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Feature film. In New York in 1937, seventeen year-old Richard (Efron) meets theatre director Orson Welles (McKay), whom he convinces to give him the role of Lucius in the Mercury Theatre’s production of...
Version, intended for television, of Welles’ stage production of his play based on Melville’s novel. Filmed for three weeks but filming subsequently abandoned after c75 minutes had been shot. It was...
Television documentary about Joseph Papp’s 1982-3 Public Theatre, New York Shakespeare Festival production of Hamlet. The production cast an actress, Diane Venora, in the role of Hamlet and the documentary...
Television production of the play directed for stage by George Schaefer and for NBC by Albert McCleery with Maurice Evans in the title role. Heralded as a major cultural invasion into the world of commercial...
Feature film. Gambler Dan Milner (Robert Mitchum) accepts $5,000 to fly to a remote resort in Mexico for purposes undisclosed. On arrival, Dan finds the ostensibly rich, carefree guests all playing...
Hamlet. 2006. GB. CD. Naxos Audio Books. 240 minutes. Price £13.99. www.naxosaudiobooks.com/ About the reviewer: Susanne Greenhalgh is currently Principal Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance...
Live Cinema and its Techniques by Francis Ford Coppola, (Liveright Publishing, 2017), 192 pages, ISBN: 978-1631494543 (paperback), £13.99 About the reviewer: John Wyver is a writer and producer with...
Digital Disruption: Cinema Moves On-line Edited by Dina Iordanova and Stuart Cunningham (St Andrews Film Studies), 223 pages ISBN: 978-0956373090 (hardback), £35 ISBN: 978-0956373076 (paperback),...
Jean Painlevé (1902-1989) was one of the pioneers in the development of scientific cinema and was one of its great popularisers. Oliver Gaycken, Assistant Professor at University of Maryland looks at the...
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