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	Hamlet (1996 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Shakespeare's Hamlet is a 1996 film version of William Shakespeare's classic play of the same name, adapted and directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also starred in the title role.
		The film is very visual; most of the play's many monologues and soliloquies are accompanied by silent flashbacks or dream sequences depicting the events being spoken of.
		(Hamlet's famous reminiscence of the jester Yorick, for instance, is accompanied by a flashback depicting the man himself performing for the child Hamlet.) It also has the distinction of being the last film (as of April 2006) to have been shot entirely with 70 mm film.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hamlet_(1996_movie) (350 words)

	Hamlet (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Hamlet (Ethan Hawke) is still the resentful, suspicious brooder we expect, though we find him not as an offended heir but a totally incognito outsider from his family's power network.
		Part of Hamlet's problem is that he thinks too much like an artist, a poet—relying on words as his weapons, worried about ethics and implications, but convinced that phantoms exist and their words must be heeded—and he therefore proves no match, for a while, for the swifter, more cutthroat tactics of palace/corporate power players.
		There is much to be said for Hamlet's loyalty and his growing ability to act out his moral convictions; there is also much to be said for the fact that Hamlet's outrage leads to the deaths of at least eight people.
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	On Film: Hamlet
		Hamlet’s character and his ideas are inescapably complex and every simplification seems an oversimplification–particularly on film, where the actor’s interpretation can be scrutinized again and again.
		Hamlet is no longer a prince, and the play within the play is also no longer the "thing that catches the conscience of the king." Henry James noted that Shakespeare the artist is everywhere in his plays, but Shakespeare the man is nowhere in them.
		For the first half of the film, Hamlet, when he is not in his apartment watching fl and white Pixel videos of his dead father, makes his anti-corporate-culture statement by wearing one of those knitted Peruvian hats with earflaps one sees on flute-playing street musicians.
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	Hamlet (1996) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Plot: Hamlet, the prince of Denmark, is unhappy because within only a matter of weeks of the death of his father, his uncle Claudius has married his mother Gertrude.
		Hamlet attempts to find the truth of this and stages an elaborate ruse to determine if Claudius really is a murderer.
		Branagh has also directed two other films that are of genre interest:- the reincarnation thriller Dead Again (1991) and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), an adaptation of the oft-filmed horror classic.
	www.moria.co.nz /fantasy/hamlet96.htm (1008 words)

	Hamlet
		Hamlet meets the ghost: it is that of his father, who tells him that he was murdered - Claudius has told people that Old Hamlet died of a snakebite, but in reality Claudius poured poison into his ear as he slept in his orchard.
		Hamlet likes her, but is too troubled by his father's death to think of her as a lover would.
		Hamlet declines the opportunity to kill Claudius at prayer, reproaches his mother, kills Polonius and is sent to England where he will be safe, but not in the sense usually intended by this word.
	www.universalteacher.org.uk /shakespeare/hamlet.htm (4574 words)

	Filmtracks: Hamlet (Patrick Doyle)
		Hamlet (1996): (Patrick Doyle) While directing Henry V and Much Ado About Nothing, and co-starring in Othello, actor/screenwriter/director Kenneth Branagh had always dreamt of bringing an ultimate version of William Shakespeare's Hamlet to the big screen.
		Doyle's music for Branagh's films had always been appropriately lyrical and romantic, although often restrained in scope out of respect for the constant overlying dialogue that was usually the purpose of the films.
		Hamlet's theme proved to be the most daunting and elusive; the score could not develop until this materialised.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/hamlet.html (1671 words)

