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Television special. Barbra Streisand and Jason Robards in a musical revue fashioned after vaudeville shows from the turn of last century to the 1920s. At one point in the show Streisand and Robards as ‘The...
Les Blank’s documentary about the making of Werner Herzog’s FITZCARRALDO (1982). When FITZCARRALDO was first underway it starred Jason Robards as Fitzcarraldo and Mick Jagger as his sidekick Wilbur....
Film which follows actor, producer and director John Houseman as he rehearses The Acting Company, the repertory company he established in 1972, in a production of King Lear. The actors are mainly graduates...
On location with director Stuart Burge for Peter Snell’s screen version of Shakespeare’s JULIUS CAESAR (1970), with a look back at the 1953 production. Includes extended interviews with Stuart Burge,...
Film adaptation of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Jane Smiley, which is loosely based on King Lear but with a feminist slant. Larry (Robards) decides to give his daughters joint ownership of his...
Musical series featuring classical and Broadway music. This episode presents four versions of the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet performed in the theatre, opera (Gounod), ballet (Prokofiev) and the...
Feature film. Concerns the lifelong relationship between playwright Lillian Hellman (Fonda) and Julia (Redgrave), a wealthy girl who turns her back on her upbringing to follow her ideals. In the 1930s, while...
A feature film which grew out of Stuart Burge’s experience in directing a BBC television version of the play in 1959, as well as a subsequent London stage production. The pedestrian production was...
Televised version of the play, with Robert Perceval as Caesar and Eric Porter as Brutus. According to its producer, Stuart Burge, the production strives "for a true and lively interpretation of the text, but...
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