‘William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet’

Baz Luhrmann’s brash 1996 take on the Bard is loud, exuberant and excessive, but it has enough positive energy and dizzying high spirits to make it irresistible. A wild-in-the-streets version of the classic romance, this “Romeo” follows in the path of Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 film by having youthful actors, Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes (both pictured), playing the protagonists (Cinemax Friday at 8 p.m.).