The Boys from Syracuse is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, and based on the play The Comedy of Errors, as adapted by librettist George Abbott. The score includes swing and other contemporary rhythms of the 1930s. The show was the first musical based on a Shakespeare play. The […]
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Mean Girls is a 2004 American teen comedy movie directed by Mark Waters and written by Tina Fey. It is based in part on Rosalind Wiseman’s 2002 non-fiction self-help book, Queen Bees and Wannabes, which describes female high school social cliques, school bullying, and the damaging effects they can have on students. Fey also drew […]
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Throne of Blood is a 1957 Japanese film co-written, produced, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film transposes the plot of Macbeth from Medieval Scotland to feudal Japan, with stylistic elements drawn from Noh drama. The film stars Toshiro Mifune and Isuzu Yamada in the lead roles. Generals […]
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The King is a 2019 film directed by David Michod, based on several plays from Shakespeare’s ‘Henriad’. The screenplay was written by Michôd and Joel Edgerton, who both produced the film. The King includes an ensemble cast led by Timothee Chalamet as the Prince of Wales and later King Henry V of England. The film […]
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My Own Private Idaho is a 1991 American independent film written and directed by Gus Van Sant, loosely based on Henry IV part I and II, and Henry V. Van Sant wrote the screenplay in the 1970s, but discarded it after reading John Rechy’s 1963 novel City of Night and concluding that Rechy’s treatment of […]
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O is a 2001 American drama film, and a modern adaptation of Othello, set in an American high school. It stars Mekhi Phifer, Julia Stiles and Josh Hartnett. It was directed by Tim Blake Nelson and written by Brad Kaaya. The film contains many different styles of music, ranging from rap to opera. It was […]
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A Double Life is a 1947 American film noir which tells the story of an actor whose mind becomes affected by the character he portrays. It stars Ronald Colman and Signe Hasso. It is directed by George Cukor, with screenplay by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin. Ronald Colman won the Academy Award for Best Actor […]
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10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 American teen romantic comedy film directed by Gil Junger and starring Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Larisa Oleynik. The screenplay, written by Karen McCulla Lutz and Kirsten Smith, is a modernization of The Taming of the Shrew, retold in a late-1990s American high school […]
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McLintock! is a 1963 American Western film, starring John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara, directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. Loosely based on The Taming of the Shrew, the project was filmed in Technicolour and Panavision, and produced by Wayne’s company, Batjac Productions. Tough cattle baron and town namesake George Washington “G.W.” McLintock lives as a bachelor […]
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You Made Me Love You is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Stanley Lupino, Thelma Todd and John Loder. The plot is a modern reworking of The Taming of the Shrew. In London, songwriter Tom Daly falls in love at first sight with a beautiful blonde he spies while at […]