...

Olivier's Shakespeare - Criterion Collection (Hamlet / Henry V / Richard III)

5 reviews
Olivier's Shakespear

Criterion, 2006

THREE GREAT MOMENTS... OLIVIER... SHAKESPEARE... CRITERION...
Basically, these are three great Criterion Editions boxed together - which gives it a nice sense of continuity between these films. HAMLET is, perhaps, Shakespeare most widely known and popular work. And Olivier gives it the film performance to which all others are compared. Period. And it is a great film with a striking cinematography and (naturaly) a great cast. A classic. Criterion, as ...

Richard Burton's Hamlet

31 reviews
Hugh Alexander, Richard Burton

Image Entertainment, 1999

The Best Hamlet I've Seen
Burton (and Gielgud) have the best understanding of Hamlet that I've seen on film. I don't know why Olivier and Jacobi want to play Hamlet like he's bisexual, but it isn't right. Branagh is good, but for some scenes Gibson's interpretation is better than Branagh's. Gibson's is the most romantic Hamlet, but plays Hamlet as mostly depressed at first. Truth is, Hamlet is as mad as hell, but is ...

Grigori Kozintsev's Hamlet

9 reviews
Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Mikhail Nazvanov

Facets, 2006

Greatest Hamlet
I do not say this lightly. The visual language is unforgettable: the crashing waves, the jagged cliffs, the colossal menacing castle, and amidst it the supreme elegance of Hamlet. Kozintsev is a master of black-and-white. This film has to be in black-and-white. The shades of gray need to be there: the alternately glittering and raging grays of the waves, the mysterious grays of the rock, the ...

Shakespeare Collection (Hamlet 1996 / A Midsummer Night's Dream 1935 / Othello 1965 / Romeo & Juliet 1936)

6 reviews
Kenneth Branagh, Laurence Olivier

Warner Home Video, 2007

what's high-brow?
The Texas Refugee also makes claims of "Warner going highbrow." What pray tell that this have to do with this unreleased box set? Warner is simply plowing through their own libraries and the MGM one they bought, without any specific attention to genre, age, original studio, or whether it's high-brow, low-brow or mid-brow. My rating in in "anticipation" of a fine release with expected ...

Slings & Arrows - Season 1

50 reviews
Paul Gross, Don McKellar

ACORN MEDIA, 2006

Loved it. Absolutely brilliant.
This is a wonderful TV show -- intelligently written, funny, complex and superbly acted. Perfect for theatre lovers, fans of good drama or tart comedy, and anyone looking for TV shows that elevate the medium and have real substance. And, god, Paul Gross is a marvelous actor!! Just for reference, other favorite shows of mine include "Freaks & Geeks," "My So-Called Life," "Six Feet Under," ...