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Feature film. An adaptation of A Midsummer’s Night Dream. Yuriko (Shibamoto) is a Tokyo office worker who decides to give up big city life and return home to Yokatomi Island in Okinawa to avoid her...
Feature film made for cable. A surreal thriller set in a nostalgic world where magic is integrated into everyday life. Using a fantastical narrative to satirise the McCarthy era of the 1950s, Private...
Tom Stoppard’s film adaptation of his play based on characters in Hamlet.
Documentary. Al Pacino, while in the process of staging a production of Richard III, explores in the film how the play took shape and tries to understand Shakespeare’s intention for it. He canvasses the...
Feature film version of The Tempest with Helen Mirren as Prospera.
Fiction film. A blind father is prevailed upon to transfer his property to his daughters who promise to care for him. However, they both find him irksome and reject him. The old man is broken-hearted at his...
American television western drama. Concerns Deadwood, Dakota and charts Deadwood’s growth from camp to town incorporating such themes as the setting up of communities and western capitalism. The third...
Film adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream set in Tuscany in the 1890s.
Shakespeare adaptation directed by Michael Radford, with Jeremy Irons as Antonio and Al Pacino as Shylock.
Low-budget, feature-length version of the play in a modern urban London setting. According to The Guardian (2019), director Christine Edzard makes it into a ‘thinly veiled commentary on the inequalities of...
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