Catholic Film Reviews

Buy BBC Hamlet on DVD from Ambrose Video
Buy BBC Hamlet on VHS from Ambrose Video
It is also available from Ambrose Video as part of a boxed set of 5 DVDs of the BBC Shakespeare Tragedies. (Enter “BARD” in the appropriate discount code box for a special $2 discount for bardolatry.com readers!) Or buy the set [...]

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Warner Home Video Press Release: The Shakespeare Collection A Quartet of Great Films from the Bard’s Greatest Works
THE SHAKESPEARE COLLECTION
Branagh’s Hamlet 2-Disc Special Edition ~ Reinhardt’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream ~ Olivier’s Othello & Thalberg’s Romeo and Juliet All Debut August 14
Burbank, Calif. May 7, 2007 ­ Warner Home Video will debut [...]

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…in a sauna.
I’m not kidding.
This is a clip from Dame Edna’s show, filmed around the time of the release of Mel’s Hamlet, and posted on Mel’s MySpace page: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog&friendID=98949622(And here’s our review of Mel’s Hamlet, directed by Franco Zeffirelli.)
(And if you can’t get enough of Dame Edna waxing Shakespearean, check out her wonderfully hammy [...]

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(order the DVD from Amazon)
starring Adrian Lester

reviewed by John Murphy

We Shall Sift Him
“It is only when we forget Shakespeare that we can begin to find him.”

— Peter Brook, 1996.
Who is Hamlet? That is the question. First off, he’s an acid test for actors. Viewing the different versions can be disheartening. It’s like watching [...]

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