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On this episode of Camera Three, Sidney Lumet, John Gassner, and Peretz Johnnes examine how to best adapt stage plays to film. Topics include: film technique, interpretation, editing, and preparation. Excerpts from A View from the Bridge and A Long Day's Journey into Night provide examples.
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Georges Bizet's captivating music with its Spanish sounds took the world by storm: Carmen's Habanera and Seguidilla, like Escamillo's Toreador's Song, are known to one and all. The French composer's most successful opera is staged on a spectacular floating stage on Lake Constance in Bregenz with a set designed by British artist Es Devlin. For the Danish stage director, Kasper Holten, this "opera about destiny and obsession" centers on "two people...
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In this retelling of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," Kathy, deemed "too sensitive for her own good" and told to control herself, is confined to a child's bedroom with barred windows and garish decor by her well-meaning husband. As the enforced idleness of a rest cure begins to drive her mad, Kathy imagines there is someone imprisoned within the wallpaper, and she works to set the shadowy figure-and herself-free. Gilman's short story...
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In this video, actors Ron Bottitta and Gillian Brashear replay their roles as the title characters in Jovanka Bach's play that debuted Off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theatre. Set in 1901, the play tells the story of Anton Chekhov, sick with tuberculosis and hiding his recent marriage from his possessive and jealous sister, Maria. Maria also has a secret that she is keeping from her brother. These secrets and familial relationships and rivalries...
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Based upon the novel by Emily Brontë, this video is part of a five-part miniseries produced in 1978. Wuthering Heights follows the self-destructive journey of Heathcliff as he seeks revenge for losing his beloved. In this episode, Mr. Earnshaw rescues Heathcliff from the streets of Liverpool. After Hindley leaves for college, Catherine and Heathcliff establish a close friendship.
Based upon the novel by Emily Brontë, this video is part of a five-part...
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Based on the novel by Emily Brontë, this video is part of a five-part miniseries produced in 1978. Wuthering Heights follows the self-destructive journey of Heathcliff as he seeks revenge for losing his beloved. In this episode, Cathy Linton escapes her captivity, sees her father shortly before his death, and promises she will be happily married to Linton Heathcliff. Heathcliff descends into madness at the tragic conclusion.
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Based upon the novel by Emily Brontë, this video is part of a five-part miniseries produced in 1978. Wuthering Heights follows the self-destructive journey of Heathcliff as he seeks revenge for losing his beloved. In this episode, Catherine begins to go insane after Heathcliff elopes with Isabella Linton.
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Published in 1554, The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes introduced a new genre of writing, the picaresque. This classic, award-winning adaptation of the anonymous masterpiece tells the story of the young and constantly hungry protagonist, Lazaro, whose worldly education on the road through a series of masters presents a sly, often comical critique of 16th-century Spain.
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Based upon the novel by Emily Brontë, this video is part of a five-part miniseries produced in 1978. Wuthering Heights follows the self-destructive journey of Heathcliff as he seeks revenge for losing his beloved. In this episode, Linton Heathcliff moves to Wuthering Heights following the death of his mother. Heathcliff plots to marry the child to the daughter of Edgar Linton and Catherine Earnshaw.
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Based on the novel by Emily Brontë, this video is part of a five-part miniseries produced in 1978. Wuthering Heights follows the self-destructive journey of Heathcliff as he seeks revenge for losing his beloved. In this episode, Heathcliff disappears after discovering that Catherine agreed to marry Edgar Linton. Upon his return, he decides to avenge the pain he endured at the hands of Hindley Earnshaw and Catherine's husband.
Based upon the novel...
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The U.S. spends twice as much per person on health care as the average industrialized nation, yet its outcomes are often worse. The reason? The U.S. is the only developed country that has turned medicine into a largely unregulated, for-profit enterprise. Inspired by Maggie Mahar's acclaimed book, Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much, this program offers a behind-the-scenes look at America's. 2.6 trillion health care system,...
16) Temple Grandin
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"Based on the writings by its title subject, HBO Films' Temple Grandin is an engaging portrait of an autistic young woman who became, through timely mentoring and sheer force of will, one of America's most remarkable success stories. With a tour de force performance by Claire Danes in the title role, the film chronicles Grandin's early beginnings as a child diagnosed with autism; her turbulent growth and development during her school years; and the...
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First published in 2015, Between The World And Me was written as a letter to Coates' teenage son, and recounts the author's experiences growing up in Baltimore's inner city and his growing fear of daily violence against the Black community. The narrative explores Coates' bold notion that American society structurally supports white supremacy. Based on the 2018 adaptation and staging of the book at the Apollo Theater, this HBO Special combines elements...
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