Shakespeare walked so that Oliver Parker could run. Director Oliver Parker’s 1995 version of the Shakespearean tragedy “Othello” is, at times, almost too hot to handle. If you are craving a romantic ...

OTHELLO. Laurence Fishburne, Kenneth Branagh, Irene Jacob. Directed by Oliver Parker. At area theaters. Running time: 125 mins. Rated: R. 2 Stars IN OLIVER PARKER’S EMinently ’90s interpretation of ...

The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic.

Geoffrey Sax’s television film of William Shakespeare’s Othello (2001) opens with the camera lingering over Dessie (Desdemona, played by Keeley Hawes) murmuring in her sleep. It is such murmurings ...

This retains the play's setting and dialogue. Laurence Fishburne plays Othello (the first African-American to do so in a major film), Kenneth Branagh plays Iago and Irene Jacob plays Desdemona. The ...