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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...
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...
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...
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...
What makes this ‘gloriously watchable, now as then, is Oliver’s effortlessly virtuosic performance as Richard: imperious, ironic, bruttish, sometimes hysterical and never less than smirkingly...
Adapted from Alan Bennett’s stage play ‘The Madness of George III’, the film focuses on King George’s deteriorating mental condition that opens the door for court intrigue and the usurping of the...
A film based on the Broadway production by Max Reinhardt. A combination of German expressionism and Hollywood realism. Hal Mohr’s cinematography is ‘astonishing, a surreal visual fantasy of dancing...
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