Videos

On YouTube,

• an extract from a 1960s production of MND. It is a big chunk of Act I, Sc. 1. (not really flamboyant...)
• a very insightful BBC documentary on "Staging Magic in MND", with lots of extracts from various productions, remarks on choices that have to be made (wings or no wings, whether to use magic wands, flying, etc.), and the implications of these choices (part I, part II, part III). Note all the references to the supernatural aspect of the fairy world. Note also the influence one director had: the great Peter Brook with his 1970 RSC production of MND and the notion of the "empty space", where the action of the play takes place and the story comes to life.
• Act II, Sc. 1, from the 1981 BBC Production. (note the cuts, the redistribution of lines, the choice of music, and all the specific directorial choices)

Looking for Richard (1996, Al Pacino) is available on YouTube, with French subtitles! (Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII)
The very beginning has a line from The Tempest that starts "Our revels now are ended." (= our festivities are now over). Apart from the fact that it sounds ironic to start a film by saying that the joy is over, it is another example of the Shakespearian idea that a play (or life, which often for Shakespeare means the same) is after all just a dream. If you watch a little more of the film, you will certainly become aware of the confusion Pacino and the actors find themselves in, of the manipulations that Shakespeare, Pacino and Richard use in a wonderful mise en abyme...