	Kenneth branagh's hamlet
		In film criticism, an “auteur”, which is French for “author”, is a director who so dominates the filmmaking process, especially in adaptations, that it is appropriate to call the director the auteur of the motion picture.
		Hamlet, speaking in terms of the text, is not only the most performed of Shakespeare’s works but is also the most filmed.
		Because of this fact, each director of each of these filmed versions has a different idea of how the play should be recreated for the camera, both because of their cultural background and taboos and also because of the difference of genre.
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	[EMLS 6.1 (May, 2000]: 2.1-24 [Making Mother Matter
		While the play does focus on a son's obsession with his mother's physical body and her sexual relationship with his uncle, it is important to recognize the extent to which these preoccupations and anxieties are inextricably bound up in early modern discourses of misogyny and hatred of the flesh, as numerous critics have shown.
		Initially, Hamlet's course of action appears to be a "no brainer"; he should identify with the place of the father -- that is, his real, deceased father -- by revenging Old Hamlet's murder and claiming the throne for himself, fulfilling both the familial and political mandates with which he is saddled.
		Hamlet is of course admonished by his mother for failing to look on Denmark "as a friend," for Hamlet prefers to remain at school in Wittenberg.
	www.shu.ac.uk /emls/06-1/lehmhaml.htm (7494 words)

	Review: Hamlet (1996) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The story centers on Hamlet (Branagh), a thirty-year old Prince of Denmark during the twelfth century, who is mourning the death of his beloved father (Brian Blessed) and the untimely (and, according to custom, unseemly) wedding of his mother, Gertrude (Julie Christie), to his uncle, Claudius (Derek Jacobi).
		Hamlet sees his mother's sudden re-marriage as a betrayal of her union with his father, but worse news is yet to come.
		An apparition, appearing in the shape of Hamlet's father, haunts Elsinore Castle, and when Hamlet confronts the ghost, it claims to be the true spirit of the late king, doomed to walk the Earth for a set time.
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	Hamlet/Branagh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The cutaway of the fornication scene between Hamlet and Ophelia is disgusting, a blasphemy on the text and the intention of Shakespeare.
		Hamlet's loud and intemperate rant expresses what everyone else in the court is really thinking.This production brings this out very effectively, by capturing the reactions of the audience to Hamlet's fulminations.
		Although Hamlet, (and by extension, the theater audience) see Polonius as a stupid fool who brings about his own death through meddling, he is also a father so deeply loved by his children that one of them goes insane through his death while the other throws away his life in a duel to avenge him.
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		Kenneth Branagh's HAMLET is the first film version of Shakespeare's revered tragedy to use the full, uncut text, and you know what that means: before you settle into your theater seat, smoke 'em if you got 'em, be sure to use the restroom, and bring extra quarters for parking.
		Young Hamlet is troubled by the marriage of his mother Gertrude (Julie Christie) to his uncle Claudius (Derek Jacobi), who has assumed the Danish throne, but he is even more troubled when he is visited by the ghost of his father (Brian Blessed).
		Fortinbras' actions to answer the dishonor of his father, forced to surrender lands to the elder Hamlet, becomes a counterpoint to the young Hamlet's inability to answer a more grave dishonor; Ophelia's descent into madness is given a wrenching power as she dissolves in front of her already grief-stricken brother Laertes (Michael Maloney).
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	Hamlet Online
		In this revised ending of Hamlet, the sword fight between Hamlet and Laertes is preempted by a cartoon crossover with the detectives from Scoody Doo.
		The Hamlet Case begins with a demented professor of literature confessing to the murders of the board of editors of the journal he edits.
		Hamlet was the first work undertaken as part of the Klingon Shakespeare Restoration Project, an effort to restore the complete works of Shakespeare to the "original Klingon." Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (The Restored Klingon Version) was published in hardcover in March 1996, and a paperback version is expected in 1999.
	www.tk421.net /hamlet/hamlet.html (3607 words)

	SPLICEDwire: "Hamlet" (1996) review
		He uses flashes of Hamlet's memory to establish the love affair between Ophelia and Hamlet that is implied but not seen in Shakespeare's text.
		In Hamlet's "To be or not to be..." soliloquy, he speaks to himself in a hall of mirrors.
		The angry confrontation between Hamlet and his mother in her bed chamber is perfection.
	www.splicedonline.com /96reviews/hamlet.html (809 words)

