My parents bought this movie, we watched it with the extended family at christmas(we traditionally provide the obscure filmage) and since then i have watched it more times than i can remember. I thought it was brilliant the first time i saw it. Then I made a spoof film of hamlet with my friends and i got so much more of it. I felt like joe through most of production(there was a lot of screaming on my part. My actors kept throwing me new scheduling difficulties every day, it was impossible to keep them focused, and i thought we were going to run out of time). I loved this movie's interpretation of certain scenes in the play. Like the very first bit with the machine gun. hehehe Not to mention the fight between Hamlet and Laertes. (I actually took my cue from that one and made my version like a sporting event, with commentators and all.) Their actors put a lot of emotion into the performance. I loved the actors themselves, they were such a weird bunch thrown together and the development of their relationships was fun to watch. And it worked well in black and white. I just really like it.
Review of A Midwinter's Tale
