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A remake of the Ernst Lubitsch film TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1942) with Mel Brooks and Ann Bancroft in the roles originally played by Jack Benny and Carole Lombard.
Documentary. Al Pacino, while in the process of staging a production of Richard III, explores in the film how the play took shape and tries to understand Shakespeare’s intention for it. He canvasses the...
Feature film. Richard Burton portrays Edwin Booth, the 19th century American actor. Booth is helped to success by his wife, Mary. When his brother, John Wilkes, assassinates President Lincoln, Edwin faces...
American adult animated science-fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening. The series follows the adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly...
Drama series. A comedy-drama looking behind-the-scenes at the personal and professional lives of teachers working at a mid-size high school in Boston. This episode includes a scene in which Guber challenges...
A boxed set of 3 DVDs comprising: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S ‘ROMEO + JULIET’ (Luhrmann, 1996), WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S ‘A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM’ (Hoffman, 1999) and TITUS (Taymor, 1999). These...
An adaptation of Romeo and Juliet radically interpreting the text, while preserving the verse. Set in a futuristic Verona, the film uses shock cuts, speeded-up trick motion, and a rock music score. Leonardo...
Wartime thriller starring George Sanders in which he plays a forger who steals Richard Burbage’s personal copy of Shakespeare’s Hamlet from a library and then sells copies of it to collectors through an...
Feature film which made its own myths as the love affair between Antony and Cleopatra was lived in real-life in the well-publicised Burton-Taylor romance. The hugely expensive sets, and Taylor’s protracted...
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...
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