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Love's labour's lost

Title: Love's labour's lost [videorecording] / Miramax Home Entertainment ; Stanley Donen and Martin Scorsese present a Miramax Films and Intermedia Films presentation ; a Shakespeare Film Company production ; adapted from the play by William Shakespeare ; adapted for the screen and directed by Kenneth Branagh ; produced by David Barron and Kenneth Branagh.
Publication: Burbank, Calif : distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, c1999.

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Description

1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 4 3/4 in. (DVD)

Summary

Adaptation of William Shakespeare's play as a musical in the style of the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers films of the 1930s.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Musicals.
Plays.
Features.
Motion pictures.
Video.

Note

Motion picture released in 2000.
Widescreen (2:35.1). Enhanced for 16x9 televisions.
Audio: 5.1 surround.
Closed-captioned for the hearing-impaired.

Credits (note)

Choreography, Stuart Hopps ; original music, Patrick Doyle ; songs, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, Irving Berlin, Desmond Carter, Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields, Otto Harbach ; production design, Tim Harvey ; art direction, Mark Raggett ; costumes, Anna Buruma ; cinematography, Alex Thomson ; executive producers, Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein, Guy East, Nigel Sinclair, Alexis Lloyd. Presented in association with Pathé Pictures, The Arts Council of England, and Le Studio Canal Plus.

Performer (note)

Alicia Silverstone (the princess) ; Natascha McElhone (Rosaline) ; Emily Mortimer (Katherine) ; Carmen Ejogo (Maria) ; Richard Clifford (Boyet) ; Daniel Hill (Mercade) ; Alessandro Nivola (the king of Navarre) ; Kenneth Branagh (Berowne) ; Matthew Lillard (Longaville) ; Adrian Lester (Dumaine) ; Timothy Spall (Armando) ; Anthony O'Donnell (Moth) ; Nathan Lane (Costard) ; Stefania Rocca (Jaquenetta) ; Richard Briers (Sir Nathaniel) ; Geraldine McEwan (Holofernia) ; Jimmy Yuill (Constable Dull) ; others.

Contents

Feature presentation (ca. 94 min.). Song and dance numbers include: "I'd rather Charleston" / performed by Alessandro Nivola, Kenneth Branagh, Matthew Lillard, Adrian Lester -- "I won't dance" / performed by Alessandro Nivola, Kenneth Branagh, Matthew Lillard, Adrian Lester, Alicia Silverstone, Natascha McHugh, Emily Mortimer, Carmen Ejogo -- "No strings (I'm fancy free)" / performed by Alicia Silverstone, Natascha McHugh, Emily Mortimer, Carmen Ejogo, and female ensemble ; includes synchronized swimming -- "The way you look tonight" / performed by Geraldine McEwan, Richard Briers, Stefania Rocca, Nathan Lane, Jimmy Yuill -- "I've got a crush on you" / performed by Adrian Lester -- "Cheek to cheek" / performed by Alessandro Nivola, Kenneth Branagh, Matthew Lillard, Adrian Lester, Alicia Silverstone, Natascha McHugh, Emily Mortimer, Carmen Ejogo -- "Let's face the music and dance" / performed by Alessandro Nivola, Kenneth Branagh, Matthew Lillard, Adrian Lester, Alicia Silverstone, Natascha McHugh, Emily Mortimer, Carmen Ejogo -- "There's no business like show business" / performed by Nathan Lane and others ; includes tap dancing.
Behind the scenes featurette (ca. 8 min.) / includes interviews with Kenneth Branagh, choreographer Stuart Hopps, Matthew Lillard, Natascha McElhone, Nathan Lane, Alicia Silverstone, Timothy Spall, and Alessandro Nivola.
Deleted scenes (ca. 18 min.) / among the footage is a longer version of the play-within-a-play, the Pageant of the Nine Worthies, which is seen briefly in one of the b&w "newsreels" in the completed film.
Outtakes (ca. 7 min.).

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-15

ISBN

0788818473

OCLC

81542177
NYPY02-F43

Title

Love's labour's lost [videorecording] / Miramax Home Entertainment ; Stanley Donen and Martin Scorsese present a Miramax Films and Intermedia Films presentation ; a Shakespeare Film Company production ; adapted from the play by William Shakespeare ; adapted for the screen and directed by Kenneth Branagh ; produced by David Barron and Kenneth Branagh.

Imprint

Burbank, Calif : distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, c1999.

Credits

Choreography, Stuart Hopps ; original music, Patrick Doyle ; songs, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, Irving Berlin, Desmond Carter, Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields, Otto Harbach ; production design, Tim Harvey ; art direction, Mark Raggett ; costumes, Anna Buruma ; cinematography, Alex Thomson ; executive producers, Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein, Guy East, Nigel Sinclair, Alexis Lloyd. Presented in association with Pathé Pictures, The Arts Council of England, and Le Studio Canal Plus.

Cast

Alicia Silverstone (the princess) ; Natascha McElhone (Rosaline) ; Emily Mortimer (Katherine) ; Carmen Ejogo (Maria) ; Richard Clifford (Boyet) ; Daniel Hill (Mercade) ; Alessandro Nivola (the king of Navarre) ; Kenneth Branagh (Berowne) ; Matthew Lillard (Longaville) ; Adrian Lester (Dumaine) ; Timothy Spall (Armando) ; Anthony O'Donnell (Moth) ; Nathan Lane (Costard) ; Stefania Rocca (Jaquenetta) ; Richard Briers (Sir Nathaniel) ; Geraldine McEwan (Holofernia) ; Jimmy Yuill (Constable Dull) ; others.

Added Author

Branagh, Kenneth, film producer, film director, performer, interviewee.

Silverstone, Alicia, performer, interviewee.

Nivola, Alessandro, performer, interviewee.

Lillard, Matthew, 1970- performer, interviewee.

McElhone, Natascha, 1969- performer, interviewee.

Lane, Nathan, 1956- performer.

Lane, Nathan, 1956- interviewee.

Spall, Timothy, 1957- interviewee.

Mortimer, Emily, performer.

Ejogo, Carmen, 1974- performer.

Lester, Adrian, performer.

Briers, Richard, performer.

McEwan, Geraldine, performer.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.

Hopps, Stuart, choreographer, interviewee.

Doyle, Patrick, 1953- composer.

Gershwin, George, 1898-1937, composer.

Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983, lyricist.

Porter, Cole, 1891-1964, composer.

Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945, composer.

Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960, lyricist.

Berlin, Irving, 1888-1989, composer.

Carter, Desmond, lyricist.

McHugh, Jimmy, 1894-1969, composer.

Fields, Dorothy, 1905-1974, lyricist.

Harbach, Otto, 1873-1963, lyricist.

Harvey, Tim, set designer.

Buruma, Anna, costume designer.

Barron, David, film producer.

Weinstein, Harvey, 1952- film producer.

Weinstein, Bob, 1954- film producer.

Donen, Stanley, film producer.

Scorsese, Martin, film producer.

Miramax Films, production company.

Intermedia Films, production company.

Shakespeare Film Company, production company.

Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-15

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