{"id":127533,"date":"2015-08-15T23:01:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T05:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/15\/movie-review-henry-v-1989.html"},"modified":"2015-08-25T08:28:32","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T14:28:32","slug":"movie-review-henry-v-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/15\/movie-review-henry-v-1989.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: "Henry V" (1989)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kenneth Branagh provides a textbook case of how to adapt Shakespeare for the screen. This movie has an amazing cast (http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0097499\/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast<\/a>), and is a fine way to spend two hours and 17 minutes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nA ★★★★½ review of Henry V (1989)<\/a><\/span>
\nIt’s been a heck of a long time since I watched the Branagh Henry V — but having seen a fine stage production of the play last weekend, I wanted to do so. And I wasn’t disappointed. Whether it’s the cast of remarkable luminaries (Brian Blessed, Ian Holm, Judi Dench, Robbie Coltrane, Paul Scofield, Emma Thompson, even a very young Christian Bale), the fine costuming and production work, or the remarkable oratory skills of Branagh himself in the t…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Kenneth Branagh provides a textbook case of how to adapt Shakespeare for the screen. This movie has an amazing cast (http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0097499\/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast), and is a fine way to spend two hours and 17 minutes. A ★★★★½ review of Henry V (1989) It’s been a heck of a long time since I watched the Branagh Henry V … Continue reading “Movie Review: "Henry V" (1989)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37920,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/27\/movie-review-becket-1964.html","url_meta":{"origin":127533,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: "Becket" (1964)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 27-Jun-13 6:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not quite sure how I missed this movie in the past, but glad I caught up to it in the present. \u00a0Burton's great, but O'Toole is fantastic (complete with a cameo by his then-wife Sian Phillips). \u00a0Ironically, he played Henry II in \"The Lion in Winter,\" too.Great film, despite being\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":32756,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/17\/movie-review-indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade.html","url_meta":{"origin":127533,"position":1},"title":"Movie Review: "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 17-Mar-13 9:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Quite entertaining, after all these years. 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