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Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (1945 Film)

Director

Elia Kazan

Producer

Louis D. Lighton

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...

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Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989 Film)

Director

Steven Soderbergh

Producer

Robert Newmayer; John Hardy

Low-budget independent feature film. Ann and John appear happily married but, unknown to Ann, John is having an affair with Ann’s sister Cynthia. An old college friend of John, Graham, comes to visit and...

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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1968 Film)

Director

Peter Hall

Producer

Michael Birkett

Feature film version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Eliminating cinematic narrative and theatrical staging the film was harshly treated by the critics.

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My Own Private Idaho (1991 Film)

Director

Gus Van Sant

Producer

Allan Mindel

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.

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Life on Earth (13 Parts) (1979 Video)

Producer

Christopher Parson

Subject

Anthropology; Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 13 x 55 min.

Series tracing the development of life from its earliest beginnings through single cell forms to the final emergence of man. Filmed in more than 100 locations around the world. 1: The beginnings of life on...

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Richard II (1978 Television)

aka: The Shakespeare Plays

Series

BBC Television Shakespeare

Director

David Giles

Producer

Cedric Messina

Television production with Derek Jacobi in the title role.

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Sir John Gielgud (1989 Television, Video)

aka: John Gielgud: An Actor’s Life

Director

Dave Heather

Producer

John Miller

John Gielgud, in conversation with John Miller, looks back on his early career, the other artists who influenced him, and his partnerships with Oliver, Richardson, Wolfit, Redgrave, Peggy Ashcroft and Edith...

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Macbeth (1981 Television)

Director

Sarah Caldwell; Kirk Browning

Producer

Richmond Crinkley

A recording of the stage play which ran from 23 January-8 March 1981 at the Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts, New York City and was transmitted by ARTS cable channel on 6 Decembe 1981. Directed for the...

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Rest ist Schweigen, Der (1959 Film)

aka: Rest is Silence, The

Director

Helmut Kaeutner

Producer

Werner Ludwig

Feature film. A modern reworking of Hamlet set in post-war Germany. A young intellectual, John, grieves for his father whose died in mysterious circumstances. His father’s business is taken over by his...

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Taming of the Shrew, The (2004 Television)

Series

Theatre in America

Producer

Ken Campbell (2)

San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theatre commedia dell’arte production with Fredi Olster as Katherina and Marc Singer as Petruchio. Recorded before a live audience.

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