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Illustrates direction, editing and acting, using a selection of MGM films from the 1930s. Includes an extract from George Cukor’s 1936 ROMEO AND JULIET with Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer.
Animation. The film shows a different drawing for each word of Hamlet’s ‘To Be Or Not To Be’ speech. Images are not connected to the speech or its meaning. Narrated by Maurice Evans,
Feature film. Romantic comedy very loosely based on Romeo and Juliet. Rosario and Gino are the children of rival Italian restauranteurs in the Bronx. When the couple fall in love whilst taking part in a...
Verdi’s Otello with Johan Botha as Otello and Marco Vratogna as Iago. The San Francisco Opera and Chorus are conducted by Nicola Luisotti.
An avant-garde, post-modernist film made at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee offering ‘a visual exploration of epistemological puzzles in Hamlet’.
Live cinema broadcast from the New York Metropolitan Opera of Brett Dean’s version of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Feature film. A story about street hustlers that incorporates a reworking of the Hal/King Henry/Falstaff triangle. Some of the dialogue is taken from Henry IV Part 1.
An experimental video by re-mix artist Nigel Thom. The film is 63 minutes depicting a white screen where nothing is seen and nothing happens. There is no sound. The director feels he is questioning the...
HAMLET IN THE RENTED WORLD ( A FRAGMENT) is an assemblage by Jerry Tartaglia on behalf of the Gladstone Gallery in New York from materials discovered in the Jack Smith Archives, including five quarter-inch...
Silent amateur film shot by John V. Hansen, engineer and member of the Amateur Cinema League, of a performance of Tyrone Guthrie’s Hamlet at Kronberg Castle, Elsinore, Denmark with Laurence Olivier as...
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