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	Henry V (1989 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry V is a 1989 film directed by Kenneth Branagh, and based upon the Shakespeare play.
		The visual and verbal styles of the film are much grittier than the Laurence Olivier film (see: Henry V (1944 movie)), particularly with respect to the Battle of Agincourt scenes, which are strongly reminiscent of the battle scenes in the films of Akira Kurosawa.
		Henry V received near-universal critical acclaim for Branagh's Oscar-nominated performance and direction, for the accessibility of its Shakespearean language and particularly for its music by first-time composer Patrick Doyle, which was performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Simon Rattle.
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	Henry V - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry V of France (1820–1883), claimant to the throne of France.
		Henry V, one of the Shakespearean histories, based on the life of Henry V of England.
		Henry V, a 1989 film adaptation of the play, directed by Kenneth Branagh.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_V (135 words)

	Henry V (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Henry is an appointed symbol of majesty, and the action of the play is directed with the most elaborate care to show him doing everything that the age expected of the perfect king.
		Moreover, to portray Henry as the dupe of two scheming prelates, or as a crafty politician skillfully concealing his aims with the aid of an unscrupulous archbishop, is not consistent with claiming at the same time that he is the ideal king; indeed it is destructive of the moral epic purpose of the play.
		Henry was haunted I felt, not just by his father and their troubled relationship but also by the ghost of Richard II whom he invokes at the end of his famous "Upon the King" soliloquy.
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	Henry V (1989)
		In my opinion, Branagh's Henry V is not only the better of the two, but it is simply the best Shakespearian movie of all time.
		Scenes from the earlier plays are presented as flashbacks during the movie of Henry V to help flesh out some of the relationships, and to explain some of the dialogue in Henry V.
		Henry is left with just six thousand men (most of them archers), and they now face over thirty thousand French soldiers (most in heavy armour).
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	Henry V [1989] DVD at Shop Ireland
		Henry V [1989] starring: Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Paul Scofield, Judi Dench, Emma Thompson, Robbie Coltrane, Brian Blessed, Richard Briers Directed by: Kenneth Branagh by: Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi
		King Henry V has spent his youth making whopee, but grows up in a hurry when he feels he has to pursue a claim on the French throne created by his ancestor, the Black Prince, at Crecy.
		Henry is genuinely pious, but you catch the desperation in his prayer before the battle, when he begs God "not today, oh, not today" [remember how his father came to power by murdering Richard II].
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		1420 -- in the Treaty of Troyes, Henry V was recognized by the French as regent and heir to the French throne.
		The death of Henry V brought the brief period of Lancastrian success to an end.
		1422-1461 -- Henry VI was mentally unstable and his reign proved a disaster for England (with her forces defeated in the last campaigns of the Hundred Years' War) and the start of the War of the Roses.
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	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Henry V (1989)
		Thus, it was almost with a clap of thunder that Henry V arrived, both on the American art-house circuit and in a much-ballyhooed screening on PBS, a television channel not given to showing first-run theatrical films.
		Among all Shakespearean history plays, Henry V is a good choice for translating to film, in part because of its rather straightforward story, which keeps its focus almost entirely upon the young king and rarely drifts into awkward subplots.
		Henry's military adventure had great appeal to Elizabethan audiences (it was first performed in 1599), who took pride in their nationality at the height of the English Renaissance.
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	Filmtracks: Henry V (Patrick Doyle)
		The vehicle for this transition was Henry V, a project that proved to be equally important for Kenneth Branagh and the subsequent revival of the works of Shakespeare on the big screen in he 1990's.
		While in retrospect, the Henry V score exposes some of the simplicities that will be evident in any composer's first major recording for film, it also exists as early evidence of Doyle's vast potential in the composing field.
		At the outset of the film production of Henry V, Branagh asked the question, "how am I going to make it appeal to a wider audience?" The story is a political thriller, a study of leadership, a complex debate about war and the pity of war, and an uncompromising analysis of the English class system.
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	HENRY V Review
		Young Henry (played by Kenneth Branagh) has recently ascended English throne and many consider him inexperienced and still unfit to be the king, mostly due to his youthful rowdiness and friendship with notorious John Falstaff (played by Robbie Coltrane).
