Criterion Collection Themes - Stage to Screen
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At Criterion, cinema is king, but the play is also the thing. Look at the lineup of theater legends from whose work films in the collection were adapted: Bertolt Brecht (The Threepenny Opera), Noël Coward (Brief Encounter), Maxim Gorky (The Lower Depths), Eugene O’Neill (The Emperor Jones), Terence Rattigan (The Browning Version), Arthur Schnitzler (La ronde), George Bernard Shaw (Pygmalion), August Strindberg (Miss Julie), Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest), Tennessee Williams (The Fugitive Kind)—and, of course, the Bard himself, whose Henry V, Hamlet, and Richard III became grandiose film spectacles thanks to that towering thespian Laurence Olivier. We also have a cracking selection of films made from lesser known works, including Danton, Andrzej Wajda’s adaptation of Stanisława Przybyszewska’s 1931 play The Danton Affair injected with the fervor of the Solidarity liberation movement, and Nicolas Roeg’s radically exploded version of Terry Johnson’s Insignificance.
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El amor brujo
1986, in 1 top list Check -
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Androcles and the Lion
1952, in 1 top list Check -
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Blithe Spirit
1945, in 2 top lists Check -
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Bodas de sangre
1981 — a.k.a. Blood Wedding, in 4 top lists Check -
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Boudu sauvé des eaux
1932 — a.k.a. Boudu Saved from Drowning, in 9 top lists Check -
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Brief Encounter
1945, in 22 top lists Check -
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The Browning Version
1951, in 4 top lists Check -
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Caesar and Cleopatra
1945, in 1 top list Check -
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Carmen
1983, in 3 top lists Check -
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Danton
1983, in 4 top lists Check -
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Désiré
1937, in 1 top list Check -
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The Emperor Jones
1933, in 2 top lists Check -
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Ganashatru
1989 — a.k.a. An Enemy of the People, in 1 top list Check -
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The Fugitive Kind
1960, in 1 top list Check -
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Gertrud
1964, in 11 top lists Check -
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Le carrosse d'or
1952 — a.k.a. The Golden Coach, in 7 top lists Check -
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Gray's Anatomy
1996, in 1 top list Check -
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Hamlet
1948, in 10 top lists Check -
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The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth...
1944 — a.k.a. Henry V, in 12 top lists Check -
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The Importance of Being Earnest
1952, in 1 top list Check -
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Insignificance
1985, in 2 top lists Check -
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Katzelmacher
1969, in 5 top lists Check -
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Love Streams
1984, in 8 top lists Check -
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Les bas-fonds
1936 — a.k.a. The Lower Depths, in 1 top list Check -
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Trollflöjten
1975 — a.k.a. The Magic Flute, in 2 top lists Check -
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Major Barbara
1941, in 3 top lists Check -
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Du skal ære din hustru
1925 — a.k.a. Master of the House, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Mikado
1939, in 1 top list Check -
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Fröken Julie
1951 — a.k.a. Miss Julie, in 8 top lists Check -
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Die Büchse der Pandora
1929 — a.k.a. Pandora's Box, in 18 top lists Check -
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Pygmalion
1938, in 6 top lists Check -
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Quadrille
1938, in 1 top list Check -
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Richard III
1955, in 6 top lists Check -
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La ronde
1950 — a.k.a. La Ronde, in 8 top lists Check -
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The Ruling Class
1972, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Tales of Hoffmann
1951, in 4 top lists Check -
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This Happy Breed
1944, in 1 top list Check -
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Die 3 Groschen-Oper
1931 — a.k.a. The 3 Penny Opera, in 8 top lists Check -
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Vanya on 42nd Street
1994, in 2 top lists Check
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