	EUFS: Hamlet (1996) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This is the first 70mm film to be shot in Britain since David Lean was a filmmaker and no expense is spared to fully utilise the extra definition and clarity.
		Branagh himself, as Hamlet, is so alive with energy that you realise that it's not just his hair that's glowing.
		One thing worth noticing whilst watching Hamlet is the speed at which many of the characters must speak, simply to capture the entire play in under four hours; the first hour and a half is one long Le Mans of unbroken conversation.
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/hamlet.html (426 words)

	Hamlet (1996) Reviews
		Hamlet (USA, 1996, 237min59s), based on William Shakespeare's play, adapted for the screen and directed by Kenneth Branagh, filmed in 65mm on location at Blenheim Castle and at Shepperton Studios more
		The film has major actors, is beautifully filmed, but in spite of a great swashbuckling sword-fight at the end fails to breathe life into its play the...
		Kenneth Branagh's 'Hamlet' is perhaps the most ambitious working of the Shakespeare tragedy ever brought to the big screen.
	www.killermovies.com /h/hamlet1996/reviews (355 words)

	The Hamlet Site: Film Versions
		One blessing is that Hamlet, sitting in the box of the father confessor overhearing part of Claudius's "confession" makes clearer his desire for public knowledge of Claudius's assassination; another is that Branagh and Nicholas Farrell make clear that "the readiness is all" concerns Hamlet's readiness to die, if need be, for his mission.
		The Readiness Is All: Presenting Hamlet as a young student, this film analyzes the psychological progression required to educate Hamlet to the ways of the world, thereby presenting themes about the nature of reality, evil, dissembling people, corruption of good intentions, death, and regalness.
		Discussion of the 1948, 1990, and 1996 Hamlets is summarized from Sheena Gillespie, Terezinba Fonseca, and Carol A.
	vccslitonline.cc.va.us /TheHamletSite/films.htm (1010 words)

	Hamlet (1996)
		Overall, this film stands as a wonderful adaptation of a great play, and credit goes to all who had the courage to pursue this project.
		He may have been pressured after Gibson to do a film in which the calculating side of Hamlet is all but forgotten.
		His Hamlet is deep, as Polonius says, the truth is deep down at the center for those who have the persistence and attention span to search it out.
	www.fuzzydog.com /zzhamlet.htm (1144 words)

	Hamlet (1996)
		Frequent use is made of parallel montage whereby the "scene" cuts between unfolding wrangles at Elsinore and the relentless advances of Fortinbras' army.
		As the film progresses, it would seem as if there is every justification for the nervousness of the sentry who patrols the castle's gates.
		We shot the fight and all the deaths four months later so he was in the classic film thing of responding to a lot of pieces of tape.
	www.geocities.com /vue2sewell/Hamlet/hamlet.html (430 words)

	Literature Film Quarterly: Pop goes the Shakespeare: Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Luhrmann's film is mentioned but in passing in the 1997 essay collection Shakespeare, The Movie: Popularizing the plays on film, TV, and video.
		In the 1998 "New Casebooks" collection of Shakespeare film essays Luhrmann's film is not mentioned at all, whereas Shakespeare films made after Luhrmann's (such as Kenneth Branagh's 1996 Hamlet) are already mentioned in the same breath as the aesthetically polemic films of Welles, Kozintsev, Olivier, and Kurosawa.
		In the viewing process, the audience may shape the "raw material of the film:' And, as Lorne Buchman writes, this material is offered to us as an open structure to be "organized in the viewing process" (51).
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	Daily Telegraph 1997
		Film fans have recently had a bucketful of the Bard; Richard III with Ian McKellen flourished, but British versions of Othello, Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night's Dream underwhelmed audiences and critics alike.
		Hamlet is his third film (after Othello and In the Bleak Midwinter) in swift order.
		The film is a gamble which may pay off for Branagh in the future.
	www.ocf.berkeley.edu /~jyking/gritten.htm (1346 words)

