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  1. Aasha (1957 Film)

    Director
    M.V. Raman

    Comedy/crime feature film with songs claiming inspiration from Hamlet. A landowner is accused of murder and the device of staging a play is employed whereby Kishore, disguised as an Arab, puts together a...

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  2. Media Screen Roundup - September 2015

    Date
    9 Oct 2015, 15:19
    Author
    Linda
    Post Type
    Post

    The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, and published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. Here be dragons! Sorry I could not resist...

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  3. Izobrazhaya Zhertvu (2006 Film)

    aka: Playing the Victim

    Director
    Kirill Serebrennikov
    Producer
    Leonid Zagalsky; Ulyana Savelyeva; Natalya Mokritskaya

    Feature film. A black comedy made as a modern-day adaptation of Hamlet. Valya, a university graduate, makes a living impersonating victims in crime-scene reconstructions. He is also haunted by the ghost of...

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  4. Rideau Rouge, Le (1952 Film)

    aka: Crimson Curtain, The

    Director
    André Barsacq
    Producer
    Paul Cadeac

    Feature film. Murder mystery amidst a provincial stage production of Macbeth. The characters believe that the deaths, including that of the director, are a result of the curse of ‘the Scottish play’ but...

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  5. Assassino e Quello con le Scarpe Gialle (1995 Film)

    aka: Assassin Wore Yellow Shoes, The

    Director
    Filippo Ottoni
    Producer
    Fulvio Lucisano; Guido De Laurentis; Leonardo Pescarolo

    Comedy thriller set in a small theatrical company. To director Roberto the events bring back childhood memories when he witnessed a murder in the same theatre. However, Roberto’s eccentric elderly aunt has...

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  6. Malvolio (2009 Film)

    Director
    Alexander Kominek; Peter Kominek
    Producer
    Alexander Kominek; Peter Kominek

    Feature film. Conceived as a sequel to Twelfth Night set as a contemporary mafia horror film. "Life is perfect for mob enforcer Sebastian. Sebastian’s boss and brother-in-law Orsino has just put him in...

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  7. Jago Da Vida e Da Morte, O (1971 Film)

    Director
    Mario Kuperman
    Producer
    Silvio Renoldi

    Feature film offering an interpretation of Hamlet set in contemporary Sao Paolo. Joao (Cruz) discovers through a spiritual medium that his uncle Claudio has killed his father in a bid to gain control of the...

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  8. Afterschool (2008 Film)

    Director
    Antonio Campos
    Producer
    Josh Mond; Sean Durkin

    Feature film. Robert (Miller) is a sensitive young boy finding it difficult to fit in at his elite East Coast preparatory school. He attends sessions with the school counsellor, takes his medication, and...

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  9. Macbeth (2008 Video)

    Director
    Nick Paton
    Producer
    Andrew Oemerod

    Low budget, independent film using the original text setting Macbeth in London ganglands. "In the violent underbelly of a powerful city, one man’s blows ring out from the street fights above everybody...

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  10. Polygraphe, Le (1994 Film)

    aka: Polygraph Lie Detector, The

    Director
    Robert Lepage
    Producer
    Bruno Jobin

    Feature film based on the play by Lepage and Brassard and described by the author as a ‘metaphysical detective story’. The story revolves around the unsolved murder of a woman several years previously. A...

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