okay i don't make films but if i did they'd have a samurai

The Cinamatheque, the semilocal artsy theatre, is doing a Shakespeare 400 film series. I like the Cinematheque quite a bit but their Shakespeare preferences ... are not mine.

Choices that I am fully on board with:

• Chimes at Midnight, aka Orson Welles plays all the Falstaff in one movie
  
• Kurosawa's Throne of Blood and Ran, aka Samurai Macbeth and Samurai Lear
  
• My Own Private Idaho, the single most arthouse Shakespeare film I can think of
  
• Forbidden Planet

Choices that I understand while not agreeing with:

• Polanski's Macbeth
  
• Whedon's Much Ado and Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet, because people will come see those (I will go see R+J, because it's been at least a decade)
  
• West Side Story, ditto plus classic-musical cachet

Choices that baffle me:

• Three different Oliviers: Hamlet, Henry V, Richard III. Surely one was enough?
  
• Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Taming of the Shrew, though there may be context that I'm missing

Omissions that baffle me even more:

• Branagh. I assume someone at the Cinematheque hates Branagh.
  
• Ian McKellen's fascist Richard III
  
• Julie Taymor's Titus