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Stanley Kubrick’s first feature film, an allegory about four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines in a nameless war, is presented in the Masters of Cinema edition in its new restoration carried out in 2012...
US variety series. Includes an item in which the Kinderspiel Light Opera Company’s production of ‘Naughty Gypsy Yetta’, the story of star-crossed gypsy lovers from warring families, parodies Romeo and...
Feature film. Kubrick’s first feature film, an allegory about four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines in a nameless war. The film references The Tempest. When Sidney is left to guard the unnamed woman...
US variety show. This episode parodies Romeo and Juliet featuring feuding Romany families - the Shishkebabs and Baklavas. The piece is performed by the ‘Kinderspiel Light Opera’.
US variety show. In this episode Danny Kaye and Joanie Sommers perform a song about Romeo and Juliet as contemporary teenagers. The extract is 2 mins 45 secs.
Feature film strongly referencing Truffaut’s JULES ET JIM (1961) and satirising life and culture in 1970s America. Phil d’Amico (Sharkey) is an American photographer and Willie Kaufman (Onstein) is a...
US variety series. This episode includes a sketch on what commercials might look like if they were written by some of the great authors: William Shakespeare (`Macbath’), William Faulkner (`A detergent...
Feature film. A version of the Lear story displaced to modern America. When Harry, a retired English teacher, is evicted from his apartment he cries out a tirade from King Lear. Like Lear, Harry has three...
Feature film based on The Tempest. Phillip, a New York architect, abandons his wife (who is having an affair with tycoon, Alonzo) and career by fleeing to Greece with his teenage daughter, Miranda. In Athens...
Feature film. The narrative is told in flashback. Jack Noah (Dreyfuss) is a fairly successful stage and film actor on a location shoot in the English-speaking Parador. He’s given an offer he can’t refuse...
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