{"id":1403,"date":"2007-05-10T11:47:27","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T18:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2007-05-10T09:10:53","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T16:10:53","slug":"cri-de-coeur-meets-the-long-tail-kenneth-branaghs-hamlet-to-be-released-finally-on-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1403\/cri-de-coeur-meets-the-long-tail-kenneth-branaghs-hamlet-to-be-released-finally-on-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"Cri de coeur meets The Long Tail: Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet to be released, finally, on DVD"},"content":{"rendered":"

How long is The Long Tail? Long enough, even, for Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet<\/i>, ten long years after its theatrical release. I despair for the state of staged drama, and not just in the chip-on-its-shoulder burgs<\/a>, but this, in Horace’s phrasing, is “a monument more lasting than bronze.”<\/p>\n

The news: Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet<\/i> is to be released on DVD, at last<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We’ve been on the waiting list at Amazon.com for years, and I’d like to hope that this is a vindication of the waiting list idea, a social tug-of-war to stretch<\/i> The Long Tail.<\/p>\n

I’ve written a lot about this film, huge surprise. The introduction below was written in November of 1997. The Cameron you meet there would have just turned six years old. The review comes from February of 1997, at the time of Hamlet<\/i>‘s theatrical release.<\/p>\n

 
Hamlet past his bedtime<\/b><\/p>\n

I rented Branagh’s Hamlet<\/i> last night. I had seen it this spring at a big-screen theater in Phoenix, an unforgettable experience. Sadly, the videotape is not letterboxed, so much of the wide screen impact is lost. Nevertheless it is quite fine and very worth renting — or buying.<\/p>\n

My six-year-old son Cameron came out of his bedroom and tried to pretend that he just had<\/i> to see the film, a staying-up-late ploy that never works and that he never stops trying. Surprise of all surprises, last night I let him stay up, and he surprised me by becoming engrossed. I had to synopsize for him now and then (though Hamlet<\/i> in synopsis is very brief), but he figured out from the synopsis that Hamlet<\/i> and The Lion King<\/i> are the same story. Not even Cameron can stay up as late as Kenneth Branagh, but he made it to the slaying of Polonius, nearly two hours.<\/p>\n

Branagh’s Shakespeare is vigorous, to say the absolute least, but this can’t be a vice when we are so used to thinking of these plays as dry and dull, the fitting penance of a schoolhardy youth. In the theater I thought the ghost was too much, but it was just enough on the television screen, and it was the ghost who hooked Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How long is The Long Tail? Long enough, even, for Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet, ten long years after its theatrical release. I despair for the state of staged drama, and not just in the chip-on-its-shoulder burgs, but this, in Horace’s phrasing, is “a monument more lasting than bronze.” The news: Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet is to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-casual-friday","7":"category-egoism-in-action","8":"category-general","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1402,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1402\/a-cry-from-the-heart-for-every-chip-on-its-shoulder-burg-in-america-stage-true-drama-in-the-theatre-darling\/","url_meta":{"origin":1403,"position":0},"title":"A cry from the heart for every chip-on-its-shoulder burg in America: Stage true drama in the theatre, darling","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We saw a performance piece called \"Love, Janis\" last week. 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