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A specialist in performance and motion capture, the Imaginarium Studios has used it’s expertise to craft digital effects for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production "The Tempest" by Williams Shakespeare.
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...
Film version of the musical inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Updates the play to a story of rival teenage gangs (The Sharks and The Jets) in New York. Set in Manhattan’s Upper West Side, with...
Feature film loosely based on The Taming of the Shrew and Count Lucanor by Juan Manuel. Set during the Revolution of Juarez, the film opens in the town of Cholula, which has been seized by rebel forces. The...
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...
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...
Feature film which made its own myths as the love affair between Antony and Cleopatra was lived in real-life in the well-publicised Burton-Taylor romance. The hugely expensive sets, and Taylor’s protracted...
Feature film version of the play, with a heavily cut text based on Pasternak’s translation. The political stance of the film-maker is to the fore, and the cinematography stark and elemental. recently...
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 version of Shakespeare’s play. Kenneth Branagh’s directorial debut which is widely regarded as heralding a ‘renaissance’ in filmed Shakespeare in the 1990s.
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