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YouTube video by Jeff Palermo in which he discusses the film and TV adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays that he thinks worked most successfully. He references a number of celebrated adaptations including...
Low-budget backstage comedy about young filmmakers struggling to make an independent indie version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The film quotes liberally from the play and the relationships between the...
Songs from Broadway shows sung by the original casts. The tracks are: 1. Brush Up Your Shakespeare from Kiss Me, Kate. Composed by Cole Porter ( Jonathan Freeman/Harry Groener/Guy Haines) 2. I To The World...
Animation. A short animated film exploring the fleeting delusional love relationship between Titania and Bottom. "The film focuses on the transformation and transfiguration of the two characters in the act...
Feature film romantic comedy and an ironic celebration of Los Angeles. Harris Telemacher (Martin) is a Shakespeare-quoting weather presenter for a Los Angeles television station. Martin begins by reciting a...
Independent low-budget short. "Inspired by the bumbling acting troupe ‘the Mechanicals’ from Shakespeare’s comedy These 6 hapless characters, once world-renowned social revolutionaries, nearly get...
Feature film comedy. A businessman (Connors), faced with an income tax demand of $500,000, decides to invest in a deliberately bad movie. He employs a has-been French actor (Chevalier) and a glamorous,...
A film based on the Broadway production by Max Reinhardt. A combination of German expressionism and Hollywood realism. Hal Mohr’s cinematography is ‘astonishing, a surreal visual fantasy of dancing...
Part of a series of educational films intended to serve as an introduction to each play’s theme or atmosphere. Designed to reproduce the conditions of acting in Elizabethan times such as having the same...
Television documentary about the US influential educator Albert Cullum. Cullum allowed Shakespeare, Sophocles, and Shaw to reign in his fifth grade public school classroom. Through the use of poetry, drama...
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