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Feature propaganda film and a wartime sequel to The SCARLET PIMPERNEL (d. Harold Young, 1934) also starring Leslie Howard. In the weeks prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, an English archaeologist...
An experimental short, shot on Super 8, by amateur British filmmaker Reg Lancaster. The film is inspired by the public sector workers’ strike in 1978-79 which brought about the downfall of Callaghan’s...
Feature film. An eccentric American professor(Malkovich) comes with his beautiful wife Helen (Deneuve) to an ancient Portuguese convent in Arrabida to find missing documents which would further his radical...
A contemporary dance conceived, directed and choreographed by Jane Comfort. Macbeth is presented as a cautionary tale of the 1980s, the piece juxtaposed with Wall Street yuppies and punk rocker witches in a...
Political satire series led by impressionist Rory Bremner. Includes a sketch in which Jaques’ ‘seven ages of man’ speech is parodied to chronicle the ‘strange, eventful history’ that was the career...
Feature film comedy. A group of car owners in the Hebridean village of Laxdale refuse to pay their road fund licences until they have been given a proper road. A parliamentary delegation arrives, and among...
Radio play produced to celebrate 75 years of BBC radio drama which began 28 May 1923 with a production of Twelfth Night. In the BBC’s Headquarter in Savoy Hill, Director-General John Reith and actress...
Uses an excerpt from Olivier’s 1944 production of HENRY V to demonstrate the Globe theatre. Opens with a shot of an elaborate model of London in 1600 and shows London bridge, a general impression of the...
Feature film version of Othello. The production focuses strongly on the intraracial hatred, a concept seen in casting choices and textual cuts. Afro-Americans play Othello, Emilia and Iago.
Feature film. Contemporary re-working of Measure for Measure set in the British Army.
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