It Felt Like a Kiss

Like many of Curtis’ documentaries (The Century of the Self, The Trap, The Power of Nightmares), Kiss consists primarily of footage painstakingly culled from the BBC’s video archives. But this unrelenting montage of found footage — blending ads, propaganda films, Pillow Talk and other Day/Hudson vehicles, crime-scene photos, behind-the-scenes footage of both a fashion shoot and the making of Rosemary’s Baby and much, much more — set to a nearly unbroken stream of pop music is stylistically unlike anything Curtis has made before.“The imaginary seemed so real, and the world outside became like a dream,” reads one on-screen title. This dangerous ambiguity is Curtis’ true subject: reality as filtered through dreams and nightmares, fictions created, consciously or not, as distractions. With its seemingly random juxtapositions creating a wall of visuals as thickly, intricately woven as the wall of sound that serves as much of the soundtrack, Curtis has called Kiss “an attempt to do history as if it was from the point of view of living through it.” It’s a portrait of the peak of American hegemony giving way to its demise — a transition only perceptible from the vantage point of the future.

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Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare's classic tale of romance and tragedy. Two families of Verona, the Montagues and the Capulets, have been feuding with each other for years.

Young Romeo Montague goes out with his friends to make trouble at a party the Capulets are hosting, but while there he spies the Capulet's daughter Juliet, and falls hopelessly in love with her. She returns his affections, but they both know that their families will never allow them to follow their hearts.

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The Taming of the Shrew

Baptista (Michael Hordern), a rich Paduan merchant, announces that his fair young daughter, Bianca (Natasha Pyne), will remain unwed until her older sister, Katharina (Elizabeth Taylor), a hellish shrew, has wed. Lucentio (Michael York), a student and the son of a wealthy Pisan merchant, has fallen in love with Bianca. He poses as a tutor of music and poetry to gain entrance to the Baptista household and to be near Bianca.

Meanwhile, Petruchio (Richard Burton), a fortune-hunting scoundrel from Verona, arrives in Padua, hoping to capture a wealthy wife. Hortensio (Victor Spinetti), another suitor of Bianca, directs Petruchio's attention to Katharina. When Hortensio warns him about Katharina's scolding tongue and fiery temper, Petruchio is challenged and resolves to capture her love. Hortensio and another suitor of Bianca, Gremio (Cyril Cusack), agree to cover Petruchio's costs as he pursues Katharina.

Watch in English on StageVu or StageVu (English, Czech subs),.with Spanish subtitles on YouTube, or in Spanish on YouTube.

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Soylent Green

In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodstuff. The fantastic cast includes Edward G. Robinson, Joseph Cotten and Charlton Heston.

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