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Romeo and Juliet (1996 Television)

Series

Shakespeare Shorts

First episode of a five-part schools programme series that attempts to makes Shakespeare accessible to children by having well-known actors perform and comment on key scenes from Shakespeare’s plays which...

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King Lear (1994 Video)

Director

Yvonne Brewster

Video recording, using three cameras, of a performance of King Lear by the Talawa Theatre Company at the Cochrane Theatre, London. Ben Thomas is Lear.

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Clueless (1995 Film)

Director

Amy Heckerling

Producer

Scott Rudin; Robert Lawrence

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...

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Stone Age Artists, The Magdalenian Masters (2009)

Director

Philippe Plailly

Producer

Thierry Berrod

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 52 minutes), 20 euros

The inception of art in prehistoric times is a much debated issue. Some believe it coincides with a revolution of the mind, which is thought to have started about 40,000 years ago. Others think it is the...

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Tragiska Historien om Hamlet, Den (1985 Television)

aka: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Director

Ragnar Lyth

A Swedish made-for-television film version of Hamlet. The interpretation, which eliminates over half the play’s text, is heavily influenced by Kozintsev. Stellan Skarsgaard is Hamlet.

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Rave Macbeth (2001 Film)

aka: Nacht der Entscheidung

Director

Klaus Knoesel

Producer

Stefan Jonas

Feature film. A reworking of Macbeth set in a nightclub to techno tracks. Marcus (Macbeth) and his friend Troy fling themselves into a rave. They have been named seconds to Dean, a drug czar who is ‘king...

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Shakespeare Shorts 1 Video (1996 Video)

Series

English File

Television programmes for schools featuring television actors not usually associated with Shakespeare in scenes from five of the plays. They use contemporary settings, which aim to illustrate the relevance...

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Looking into Paintings (6 Parts) (1985 Video)

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 6 x 25 min.

Part 1 investigates how paintings have been interpreted and re-interpreted through the ages, beginning with Leonardo’s ‘Mona Lisa’. Shows that we have expectations about paintings and painters based on...

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City of Death. Part 4 (1979 Television)

Series

Doctor Who

Director

Michael Hayes

Producer

Graham Williams

British science fiction television serial. The Doctor and Romana are on holiday in Paris in 1979 when they sense that someone is tampering with time. He, Romana and a private detective named Duggan are then...

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The Channel 4 films of the 1980s: ‘A worrying new category’

Date

9 Nov 2010, 13:22

Author

bufvclinda

Post Type

Post

As Channel 4 draws the curtain on the eleven-year success of the Big Brother franchise,  it continues to reap the rewards of being the producer of some of the most popular shows on television, including...

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