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BFI Presents Shakespeare on Film | BFI

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Channel: BFI · 2016 · Film & Animation

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BFI Presents Shakespeare on Film, a season of films and special events in cinemas worldwide to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death.
Shakespeare in film will run from 31 March - 31 May.

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The BFI Southbank programme will be launched with the premiere of a new film, Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Cinema, artfully compiling scenes from the best surviving silent Shakespeare adaptations held by the BFI National Archive - including the first ever Shakespeare film, King John (1899), and a rare discovery of a 20-year-old John Gielgud’s earliest appearance on film in Romeo (1922).

April will focus on the Classics, including Lawrence Olivier’s Hamlet (1948), Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V (1989) and Roman Polanski’s Macbeth (1971).
In May, Shakespeare Reimagined will explore how filmmakers have taken inspiration from Shakespeare’s texts and re-interpreted them. Screenings include the newly re-mastered All Night Long (Basil Dearden, 1961) – set in the London jazz world and inspired by Othello.

The full programme will be available on 26 February.

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