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Kenneth Branagh

Also known as:  Kenneth Charles Branagh
Born:  December 10, 1960 in Belfast, United Kingdom
Nationality:  Northern Irish:British:Irish

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Pirate Radio

(2009) R

Wallander: One Step Behind

(2008) Unrated

Valkyrie

(2008) PG-13

Wallander: Firewall

(2008) Unrated

Wallander: Sidetracked

(2008) Unrated

Shackleton

(2002) Unrated

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

(2002) PG

Rabbit-Proof Fence

(2002) PG

Conspiracy

(2001) R

How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

(2001) R

Love's Labour's Lost

(2000) PG

Wild Wild West

(1999) PG-13

The Theory of Flight

(1998) R

Celebrity

(1998) R

The Proposition

(1997) R

The Gingerbread Man

(1997) R

Hamlet

(1996) PG-13

Looking for Richard

(1996) PG-13

Othello

(1995) R

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

(1994) R

Swing Kids

(1993) PG-13

Much Ado about Nothing

(1993) PG-13

Peter's Friends

(1992) R

Dead Again

(1991) R

Henry V

(1989) Unrated

Look Back in Anger

(1989)

High Season

(1988) R

Fortunes of War

(1987) Unrated

The Lady's Not for Burning

(1987) Unrated

A Month in the Country

(1987) Unrated

Coming Through

(1985)

To the Lighthouse

(1983)

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Sleuth

(2007) R

As You Like It

(2006) PG

Love's Labour's Lost

(2000) PG

Hamlet

(1996) PG-13

A Midwinter's Tale

(1995) R

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

(1994) R

Much Ado about Nothing

(1993) PG-13

Peter's Friends

(1992) R

Dead Again

(1991) R

Henry V

(1989) Unrated

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The Road to El Dorado

(2000) PG

Filmography Writer

As You Like It

(2006) PG

Love's Labour's Lost

(2000) PG

Hamlet

(1996) PG-13

A Midwinter's Tale

(1995) R

Much Ado about Nothing

(1993) PG-13

Henry V

(1989) Unrated

Exciting, Alive and Vibrant
Reviewed by criddic2 for Hamlet at 2009-08-24 03:43:17

This is the only uncut version of Shakespeare's play committed to film. As such, it is a relief to find it done so well. While not all of the star-studded cast fit too easily (Jack Lemmon is a bit ill-at-ease in a brief bit), but others fare quite well (Heston, Crystal). Excellent production design, and great performances from Branagh, Winslet, Jacobi and Christie. If you fear the 4 hour running time, the Gibson version is fine. But if you want great cinema, this is the best version.

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Something's Rotten
Reviewed by shanahan for Hamlet at 2009-04-18 16:18:03

FOUR BONES? Have you been at the dognip? This thing is ghastly! Hamlet swinging on a chandelier across the room in the final scene? Give me a break - or a poison-tipped sword. This is like a Corman send-up of Shakespeare, without any of the humor. See Mel Gibson do his wired Prince, Nicol Williamson do his haunted Prince. (Skip Olivier's self-aggrandizing Prince-as-Young-Werther.) But stay away from this bizarrely inadvertent parody: Prince-as-Doug-Fairbanks.

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Totally Unfair Review
Reviewed by Appy_Entertainment for Valkyrie at 2008-12-11 21:47:34

Just because I haven't seen it doesn't mean I can't review it! http://goldenboat.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/not-at-the-movies-valkyrie/

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Ugh
Reviewed by mfaerber for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at 2008-03-10 13:14:11

Creepy, creepy, creepy. The effects and events are too much for some, but real horror folks might like it. Just not for the quemish

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Shakespeare on Screen 101.(Shakespeare and Film: A Norton Guide)(Book review)

Newspaper article from: Literature-Film Quarterly; 10/1/2009; Borlik, Todd ; 1952+ words...Shakespeare at the Cineplex: The Kenneth Branagh Era (2003), Samuel Crowl established...fare may still want to turn to Kenneth S. Rothwell's magisterial A...montage in the opening sequence of Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing and...

Turner Classic Movies to Launch a NIGHT AT THE MOVIES, New Series of One-Hour Specials Focusing on Film Genres.

Newspaper article from: Entertainment Newsweekly; 8/21/2009; 872+ words...director of The Usual Suspects and Valkyrie; Diablo Cody, writer and producer of the upcoming film Jennifer's Body; Kenneth Branagh, director and star of Dead Again; Mel Brooks, writer, director and star of the Hitchcock spoof High Anxiety...

Tracking the sounds of Franco Zeffirelli's The Taming of the Shrew.(Critical essay)

Newspaper article from: Literature-Film Quarterly; 4/1/2008; Kranz, David L. ; 10366+ words...its effects in obviously manipulative scenes (for example, Branagh's Non Nobis after Agincourt in Henry the Fifth), but again...analysis (as opposed to unsubstantiated opinion) is concerned, Kenneth Rothwell perceptively points out that two of Rota's musical...

"An excellent short cut to Shakespeare on film".(Shakespeare on Film: Such Things as Dreams Are Made Of)(Critical essay)

Newspaper article from: Literature-Film Quarterly; 4/1/2008; Vela, Richard ; 2039+ words...approach, Jess-Cooke, in effect, takes Kenneth S. Rothwell's "but is it Shakespeare...Kozintsev (1964), Zeffirelli (1990), and Branagh (1996) to demonstrate how a performance...repressed libido" (24). Finally, Branagh's Hamlet (1996) in the mirrored halls...

Adapting The Revengers Tragedy.

Newspaper article from: Literature-Film Quarterly; 4/1/2007; Cook, Patrick J. ; 4477+ words...confronting the makers of such a film concerns the use of the playwright's language. In what Samuel Crowl calls "the Kenneth Branagh era," Shakespearean films have fallen neatly into the two categories. Numerous spin-offs have fully modernized...