Shakespeare on Film screenings and events around the UK

• Belfast
• Cornwall
• Derby
• Gloucester
• Herefordshire
• Lancaster
• London
• Sheffield
• Shropshire
• Suffolk
• Wigtown, Scotland
• Worthing, Sussex

Belfast

9 September
Theatre of Blood (1973)
Vincent Price plays a Shakespearian actor Edward Lionheart, who re-enacts murder scenes penned by the famous bard, in order to gain revenge on the nine theatre critics who have denied him the Best Actor of the Year award. A brilliant, bizarre 1973 comedy horror, Theatre of Blood pitches somewhere between a Hammer horror and the Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets. Presented by Film Hub NI and BFF as part of Shakesphere 400.
Harbour Commissioner’s Office

Cornwall

17 September
Romeo and Juliet (1996): Outdoor Screening
Baz Luhrmann’s now-iconic 1996 adaptation of the classic, Romeo and Juliet, starring Oscar-Winner Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes as the tragic couple. The film is set in the created world of Verona Beach – a violent, other world set neither in the future nor in the past where the Montagues and Capulets share an enmity that has become the birthright of their offspring. These wealthy, selfish, ruthless and powerful parents rule this created and frequently corrupt world of businessmen and politicians against which unfolds the well-known love story together with St Day community choir performing some of the classic tracks.
Plus: Silent Shakespeare shorts, a unique collection of early Shakespeare adaptations made between 1899 and 1911 remastered from the only known surviving materials of the originals accompanied by a specially commissioned score by award-winning young composer Laura Rossi.
Carn Marth Amphitheatre, Redruth

4 November
Romeo and Juliet (1996)
Baz Luhrmann’s now-iconic 1996 adaptation of the classic, Romeo and Juliet, starring Oscar-Winner Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes as the tragic couple. The film is set in the created world of Verona Beach – a violent, other world set neither in the future nor in the past where the Montagues and Capulets share an enmity that has become the birthright of their offspring. These wealthy, selfish, ruthless and powerful parents rule this created and frequently corrupt world of businessmen and politicians against which unfolds the well-known love story together with Treviglas & Tretherras secondary schools’ choir performing some of the classic tracks.
Plus selected work from the Silent Shakespeare shorts programme in partnership with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra outreach conductor Patrick Bailey and Cornwall Music Hub.
Treviglas & Tretherras secondary schools, Newquay

12 November
British Council Gala
British Council Gala in partnership with MLJ productions. Six Shakespeare Lives in 2016 shorts with Q&A producer Anne Beresford.
Newlyn FilmHouse

18 November
Romeo and Juliet (1996)
Baz Luhrmann’s now-iconic 1996 adaptation of the classic, Romeo and Juliet, starring Oscar-Winner Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes as the tragic couple. The film is set in the created world of Verona Beach – a violent, other world set neither in the future nor in the past where the Montagues and Capulets share an enmity that has become the birthright of their offspring. These wealthy, selfish, ruthless and powerful parents rule this created and frequently corrupt world of businessmen and politicians against which unfolds the well-known love story together with Penair & Richard Lander secondary schools’ choir performing some of the classic tracks.
Plus selected work from the Silent Shakespeare shorts programme in partnership with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra outreach conductor Patrick Bailey and Cornwall Music Hub.
Penair & Richard Lander secondary schools, Truro

25 November
Romeo and Juliet (1996)
Baz Luhrmann’s now-iconic 1996 adaptation of the classic, Romeo and Juliet, starring Oscar-Winner Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes as the tragic couple. The film is set in the created world of Verona Beach – a violent, other world set neither in the future nor in the past where the Montagues and Capulets share an enmity that has become the birthright of their offspring. These wealthy, selfish, ruthless and powerful parents rule this created and frequently corrupt world of businessmen and politicians against which unfolds the well-known love story together with Torpoint Community College choir performing some of the classic tracks.
Selected work from the Silent Shakespeare shorts programme in partnership with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra outreach conductor Patrick Bailey and Cornwall Music Hub.
Torpoint Community College

