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Feature film. A version of the Lear story displaced to modern America. When Harry, a retired English teacher, is evicted from his apartment he cries out a tirade from King Lear. Like Lear, Harry has three...
Feature film and Olivier’s directorial debut. The film opens with a typical performance at the Globe Theatre in 1600, moves gradually into reality for the battle and then returns to the Globe. Intended as...
High school comedy loosely based on Jane Austen’s Emma. In one brief scene the smart and nonchalent heroine, Cher (Silverstone), in an attempt to assert her sophistication and intellectual superiority...
Low budget, independent feature film. "Set in a high school military academy, PRIVATE ROMEO is a cinematic mash-up of the text of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, lip-synched YouTube videos of the music...
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...
Hindi feature film. The story of Violet Stoneham, an ageing Anglo-Indian schoolteacher who lives in a dingy apartment in Calcutta and teaches Shakespeare. Two young lovers walk into her life one Christmas...
Television drama written by Terry Johnson based on the real-life love affair between Sid James and Barbara Windsor set against the backdrop of the production of the Carry On films. Barbara Windsor was to...
Feature film comedy. A group of young actors rehearsing a production of Macbeth find their roles are reflecting and shaping their personalities. Claudia (Gloria Reuben) and Max (David Lansbury) both audition...
Feature film which details the rise of a Faustian character who figuratively sells his soul in exchange for greatness. Hendrik Hoefgen (Brandauer) is the head of a state-funded theatre department who tires...
Independent feature film offering a gay and lesbian Shakespeare film parody geared to a mainstream audience. Having just led the Scottish forces to victory, all Macbeth wants to do is go home, take a bubble...
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