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In this episode of the radio series that traces the history of the Oscars, presenter Paul Gambaccini tells the story behind John Madden’s award-winning film SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, the last comedy to win an...
Low budget, independent feature film. "Set in a high school military academy, PRIVATE ROMEO is a cinematic mash-up of the text of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, lip-synched YouTube videos of the music...
A videorecording of Sam Mendes’ production of Twelfth Night made at the Harvey Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY. Emily Watson is Viola and Simon Russell Beale plays Malvolio.
Feature film. A Japanese version of King Lear, directed by Akira Kurosawa, transposed to 16th-century feudal Japan. An old man, now a warlord, cedes his kingdom to his eldest son and starts a power struggle...
A feature film adaptation, much cut, and aimed at a mainstream, young audience. Beautifully photographed and costumed, the film was a huge box office success and a forerunner of the ‘teen movie’.
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. A version of the Lear story displaced to modern America. When Harry, a retired English teacher, is evicted from his apartment he cries out a tirade from King Lear. Like Lear, Harry has three...
Feature film. A group of actors puts on an unorthodox, but acclaimed Passion Play which incites the opposition of the Catholic Church while the actors’ lives begin to mirror the Passion itself. René...
Feature film version of Shakespeare’s play. Kenneth Branagh’s directorial debut which is widely regarded as heralding a ‘renaissance’ in filmed Shakespeare in the 1990s.
Feature film which details the rise of a Faustian character who figuratively sells his soul in exchange for greatness. Hendrik Hoefgen (Brandauer) is the head of a state-funded theatre department who tires...
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