Derby

7-8 September
Coriolanus (2011)
Ralph Fiennes made his directorial debut with his transposition of Shakespeare’s Rome set play to the mid-1990s Balkans, amid a chorus of television news pundits and up close and personal warfare. Fiennes takes the central role of banished hero Coriolanus among a strong supporting cast including Gerard Butler, Brian Cox, James Nesbit and Vanessa Redgrave. South West Silents pre-sents this 35mm screening with live piano accompa-niment from Neil Brand, introduction by film histo-rian Luke McKernan, and a Q&A.
QUAD

12-13 September
All Night Long (1962)
This adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello updates the tale to 1960s Britain and brings the jazz greats of the day along for the ride. Aurelius Rex (Paul Harris) is happily married to Delia (Marti Stevens). Patrick McGoohan (The Prisoner) plays Johnny Cousin (this film’s Iago) who is scheming to steal Rex’s job and starts to spread rumours of Delia’s unfaithfulness. Also starring Betsy Blair and Richard Attenborough, All Night Long is set against the jazz backdrop of Dave Brubeck, Charlie Mingus and many more.
QUAD

21-22 September
King Lear (1971)
Legendary stage director Peter Brook directs his own adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy. King Lear (Paul Scofield), having decided to split his kingdom between his three daughters, decides to apportion the lands according to which daughter declaims her love for him best. When his daughter Cordelia refuses to flatter her father’s ego with claims of devotion, Lear angrily gives the lion’s share of his power to her sisters, Goneril and Regan. They soon abuse the trust, and Lear finds himself emasculated and powerless. Before long he is drifting into madness, as his former empire falls apart.
QUAD

23 September
Theatre of Blood (1973)
Edward Lionheart is a classic Shakespearian actor who snaps when the critics’ barbed comments about his performances wound him. He decides to wound them back and adds murder to his repertoire, exacting revenge on the critics in the manner of Shakespeare’s more gruesome death scenes! This screening will feature a duelling introduction by regular Fright Club host Darrell Buxton and director of 1623, Ben Spiller.
QUAD

28-29 September
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Koichi Nishi (Toshiro Mifune) is a grieving son seeking revenge for the suicide of his father. By assuming a new identity he rises through the ranks of the Public Corporation and cynically marries the president’s daughter to better infiltrate the company and expose the corrupt practice that was responsible for his father’s death. However as Koichi falls in love with his wife, disaster looms. A powerful indictment of the dark side of business and politics with distinct overtones of Hamlet.
QUAD

Gloucester

17 September
Hamlet (1921)
A unique vision of Hamlet, starring the Danish siren Asta Nielsen this adaptation sup-poses that Hamlet’s inner turmoil centred on having being born a girl, but having to pass incognito as the male heir to the throne. A vibrant new restoration with tinted colour tones, and a live accompaniment from the wonderful Lillian Henley, experienced pianist at the Cinema Museum in London. A presentation by South West Silents, in collaboration with Film London, The BFI, and the Deutsches Filminstitut.
Gloucester Guild Hall

Herefordshire

13 September
West Side Story
Based on a smash Broadway play updating Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to the 1950s era of juvenile delinquency, West Side Story stars Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer as the star-crossed lovers from different neighbourhoods – and ethnicities.
Garway Village Hall, Garway

Lancaster

14 September
Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film
By the end of the silent era, around 300 Shakespeare adaptations had been produced. This celebration from the BFI National Archive draws together a delightful selection of thrilling, iconic and humorous scenes from 24 titles (many unseen for decades), newly digitised and brought to life by the composers and musicians of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. See King Lear battle a raging storm at Stonehenge, The Merchant of Venice in stencil colour, the fairy magic of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and what was probably John Gielgud’s first appearance on film, in Romeo and Juliet (1924).
The Dukes

