Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hamlet...
...HAMLET. Turns out that Mel Gibson, with his brooding presence and urgent baritone, is on speaking terms with Shakespeare. And Franco Zeffirelli's film is plenty pretty. It almost works as a cloak-and-bodkin adventure, but with one problem for the kids: all that talk...
...Hamlet In the year's finest U.S. classical revival, at San Diego's Old Globe, Campbell Scott was a revelation -- most memorably when he pounded in rage at being murdered just when he had proved, above all to himself, his worthiness to rule...
...befits the onset of the century's finale, a mixture of earnestness and irony -- a kind of American yin and yang -- characterized the year. The Northwest hamlet of Twin Peaks became the moody, ironic capital of the American landscape. Madonna, the queen of camp, literally and cheekily wrapped herself in the Stars and Stripes in a larky get-out-the-vote video. Even George Bush got into the irony act when he told America that since he is President, he no longer has to eat his broccoli...
...like Home Alone and cuddly creatures like Edward Scissorhands -- may mop up at the box office. But prestige is a Hollywood product too; it can be cashed in for Oscars if enough critics and Motion Picture Academy voters are impressed by what they see. So lauded literary properties like Hamlet and The Sheltering Sky become ambitious films. Herewith, three bookish films hoping for a shelf life that extends past New Year...