We are presenting the biggest ever programme of Shakespeare on film in the UK and across the world with the British Council.
Highlights include:
- Ian McKellen live on stage to present the remastered Richard III for a UK-wide simulcast and the opening of Shanghai Film Festival with Shakespeare on Film.
- International tour of 18 British films to 110 countries with British Council.
- Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Cinema premiere at BFI Southbank with new live score by the Musicians of Shakespeare’s Globe.
- New 4K restorations of Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet and Akira Kurosawa’s Ran.
- Landmark films by Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Roman Polanski and Kenneth Branagh.
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