…right now, at this very moment, one can see more great Shakespeare, one can find more transformative Shakespearean experiences, from what is already on film even in the form of tape or DVD on a television screen than the average person, even the average critic, will see on stage in a life time.
That is from Ron Rosenbaum’s generally quite good The Shakespeare Wars. His list:
1. Orson Welles, Chimes at Midnight [TC: also Welles's best movie]
2. Peter Brook, King Lear
3. Richard III, with Laurence Olivier
4. Hamlet, with Richard Burton
To this list I would add Welles’s Othello and — more controversially — Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Haitian voodoo scenes and all; Rosembaum is more positive than negative about that one, but it doesn’t make his list.
I feel vindicated that neither Rosenbaum’s list nor Tyler’s additions include Kenneth Branagh.
McKellen’s Richard III knocks the socks off Olivier.
I want to endorse ‘Chimes At Midnight.’ The battle scene is the best illusion I have ever seen.
Yet inspection shows Welles probably spent about $2.76 making it – excluding his editing time.
Art is subjective. Others might see nothing in the battle. Welles had either saw Eisenstein’s work or channeled it.
Audio editions of Anthony Quayle as Falstaff, Alec Guiness as MacBeth, Burton as Coriolanus are mighty fine, too. I much prefer the audio to the video. Why is that?
The most diverting and luminous Shakespeare I know is the Time-BBC Taming of the Shrew directed by Jonathan Miller starring John Cleese. Brilliant and unforgettable.
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