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Podcast. Weekly showdown hosted by Stephanie Crugnola that pits her against academics, actors and teachers to debate a Shakespeare-related ‘best of’ - with listeners getting the opportunity to vote on...
Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda talks about his life and work. In a three minute segment (story 182 0f 233) he recalls a conversation he had with Akira Kurosawa about Shakespeare and the screen. A full...
Feature film. A Japanese version of King Lear, directed by Akira Kurosawa, transposed to 16th-century feudal Japan. An old man, now a warlord, cedes his kingdom to his eldest son and starts a power struggle...
Documentary, directed by Chris Marker, which records his days on location with Akira Kurosawa during the filming of RAN. Narrated by Robert Kramer, the film is divided into segments such as battles’,...
The story of MACBETH transposed to medieval Japan, with Macbeth as a samurai and drawing on traditions from Noh drama. Toshiro Mifune is Macbeth. In Kurosawa’s masterly interpretation of MACBETH ‘the...
Podcast. The double bill considered in this edition by hosts Adam and Thomas is Andrzej Bartkowiak’s reworking of Romeo and Juliet as an action movie, ROMEO MUST DIE (2000), and Akira Kurosawa’s Macbeth...
Documentary. Explores the history of films based on Shakespeare’s plays. There are interview extracts with Laurence Olivier, Kenneth Branagh, Roman Polanski, Akira Kurosawa, Orson Welles, Franco...
Kurosawa directed three adaptations from Shakespeare. Two were recreated as samurai movies: Macbeth became THRONE OF BLOOD (1957), and King Lear inspired his last major film, the epic RAN (1985). THE BAD...
Playwright Zinnie Harris, author Isabelle Schuyler, New Generation Thinker Emma Whipday and composer Michelle Assay have looked at the murdering husband and wife of Shakespeare’s Scottish play. Chris...
Macbeth has inspired many inventive and influential screen adaptations by Orson Welles, Roman Polanski, Trevor Nunn, Gregory Doran, Vishal Bhardwaj, Justin Kurzel and Akira Kurosawa. The history is explored...
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