Sense and Sensation is a lavish exploration of the arts in eighteenth-century London. Written and presented by the eminent historian John Brewer, the film considers the world of commerce and celebrity in which Georgian culture was created.
View Details >>State of the Art is an exciting, authoritative, and challenging series of thematic documentaries about the visual arts in the 1980s. The six-programme boxset features key artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Joseph Beuys, Cindy Sherman, Antony Gormley, Hans Haacke, and Eric Fischl.
View Details >>Directed and filmed by Chris Petit, and based on an English academic’s memoir on stalking and being stalked, Unrequited Love is a dazzling digital film essay on cinema and absence, on Hitchcock and Antonioni, on cinema and cities.
View Details >>Rupert Goold‘s film of his highly-acclaimed production of Macbeth, starring Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood, is set in an undefined and threatening central European world. Recently honoured with a highly prestigious Peabody Award, the film is based on the Chichester Festival Theatre production of the play that enjoyed sell-out runs in the West End and on Broadway.
View Details >>The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Macbeth has been lauded as the finest production of Shakespeare’s Scottish play for over a quarter of a century. In 2000, it played to packed houses in Stratford, London, and theatres abroad. All twenty actors from the original production, including Antony Sher and Harriet Walter, star in this compelling screen version of Gregory Doran’s original stage production.
View Details >>For fifty years, Harold Pinter has been at the centre of theatrical work and his contribution to theatre, film and, more recently the political stage, has been enormous. Working with Pinter offers unprecedented access to the his creative processes in the rehearsal room.
View Details >>In late 2005 Harold Pinter videotaped a lecture on the occasion of being awarded one of the most distinguished honours, the Nobel Prize for Literature. “Art, Truth & Politics” is a speech that made headlines around the world. It is an urgent and compelling appeal for us all as citizens to seek out and honour truth.
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Matthew Bourne brings his unique take on the legendary 1948 feature film.
Shakespeare’s classic love story is given a novel twist by being set in the dystopian “Verona Institution”.
