ext_48350 ([identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] poliphilo 2008-10-08 08:41 am (UTC)

Very few film versions of Shakespeare really work. I'm fond of Olivier's Hamlet- because it's so 1940s- but it's a pared down and very tendentiously Freudian version of the play. The one Shakespeare movie I unequivocally love is Orson Welles' mash-up of the Henry IV plays- Chimes at Midnight.

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