I've recently made the commitment to finish reading all of the Bard's 37 plays by the end of the year. So far, I've completed 11.
1. Hamlet
2. Romeo and Juliet
3. Macbeth
4. Othello
5. Julius Caesar
6. Much Ado About Nothing
7. A Midsummer Night's Dream
8. The Tempest
9. Henry V
10. Twelfth Night
11. Titus Andronicus
And now I'm reading The Taming of the Shrew.
My favorite is by far Much Ado, and I adore both film versions, as well as the 2011 filmed stage production with David Tennant & Catherine Tate. It's so the OG rom-com!
My friend and I run a review channel on Youtube together, and I just convinced him to take "The Shakespeare Challenge," and watch and review a Shakespeare film a month. By my calculations, there are 38 films within the parameters of being theatrically released in the United States. So it should be a fun 3 years!
Now, let's move on to more important matters...
I'm pretty sure that it's necessary for the survival of the human race that Jonathan Majors and Tom Hiddleston do the next feature film version of Othello. I've heard of some pretty amazing Othello/Iago combinations, including James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer in the 80s (which my dad's cousin saw live), and Chiwetel Ejiofor and Ewan Macgregor in 2007 (which has an audio recording which I've purchased and can't wait to listen to). BTW, Cassio always seems to be played by a young up-and-comer. It was Kelsey Grammer in the former and Tom Hiddleston in the latter.
I've also always wanted to see James Marsters as Iago, but come on, Majors/Hiddleston HAS to happen! The universe wills it!