21 September
West Side Story (1961)
Winner of ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture, this electrifying musical sets the ageless tragedy of Romeo and Juliet in the slums of 1950s New York. The Jets, a gang on the West Side, is getting ready to rumble and fight the rival Puerto Rican gang, the Sharks. Riff, the leader of the Jets, tries to enlist the help of the co-founder of the gang, Tony. But Tony has quit the gang to work at an honest job, and he goes along only to keep the peace. At the dance where the gangs meet to arrange the rumble, Tony falls in love with Maria, sister of Bernardo, leader of the rival Sharks. At the rumble, Tony tries to limit the weapons to fists, but the fighting gets out of control…
The Dukes

28 September
Ran (1985)
A stunning digital restoration of Akira Kurosawa’s classic interpretation of Shakespeare’s King Lear. Borrowing narrative elements from the legend of Mōri Motonari (a 16th century Japanese warlord) as well as the Shakespearean tragedy, Ran stars Tatsuya Nakadai as the vain, arrogant Great Lord Hidetora Ichimonji, who at seventy decides to abdicate and divide his domain amongst his three sons, with catastrophic results. Spectacularly beautiful, with gorgeous, colour-saturated frames, it is an undoubted masterpiece.
The Dukes

London

18 September
As You Like It (1992)
A screening of Christine Edzard’s 1992 As You Like It, filmed in Rotherhithe with 2 1000 Londoners films on the theme of Shakespeare in London and followed by a Q&A.
The Lexi Cinema

25 September
Theatre of Blood
Theatre of Blood is showing as part of Film London’s Shakespeare on Screen programme, celebrating the incredible and enduring impact of Shakespeare on screen storytelling. The film is preceded by 2 short films from the 1000 Londoners programme, and is followed by a live Q&A.
The Lexi Cinema

Sheffield

5 October
All Night Long
A smoky and sensational re-imagination of Othello transposed to the hip London jazz scene. During the anniversary celebration of the musical and romantic partners, Aurelius Rex and Delia Lane, a jealous, ambitious drummer, Johnny Cousin attempts to tear the interracial couple apart.
Showroom & Workstation

19 October
Theatre of Blood
Vincent Price gives a career best performance as Edward Lionhart, a veteran Shakespearean actor who, when passed over for the coveted Critic’s Circle award for Best Actor takes deadly revenge on the critics who snubbed.
Showroom & Workstation

2 November
Makibefo
Filmed on the southernmost tip of Madagascar, Makibefo is a striking, alternative version of Macbeth, performed by non-professional actors. From a small fishing community, the actors had never seen a film before or heard of Shakespeare.
Showroom & Workstation

18 November
Hamlet Goes Business
Distinctively wacky film noir Hamlet from Aki Kaurismäki – relocated to the cutthroat world of the Helsinki rubber-duck industry. A delightful, deadpan, mysterious absurdist comedy.
Showroom & Workstation

Shropshire

9 September
Much Ado About Nothing
Little Wenlock Village Hall, Little Wenlock

Suffolk

16 September
William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Tattingstone Village Hall

Wigtown, Scotland

27 November
MacBeth
Roman Polanski’s version of Shakespeare’s tragedy about a Scottish lord who murders the king and ascends the throne. His wife then begins hallucinating as a result of her guilt complex and the dead king’s son conspires to attack Macbeth and expose him for the murderer he is.
County Buildings

27 November
Scenes from Shakespeare
A small group of travelling players will perform pop up scenes from Shakespeare at venues and sites around Wigtown throughout the afternoon.
Around Wigtown

Worthing, Sussex

15 September
Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing is being shown at the historic Dome Cinema, Worthing for one night only, and is being introduced by Dr Miles Leeson, Senior Lecturer from the University of Chichester who will be giving a brief pre-screening talk about this potent mix of fun, farce and politics.
Dome Cinema