Ill Met by Moonlight**or, A Midsummer Night Dreame
- Synopsis
- Low-budget feature film offering a gothic punk version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Oberon is a Fagan-like poet playing Pied Piper to the street children followers he employs to control drug traffic; Puck is a roller blader.
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Film
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Year of release
- 1994
- Duration
- 150 mins
- Availability
- No distributor or archive copy found (2006)
Credits
- Director
- S.P. Somtow
- Cinematographer
- Russell J. Lyster
- Screenplay
- S.P. Somtow
- Music
- Somtow Sucharitkul
- Production Design
- David Hogan
- Cast
Additional Details
- Production type
- Fiction Films
- Plays
- Midsummer Night’s Dream, A
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- punk; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- Notes
- Budget $200,000. Shot on Super 16mm.
- General
- The film was filmed almost entirely in Los Angeles, and at night. An IMDb user notes that the role of Oberon (Tim Sullivan) is played, at the director’s request, in a vocal imitation of Nick Nolte.
- History
- The film was not given a general release.
- Reviews
- Filmmaker, (vol.3, no.1 Autumn, 1994), p50.
Production Company
- Name
Titania Pictures
- Address
- USA
Archive
- Name
BFI National Archive
- Web
- http://www.bfi.org.uk/archive-collections/searching-access-collections/research-viewing-services External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7255 1444
- Fax
- 020 7436 0165
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London
W1T 1LN
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Ill Met by Moonlight**or, A Midsummer Night Dreame". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av37736 (Accessed 12 Nov 2024)