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Illustrates direction, editing and acting, using a selection of MGM films from the 1930s. Includes an extract from George Cukor’s 1936 ROMEO AND JULIET with Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer.
Feature film version of the play and the first sound film to attempt a full version of a Shakespeare play. Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks as Kate and Petruchio.
A two-part unit of five programmes which exploits the appeal of box office hits to deliver ingredients for serious media analysis. The first three programmes which form part 1 go behind the scenes of the...
Film version of the musical inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Updates the play to a story of rival teenage gangs (The Sharks and The Jets) in New York. Set in Manhattan’s Upper West Side, with...
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.
Feature film updating Othello to a jazz club setting. Aurelius Rex is a famous black jazz musician with a white wife, former singer Delia. Wealthy Rodney Hamilton throws a party for him where one of the...
Extracts from a promotional film which Welles made to attract financial backers for what was to be originally a short television adaptation. Filmed on location in Venice, Welles as Shylock (in costume)...
Feature film comedy. The Chans (led by Vincent) and the Wongs (led by Wu) are compelled to have their chicken rice stalls next to each other which intensifies their long-standing feud. Audrey, Vincent’s...
Independent, digital, low-budget production, heavily abridged, with a re-working of Richard as a Rambo-esque war hero. This may be the first film of Richard II.
Feature film. A comic drama in which William Shakespeare is portrayed as a young writer who is struggling financially and, envious of a rival, meets an aspiring actress who dresses as a boy to work in...
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