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Year: 1944
Director: Laurence Olivier
Plot: Laurence Olivier's adaptation of Henry V is one of the finest Shakespeare films ever made, full of rousing action, beautiful colors and passionate performances. Henry V is the story of the newly crowned king of England who fights the French for possession of Normandy. Olivier's direction is inventive, beginning the film as if it were a performance at the Globe Theatre, and having it slowly expand so the final battle scenes take place in realistic settings. Released in 1944 during the height of World War II, Henry V didn't receive an American release until 1946, upon which Olivier won a special Academy Award for "his outstanding achievement as actor, producer and director in bringing Henry V to the screen." ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide
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]]>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:41:15 GMTHenry V1944Laurence Olivier<a href="/players/P___105057/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Laurence Olivier</a>'s adaptation of Henry V is one of the finest Shakespeare films ever made, full of rousing action, beautiful colors and passionate performances. Henry V is the story of the newly crowned king of England who fights the French for possession of Normandy. Olivier's direction is inventive, beginning the film as if it were a performance at the Globe Theatre, and having it slowly expand so the final battle scenes take place in realistic settings. Released in 1944 during the height of World War II, Henry V didn't receive an American release until 1946, upon which Olivier won a special Academy Award for "his outstanding achievement as actor, producer and director in bringing Henry V to the screen." ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide21Tag Target (>10)1543http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t02681vcmju.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Henry_V/15188/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/risselada/archive/2009/5/12/42252.aspx Post By: Risselada
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Body: This blog entry is part of my "movie year countdown round #2". Read more about that here. Henry V I'm not sure if I ever found Shakespeare easy to follow, but for some reason before I stuck this DVD in to start watching this film, I think I had created the illusion that I did. Maybe because I had read a lot of it before in school. I've seen many Shakespeare plays performed. I've even seen some performed by the worlds most renowned Shakespeare performers in Shakespeare's own local of London and Stratford-upon-Avon. I've seen several Shakespeare films. And I've even performed in Twelfth Night. I guess that was a while ago, because it seems that I forgot that unless the performers or the staging goes to extra length to make a modern audience like myself get the gist, the words take a lot of reading over and over and usually excessive research to really understand what the heck is going on or really being said. Lawrence Olivier's Henry V did not really help me out here. I was actually pretty intrigued at the beginning when the film begins in a sincere recreation of London's Globe theatre. We see the audience members enter. We see real actors as they would have looked like at that time. We see them both on stage, and behind the stage. We recognize them more as actors than as their characters. We see the reactions of the crowd and the rowdy behavior. We see how the weather can affect an outdoor performance of the time when it starts to rain. I couldn't understand what was happening in the story for a while, but I was becoming interested in the story as a kind of recreation of what it was like to be in the Globe theatre at that time. But then we actually enter conventional Shakespeare movie mode. And since I still have little clue about what is going on, and the interest in seeing what might happen in a recreation of a live theatre performance in a rowdy crowd has been crushed when this context is removed, I start to get bored. And I get more and more bored. I understand from the audio commentary (yes, I'm obsessed with watching audio commentaries even on [or especially on] movies which at first I did not enjoy) that this was a product of it's time and was supposed to be a jingoistic kind of propaganda piece for Britain to boost morale in WWII. But I'm having enough trouble getting into the story to concentrate on that context. In fact, listening to the commentary, I realized that I was being buried with layers upon layers of references to previous times. So I'm sitting here in 2009, listening to an audio commentary that was probably recorded some time around 1999, about a movie that was released in 1944, about a play that was probably performed some time in the early 1600s, that was cultivated from sources written several years earlier, about events that actually occurred around 1415. Yikes! And not only that, the whole history of the English monarchy is somewhat assume knowledge for the original audience. Maybe other Shakespeare plays just have more universal appeal, and that's why I didn't like this one as much as I thought I would. But as the biggest icon of modern Shakespeare performance, I would have hoped the Olivier could have impressed me more. Maybe his heir to the title Kenneth Branagh's version would be more appealing to me, but at this point I'm not in any hurry to find out. Rating: 4/10
