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Experimental version of Hamlet directed by Oscar Redding with Richard Pyros in the title role.
John Barrymore was approached in 1933 to make a film version of Hamlet. Although he had played the role many times on stage, the production company asked for a screen test, perhaps because of rumours that...
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.
Independent experimental film exploring how young people make art and morality in the city. A painter leaves her studio, needing to know her world directly no longer through making paintings. Emerging into...
Short experimental film. An adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream set against a psychedelic backdrop of surreal techno clubs and urban alleyways. The film opens with a long unbroken shot, with no...
Feature film. Set in 2013, after World War Three has destroyed most of USA, including the government. an itinerant actor nicknamed Shakespeare (Costner) who wonders between villages performing scenes from...
Horror film. A group of eight actors rehearsing a review at the Dome, an abandoned seaside theatre, are attacked by a mysterious killer. In an extended flashback sequence (initiated by Othello’s exchange...
Version, intended for television, of Welles’ stage production of his play based on Melville’s novel. Filmed for three weeks but filming subsequently abandoned after c75 minutes had been shot. It was...
Video recording of Jonathan Miller’s 1988 production of The Tempest for the Old Vic with Max von Sydow as Prospero. ‘Miller ... used a mixed cast made up of white actors as the humans and black actors...
Animated feature film inspired by The Tempest, directed and animated by Per Ahlin. A children’s film about the evils of industrial capitalism with a strong ecological message. The tropical paradise island...
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