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This page is a gateway to my reviews of Shakespeare on film (or, more accurately, Shakespeare on digital media), including cinema and television productions and filmed stage plays.

I've been seeing Shakespeare films since Zefferelli's Romeo and Juliet made the school circuits back in the early 1970s. However, I have decided to use the same standard for reviewing on-screen Shakespeare as I do for commenting on stage productions. Instead of writing from memory and relying on recollections that would not be entirely accurate, I will only review films I've just seen. Unlike live theater, however, Shakespeare committed to DVD can be re-viewed and then reviewed, and I will do that on an ongoing basis for this web site (as you might imagine, we have an extensive Shakespeare DVD library, which is growing monthly).

Eric Minton

Collection of DVDs in bookcaseThe Film Reviews

All's Well That Ends Well—Finding Feminism in a Slice of Elizabethan Life

Anonymous—At the Heart of This Conspiracy

As You Like It—All Welles Not Well in Branagh's Heavy-Handed Filming of As You Like It

Coriolanus—Fiennes Finds the Present in Shakespeare's Ancient Roman Tragedy

Hamlet—A Timeless Hamlet in a Dated Production

Henry IV, Part One—The Lie Is the Truth

Henry IV, Part Two—Fumbling into Royalty

Julius Caesar—Brando in a Toga Ushers Shakespeare Into the Modern Cinema

King Lear—Olivier vs. Lear; Young vs. Old

Love's Labour's Lost—Laboring for Love

A Midsummer Night's Dream—Resurrecting an Unearthly Relic

Macbeth—A Bloody Magical Psychological Thriller

Othello—A Jimi Hendrix Experience of the Moor

Richard II—Well-Versed and Well Beyond

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead—A Sideways Depiction of Hamlet

Shakespeare Uncovered—PBS Series Gets Inside Shakespeare's Genius

The Tempest—A Tempest That Falls Short of the Forecast