My Own Private Idaho
- Synopsis
- Feature film. A story about street hustlers that incorporates a reworking of the Hal/King Henry/Falstaff triangle. Some of the dialogue is taken from Henry IV Part 1.
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Film
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Year of release
- 1991
- Duration
- 104 mins; 9,356 feet
Credits
- Director
- Gus Van Sant
- Producer
- Allan Mindel
- Cinematographer
- Eric Alan Edwards; John Campbell
- Screenplay
- Gus Van Sant
- Music
- Bill Stafford
- Art Direction
- Ken Hardy
- Cast
Keanu Reeves Scott Favor (Prince Henry (Hal)) Wiliam Richert Bob Pigeon (Sir John Falstaff) James Russo River Phoenix Mike Waters (Poins) Wiliam Richert
Additional Details
- Production type
- Fiction Films
- Plays
- Henry IV Part 1
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- General
- Van Sant has stated that it was seeing Welles’ CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT which inspired him to make the film. The Henry IV segments were shortened in the editing process because Sant said they ‘were becoming like a movie within a movie’.
- Reviews
- Reviewed in Sight and Sound (April 1992), p 55. ‘Imitation as Originality in Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho’ Almost Shakespeare: Reinventing his Works for Cinema and Television edited James R. Keller and Leslie Stratyner (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co, 2004). Tony Howard in his essay ‘Shakespeare’s Cinematic Offshoots’ in Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film edited by Russell Jackson (Cambridge: CUP, 2000) comments ‘Unfortunately Van Sant experimented by making his embarrassed cast paraphrase their Henry IV-based scenes in pseudo-Elizabethan dialogue; this is the worst of both worlds’.
Production Company
- Name
New Line Cinema
Distributor (Hire)
- Name
BFI Film Bookings Unit
- bookings.films@bfi.org.uk
- Web
- http://www.bfi.org.uk/about-bfi/help-faq/film-bookings External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7957 8938 / 8935
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London
W1T 1LN
Distributor (Sale)
- Name
Entertainment in Video
- Phone
- 020 7930 7766
- Fax
- 020 7930 9399
- Address
- 108-110 Jermyn Street
London
SW1Y 6HB
- Name
Retail outlets
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "My Own Private Idaho". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/14717 (Accessed 26 Nov 2024)