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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...
Since 1948 the BUFVC has always retained the vision, ‘to make moving image and sound as important in education and research as the written word’. In 2016, as both those inside and outside UK education...
Feature film with a scene in which Katharine Hepburn as an ambitious actress seeking to impress makes a spectacle of herself reciting the ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy, and a few lines from the balcony...
Feature film with Ruggero Ruggeri as Hamlet.`...Rodolfi finds an intriquing halfway style between film and theatre, eschewing a more conventional cutting scheme. Key thoughts are shown in close-up, there are...
Feature film version of Measure for Measure. Lavish sets, lush costumes and hundreds of extras fail to redeem the film. Variety, reviewing the US release, notes bad lighting, poor sound and unhelpful English...
A video-based package for the study of Macbeth through film. The video compilation features 34 extracts from the following film versions of Macbeth: 1) RSC 1978, directed by Trevor Nunn, with Ian McKellen...
Documentary transmitted within the BBC Focus Slot in The LEARNING ZONE. Assesses the importance of soliloquies in Shakespeare’s plays and includes an interview with Kenneth Branagh in which he discusses...
Feature film. A romance taking place in Hollywood between 1927 and 1932 focusing on a declining male film star (Dujardin) and a rising actress (Bejo), as silent cinema declines and is replaced by the...
Tom Stoppard’s film adaptation of his play based on characters in Hamlet.
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture edited by Robert Shaughnessy (Cambridge University Press, 2007), ISBN 978-0-521-84429-1 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-521-60580-9 (paperback) About the...