		Henry needs to establish his authority and the best way to do it is military campaign against France whose weak King (played by Paul Scofield) wants to deny him the right to succeed him at the French throne.
		HENRY V is probably the most popular of all Shakespeare's historical plays, and this might be explained with its tone being somewhat different from the rest of Shakespeare's work in that period.
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		Henry V, the eldest son of Henry IV and Mary Bohun, was born in 1387...
		Henry V is a 1944 film adaptation of the William Shakespeare play Henry V; it was released in Los...
		Henry V may refer to: This human name article is a disambiguation page a list of pages that might otherwise share the same title, which is a person's or persons' name.
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	'Henry V'
		Knowing his words make policy, he weighs them carefully, and if, for example, he allows himself to rail against the French ambassador, pledging to take revenge for the insults of the ambassador's masters, he does so with the knowledge that his country's course is already set and his florid anger is more show than real.
		In directing the battle scenes, Branagh has borrowed from Welles (particularly his staging of the Battle of Shrewsbury in "Chimes at Midnight") and Kurosawa, but there is enough of the director's inspiration in them to claim a greatness of their own.
		Branagh, with his "Henry," has accomplished a similar feat, and while his work doesn't supplant Olivier's, it is worthy of a place beside it.
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	Amazon.com: Henry V (1989) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Henry V qualifies as a masterpiece, the kind of film that comes along once in a decade.
		By sheer genius, Branagh was able to present HENRY V in all of its nationalistic glory, just as Shakespeare wrote it, while at the same time adding an anti-war footnote that serves both as counterpoint and commentary on the Bard's message.
		King Henry's threats outside the gates of Harfleur border on horrific, and his "Feast of St. Crispian" speech to his men before the battle of Agincourt is perhaps the most soul-stirring call to arms I have ever heard.
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	Henry V concerts
		Henry V: A Shakespeare Scenario was prepared in 1990 by Christopher Palmer, who assembled the principal movements of Walton's score - each telling a part of the tale - and then intercut them with speeches from those same events in Shakespeare's play.
		The idea of ''Henry V - A Shakespeare Scenario'' (as Friday's premiere called it) came from Sir Neville Marriner and Christopher Plummer: it is a 50- minute piece for actor, chorus and orchestra, and the labour of love was assigned to Christopher Palmer.
		Henry V in this version, despite a few token recurring themes and the conscription of a march Walton wrote for an unconnected television programme (it sounds like overscored Eric Coates), is still too bitty and dependent on the action as a framework.
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	DVDCC.COM: Henry V (1989) DVD REVIEW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		After fighting a Russian boxer in Henry IV, which was essentially a rehash of Henry III; the Henry character experiences a downward spiral in the penultimate feature.
		Henry V, while brilliant without any background info about the production, is made all the more interesting when the viewer considers that Brannagh was only 27 when he adapted, directed and starred in the feature.
		Much has been said about the contrast between the 1943 Olivier Henry V, which was a call to arms, and this bloody Henry, which might have made the post-Faulklin British wax introspective.
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	Henry V - William Shakespeare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Nicholas Hytner’s modern staging of Henry V at the Royal National Theatre in London transfers Shakespeare’s patriotic myth to the gritty realistic theatre of modern warfare and in doing so creates acute parallels to the recent invasion of Iraq.
		Shakespeare’s 1599 epic, which deals with Henry V’s invasion of France, the defeat of the French at Agincourt and the King’s subsequent courting of the French Princess Katherine, sits well on the open Olivier stage.
		Armored cars continually career around the stage; bombs, gunfire and even pistol shots are amplified as is Henry’s voice when he delivers his final ultimatum at the siege of Harfleur using a portable microphone.
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	Henry V (1989) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Taking Henry out of the confines of the play within a play (which tended to stagnate the 1944 film) was a good move.
		In his cast are Derek Jacobi (a memorable Chorus), Emma Thompson (disappointing as the future Queen), Richard Briers (excellent as Bardolph), Ian Holm (reliable as Fluellen), and (inspired casting) Michael Williams as Williams.
		A clever Henry V, then, with costumes for the period, but a relevance to the times.
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	Henry V (1989)
		Branagh's film replaces the patriotic zeal of Laurence Olivier's 1944 version of Henry V with a more sombre manner reflecting the brutality and futility of war, Branagh believing that Henry V was a play in need of rescue from the jingoism of its World War Two associations.
