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A rock musical version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Documentary. A performance of scenes from Julius Caesar by inmates of the Roman maximum security prison Rebibbia. One of them comments: ‘Ever since I discovered art this cell has truly become a prison’....
Verdi’s opera with libretto by F.M. Piave adapted and directed by Claude d’Anna. Riccardo Chailly conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Leo Nucci and Shirley Verrett are...
Feature film. Welles’ first European work, shot in fits and starts over four years at various locations in Morocco and Italy, due to lack of finance. This accounts for the inconsistent technical quality,...
Feature film adaptation of the play. An attempt to unite Shakespeare with the Italian neo-realist school of film-making, with attractive location photography, and naturalistic crowd scenes. The text is...
Feature film. A comic spoof drawing irreverently on both the Shakespeare play and the 1877 story by Jules Laforgue. Hamlet (Carmelo Bene) is a would-be playwright. He suffers from inept Freudian analysis by...
Act III i of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Nights Dream is given an urban 21st century twist in an advert for Levi 501 Jeans with Anti-Fit. The scene is ‘translated’ from the fairy forest to a...
Dr Lee Broughton is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the Centre for World Cinemas at the University of Leeds. His fellowship’s three-year research project, 'Interpreting Representations of...
Fifty Years of The Battle of Algiers: Past as Prologue by Sohail Daulatzai, (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), 104 pages, ISBN: 978-1517902384, £7.99 About the reviewer: Alan O’Leary is Professor...
The Imperial War Museum’s Student Film Festival, to be renamed the 'IWM Short Film Festival', will return in 2014 after the IWM's closure for major refurbishment. Toby Haggith, Senior Curator in the...
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