]]>Tue, 12 May 2009 21:37:35 GMTRisseladaRisselada Blog5/12/2009 5:37:35 PMThis blog entry is part of my "movie year countdown round #2". Read more about that here. Henry V I'm not sure if I ever found Shakespeare easy to follow, but for some reason before I stuck this DVD in to start watching this film, I think I had created the illusion that I did. Maybe because I had read a lot of it before in school. I've seen many Shakespeare plays performed. I've even seen some performed by the worlds most renowned Shakespeare performers in Shakespeare's own local of London and Stratford-upon-Avon. I've seen several Shakespeare films. And I've even performed in Twelfth Night. I guess that was a while ago, because it seems that I forgot that unless the performers or the staging goes to extra length to make a modern audience like myself get the gist, the words take a lot of reading over and over and usually excessive research to really understand what the heck is going on or really being said. Lawrence Olivier's Henry V did not really help me out here. I was actually pretty intrigued at the beginning when the film begins in a sincere recreation of London's Globe theatre. We see the audience members enter. We see real actors as they would have looked like at that time. We see them both on stage, and behind the stage. We recognize them more as actors than as their characters. We see the reactions of the crowd and the rowdy behavior. We see how the weather can affect an outdoor performance of the time when it starts to rain. I couldn't understand what was happening in the story for a while, but I was becoming interested in the story as a kind of recreation of what it was like to be in the Globe theatre at that time. But then we actually enter conventional Shakespeare movie mode. And since I still have little clue about what is going on, and the interest in seeing what might happen in a recreation of a live theatre performance in a rowdy crowd has been crushed when this context is removed, I start to get bored. And I get more and more bored. I understand from the audio commentary (yes, I'm obsessed with watching audio commentaries even on [or especially on] movies which at first I did not enjoy) that this was a product of it's time and was supposed to be a jingoistic kind of propaganda piece for Britain to boost morale in WWII. But I'm having enough trouble getting into the story to concentrate on that context. In fact, listening to the commentary, I realized that I was being buried with layers upon layers of references to previous times. So I'm sitting here in 2009, listening to an audio commentary that was probably recorded some time around 1999, about a movie that was released in 1944, about a play that was probably performed some time in the early 1600s, that was cultivated from sources written several years earlier, about events that actually occurred around 1415. Yikes! And not only that, the whole history of the English monarchy is somewhat assume knowledge for the original audience. Maybe other Shakespeare plays just have more universal appeal, and that's why I didn't like this one as much as I thought I would. But as the biggest icon of modern Shakespeare performance, I would have hoped the Olivier could have impressed me more. Maybe his heir to the title Kenneth Branagh's version would be more appealing to me, but at this point I'm not in any hurry to find out. Rating: 4/10 http://www.spout.com/blogs/risselada/archive/2007/11/19/21772.aspx Post By: Risselada
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Post Date: 11/19/2007 11:10:22 AM
Body: This is a list for Round 2 of my movie year countdown viewing project as first described here. If by any strange chance whoever is reading this is actually following along you may notice that I'm still less than two thirds of the way through my original one. Well I'm starting this new one because as much as I love old movies it can get a little tedious watching just older movies. So I'm going to be blending my watching of the two lists together. Still focusing on the original one, but every once in a while sliding in the next entry from this new list.Again these new movies are limited to full length movies that are available on Netflix. And for this new round instead of picking a movie from every year, I will be picking a movie from every two years. For example the first movie must have come out during 2006 or 2007. The second movie must have come out in 2004 or 2005. The next in 2002 or 2003. You see.The list is not finished yet, but here is what I have decided so far. I will update this post later with the new flicks.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------1. Children of Men (2006)2. The New World (2005)3. Mou gaan dou (Infernal Affairs) (2002)4. Riri Shushu no subete (All About Lily Chou-Chou) (2001)5. Party Monster (1998)6. Hard Eight (1996)7. Smoke (1995)8. Jennifer Eight (1992)9. The Fisher King (1991)10. Tetsuo (Tetsuo, the Iron Man) (1989)11. Angel Heart (1987)12. Runaway Train (1985)13. Burden of Dreams (1982)14. The Big Red One (1980)15. Stalker (1979)16. Network (1976)17. Angst essen Seele auf (Ali: Fear Eats the Soul) (1974)18. The Wicker Man (1973)19. Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit (Land of Silence and Darkness) (1971)20. Z (1969)21. In Cold Blood (1967)22. Suna no onna (Woman in the Dunes) (1964)23. The Intruder (1962)24. Jungfrukällan (The Virgin Spring) (1960)25. Pickpocket (1959)26. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)27. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)28. Shane (1953)29. Winchester '73 (1950)30. The Big Clock (1948)31. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)32. The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France (1944)33. Hi Diddle Diddle (1943)34. The Philadelphia Story (1940)35. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)36. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)37. Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)38. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)39. Zemlya (Earth) (1930)40. Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box) (1929)41. The Unknown (1927)42. Seven Chances (1925)43. Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler - Ein Bild der Zeit (Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler) (1922)44. The Kid (1921)45. Male and Female (1919)46. Umirayushchii Lebed (The Dying Swan) (1917)47. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
