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	Othello (1965 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Othello is a 1965 movie based on the Shakespeare play Othello; starring Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Frank Finlay, and Joyce Redman.
		It was simply a filmed version of a performance by the actors for the National Theatre from 1964-66.
		Olivier's former backers for his Shakespeare films were all dead by 1965, and he was not able to raise the money to do a real film version.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Othello_(1965_movie) (178 words)

	Derek Jacobi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He quickly came to the fore, and his talent was recognised by Laurence Olivier, who invited him back home to London to become one of the eight founding members of the new National Theatre, even though at the time he was relatively unknown.
		Olivier gave him the role of Cassio in his 1965 film of Othello and of Andrei in Three Sisters in 1970.
		Films included marvelous performances in Kenneth Branagh's Dead Again (1991), Hamlet (1996) as King Claudius and in John Maybury's Love is the Devil (1998), a difficult portrait of painter Francis Bacon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Derek_Jacobi (1168 words)

	reitz-wilson04
		Films made in the 1950's feature created what is known as the "bronze" Othello and avoided most racial issues, while films made in the late twentieth century feature fl actors and include more of the racial tension that is in the play.
		This film seems a much truer portrait of Shakespeare's play than previous films, but it does border on a stereotypical portrait of a fl man. Olivier's costumes set him apart and are quite ethnic, his actions are exaggerated and leering, and the camera does not hesitate to show the difference between fl and white.
		Othello wears Renaissance attire similar to that of all the other characters in the film, although he sports a fist-sized cross for most of the film and he wears earrings.
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	film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Films were exploring radical new terrain in 1960 and directors like Antonioni and Truffaut were not simply asserting their creative freedom behind the camera and in the editing lab.
		Almost every individual in the film seems only to validate the butcher's misanthropy, whether she be wife or mother-in-law or he be a prospective employer or immigrant proprietor.
		This conflict is typified by the intense redness of the blood that spurts rhythmically from the daughter's neck as she lies on the floor near the end of the film.
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	Othello (1965) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Trivia: Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck said that Laurence Olivier's 1964 turn as Othello (1965) at the National Theatre in London was the greatest performance he had ever seen.
		Though he received an Oscar nomination in 1966 for his performance in the film version of the National Theatre production, many critics said that the performance captured on film was merely a shadow of what they had seen on stage.
		Viewing this superb filmed stage production (as well and faithfully filmed as any stage production could be) many may question why a Shakespearian actor of Olivier's standing resisted playing The Moor of Venice as hard as he did.
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	Foster on Film - Shakespeare: Othello (1965)
		Othello has recently married the beautiful, young Desdemona (Irène Jacob), much to the regret of the foolish Roderigo (Michael Maloney), who wanted her for himself.
		A powerful and beautiful rendition of the most difficult of Shakespeare's tragedies, Director Oliver Parker's Othello hooks into the passion and sensuality of the original work (though not as some claim, the sexuality—there is little flesh on parade and the often commented on love scene is risqué only in the viewer's mind).
		He may have filmed the best possible rendition of the standard interpretation of the play, but it is still the standard interpretation.
	www.fosteronfilm.com /shake/othello95.htm (642 words)

	Othello Film Review - Time Out Film
		But the basic, very evident fault of the film lies in its initial conception: an apparent desire simply to record Olivier's justly famous stage performance (at the National Theatre, directed by John Dexter).
		His bravura 'school of semaphore' style will not translate to a subtler, less literary medium, and comes across as such gross hamming as to leave a lingering impression of Othello as some demented nigger minstrel.
		Yet further evidence (as if more were needed) of the fundamental differences between theatre and film.
	www.timeout.com /film/66229.html (158 words)

	Born Freak
		In film, performers with disabilities have mostly been confined to the roles of villain, victim or freak.
		Featuring a large cast of genuine freak show artistes, the film revealed the supposedly normal members of the travelling circus as the true monsters, as a glamorous trapeze artiste plans to marry and murder a midget for his fortune.
		Later critics have also perceived the film as a subtle critique of the Hollywood studios, which generate vast profits by concentrating on the physical form rather than the creative talents of their leading players.
	www.channel4.com /life/microsites/B/bornfreak/moving_t.html (836 words)

	Shakespeare on Film
		Description: This play, about a British military campaign, was filmed during World War II to boost the morale of British troops.
		Description: The first of Branagh's Shakespearean films, this is a dark film with realistic scenes of war.
		Films that use Shakespeare as a starting point and take it elsewhere
	www.factmonster.com /spot/shakespeareonfilm.html (576 words)

	Derek Jacobi
		Jacobi was born in London and educated at the University of Cambridge before embarking on his stage career.
		He quickly came to the fore, and his talent was recognised by Laurence Olivier, who gave him the role of Cassio in his 1965 film of Othello.
		Although Jacobi's name was becoming known and he was increasingly busy with stage and screen acting, his big breakthrough did not come for another ten years.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/de/Derek_Jacobi.html (161 words)

