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  1. Thousand Acres, A (1997 Film, Video)

    Director
    Jocelyn Moorhouse
    Producer
    Marc Abraham; Lynn Arost; Steve Golin; Kate Guinzburg; Sigurjon Sighvatsson
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 101 minutes), £14.99

    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...

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  2. Burden of Dreams (1982 Film)

    Director
    Les Blank

    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....

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  3. Stages: Houseman Directs Lear (1981 Film)

    aka: Houseman Directs Lear

    Director
    Amanda C. Pope
    Producer
    Amanda C. Pope
    Subject
    Drama

    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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  4. Julia (1977 Film)

    Director
    Fred Zinnemann
    Producer
    Richard Roth

    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...

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  5. Julius Caesar (1970) (1970 Film, Video)

    Director
    Stuart Burge
    Producer
    Peter Snell
    Subject
    Drama; Shakespeare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (BR Region A, 116 minutes), $29.95

    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...

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  6. Long Day’s Journey into Night (1962 Video)

    Director
    Sidney Lumet
    Producer
    George Justin
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassettes. VHS. b&w. 135 min., 1997 sale: £5.99 (inclusive)

    Film version of the play by Eugene O’Neill, based on his early family life.

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  7. Film Night Special: Caesar’s the Name of the Game (Television)

    aka: Caesar’s the Name of the Game

    Subject
    Drama

    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,...

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  8. Many Faces of Romeo and Juliet, The (Television)

    Director
    Clark Jones
    Producer
    Dan Launsbery
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    No archive copy found (2007)

    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...

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  9. Belle of 14th Street (Television)

    Director
    Joe Layton; Walter C. Miller
    Producer
    Joe Layton

    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...

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