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Hamlet
1964 · Film · 191 min
Directed by Bill Colleran, John Gielgud
A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York. It was deliberately staged in the style of a "dress rehearsal", but performed in front of a live audience.
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How did that get here?
I was disappointed to find that it didn't mention the greatest Russian Hamlet, which was the 1964 black and white movie version directed by Grigori Kozintsev (1). This used a translation by Boris Pasternak.
It won a lot of awards at the time, and the cinemaphotography is wonderful, but it's probably much too dated for modern tastes...
(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_(1964_film)
(2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp5Rz0LqUSM
All true, sadly. However, good actors speak in ways that can be heard and understood, and good directors make the action understandable. (Understandable in context: you might be in a fairyland where the world is different.)
It helps that when I studied Shakespeare I saw most of the productions in Stratford on Avon, but lots of plays are available on DVD now. In the old days, eg to take in Grigori Kozintsev's Hamlet, I had to go to the cinema three nights in a row....