Solyaris (1972) - Andrei Tarkovsky
Russian, 1972
Director : Andrei Tarkovsky
Genre : Psychological Sci-Fi
Run Time : 165 min
Casting : Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky, Nikolai Grinko, Anatoly Solonitsyn
Solaris is a meditative psychodrama occurring mostly aboard a space station orbiting the planet Solaris. The scientific mission has stalled, because the scientist crew have fallen to emotional crises. Psychologist Kris Kelvin travels to the Solaris space station, to learn and evaluate the situation — yet soon hallucinates like the others.
Viridiana (1961) - Luis Buñuel
Spain, Mexico, 1961
Director : Luis Buñuel
Genre : Drama
Running Time : 1h 31mn
Casting : Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey, José Calvo, Margarita Lozano, José Manuel Martín, Victoria Zinny, Luis Heredia, Joaquín Roa, Lola Gaos, María Isbert, Teresa Rabal.
Few film directors have worked with the sheer power and subversiveness that Spanish-born Luis Buñuel have. "Viridiana" is one of the best examples of the exiled Spaniard's feelings towards religious faith and its virtues- or his strong denial of religion as a virtue.
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) - Werner Herzog
Director : Werner Herzog
Starring : Klaus Kinski ... Count Dracula | Isabelle Adjani ... Lucy Harker | Bruno Ganz ... Jonathan Harker | Roland Topor ... Renfield | Walter Ladengast ... Dr. Van Helsing
Release : 1979
Running Time : 107 min.
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht, (Eng. Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night) is a 1979 West German vampire horror film, set primarily in nineteenth-century Wismar, Germany and Transylvania, Romania. The film was conceived as a stylistic remake of the 1922 German Dracula adaptation, Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens. Written and directed by Werner Herzog, Nosferatu the Vampyre stars Klaus Kinski as Count Dracula, Isabelle Adjani as Lucy Harker and Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Harker. The film also features French artist-writer Roland Topor as Renfield.
The Tragedy of Hamlet (2002) - Peter Brook
Directed by: Peter Brook
Language: English (French Soft Subtitles)
Country: UK | France | Japan
Runtime: 134 min
Starring : Adrian Lester, with: Scott Handy, Jeffery Kissoon, Bruce Myers, Natasha Parry, Yoshi Oida, Shantala Shivalingappa, Rohan Siva
Artistic collaboration : Marie-Hélène Estienne
Lighting Design : Philippe Vialatte
Costumes : Chloé Obolensky
Music : Toshi Tsuchitori
An Actor's Work: A Student's Diary
An Actor's Work: A Student's Diary - Konstantin Stanislavski
Routledge | 2008 | ISBN: 041542223X | Pages: 693
Stanislavski’s ‘system’ has dominated actor-training in the West since his writings were first translated into English in the 1920s and 30s. His systematic attempt to outline a psycho-physical technique for acting single-handedly revolutionised standards of acting in the theatre.
Until now, readers and students have had to contend with inaccurate, misleading and difficult-to-read English-language versions. Some of the mistranslations have resulted in profound distortions in the way his system has been interpreted and taught.
Actor Training
Routledge | 2010 | ISBN: 0415471672, 0415471680 | 368 pages
Actor Training expands on Alison Hodge’s highly-acclaimed and best-selling Twentieth Century Actor Training. This exciting second edition radically updates the original book making it even more valuable for any student of the history and practice of actor training. The bibliography is brought right up to date and many chapters are revised. In addition, eight more practitioners are included-and forty more photographs-to create a stunningly comprehensive study.
Film Studies
Pocket Essentials | 2002 | ISBN: 1904048439 | 160 pages
Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. This book offers a concise introduction to the appreciation and study of film. It begins with the nuts and bolts, an examination of how films are put together, framing, performance, setting, costume and editing and then examines a number of approaches taken to film over the last half century, such as the auteur theory, structuralism, psychoanalysis, feminism, queer theory, and more. Applying these theories to films everyone will have seen, such as The Usual Suspects and Seven, the book also includes an overview of genres, national cinemas, and film movements worldwide.
The Literature/Film Reader: Issues of Adaptation
The Literature/Film Reader: Issues of Adaptation - James M. Welsh
The Scarecrow Press, Inc. | 2007-08-28 | ISBN: 0810859491 | 392 pages
From examinations of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now to Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, The Literature Film Reader: Issues of Adaptation covers a wide range of films adapted from other sources. The first section presents essays on the hows and whys of adaptation studies, and subsequent sections highlight films adapted from a variety of sources, including classic and popular literature, drama, biography, and memoir. The last section offers a new departure for adaptation studies, suggesting that films about history—often a separate category of film study—can be seen as adaptations of records of the past. The anthology concludes with speculations about the future of adaptation studies.
