Word: branagh
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...come to bury Branagh, not to praise him. Sorry, wrong play and all, but as Kenneth Branagh turns 40 this year--and as he presents Love's Labour's Lost, his fourth Shakespeare film as star and director--it's time to wonder what happened to this Great Hope of the British Theatre, this jack-of-all-arts, this next Olivier. By his mid-20s Branagh had earned raves as Henry V at the Royal Shakespeare Company, staged and fronted an acclaimed Romeo and Juliet and starred in the miniseries Fortunes of War with his future wife Emma Thompson...
...LOVE'S LABOURS LOST Directed by Kenneth Branagh Starring Kenneth Branagh, Alicia Silverstone JUNE...
...glitzier Hollywood of the 1930s. The classic and comedic tale of oaths and devotion, love and loyalty, takes on an entirely new twist when plopped down into the world exploited and adored by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Not that any setting can ever replace the original, but Kenneth Branagh's adaptation is an acclaimed success, having already screened in London...
...world equal parts Ancient Rome and post-medieval Europe. So even though she allows monumental flights of historical fancy, Taymor is able to successfully preserve a greater portion of the original text than has been used in any recent film adaptation of Shakespeare with the exception of Kenneth Branagh's 1996 Hamlet...