]]>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:10:22 GMTRisseladaRisselada Blog11/19/2007 11:10:22 AMThis is a list for Round 2 of my movie year countdown viewing project as first described here. If by any strange chance whoever is reading this is actually following along you may notice that I&#39;m still less than two thirds of the way through my original one. Well I&#39;m starting this new one because as much as I love old movies it can get a little tedious watching just older movies. So I&#39;m going to be blending my watching of the two lists together. Still focusing on the original one, but every once in a while sliding in the next entry from this new list.Again these new movies are limited to full length movies that are available on Netflix. And for this new round instead of picking a movie from every year, I will be picking a movie from every two years. For example the first movie must have come out during 2006 or 2007. The second movie must have come out in 2004 or 2005. The next in 2002 or 2003. You see.The list is not finished yet, but here is what I have decided so far. I will update this post later with the new flicks.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------1. Children of Men (2006)2. The New World (2005)3. Mou gaan dou (Infernal Affairs) (2002)4. Riri Shushu no subete (All About Lily Chou-Chou) (2001)5. Party Monster (1998)6. Hard Eight (1996)7. Smoke (1995)8. Jennifer Eight (1992)9. The Fisher King (1991)10. Tetsuo (Tetsuo, the Iron Man) (1989)11. Angel Heart (1987)12. Runaway Train (1985)13. Burden of Dreams (1982)14. The Big Red One (1980)15. Stalker (1979)16. Network (1976)17. Angst essen Seele auf (Ali: Fear Eats the Soul) (1974)18. The Wicker Man (1973)19. Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit (Land of Silence and Darkness) (1971)20. Z (1969)21. In Cold Blood (1967)22. Suna no onna (Woman in the Dunes) (1964)23. The Intruder (1962)24. Jungfruk&auml;llan (The Virgin Spring) (1960)25. Pickpocket (1959)26. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)27. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)28. Shane (1953)29. Winchester &#39;73 (1950)30. The Big Clock (1948)31. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)32. The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France (1944)33. Hi Diddle Diddle (1943)34. The Philadelphia Story (1940)35. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)36. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)37. Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)38. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)39. Zemlya (Earth) (1930)40. Die B&uuml;chse der Pandora (Pandora&#39;s Box) (1929)41. The Unknown (1927)42. Seven Chances (1925)43. Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler - Ein Bild der Zeit (Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler) (1922)44. The Kid (1921)45. Male and Female (1919)46. Umirayushchii Lebed (The Dying Swan) (1917)47. The Birth of a Nation (1915) http://www.spout.com/blogs/chesterfilms/archive/2007/10/30/21287.aspx Post By: chesterfilms
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Post Date: 10/30/2007 3:19:44 AM
Body: Well, This was actually my first viewing of any Henry V adaptation (that I remember). First off, I am a sucker for Technicolor. I freaking love it! I really enjoyed the whole performance aspect of it. I really want to see a different version that might play out like a regular film. I'm gonna check out Branagh's version. Great opening and great battle scene. Olivier did a good job, but it wasn't really much different to me than some of his other Shakespeare performances It felt a bit dated at times, but I really enjoyed it overall. . Looking forward to seeing more!
]]>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:19:44 GMTchesterfilmschesterfilms Blog10/30/2007 3:19:44 AMWell, This was actually my first viewing of any Henry V adaptation (that I remember). First off, I am a sucker for Technicolor. I freaking love it! I really enjoyed the whole performance aspect of it. I really want to see a different version that might play out like a regular film. I&#39;m gonna check out Branagh&#39;s version. Great opening and great battle scene. Olivier did a good job, but it wasn&#39;t really much different to me than some of his other Shakespeare performances It felt a bit dated at times, but I really enjoyed it overall. . Looking forward to seeing more! http://www.spout.com/blogs/qflw/archive/2007/5/5/8209.aspx Post By: QFLW
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Post Date: 5/5/2007 3:02:01 AM
Body: A boring Sir Larry performance? Or a boring Shakespeare play? How could either be possible? Yet it was so. I couldn't stay interested in either the story or how it was performed and literally nodded off. So I was quite skeptical about the buzz Kenneth Branagh's version was getting years later. Thank gods I gave Branagh a chance--thoroughly loved his rendition. Hearing his St. Crispin's Day speech made me want to jump up and follow Harry into battle. Though I still say Henry the Fifth's reason for going to war (according to Shakespeare) was rather thin.:-)
]]>Sat, 05 May 2007 07:02:01 GMTQFLWQFLW Blog5/5/2007 3:02:01 AMA boring Sir Larry performance? Or a boring Shakespeare play? How could either be possible? Yet it was so. I couldn&#39;t stay interested in either the story or how it was performed and literally nodded off. So I was quite skeptical about the buzz Kenneth Branagh&#39;s version was getting years later. Thank gods I gave Branagh a chance--thoroughly loved his rendition. Hearing his St. Crispin&#39;s Day speech made me want to jump up and follow Harry into battle. Though I still say Henry the Fifth&#39;s reason for going to war (according to Shakespeare) was rather thin.:-) http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/war/MemberTagFilms.aspxwar
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