	Laurence Olivier Biography
		Olivier made his first Shakespearean film, playing Orlando in Paul Czinner's production of As You Like It Now a popular movie leading man, Olivier starred in such entertainment's as Fire Over England (1937), The Divorce of Lady X (1938), Q Planes (1939) and 21 Days (1940).
		His most conspicuous contribution to the war effort was his joyously jingoistic film production of Henry V (1944) which he produced, directed and starred in.
		From 1974 until his death, he seemingly took whatever film job was offered him, some like Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Sleuth (1972) and John Schlesinger's Marathon Man (1976) proved worthy of the ageing actor.
	www.britmovie.co.uk /biog/o/001.html (507 words)

	Amazon.com: Othello (1965) / Movie (1964) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Othello and Desdemona are the perfect husband and wife.
		Claudius's speech begins the film after shots of the ocean (quoting form Olivier's film of Hamlet) Hamlet racing back for the funeral, and a soldier reads the speech as a proclamation to the crowd outside.
		It is basicly a film of a play.The warner home video plays very well in color and sound and picture quality.It is a filmed play and at times clunky and uncinamatic.Oh, but what a performance.
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	devil meaty role
		He is, inarguably, one of Great Britain's great classical stage actors: a thrilling Hamlet, a moving Uncle Vanya, a towering Cyrano and a clear heir to the high Shakespearean laurels of past masters such as John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and his own early mentor and role model, Laurence Olivier.
		It's a stunning part in a brainy, flashy film, and one that shows Bacon as a painter of genius and a slashingly witty carouser in London's swinging '60s and '70s.
		Indeed, his first film appearance was as Cassio in the famed film transcription of Olivier's triumphant stage "Othello." "Those were great years, from '63 to '71.
	www.linsdomain.com /Derek/articles/devil_meaty_role.htm (1100 words)

	English 399 Shakespeare and Film
		Although we will be learning how to analyze films, we will also be working carefully with the language of Shakespeare’s plays.
		We will look at the cultural politics of Shakespearean films, focusing on relevant issues as they arise (race, class, gender, sexuality) and we will relate the filmic interpretation of Shakespeare’s plays to social, political, and economic issues in the twentieth century.
		While our primary interest will be in the canonical films (the “classics”), we will not forget to look at those that remain marginal or otherwise swept into the ashcan of history.
	www.usm.maine.edu /eng/bb399spring04.htm (524 words)

	Essay Wiz - Helping to make writing essays a breeze... - 143-008
		This 4 page report discusses Sir Laurence Olivier's 1965 film version of Shakespeare's "Othello." The film is something of a hybrid in that it is actually a filming of the stage production by the National Theatre of Great Britain.
		This 3 page report discusses the movie, The Matrix(1999), and whether or not the film's plot satisfied the elements of a plot chart, and the characters were developed enough to be believable.
		Authenticity is a primary factor to a period film if it is to reflect the flavor, value and truthfulness of its subject.
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	screenonline: Smith, Maggie (1934-) Biography
		The entry on this actress could well be taken up with a recital of the nominations and awards she has received for her work in films alone, let alone her extraordinary stage and TV records.
		Perhaps the most delectable comedienne of her generation, she went on to exhibit an almost unlimited range.
		's Othello (1964), winning her first Oscar nomination for repeating the role in the film version (1965), but she triumphed equally in revue and modern comedy, like Lettice and Lovage (1989).
	www.screenonline.org.uk /people/id/480249 (454 words)

	Cook, Judith. "They Are Not Ever Jealous For The Cause, but J... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The primary focus of this chapter is the focus on playing the characters of Othello, and Iago.
		Laurence Olivier, who played Othello in a 1965 film production of Othello, comments throughout.
		One thing that comes out in this chapter is "that some of the best Othellos have first played Iago".
	www.humanities.ualberta.ca /Shakespeare_Abstracts/_disc4/000000ba.htm (127 words)

	Method madness - Salon
		Marlon Brando is the greatest actor this country has ever produced, and yet it was common in his obituaries to see it considered a terrible tragedy that after playing Anthony in the 1953 film of "Julius Caesar" he never again ventured into the classics.
		I'd add to that Daniel Day Lewis' performance as Christy Brown in 1989's "My Left Foot," in which the technique he brought to the role was secondary to his portrayal of Brown's emotional life.
		And certainly the explosion of writing, directing and acting talent that came about from the Angry Young Man movement in British theater and film in the '50s, and the work done by director Joan Littlewood, roughened up the traditions of British acting.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/feature/2004/11/18/brit_am/index.html (478 words)

	The Stage \| Features \| Lord Brabourne
		John Brabourne, producer of such films as Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile and A Passage to India, died on September 22, aged 80.
		In the sixties he produced two celebrated Shakespeare adaptations, the 1965 film of Othello starring Laurence Olivier and Maggie Smith and Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 Romeo and Juliet.
		He was also a governor of the British Film Institute and was appointed a CBE in 1983 for his services to the film industry.
	www.thestage.co.uk /features/feature.php/10087 (535 words)

