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The King’s Speech (2010 Film)

Director

Tom Hooper

Producer

Iain Canning; Emile Sherman; Gareth Unwin

Feature film. The story of how speech therapist Lionel Logue (Rush) worked with Albert, Duke of York, later George VI (Firth) to modify his stammer and give him confidence in public speaking. The film...

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Merchant of Venice, The (1980 Television)

aka: The Shakespeare Plays

Series

BBC Television Shakespeare

Director

Jack Gold

Producer

Jonathan Miller

Television production of the play with Gemma Jones as Portia and Warren Mitchell as Shylock.

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Hamlet (Restored Colour Version) (2007 Film)

Director

Svend Gade; Heinz Schall

A restored colour version of HAMLET directed by Sven Gade and Heinz Schall with Asta Nielsen as Hamlet and a new score composed by Michael Riessler.

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The Woman Who Married Clark Gable

Date

8 Oct 2014, 10:00

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

The Woman Who Married Clark Gable edited by Lance Pettitt and Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos (Humanitas Press, 2013) 256 pages + DVD. ISBN: 978-8577322251 (paperback). To obtain a copy, please email the editor...

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Hamlet (1913 Film)

Director

E. Hay Plumb

Producer

Cecil Hepworth

Feature film. A record of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson and the Drury Lane Company’s production of the play. `... the film’s chief purpose is to preserve a performance and a production and makes few...

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King Lear (1987 Film)

Director

Jean-Luc Godard

Producer

Menahem Golan; Yoram Globus

Feature film version of the play. Widely criticised and a commercial failure, the film was received as an interesting deconstruction or completely unintelligible according to taste. The film makes the...

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Psyched-Up: Mind-Bending Films on 4 (1987-1992)

Date

11 Aug 2014, 16:40

Author

bufvclinda

Post Type

Post

With the recent unprecedented multi-platform release (5th July 2013) of Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England, which has been variously described as “a psychedelic Western” (Sound on Sight), “a...

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Macbeth (2012 Television)

Series

Shakespeare Uncovered

Director

Nicola Stockley

Producer

Nicola Stockley

Documentary. Ethan Hawke presents a documentary on Macbeth. Excerpts: MACBETH (CBC, 1962) d. Paul Almond. MACBETH (1971) d. Polanski. MACBETH (2001) d. Doran. MACBETH (2010) d. Goold. There is also a...

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Romeo and Juliet (1954 Film)

Director

Renato Castellani

Producer

Sandro Ghenzi; Joseph Janni

Feature film adaptation of the play. An attempt to unite Shakespeare with the Italian neo-realist school of film-making, with attractive location photography, and naturalistic crowd scenes. The text is...

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Love’s Labour’s Lost (1985 Television)

aka: The Shakespeare Plays

Series

BBC Television Shakespeare

Director

Elijah Moshinsky

Producer

Shaun Sutton

Television production starring Mike Gwilym as Berowne, Jonathan Kent as King and Jenny Agutter as Rosaline.

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