	1996 Miami Film Festival Diaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		"For the love of film." That's a nice slogan for a filmfest, and the folks who run the Miami Film Festival--now in its 13th year--appear to love an admirably wide range of movies, including some more challenging than you might expect to find in a city known mainly for its sunshine-and-frolic scene.
		Yugoslavian native Emir Kusterica's epic comments on recent Balkan history via the wild and woolly tale of several families who scurry into hiding during World War II, and find themselves surrounded by chaos every time they venture out of their cellar during the next 50 years.
		Film Scouts® is a registered trademark of Film Scouts LLC
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		The story of Hamlet as almost everyone knows is his determination to avenge his father's death at the hands of his uncle.
		Hamlet's uncle Claudius portrayed by Derek Jacobi is a sharp and well meaning portrait of evil which Jacobi executes with acute brilliance and his character is just as compelling as any in the film.
		Mel Gibson's Hamlet from 1990 was an interesting journey for the superstar who proved there's more to film than 'Lethal Weapon' and 'Mad Max.' Other members of Branagh's production include Julie Christie, Kate Winslet, Jack Lemmon, Charlton Heston, Billy Crystal and Robin Williams.
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	Kenneth Branagh's 1996 Hamlet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		He’s had steady employment as an actor in a slew of respect-able films (I loved him in Celebrity and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets), and I’d have gladly given my pinky finger to see his performance as Edmund, the titular character of David Mamet’s play, on stage in London last year.
		This aim-for-the-rafters modus operandi has produced a decidedly mixed bag of films: transcendent entertainment (Henry V and Dead Again), a monumental misfire (Frankenstein) and the muddled middle ground of Hamlet.
		Hamlet was filmed in 70mm, a format obsolete and most strongly associated with the grand epics of yesteryear like Lawrence of Arabia, Guns of Navarone, or 2001: a Space Odyssey.
	www.bardolatry.com /branham.htm (1335 words)

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		Yet, even people not enamored with the Bard may be as blown away by this film as was I. Let me explain.
		Hamlet has more lines worth pondering than ten other plays, but usually the listener can not pause to reflect on them because the actors are flying through their lines so they can get the movie completed within a traditional length.
		Branagh says he purposely cast the film with a host of big names to ensure the audience can "look and see and hear with greater clarity" even the minor roles.
	www.cc.gatech.edu /classes/AY2005/cs6300_fall/projects/project5/movies/65/6537 (1410 words)

	This Month's Theme: Hamlet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		It was, to say the least, an enlightening experience; having one film fresh in my mind made me much more aware of even the subtle differences between the two productions, and made me much more sensitive to the intricacies of the text.
		Hamlet is the siren song of acting; incredibly dangerous, yet all but impossible to resist.
		Early in his career Richard Burton upstaged Olivier at a party with a spellbinding performance of the "To be, or not to be" soliloquy--in Gaellic.
	www.mindspring.com /~jamesthomas/theme.htm (803 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Hamlet [1997]: Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Kenneth Branagh may be a great Shakespearean actor, and for his stab at Hamlet, he succeeding in attracting a truly stellar cast to the court of Elsinore.
		Clearly this was intended to be Branagh's career defining work, the adaptation that would put him up there firmly with the greats of the past, and mayby this is why his Hamlet seems a little too forced and theatrical, giving the impression of someone who is trying just too hard to outdo Olivier.
		In this production Hamlet is 100% loopy from scene 1, a madness that Branagh seems to want to convey chiefly through overly theatrical changes of pitch and volume midway each sentence.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005NBUS (741 words)

	Amazon.com: Hamlet: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1996 Film): Music: Patrick Doyle,Plácido Domingo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Hamlet, film score To be or not to be
		Henry V is not Hamlet in terms of theme and plot but I think the music here tends to be too low key and lacking in drive, unlike Henry V. It is still very good in places and clearly the work of an excellent composer, but not quite up to Doyle's previous standard.
		With the Hamlet score, he again writes powerful complementary music which also stands alone as worthy to be performed in concert.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000029V8?v=glance (1115 words)

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