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Roman costume drama with a script based loosely on Shakespeare’s Coriolanus and Plutarch’s Lives.
Production, for Polish television, of Romeo and Juliet directed for stage by Jerzy Gruza and adapted for television by Alicja Slezanska. Bozena Adamek is Juliet and Krzysztof Kolberger plays Romeo.
Documentary about the Fiat car company and its operations in Turin. The film uses Hamlet as a mirror for scrutinising Turin’s working-class past viewed through Fiat’s failing fortunes. In its industrial...
The Education Programme for the London Film Festival starts on 17 September, building towards the Festival dates 7 – 18 October. For students, it offers special screenings of new films from around the...
Television production of Romeo and Juliet commissioned for C4’s Middle English schools slot. Directed by Alan Horrox with Geraldine Somerville as Juliet and Jonathan Firth as Romeo.
Full-length feature animation film, using stop-motion animation and crayons, inspired by The Taming of the Shrew. Petruchio is ruined by gambling and plans to get out of debt by marrying a rich woman - Kate,...
Fiction film. A version of The Merchant of Venice directed by Phillips Smalley and his wife Lois Weber. Reviewed by Hanford C. Judson in Moving Picture World (February 14) with the heading ‘Full of Dignity...
The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research and published at the BUFVC by Andrew Ormsby This month's round-up includes journal...
Feature film version of Measure for Measure. Lavish sets, lush costumes and hundreds of extras fail to redeem the film. Variety, reviewing the US release, notes bad lighting, poor sound and unhelpful English...
Melodrama. Alexandra Tranda awaits her father’s return. When the carriage comes up the drive she discovers his dead body hanging over the splashboard: he has been shot. Later her mother marries John...
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