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A feature-length celebration of Shakespeare on silent film drawing on two dozen titles from the BFI National Archive many of which are rarely seen. Of the estimated 300 Shakespeare films produced in the...
Feature film. A romance taking place in Hollywood between 1927 and 1932 focusing on a declining male film star (Dujardin) and a rising actress (Bejo), as silent cinema declines and is replaced by the...
A shortened version of the play which omits the casket scene and the business concerning Portia’s ring. Some scenes were filmed in Venice.
A comic murder mystery conceived and staged by Forkbeard Fantasy to mark their 30th year in the theatre. Set in 1904 in the pioneering days of cinema, a group of fledgling movie makers, desperate to...
A silent film inspired by Jacques speech in As You Like It.
Three silent Shakespeare films produced by the Thanhouser Company. The films were restored and updated with new musical accompaniment composed by Raymond A. Brubacher and released on dvd in 2007. The titles...
Silent version of Macbeth presented as an historical spectacle and directed by Mario Caserini with Dante Capelli and Maria Gasperini as the Macbeths. Contemporary accounts speak of ‘very fine tableaux’...
Fiction short. A modern reworking of Othello. Ejnar and Maria are husband and wife and both actors in a forthcoming production of Othello. The plot revolves around jealously, disguise and revenge when Ejnar...
Radio broadcast. Isn’t silent Shakespeare an oxymoron? All that’s nuanced, beautiful, meaningful in the poetry - silenced. Yet between 1899 and 1927, when the first commercial sound film was released,...
Silent feature film. A romantic family saga which includes scenes from both a stage and film production of Romeo and Juliet.
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