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Hamlet is a 1990 drama film based on the Shakespearean tragedy of the same name directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring Mel Gibson as the titular character. The film also features Glenn Close, Alan Bates, Paul Scofield, Ian Holm, Helena Bonham Carter, Stephen Dillane, and Nathaniel Parker. It is notable for being the first film from Icon Productions, a company co-founded by Gibson.
The cast includes three actors - Paul Scofield, Alan Bates, and Ian Holm - who had themselves played Hamlet on stage or film. It also features two actors - Stephen Dillane and Michael Maloney - who went on to play Hamlet onstage.
Dunnottar Castle, Stonehaven, Blackness Castle and Dover Castle were used as locations in the film.
Film scholar Deborah Cartmell has suggested that Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films are appealing because they are "sensual rather than cerebral", an approach by which he aims to make Shakespeare "even more popular". To this end, he cast Gibson — then famous for the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon films — in the title role. Cartmell also notes that the text is drastically cut, but with the effect of enhancing the roles of the women.
Actors: Lars von Trier (miscellaneous crew), Hans Lönnerheden (miscellaneous crew), Peter Aalbæk Jensen (producer), Gero Brugmann (miscellaneous crew), Manon Rasmussen (costume designer), Gabriel Yared (composer), Harriet Walter (actress), Karen Bentzon (producer), Mads Mikkelsen (actor), Lars von Trier (producer), Trine Dyrholm (actress), Jessica Ask (producer), David Dencik (actor), Peter Garde (producer), Søren Malling (actor),
Plot: In 1767, the British Princess Caroline is betrothed to the mad King Christian VII of Denmark, but her life with the erratic monarch in the oppressive country becomes an isolating misery. However, Christian soon gains a fast companion with the German Dr. Johann Struensee, a quietly idealistic man of the Enlightenment. As the only one who can influence the King, Struensee is able to begin sweeping enlightened reforms of Denmark through Christian even as Caroline falls for the doctor. However, their secret affair proves a tragic mistake that their conservative enemies use to their advantage in a conflict that threatens to claim more than just the lovers as their victims.
Keywords: 1760s, 1770s, 18th-century, aristocracy, arranged-marriage, bare-chested-male, based-on-true-story, bath, bathtub, beheadingActors: Caveh Zahedi (actor), Carlo Magno (actor), Greg Watkins (producer), Greg Watkins (editor), Greg Watkins (writer), Greg Watkins (director), Howard Swain (actor), Mark Anderson Phillips (actor), Patrick Alparone (actor), Ogie Zulueta (actor), Richard Clark (producer), Carrie Paff (actress), Jenna Davi (actress), Charles Shaw Robinson (actor), Liam Vincent (actor),
Plot: This Is Hamlet is a feature-length introduction to the world of Shakespeare's great tragedy, Hamlet, using 'Larry King' style interviews with the characters in character and an 'on the scene' reporter for updates in the wings as the play progresses. Funny, informative, entertaining. You'll understand Hamlet as you never have before.
Genres: Comedy, Documentary, Drama, History,Actors: Andrea F. Cannistraci (miscellaneous crew), Jaime Tirelli (actor), Joseph Basile (actor), Michael Brook (composer), Trish Gray (miscellaneous crew), Richard Bull (actor), Richard Anderson (actor), Michael Gaston (actor), Shannon Dennard (miscellaneous crew), Paul Mezey (producer), Tomas Johansson (actor), Braulio Castillo (actor), Byron Browne (actor), Denton Hanna (producer), Eddie Martinez (actor),
Plot: By 2008, more than 25 percent of major league baseball players were born in Latin America. At 19, Miguel "Sugar" Santos, a serious kid from the Dominican Republic, signs with Kansas City. He flies to Phoenix for tryouts and is sent to the Class A team "The Swing" in the fictional town of Bridgetown, Iowa, where he lives with a farm family. Thus begins his odyssey: leaving his mom and girlfriend; living in an alien culture; learning English; overcoming jitters; working hard; achieving early success; navigating friendships, occasional racism, and a woman's mixed signals; dealing with an injury; trying performance-enhancing drugs; and, searching for his place in the world. Will he make it to the Majors; will he play in New York?
