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Intermission (2009 Film)

Director

Girard Swan

Producer

Girard Swan; Justin Howard

Independent feature film. A community theatre production of Hamlet is set to open when the production loses its lead actor. The company then, unknowingly, brings in a madman actor, who is convinced he...

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Stages: Houseman Directs Lear (1981 Film)

aka: Houseman Directs Lear

Director

Amanda C. Pope

Producer

Amanda C. Pope

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...

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Open-Air Theatre (1965 Film)

aka: Cornwall’s Minack Open-Air Theatre

Series

Colour Pictorial

British Pathe newsfilm item. Preparations for, and scenes from, a production of Macbeth at the Minack Cliff Theatre, an open-air theatre in Porthcurno, Cornwall which opened in 1932. Includes shots of the...

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Working with Pinter (2010)

Director

Harry Burton

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 106 minutes), £17.99

Harry Burton’s 2007 film WORKING WITH PINTER is a unique documentary about a unique writer. Achieving unprecedented access to Harold Pinter working with actors, the film captures his collaborative spirit...

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Shakespeare Says (1987 Video)

Director

Rick Jones (2)

An American public information/educational film in which African-American actor Rick Jones, wearing Elizabethan costume, warns young people against taking drugs. The transcript is: ‘Life is a precious...

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Carer, The (2016 Film)

Director

János Edelényi

Feature film. A young Hungarian actress (Coco König) becomes the carer of famously difficult stage actor Sir Michael Gifford (Brian Cox), who is in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease. Their...

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Cema (1942 Film)

aka: C.E.M.A.

Director

Desmond Dickinson; John Banting; Charles de Lautour; Alan Osbiston; Peter Graham-Scott; Dylan Thomas

Producer

Alexander Shaw

A documentary about the precursor to the Arts Council, the wartime Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA), featuring an introduction by education minister R A Butler, an art exhibition in...

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Mikhoels As King Lear (Film)

Soloman Mikhoels in his dressing room putting on his masks and make-up to play King Lear. Scenes of him playing Lear on stage.

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Tempest, The (1997 Video)

Director

Garland Wright

A video recording by Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) of The Shakespeare Theatre’s 1997 production of The Tempest. Directed by Garland Wright for the stage and for TOFT by Richard Stucker. Ted van...

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Tombstone (1993 Film)

Director

George P. Cosmatos

Producer

James Jacks; Sean Daniel; Bob Misiorowski

Feature film. Excessively violent, melodramatic, fanciful and overlong retelling of the Wyatt Earp legend. Includes an early scene in which a young actor in a travelling stage show, playing to a rowdy saloon...

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