Programming

Hamlet (1948)

Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet was made four years after his rousingly patriotic Henry V (1944), and is a very different proposition. Unsurprisingly, given the tone and content of the play, the overall mood is that of brooding introspection – tellingly, in a phrase not in Shakespeare’s […]

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There was a Father (Japanese film, 1942)

After the death of his wife and a student, teacher and family man Shuhei Horikawa tries his best to raise his son alone in his hometown of Nagano. This is an adaptation of a script drafted by Japanese screenwriter and director Yasujiro Ozu before he […]

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