Keywords: american-dream, athlete, baseball, caribbean, character-name-in-title, coming-of-age, dominican-republic, fish-out-of-water, furniture, illegal-immigrantActors: Michael Rubbo (actor), Michael Rubbo (producer), Michael Rubbo (writer), Nick Fraser (miscellaneous crew), Michael Rubbo (director), Tony Barry (actor), Michael Rubbo (actor), Mark Rylance (actor), Christopher Gordon (composer), David Fanning (producer), Scott Ainslie (actor), Mary Jane St. Vincent Welch (editor), Nicholas Cassim (actor), Stanley Wells (actor), Penny McDonald (producer),
Genres: Documentary, Mystery,Actors: Claire Bloom (actress), Roger Rees (actor), Laurence Olivier (actor), John Barrymore (actor), Claire Bloom (actress), Claire Bloom (actress), Claire Bloom (actress), Claire Bloom (actress), Claire Bloom (actress), Claire Bloom (actress), Claire Bloom (actress), Claire Bloom (actress), Claire Bloom (actress), Claire Bloom (actress), William Shakespeare (writer),
Plot: Claire Bloom has performed leading and important supporting roles in numerous plays by William Shakespeare, starting while she was still in her teens. In this documentary, she discusses her experiences and performs monologues and soliloquies from 'Romeo and Juliet,' 'The Merchant of Venice,' 'As You Like It,' 'Richard III,' 'Hamlet,' and 'King Henry the Eighth,' among others. Film and television footage from her earlier performances is also featured, as is a brief clip of Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet in a 1900 silent film version of that play.
Keywords: based-on-play, character-name-in-title, reference-to-shakespeare's-as-you-like-it, reference-to-shakespeare's-coriolanus, reference-to-shakespeare's-cymbeline, reference-to-shakespeare's-hamlet, reference-to-shakespeare's-henry-viii, reference-to-shakespeare's-king-john, reference-to-shakespeare's-othello, reference-to-shakespeare's-richard-iiiActors: Ken Burns (producer), Ken Burns (writer), Marie Mosquini (actress), Orson Welles (actor), Frank Sinatra (actor), Jason Robards (actor), Winston Churchill (actor), Franklin D. Roosevelt (actor), Harry S. Truman (actor), Lee De Forest (actor), John Barrymore (actor), Dwight D. Eisenhower (actor), Gene Autry (actor), Ken Burns (director), Ralph Edwards (actor),
Genres: Documentary, History,Actors: John Barrymore (actor), John Gielgud (actor), John Gielgud (actor), Laurence Olivier (actor), Maximilian Schell (actor), Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy (actor), Karl Michael Vogler (actor), Nicol Williamson (actor), Norman Wooland (actor), Sarah Bernhardt (actress), Ronald Hobin (producer),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Alfredo Alcón (actor), José Soriano (actor), William Shakespeare (writer), Ernesto Bianco (actor), Juan Carlos Gené (actor), Bárbara Mújica (actress), Guillermo Bredeston (actor), David Stivel (director), Eva Donge (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: George Murphy (actor), Walter Byron (actor), Alex Melesh (actor), Richard Carle (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), Henry Armetta (actor), Mischa Auer (actor), Harry Depp (actor), Lee Tung Foo (actor), Willie Fung (actor), Claude Gillingwater (actor), Hugh Herbert (actor), Tom Herbert (actor), Samuel S. Hinds (actor), Dennis O'Keefe (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Musical,Actors: Irving Pichel (actor), Donald Crisp (actor), Reginald Denny (actor), John Barrymore (actor), William Shakespeare (writer), Robert Edmond Jones (director), Margaret Carrington (director),
Genres: Drama,If the dull substance of my flesh were thought
Injurious distance should not stop my way
For then despite of space, I would be brought
From limits far remote where thou dost stay
Not so far, mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
How to divide the conquest of your irresistible sight
When you are here with your poetry.
But ah! Thought kills me that I'm not thought
To leap large lengths of miles when you are gone
These are our sacrifices, roses have thorns and silver fountains mud
But that, so much of earth and water wrought
I must attend time's leisure with my moan
Let me confess that we two... we must be twain!
Rise with your stateliness, dream of us with open eye
Like waves make towards the shore
Our minutes hasten to their end
Not so far, mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
How to divide the conquest of your irresistible sight
When you are here in your person.
But ah! Thought kills me that I'm not thought
To leap large lengths of miles when you are gone
These are our sacrifices, roses have thorns and silver fountains mud
But that, so much of earth and water wrought
I must attend time's leisure with my moan
These are our sacrifices...
Mine are heavy tears, mine is the grief of having you
So shall I compare you to a summer's day?
No, you are more lovely and more temperate
Within the distance my mind dives in yours
Who will believe my verse in time to come
If it were filled with your most high deserts, and with my love?
So long as eyes can see