Twelfth Night (1988)

Finally finished this -- it was long enough to need to watch in two parts, and Veronica Mars has been so entertaining that we watched through disk 5 of that before we had a night where we were waiting for a disk. At any rate, Netflix describes this as "directed by Kenneth Branagh." Well, actually, Branagh directed the stage production, and Paul Kafno directed the filming, and it shows, because it's a straight filming of a stage production and lacks Branagh's keen eye for transcribing Shakespeare into film. As such, it falls flat because the actors are performing for stage, not film, despite Branagh's melancholy take on the play and some fine acting (though Richard Briers stands out head and shoulders above the rest).