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A lyrical treatment of Homer’s tale of Penelope, depicting her psychological struggle as she waits twenty years for her husband to return from the Trojan War. It draws on the long-take filmmaking style of...
What would happen if you made a boring old set text into a high-school romcom?. Junger’s adaptation, set in a suburban Seattle high school is ‘smart and sassy, a brightly contemporary retelling of The...
An intelligent and meditative interpretation emphasising class distinctions and sexual confusion, which ‘has dated better than most...and which captures the shadowy magic of the play well’ (The Guardian...
The story of MACBETH transposed to medieval Japan, with Macbeth as a samurai and drawing on traditions from Noh drama. Toshiro Mifune is Macbeth. In Kurosawa’s masterly interpretation of MACBETH ‘the...
Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay are joined by their friend Brittany to discuss the Shakespeare movies that were released in the 1990s and how they reflected that decade. The films being...
Kate McDuffie looks at SHE’S THE MAN (2006), a contemporary update of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night - and doesn’t like what she finds. She focuses on deviations from the play, the removal of a Malvolio...
Local access video discussion series hosted by Rick Winston and Bill Morancy. In this edition Rick explores his favourite film adaptations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet with theatre director Joanne Greenberg....
Video podcast in which hosts Ade, Jake and Mikey discuss the merits of TROMEO AND JULIET (1997). The approach, in keeping with the film under discussion, is highly irreverent, aimed at young audiences and...
Podcast. Tony Farina joins host Dan to discuss 10 films based, more or less, on a play by Shakespeare. The films discussed include: FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956), SHE’S THE MAN (2006), ROSENCRANTZ AND...
Recording of an online lecture by Dr Anthony Quinn, introduced by Rossella M. Riccobono. The lecture includes analyses of the films made from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet by Francis X Bushman and John W...
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