Subgenre Sampler
Performing Arts: 239 Films to Buy & Rent
- As You Like It (1978)
- Dir. Basil Coleman
Feat. Helen Mirren, Brian Stirner, Richard Pasco
- Part of the BBC's excellent series of Shakespeare productions, filmed in a 'theatrical' TV environment utilising the best of English acting talent.
- Romeo and Juliet (1978)
- Dir. Alvin Rakoff
Feat. Patrick Ryecart, Rebecca Saire, Sir Michael Hordern…
- Part of the BBC's excellent series of Shakespeare productions, filmed in a 'theatrical' TV environment utilising the best of English acting talent.
- Twelfth Night (1978)
- Dir. John Gorrie
Feat. Alec McCowen, Robert Hardy, Felicity Kendal…
- Part of the BBC's excellent series of Shakespeare productions, filmed in a 'theatrical' TV environment utilising the best of English acting talent.
- Baryshnikov's The Nutcracker (1977)
- Dir. Tony Charmoli
Feat. Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Landmark version of Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet 'The Nutcracker', about a young girl on Christmas Eve who enters the magical kingdom of a wizard,…
- Bolshoi Ballet - Ivan the Terrible (1976)
- The Bolshoi Ballet present their version of Sergei Prokofiev's 'Ivan the Terrible', choreographed by Yuri Grigorovich. Stars Yuri Vladimirov, Natalya…
- Romeo and Juliet (1976)
- Dir. Joan Kemp-Welch
Feat. Christopher Neame, Ann Hasson, Peter Jeffrey…
- Creditable British TV version of the most famous romantic tragedy of all time, with Neame and Hassan playing the fate–crossed lovers.
- Taming of the Shrew, The (1976)
- Dir. Kirk Browning
Feat. Marc Singer
- An acclaimed production of Shakespeare's comedy by the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.
- Tosca (Puccini) (1976)
- Dir. Gianfranco De Bosio
Feat. Raina Kabaivanska, Placido Domingo
- New Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Bruno Bartoletti.
- American Film Theatre - Galileo (1975)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Topol, John Gielgud, Patrick Magee…
- A generally satisfactory version of Bertolt Brecht's stageplay concerning the ethical dilemmas of the scientist Galileo, who among other things…
- American Film Theatre - In Celebration (1975)
- Dir. Lindsay Anderson
Feat. Alan Bates, Brian Cox, Gabrielle Daye…
- A tightly framed screen adaptation of David Storey's autobiographical play set around the reunion of a Nottinghamshire mining family, in which cast…