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  1. Bugsy (1991 Film)

    Director
    Barry Levinson
    Producer
    Barry Levinson; Warren Beatty; Mark Johnson (2)

    Feature film. The story of Benjamin ‘Bugsy’ Siegel, the East coast mobster who came to Hollywood in the 1940s to take over the West coast racketeering business, was seduced by its glamour and became...

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  2. Henry V (1944 Film, Video)

    Director
    Laurence Olivier
    Producer
    Laurence Olivier

    Feature film and Olivier’s directorial debut. The film opens with a typical performance at the Globe Theatre in 1600, moves gradually into reality for the battle and then returns to the Globe. Intended as...

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  3. Titus (1999 Film, Video)

    Director
    Julie Taymor
    Producer
    Julie Airoldi; Jody Patton; Julie Taymor

    Julie Taymor’s film version of Titus Andronicus, based on her 1994 off-Broadway production, with Anthony Hopkins as Titus and Jessica Lange as Tamora. This adaptation is both ‘stylised and...

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  4. Dresser, The (1983 Film, Video)

    Director
    Peter Yates
    Producer
    Peter Yates

    A film adaptation by Ronald Harwood of his own play, based on the touring career of Donald Wolfit, for whom Harwood was the dresser. The story relates the complex relationship between Sir, an ageing...

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  5. Goldwyn Follies, The (1938 Film)

    Director
    George Marshall; H.C. Potter
    Producer
    Samuel Goldwyn

    Musical with music by George Gershwin and Vernon Duke and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Movie producer Oliver Merlin (Menjou) overhears two women criticising a film he is making. He decided to hire one of them,...

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  6. Hamlet (1990 Film)

    Director
    Franco Zeffirelli
    Producer
    Dyson Lovell

    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...

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  7. Julius Caesar (1953 Film, Video)

    Director
    Joseph L Mankiewicz
    Producer
    John Houseman

    Mankiewicz’s version of the tragedy that ‘some Americans regard as their own has stood the test of time’ (The Guardian 2019). With an impressive cast, including Louis Calhern as Caesar, Marlon Brando...

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  8. Shakespeare in Love (1998 Film, Video)

    Director
    John Madden
    Producer
    David Parfitt; Harvey Weinstein; Marc Norman; Edward Zwick; Donna Gigliotti

    Feature film. A comic drama in which William Shakespeare is portrayed as a young writer who is struggling financially and, envious of a rival, meets an aspiring actress who dresses as a boy to work in...

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  9. Richard III [2-Dvd Special Edition] (2013 Film)

    Series
    Criterion Collection

    Feature film version of the play. ‘Building on Olivier’s extraordinary stage creation, the film asks less what the cinema can do for the theatre (as with HENRY V and HAMLET) than what the theatre can...

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  10. Double Life, A (1947 Film)

    Director
    George Cukor
    Producer
    Michael Kanin

    Feature film. ` A serious case of this-is- Shakespeare-so it-must-be art’. Anthony John is a great but unbalanced classical actor. Outwardly gentlemanly, he is taken over by any role that he plays, and...

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