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Coming-of-age feature film concerning a young boy’s relationship with a girl vampire. Includes a clip from Zeffirelli’s ROMEO AND JULIET (1968) being shown to a class of 12-year olds and a sequence in...
In a film noir version of the ‘To Be or Not To Be’ scene from Hamlet, the film’s lovers meet over drinks to confront the demise of their illicit affair.
Recording of an online lecture by Dr Anthony Quinn, introduced by Rossella M. Riccobono. The lecture includes analyses of the films made from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet by Francis X Bushman and John W...
Feature film. A Bollywood re-working of Othello set against a background of political warfare in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Omikara (Devgan) is a half-caste, gifted chieftan leading a gang employed by the...
Low-budget adaptation of the play using chiaroscuro lighting, location shooting, unusual casting, and eccentric costuming. The film remains faithful to the spirit of the play. Jarman’s understanding of the...
Podcast. Pamela Hutchinson talks to Barbara Bogaev about the life and career of actress Asta Nielsen and her 1921 film version of Hamlet (qv), which depicted the title character as a princess.
15-minute comedy reduction of Shakespeare’s tragedy made by high school students, presented with some wit and style.
The story of MACBETH transposed to medieval Japan, with Macbeth as a samurai and drawing on traditions from Noh drama. Toshiro Mifune is Macbeth. In Kurosawa’s masterly interpretation of MACBETH ‘the...
Podcast. The Argentine scholar and filmmaker Matías Piñeiro talks to Barbara Bogaev about The Shakespeare Reads, his series of films inspired by Shakespeare’s plays: ROSALINDA (2011), VIOLA (2012), THE...
No-budget digital feature film. A romantic comedy. Ben is a computer nerd who transforms himself into a sonnet reading, serenading, sword-fighting, cross-dressing ‘Shakespearean Love Machine’ to woo the...
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