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A feature-length celebration of Shakespeare on silent film drawing on two dozen titles from the BFI National Archive many of which are rarely seen. Of the estimated 300 Shakespeare films produced in the...
Feature film. A romance taking place in Hollywood between 1927 and 1932 focusing on a declining male film star (Dujardin) and a rising actress (Bejo), as silent cinema declines and is replaced by the...
A shortened version of the play which omits the casket scene and the business concerning Portia’s ring. Some scenes were filmed in Venice.
A comic murder mystery conceived and staged by Forkbeard Fantasy to mark their 30th year in the theatre. Set in 1904 in the pioneering days of cinema, a group of fledgling movie makers, desperate to...
Radio broadcast. Isn’t silent Shakespeare an oxymoron? All that’s nuanced, beautiful, meaningful in the poetry - silenced. Yet between 1899 and 1927, when the first commercial sound film was released,...
Educational television. Resource Review helps teachers to find the best resources for teaching a particular subject. This episode highlights three resources designed to aid the teaching of Shakespeare to...
Feature film with Ruggero Ruggeri as Hamlet.`...Rodolfi finds an intriquing halfway style between film and theatre, eschewing a more conventional cutting scheme. Key thoughts are shown in close-up, there are...
Radio programme presented by Jenni Murray. In this edition Professor Tony Howard and Kathryn Hunter talk to Jenni Murray about women who have played the role of Hamlet. Tony Howard talks about HAMLET and...
Musical comedy about Lily (Judy Garland), an aspiring actress from a small town in Indiana. In once scene Lily wants to impress a visiting Broadway producer (Heflin) and gives him a mawkish and melodramatic...
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