BUFVC Search
Current Search
Previous Searches
Actors who have played Hamlet discuss why they perceive the role as a benchmark in their careers. The programme includes stills and film extracts from performances by Olivier, Richard Burton and Mel Gibson.
A compilation of sixteen performances of the first of Hamlet’s soliloquies, taken from a variety of film and TV productions performed in English. Presented in order of the actor’s surname, they appear as...
Television arts documentary. Prior to the opening of Franco Zeffirelli’s Italian production of Hamlet at the National Theatre, London, Zeffirelli is seen directing the scene between Hamlet and Gertrude...
Video recording of JoAnne Akalaitis’ production of Henry IV. Part 1 for the 1991 New York Shakespeare Festival with Larry Bryggman as King Henry and Thomas Gibson as Prince Hal. Original music by Philip...
Television programme. Third in a series of lectures drawn from Harvard professor Michael Sandel’s famous undergraduate course on the philosophy of justice. In this episode Sandel introduces the British...
Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay are joined by their friend Brittany to discuss the Shakespeare movies that were released in the 1990s and how they reflected that decade. The films being...
US interview show. Jude Law talks to Charlie Rose about his performance as Hamlet. The show, directed by Michael Grandage, transferred to Broadway from the Donmar Theatre, London. The programme begins with...
Feature film version of the play. A naturalistic and literal reading with few interpretative touches. Gibson’s Hamlet is a man of action and with the text heavily cut (over 80%) he dominates the majority...
The Passion of the Christ by Neal King (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 148 pages, ISBN: 978-0230294349 (paperback), Price: £12.99 About the reviewer: Dr Catherine O’Brien is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies...
Hollywood and the Americanization of Britain: From the 1920s to the Present By Mark Glancy (I.B. Tauris, 2014), 340 pages ISBN 978-1-84885-407-9 (hardback) About the reviewer: Dr Sheldon Hall is a...
Learning on Screen