		After the battle, Henry rides across the fields of the dead, carrying on his shoulders the body of a dead youth.
		The film’s ending is something of an anti-climax as Henry turns from matters of state to those of the heart, and so his long-drawn-out courtship of French Princess Katherine (Emma Thompson) ensues.
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	eBay - Henry V Reviews
		The film follows Henry and his men through the brutality of fifteenth century warfare as the ragtag band confronts heavy opposition and their own destinies on a rainy French battlefield.
		HENRY V is a rousing, fascinating film about the power of courage and the price of glory.
		HENRY V was Christian Bale's next screen appearance after his critically acclaimed role in Steven Spielberg's EMPIRE OF THE SUN.
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	Bardolary - Henry V (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Henry V is surely one of the Shakespeare Plays most amenable to screen adaptation.
		Loaded with princes and nobles galore, decked out in the garments and weapons of chivalry, Henry V tells a tale of intrigues and betrayals, courtly romance, and heroic battles against outrageous odds.
		In this sense, and in spite of the otherwise notorious difficulties of bringing off Shakespeare in the medium of feature film, Henry V might be one of the few of the Bard’s plays which can actually work better on screen than on stage, given the vast resources of filmic make-believe.
	www.bardolatry.com /cathv.htm (590 words)

	The unofficial Henry V Kenneth Branagh 1989 Film page
		Kenneth Branagh (at right) did a splendid job both acting as Henry V himself and directing this film.
		Henry V was an excellent portrayal of a humble King (Kenneth Branagh) who knows what leadership is and how to handle it.
		Right now he is facing three men, traitors to the King, Henry V that is. He presented them with a case of a previous date of a drunkard that shouted some vile things about the king.
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	Henry V Shrine
		He was king of England from 1413 to 1422, the son of Henry IV.
		He was immortalized in three of Shakespeare's plays: iHenryIV, 2Henry IV (Prince Hal in both) and Henry V. "Henry V" has been adapted for the screen by Laurence Olivier (1944) and Ken Branagh (1989).
		He was one of the first kings to use English in 200 years.
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	Search Results for Henry V -- The Movie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Henry Fool Rated R for strong sexuality, violence and language This Cannes Film Festival winner for Best Screenplay can’t really be recommended to genteel church audiences who like their heroes clean and their experience uplifting.
		Henry V Drama, English, 1989, Color, min., MPAA PG Synopsis: Crowned at a young age, Henry V determines to be a decisive leader.
		HENRY V Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Paul Scofield, Emma Thompson Adapted for the Screen and Directed by Kenneth Branagh Henry V was the film that put Kenneth Branagh firmly on the British Film Industry map, gave him two Oscar nominations (he would...
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	DVD Talk Review: Henry V (1989)
		His approach is not traditional in a Laurence Olivier theatrical way but rather he stages the scenes in realistic environments, allowing the grit and grime of the locations to inform the texture of the film.
		By the time Henry orders attack and the arrows are finally let loose the scene has built up to such a powerful crescendo that it completely explodes in action.
		I'd imagine that Henry V might be a bit tough for those not familiar with the text, but this is a rewarding version of the play.
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		Henry V (2002, Bard On The Beach, Canada)
		A positive spin on the character of King Henry V both in light of and in spite of war, prisoners, religious politics, and his pursuit of Catherine:
		Henrie the fift, prince of Wales, sonne and heire to Henrie the fourth.
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	Amazon.ca: Henry V (Widescreen): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A triumphant, audacious film, Henry V marked an auspicious beginning for the career of director and star Kenneth Branagh.
		Somber, gray, and bearing none of the jingoistic glory of Laurence Olivier's 1944 version, Branagh's Henry is a muddy, bloody affair more interested in the complexities of the king himself than in his historic defeat of the French.
		Kenneth Branagh's splendid Henry V is the best Shakespeare film of the last forty years.
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		Having recently been crowned King of England, Henry commands a massive invasion to assert what he believes is his legal right to the throne of France.
		But a mighty army stands in his way...and the young monarch must rely on untested reserves of courage and cunning as he personally leads his outnumbered forces into a desperate battle for the honour and glory of the British Empire.
		Henry V and Poster ™ and copyright © 1989 Renaissance Films PLC
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