Yes, this is the kind of thing that makes me feel better. Trust me, I know they exist—but any list that includes them must veer irretrievably into the hypothetical. Consider my rankings based on a combination of skill at achieving whatever style of Hamlet is called for and essential enjoyability. Exclusion from this list should not necessarily be taken to mean a lack of ranking, and there are definitely more Hamlets in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in this philosophy, but I was as exhaustive as I could be, and listen, you gotta stop somewhere.
Finally, as always: my list, my opinions. This is mine; may it inspire you to further define your own or just laugh at your desk at the goofy ones—whatever works for you. After all: to thine own self, etc. Jimmy Gourd as Omelet, in VeggieTales Hamlet retold as a morality play starring vegetables in which the moral is: God likes it when you share. I hate everything about this except the Battleship joke. The highly successful Richard Burton Broadway production of "Hamlet", deliberately staged in the style of a "dress rehearsal", but performed in front of a live audience.
After the death of his father, the weirdo Yvan Lesurf believes his mother Claudia Lesurf and his uncle Adrien Lesurf have poisoned him since they got married to each other. PG 91 min Drama, Western. Back from the Civil War, Johnny Hamilton learns that his father was murdered by Santana the bandit and that his mother Gertrude married his uncle Claude but Johnny is determined to find out the truth.
Director: Enzo G. Danish silent movie-star Asta Nielsen formed her own production company to make this film, in which new elements are combined with features and a few lines familiar from Shakespeare's The classic Shakespeare tragedy is revisioned in America at the turn of the 20th Century. Introdcued by Lord Birkett and filmed at Shakespeare's Globe theatre in London, this unique series showcases William Shakespeare's most famous plays. In episodes of fifteen minutes, one of Hamlet is an easily distracted prince who is challenged to kill his uncle Claudius by the ghost of his recently dead dad.
This bizarre sci-fi comedy features live-action characters in a colorful cartoon world. Drama, Horror, Mystery. A great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people surrounding Hamlet and wanting to be part of his story. Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
Drama Announced. Hamlet Tony Meyer suspects his uncle, King Claudius Barry Stanton has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, Gertrude Dame Helen Mirren , but the Prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance. Not Rated 88 min Drama. Shot on a micro-budget in only three days, Ramsay's adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal play premiered in competition at the Vancouver International Film Festival in Prince Hamlet is the son of the late king.
He hears from a ghost that the current king, Claudius, has murdered his father. Hamlet is unsure if this is true. He test the king by pretending Not Rated 22 min Comedy, Short. Shakespeare films Hamlet on a single reel then, after an initial screening, edits it down to the bare bones. In the village of Donja Mrdusa the anniversary party is being prepared marking the election of the peasant cooperatives' president.
He orders the teacher to prepare a Hamlet play that would Comedy, Drama. The lives of a Shakespearian theatre group and their personal struggles to organize the production of 'Hamlet'.
Peter Brook presents a new interpretation of the classic in a setting is vaguely eastern rather than Scandinavian, with a multi-ethnic cast. Siavash Roozbehan is a young man and he has lost his father after his mysterious suicide. His uncle is managing his father's wealth.
He is in love with his cousin Mahtab whose father is his The opening scene is in Elsinore, where a ghost is seen by the sentinels keeping guard on the battlements of the castle.
This is related to Hamlet by his friend Horatio, who describes the Cookson , J. Set in a surrealistic, nightmarish, Kafkaesque no man's land, this version of the famous Shakespeare play centres on the ghostly, supernatural aspects of the play. IMDB page. There are strong actors throughout the supporting cast who are interesting in their roles. Zeffirelli substitutes his habitual spectacle for any fresh ideas about the play, however.
Both of these performances are solid, intelligent, and affecting. But they are also familiar. This Royal Shakespeare Production productively mines the play for maximum humor but comes up short on emotional punch.
Much of the plot of Hamlet ceases to make sense when it is set in modern New York City, as this version is. Most actors play Hamlet as unsteady but basically sane. The problem is that a Hamlet who has actually suffered a mental breakdown would be unable to function in the play after Act 2.
I need to track down a full version of this Russian language Hamlet before I can offer a capsule review. However, the clips available on the internet look promising as does the Shostakovich score. That depends on how you want to count them. Two recent film versions of Hamlet , David Melville in and Bruce Ramsay in , both cut the play to a running time of under 90 minutes. A good Wikipedia article says there are more than 50 film adaptations of Hamlet. My counting criteria is more strict a reasonably intact version of the original text which is why Melville and Ramsay fall here.
This criteria should exclude Schwarzenegger from the running too, of course, but Arnold was simply too funny to consign to a footnote. Here is my discussion of the Thematic-Structural Perfection of Hamlet , which is an odd claim to make since the plot of Hamlet sure seems like a hot mess.
I believe I make my case, however. Posted in Shakespeare Tagged movie reviews , Shakespeare 22 Comments. Have you seen the recent version with David Tennant?
But I loved the set, and they way they modernized it. Claudius is often portrayed as weak, in part because he struggles with his guilt, but he has to be ruthless enough to kill his brother, and I can see Stewart handling that well. Stewart had a nice turn as Macbeth which I caught on Netflix. Liked the death scene too. Too much HAM in his Hamlet.
Hey, these are great tips and thank you! A failure. The film is truly brilliant a bit Eisenstein-like and does worth seeing. I think it could be fun to see what happens when Hamlet goes into Russian then back out to English. My rankings are for the most part neither here nor there — I just hope the short descriptions help folks find a version that sounds good to them, regardless of how I feel about it.
A scene from the Soviet film with Smoktunovsky starring in Russian I failed to find in English :. To withdraw with you:—why do you go about to recover the wind of me, as if you would drive me into a toil? Will you play upon this pipe? Look you, these are the stops. You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass: and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ; yet cannot you make it speak.
Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet you cannot play upon me. Watch Haider! Easily in one of the top 3. Please do check out the latest adaptation of hamlet.
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