Because I like lists, I've compiled a short, admittedly far-from-complete list of recent film adaptations of Shakespeare. (Please feel free to add films in the the comments, but note that there's a whole lot before 1989 that I've not even tried to touch, and I've likewise totally neglected international films.)
Re-imaginings (adaptations)
- 10 Things I Hate About You—1999
The Taming of the Shrew as a teen comedy
Gil Junger, director
Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger - Titus—1999
Titus Andronicus as, um, yeah
Julie Taymor, director
Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange - O—2001
Othello as a teen basketball tragedy
Tim Blake Nelson, director
Julia Stiles, Josh Hartnett, Mekhi Phifer - Scotland, Pa—2002
Macbeth as the owner of a small-town diner
Billy Morrissette, director
Christopher Walken, Maura Tierney - She's the Man—2006
Twelfth Night as a teen comedy
Andy Fickman, director
Amanda Bynes
Re-settings
- Richard III—1995
Richard III as a British fascist in the 1930s
Richard Loncraine, director
Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Robert Downey Jr. - Romeo+Juliet—1996
Shakespeare with guns and Hawaiian shirts
Baz Luhrmann, director
Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes - A Midsummer Night's Dream—1999
Fin de siècle impishness in Italy
Michael Hoffman, director
Rupert Everett, Calista Flockhart - Hamlet—2000
Hamlet as an indie filmmaker
Michael Almereyda, director
Ethan Hawke, Julia Stiles
Other strangeness
- Looking for Richard—1996
Al Pacino documentary on staging Richard III - Shakespeare in Love—1998
You all know this one, right?
Kenneth Branagh
- Henry V—1989
- Much Ado About Nothing—1993
- Othello—1995 (Oliver Parker, director)
- Hamlet—1996
- Love's Labour's Lost—2000
- As You Like It—2006
2 comments:
Twelfth Night - Directed by Trevor Nunn with Ben Kingsley as Feste - 1996
1. Jealous of your Stratford Fest attendance.
2. I remember seeing that Hamlet at Well's Hall, MSU.
3. Does liking Shakespeare in Love make me a bad person?
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