Hamlet

You have to admire Michael Almereyda's contemporary rendition of Shakespeare's Hamlet if for no other reason than its audacity in staging one of the passive prince's timeless soliloquies in the Action aisle of his local Blockbuster. “Go Home Happy,” chirps the store banner in the background.

"...have to admire Michael Almereyda's contemporary rendition of Shakespeare's Hamlet if for no other reason than its audacity in..."

June 23, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hamlet 2

The manic comedian Steve Coogan plays a high school drama teacher who pens a scandalous remake of the Bard's classic in an attempt to save his Tucson class from budget cuts.

"...exercise in self-flagellation (on both sides of the screen). Hamlet 2, while great, sick fun, never fully lives up..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ballet Austin Returns With Revival of Hamlet

Company’s most successful production launches 2023-24 season

"...the return of Stephen Mills' critically acclaimed adaptation of Hamlet...."

Aug. 12, 2023 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Grand Theft Hamlet

“To be or not to be” in a virtual reality mid-pandemic? Fantastic.

"...is one thing of which the totally excellentGrand Theft Hamlet reminds you, it’s that we all went a little..."

March 11, 2024 Screens Post by Joe Gross

My Grandfather's Hamlet

"...started this conversation was Kenneth Branagh's new film of Hamlet. It reminded my father of the one time he..."

Jan. 31, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

Hamlet

The melancholy Dane gets fierce in this most professional staging by Mary Moody Northen Theatre

"...of many Austin-area productions, and the current production of Hamlet is no exception. While guest artists Kenneth Wayne Bradley..."

Nov. 21, 2014 Arts Review by Elissa Russell

Hamlet

"...into which modern viewers can key. When he has Hamlet retreat into a library and lean against a wall,..."

Jan. 24, 1997 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Revenge, Deferred in Stephen Mills' Hamlet

Post-pandemic, Stephen Mills brings his career-defining Hamlet back to Ballet Austin

"...Director Stephen Mills to create his groundbreaking adaptation of Hamlet in 2000, and to now bring it back for..."

Sept. 8, 2023 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Ballet Austin's Hamlet

Long after everyone who was in Bass Concert Hall the night of October 29 has shuffled off this mortal coil, Stephen Mills' ballet of Hamlet will live. Ballet Austin's world premiere production looked and sounded sublime.

"...Bass Concert Hall, Ballet Austin's world premiere production of Hamlet, choreographed by artistic director Stephen Mills, looked and sounded..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Arts Review by Rob Curran

Play’s the Thing in Grand Theft Hamlet

Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane take arms against a sea of virtual troubles

"...use gaming as their new creative endeavor, Grand Theft Hamlet, which world premieres Sunday at South by Southwest. Crane..."

March 9, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Hamlet (Gamlet)

"...Russian version of the Shakespearean play emphasizes an "active" Hamlet rather than a conflicted Freud-driven hero. The music and..."

Nov. 12, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Play’s the Thing in Grand Theft Hamlet

Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane take arms against a sea of virtual troubles

March 15, 2024 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

A Budding Hamlet

Georgetown Village: Smart Growth Without Trying

July 31, 1998 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Words, Words, Words

"...have during my life to defend every part of Hamlet and Othello, the simple fact is that there are..."

Aug. 19, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

UT Theatre & Dance's 12 Ophelias (a play with broken songs)

In a work more poetry than story, playwright Caridad Svich has drowned Ophelia resurface, freed from Hamlet's shadow

"...playwright to revisit. She follows all the rules, but Hamlet's doomed girlfriend really gets the short end of the..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Scanlines

Hamlet

"...a good little boy and is eager to don Hamlet's black, Othello's seizures, or Richard III's hump in order..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Screens Feature

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

"...find out what's wrong with her son, poor, melancholy Hamlet. Offstage, around them, sometimes beside them, the story of..."

May 10, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Princes to Act

"...falls victim to Kenneth Branagh’s high-pitched directorial vision in Hamlet and comes off sounding like a banshee...."

Aug. 21, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

A Midwinter's Tale

"...tiny English village at Christmastime and attempt to stage Hamlet with seven actors and no money? They're a plucky..."

March 15, 1996 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Der Bestrafte Brudermord

As realized by the Hidden Room, this German puppet version of 'Hamlet' is as much Monty Python as Shakespeare

"...1710 German puppet version of the Shakespearean masterpiece as Hamlet without the "thinky bits."..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Arts Review by Stacy Alexander Evans

Scanlines

Kenneth Branagh and Julie Christie in Hamlet. Mel who?

"...have to do with the average gal. --Jerry Renshaw Hamlet..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Screens Feature

It Chapter Two

Back to Derry as the Losers Club takes on Pennywise again

"...to return to the well and truly cursed Maine hamlet of Derry. With the lone exception of Mike Hanlon..."

Sept. 6, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cold Pursuit

Liam Neeson is Mr. Plow ... with a vengeance

"...Disappearance, relocates the action to the snowbound Colorado resort hamlet of Kehoe but keeps nearly the entire plot the..."

Feb. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In a Valley of Violence

Ti West takes a break from horror with this Ethan Hawke Western

"...man Paul (Ethan Hawke) rides angry into the dirtwater hamlet of Denton. This drifter’s best friend has been shot..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Haider

Hindi adaptation of Hamlet is set in mid-Nineties Kashmir.

"...Not reviewed at press time. This Hindi adaptation of Hamlet sets the action in mid-Nineties Kashmir...."

Oct. 3, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Lion King 3D

Disney has retrofitted its 1994 hit in 3-D for a limited theatrical run.

"...reviewed at press time. Disney has retrofitted its much-loved, Hamlet-lite family film The Lion King in 3-D for a..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Closing Arguments

Olivier versus Branagh

"...with Ethan Hawke in general, just Ethan Hawke as Hamlet. And as a novelist, I guess. And as a..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

30 Days of Night

This film's high-concept stroke of genius lies not with its vampire clan but with the setting: a tiny Alaskan hamlet where nightfall indeed lasts all month.

"...its vampire clan but with the setting: the tiny hamlet of Barrow, Alaska, where residents do indeed experience the..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cocaine Cowboys

Documentary shows how Miami was once a sleepy seaside hamlet with a permeable border and largely unprotected coastline before the cocaine economy took over.

"...Before the cocaine economy, Miami was a sleepy seaside hamlet, a “virgin city” with a permeable border and largely..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Hostage

Bruce Willis is called back to active crime-fighting duty in this new thriller.

"...manages to tuck himself away in his new low-crime hamlet, and his frustrated wife (Serena Scott Thomas) and daughter..."

March 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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