Effortlessly making the leap from stage to cinema, the plays of William Shakespeare have enjoyed decades of popularity in theaters on both sides of the Atlantic. This program combines clips from significant movie productions with an eclectic group of interviews to demonstrate the Bard’s uncanny ability to fire the modern imagination—especially through the medium of film. Excerpts from Julie Taymor’s Titus and Kenneth Branagh’s musical Love’s Labour’s Lost as well as classic footage from Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet, Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet, Peter Brook’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Othello with Laurence Fishburn are included. (50 minutes)