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  • Play on!: Shakespeare in Silent Film (2016 Video)

    Producer
    Jane Giles

    A feature-length celebration of Shakespeare on silent film drawing on two dozen titles from the BFI National Archive many of which are rarely seen. Of the estimated 300 Shakespeare films produced in the...

  • Angelic Conversation, The (2006 Film, Video)

    Director
    Derek Jarman
    Producer
    James Mackay

    Of the 154 sonnets written by Shakespeare, most were written to an unnamed young man, commonly referred to as the Fair Youth. Here, Judi Dench’s readings of these 14 sonnets (nos 27, 29, 30, 43, 53, 55,...

  • Silent Shakespeare (2004 Video)

    Director
    J. Stuart Blackton; William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson; Charles Kent; Gerolamo Lo Savio; Percy Stow

    A compilation of seven early silent versions of Shakespeare plays, created from nitrate prints held in the BFI National Archive. They include examples of hand-stencilled and tinted prints, and, though...

  • Nuit de la Verite, La (2004 Film)

    aka: Night of Truth, The

    Director
    Fanta Régina Nacro
    Producer
    Claire-Agnes Lajournard; Fanta Régina Nacro

    Feature film. A parable set in a fictitious West African country rent by 10 years of tribal conflict between the ruling Nayak and the rebel Bonande. The director has stated that she saw Shakespearean...

  • Richard III (1995 Film, Video)

    Director
    Richard Loncraine
    Producer
    Lisa Katselas Pare; Stephen Bayly

    Film version of Shakespeare’s play derived from Richard Eyre’s National Theatre production. Set in a context of 1930s’ fascism, where Mosley’s troops have taken power.

  • Next! (1990 Television, Video)

    aka: Lip Synch: Next

    Series
    Aardman Animations Vol 1
    Director
    Barry Purves
    Producer
    Sara Mullock

    A puppet William Shakespeare, made using three-dimensional model animation techniques, performs his complete works before a sceptical Peter Hall figure. Without dialogue. Notable for the detailed perception...

  • Kumonosu-Jo (1957 Film, Video)

    aka: Throne of Blood

    Director
    Akira Kurosawa
    Producer
    Akira Kurosawa

    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...