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  1. Rome and Julie (2022 Film)

    Director
    Curtis Everitt
    Producer
    Curtis Everitt
    Subject
    Drama; Shakespeare

    Medium length film (47 minutes) adapting Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to the present day. Rome, while recovering from the death of Mercutio, goes to a party and falls for Juliet, who comes from a rival...

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  2. Macbeth (2022 Film)

    aka: Gorilla Rep’s Macbeth

    Director
    Christopher Carter Sanderson
    Producer
    Christopher Carter Sanderson
    Subject
    Drama; Shakespeare

    Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, filmed uncut and entirely in close-up using iPhones.

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  3. Shakespeare’s Heroes and Villains (2018 Film)

    Director
    Stephen Cookson
    Producer
    Stephen Cookson
    Subject
    Drama; Shakespeare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 87 minutes), £12.99

    Shakespeare’s Heroes and Villains is an adaptation of Berkoff’s one-person play, ‘Shakespeare’s Villains’. Here, Berkoff interrogates and analyses the psyche of the Bard’s most memorable and...

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  4. Private Joseph Kay (2018)

    Director
    Matt Kay
    Subject
    History; Literature

    Jackie Kay’s poem Private Joseph Kay is dedicated to her grandfather who fought at the Somme. This short film, made by award-winning director Matthew Kay, responds to the poem and the themes it raises. [7...

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  5. Dangerous Dynasty, A: House of Assad (2018)

    Subject
    History; Politics & government

    This three-part BBC series is a thorough lesson in how Syria has ended up in its current predicament. Right at the centre of it are President Bashar and his wife Asma, who met and fell in love in London....

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  6. Shakespeare in Tokyo (2018 Film)

    Director
    Genevieve Clay-Smith
    Producer
    Henry Smith; Seigo Tôno
    Subject
    Shakespeare; Travel & tourism

    To escape his controlling siblilng, a Shakespeare fan with Down Syndrome leaves Australia to have an adventure in Tokyo and prove that he can live independently.

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  7. Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (2018 Film)

    Director
    Casey Wilder Mott
    Producer
    Fran Kranz
    Subject
    Drama; Shakespeare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 105 minutes), $20

    US film adaptation, relocated to contemporary Los Angeles. Hermia is now a movie star who falls for Lysander, a photographer; Bottom is the leader of a group of film students and Puck a surfer. Oberon is...

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  8. London Symphony: A Poetic Journey Through the Life of a City (2017)

    Director
    Alex Barrett
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 72 minutes), £12.00

    The ‘city symphony’ became a popular type of urban documentary during the last decade of the silent era. LONDON SYMPHONY pays homage to that subgenre. Its director, Alex Barrett, shot the film silent,...

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  9. I Am Not Your Negro (2017)

    Director
    Raoul Peck
    Subject
    American Studies; History
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £6.99

    Documentary based on James Baldwin’s unfinished novel, ‘Remember this House’. The film’s release, which coincided with the unfolding of the Black Lives Matter protests across the USA, explores the...

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  10. Resilience (2016)

    aka: Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope

    Director
    James Redford
    Subject
    Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $225.00

    Educational documentary which follows pioneering doctors who looked at the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) research and began developing a new way of thinking about health and social problems. Studies...

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