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Educational videotape, in two parts, to help audiences (especially US Grade 9-12 and college students) identify with universal themes in Shakespeare’s plays. Actors tell the story of the play, act key...
Video recording of Joe Banno’s 1999 production of Hamlet for the Folger Theatre. Banno employs three actresses and one actor to play Hamlet. Holly Twyford plays the central Hamlet and the three other...
Feature film. A high-school, teen movie. Josie Geller (Drew Barrymore), a straightlaced 25-year-old copy editor on the Chicago Sun-Times, is commissioned to write an undercover expose on life in high school....
Feature film comedy. Ageing Hollywood star (Burt Reynolds) signs up to play the title role in King Lear in Britain to revive his flagging career. He believes the role is part of a Royal Shakespeare Company...
Feature film post-war western, based on a story by W.R. Burnett and with parallels to The Tempest. Tells the story of an outlaw leader, Stretch (Peck), who takes refuge in a frontier ghost town. The only...
Video recording of the New York Shakespeare Festival production of Julius Caesar directed by Stuart Vaughan with Al Pacino as Mark Antony and Martin Sheen as Brutus.
Video recording of JoAnne Akalaitis’ production of Cymbeline for the 1989 New York Shakespeare Festival. George Bartenieff is Cymbeline and Joan Cusack is Imogen. Original music by Philip Glass.
Feature filmed based on Betty Smith’s novel of the same name. A young girl, Francie, tries to keep her idealism alive and surmount the hardships of her slum tenement life in the face of her family’s...
Feature film. Yvan Lesurf, son of a wealthy businessman, broods over his father’s death and his mother’s hasty remarriage to his uncle, Adrien. Lucie loves him, despite the disapproval of her father,...
Feature film. William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton meet in a tavern in Southwark. Shakespeare points out people who remind him of scenes from his plays. A wistful woman reminds him of Juliet,...
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