	Shine: Othello. research, criticism, sources, adaptations: music, film, teaching
		(USA, 2000; An update of 'Othello' with a teen cast, and set in a high school.) dir.
		Bradley, A. on Othello in Shakespearean Tragedy (1904) [http://sunflower.singnet.com.sg/~yisheng/notes/shakespeare/othello_b.htm]
		Moors, Jews, and the Performance of Cultural Identity: Teaching Othello and The Merchant of Venice in the Diverse Urban Classroom
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	eBay.co.uk - othello, othello board game, DVDs, Games items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Othello - A Critical Study - Penguin Masterstudies
		Lawrence Olivier as Othello - Film Programme 1965
		Othello - Penguin Shakespeare - PB - 2005
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	Reel Classics: News Briefs: 2004
		THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) is in the #2 spot with an estimated 30 million tickets sold since its release in 1965, followed by (No. 3) SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1938), (#4) STAR WARS (1978), (#5) SPRING IN PARK LANE (1948).
		The film is slated for release in 2005.
		MINIVER (1942) and his four-year marriage to the film's leading lady, Greer Garson, dies of heart problems, at age 87.
	www.reelclassics.com /News/2004.html (10226 words)

	1965 Academy Awards® Winners and History
		One of the best films of the year was entirely overlooked: Polish director Roman Polanski's first film in English - the British-made, suspenseful character study Repulsion, with Catherine Deneuve as an unstable young French manicurist repulsed by sex.
		Sean Connery, better known for the increasingly-popular James Bond films, was un-nominated for his role as Trooper Roberts, a prisoner in a British desert prison camp, in Sidney Lumet's The Hill.
		And two major stars of the year's two film rivals, Christopher Plummer (as aristocratic widower Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music) and Omar Sharif (as Yuri Zhivago in Doctor Zhivago) were not nominated for Best Actor.
	www.filmsite.org /aa65.html (1869 words)

	Frank Finlay Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In 1962, Finlay made his film debut playing the small role of a booking clerk in "Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner", but returned immediately to the stage.
		His portrayal of Iago to Olivier's "Othello" at the National Theatre (1964) contributed to his being chosen to play the role in the 1965 feature version, which earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination.
		He was better suited to the period garb of Porthos in Richard Lester's remake of "The Three Musketeers" (1973) and its two sequels (1975's "The Four Musketeers" and 1989's "The Return of the Musketeers").
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/198157 (595 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| Death on the Nile producer dies
		Lord Brabourne, producer of such films as Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile and A Passage to India, has died at the age of 80.
		In the 1960s he produced two celebrated Shakespeare adaptations: the 1965 film of Othello starring Laurence Olivier and Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 Romeo and Juliet.
		A director of Thames Television, Euston Films and Thorn EMI, he was made a fellow of the British Film Institute in 1979.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/4275336.stm (305 words)

	Frank Finlay
		In 1962, the RADA-trained Finlay made the first of his infrequent film appearances in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.
		When Othello was committed to film in 1965, it was Finlay who received the lion's share of excellent notices; he was also nominated for an Academy Award.
		Among the historical figures portrayed by Frank Finlay are John Carter in Cromwell (1969), Sergei Alleluveya in Stalin (1992), the title roles in the British TV productions The Last Days of Hitler and Casanova, and the part of Salieri in the London staging of Amadeus.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P+23510 (153 words)

	Devil Gives DJ a Meaty Role in Movies
		Indeed, there are only a handful of Jacobi movie roles _ beginning with his role as Cassio to Olivier's Othello in the 1965 film of the legendary stage production _ among his numerous stage and television triumphs.
		Indeed, his first film appearance was as Cassio in the famed film transcription of Olivier's triumphant stage ``Othello.'' ``Those were great years, from '62 to '71.
		In theater: ``I think probably it's got to be the last act, when it was going well, of `Cyrano de Bergerac.''' In films and TV: ``I loved doing the whodunit `Dead Again' with Kenneth (Branagh) and Emma Thompson.
	www.sparrowsp.addr.com /articles/devil_gives_meaty_role.htm (1119 words)

	screenonline: Finlay, Frank (1926-) Biography
		at the National in 1964, and in the 1965 film version (d.
		Stuart Burge) for which he received a BAFTA nomination.
		He played striking supporting roles in many films, from 1962 (as a tetchy railway clerk in
	www.screenonline.org.uk /people/id/873575 (127 words)

	channel4.com/film - Othello
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		It's a great shame, as this will no doubt become one of the most-viewed performances of the greatest stage actor of the 20th century, and oh my is it a silly, affected and stilted piece of work.
		All four leads were Oscar nominated, but as time goes on this film comes more and more epitomize a thoughtlessly pyrotechnic, needlessly aggressive approach to Shakespeare that has little instinct for what is believable, and an insensitive relationship with the text.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=106805 (136 words)

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