SHAKESPEAREAN MOVIES
(by the editorial staff of arianuova.org)
What we propose here, are not all the movies inspired to the great Bard of Avon, but only those that seems to us the most beautiful and ingenious transposition on wide screen.
We have even included, in square brackets, a sort of score (from one to five points, the latter indicating the best). Do you agree with us?
«The Greeks sought universality by omitting all finer individual touches; Shakespeare sought it more successfully by universalising the rarest individual details of character. That which Nature uses for concealing from us the Infinite, Shakespeare used for revealing the Anantaguna in man to the eye of humanity».
SRI AUROBINDO
THE TEMPEST (1612) - 2010 [ •• ]
CORIOLANUS (1608) - 2011 [ • ]
KING LEAR (1606) - 2017 [ ]
OTHELLO (1604) - 1951 [ •••• ]
HAMLET (1601) - 1997 [ ••••• ]
TWELFTH NIGHT (1601) - 1996 [ •••• ]
AS YOU LIKE IT (1600) - 2006 [ •• ]
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (1598) - 1993 [ ••• ]
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (1597) - 2004 [••]
A MIDSUMMER’ NIGHT’S DREAM (1596) - 1999 [ • ]
ROMEO AND JULIET (1595) - 1968 [ ••• ]
LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST (1595) - 2000 [ •• ]
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (1594) - 1966 [ •• ]
RICHARD III (1591) - 1996 [ •••• ]