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Performance tape for SHAKESPEARE - BREATHING LIFE INTO TEXT. Demonstrates the different disciplines of theatre directing and film directing. Shows two different directors in two different media working with...
Documentary on the making of Kenneth Branagh’s HENRY V. Shows the film in production and provides , extracts from the finished film and interviews with actors and crew.
Video-based teaching pack containing film clips to aid in the examination of the written texts to see how each director interprets the same scene. 1 (1993): Clips from adaptations of HAMLET by Olivier,...
The video combines clips from major film productions with interviews and commentary by directors and scholars on the adapability of Shakespeare to the screen. Includes excerpts from Julie Taymor’s TITUS,...
Examines the challenges in dealing with Shakespeare’s plays from a directing point of view. Taking scenes from Hamlet, stage director David Ritchie and film director Arthur Tanaka, discuss ways of...
Documentary film. Twenty five years after the end of the Vietnam War, two theatre companies, one American and one Vietnamese, collaborate to stage the first production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in...
Produced by the BBC’s Training Department and conceived as a comedy, highlights the problems which can beset a badly organised film unit on location. Shows the problems experienced by such a production...
Actors and directors explore scenes from Macbeth, including scenes performed in Wapping Hydraulic Pumping Station. The film uses elements of the play as a springboard for telling stories without using words,...
Documentary on King Lear shown ahead of Richard Eyre’s production with Ian Holm transmitted later the same evening. The themes of the play are debated by actors Warren Mitchell, James Earl Jones and...
Filmed at the John T. Brush Stairway, Washington Heights, Manhattan.