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Rank Film Points L #1
#1 Chimes at Midnight (Welles, 1965) 52 13 7
#2 Throne of Blood (Kurosawa, 1957) 50 14 6
#3 Ran (Kurosawa, 1985) 43 12 2
#4 The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (Welles, 1952) 41 11 2
#5 Hamlet (Kozintsev, 1964) 15 5 -
#6 King Lear (Kozintsev, 1971) 10 3 1
The Tragedy of Macbeth (Polanski, 1971) 10 4 1
#8 Henry V (OLivier, 1944) 9 4 -
#9 Macbeth (Welles, 1948) 8 3 -
#10 West Side Story (Robbins & Wise, 1961) 7 2 -
#11 Hamlet (Olivier, 1948) 6 3 -
Hamlet (Branagh, 1996) 6 3 -
Romeo + Juliet (Luhrmann, 1996) 6 2 -
#14 Much Ado About Nothing (Branagh, 1993) 4 1 -
My Own Private Idaho (Van Sant, 1991) 4 2 -
Prospero's Books (Greenaway, 1991) 4 2 -
#17 Henry V (Branagh, 1989) 3 2 -
King Lear (Peter Brook, 1971) 3 1 -
Macbeth (Tarr, 1982) 3 1 -
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Reinhardt/Dieterle, 1935) 3 1 -
Romeo and Juliet (Zefirelli, 1968) 3 1 -
Titus (Taymor, 1999) 3 1 -
#23 Forbidden Planet (Wilcox, 1956) 2 2 -
Hamlet (Almereyda, 2000) 2 1 -
Julius Caesar (Mankiewicz, 1953) 2 1 -
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Hall, 1968) 2 1 -
Shakespeare in Love (John Madden, 1998) 2 1 -
#28 Hamlet (Sven Gade, 1921) 1 1 -
The Man from Laramie (Mann, 1955) 1 1 -
Richard III (Olivier, 1955) 1 1 -
Richard III (Loncraine, 1995) 1 1 -
The Taming of the Shrew (Zefirelli, 1967) 1 1 -
10 Things I Hate About You (Junger, 1999) 1 1 -
Twelfth Night, or What You Will (Nunn, 1996) 1 1 -
L=How many lists each film appears on                   #1=How many number one votes each film recieves

*points are given as follows: for numbered lists, first place recieves 5 points, second place recieves 4, third place 3, fourth place 2 and fifth place gets 1 point; for unumbered lists, each film will recieve 3 points; total points are then tallied up and a comprehensive Top 5 list is created.

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