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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...
Barry Edelstein, Artistic Director of The Old Globe, discusses the theatre’s film series featuring the work of four filmmakers: Julie Taymor, Peter Brook, Al Pacino and Baz Luhrmann.
Radio broadcast. Baz Luhrmann’s WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S ROMEO + JULIET is set on Verona Beach. In addition to original music by Craig Armstrong and Marius De Vries, the soundtrack features contemporary pop...
Video podcast hosted by Drew Lichtenberg and Simon Godwin. This special episode, a preview for the US premiere of Godwin’s new TV adaptation of Romeo and Juliet (qv), features special guest Claire Danes,...
US sitcom set in the 1990s. It is 1996 and Eddie and Alison are 13-years-old. To celebrate their first year as a couple they go see Baz Luhrmann’s new film of Romeo and Juliet. But when Luis and Gary,...
Action-comedy-police film. Nicholas Angel is the finest policeman in the Met, with an arrest record 400% higher than any other officer on the force. He’s so good, he makes everyone else look bad. As a...
Teaching pack focusing different adaptations of Shakespeare plays. Examines Shakespeare’s language, imagery in the written text and images through filmic language, the way the plays and films combine...
Podcast series in which Dr Neema Parvini, author of Shakespeare’s History Plays: Rethinking Historicism and Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, interviews...
A biography of Shakespeare. Details the major themes in his life and the development of his career in the London theatre. Includes readings by Germaine Greer and Edward Petherbridge of several sonnets and...
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...
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