Capsule (2012)

Actors: Amar Adatia (actor), Eddie Saint-Jean (editor), Eddie Saint-Jean (producer), Eddie Saint-Jean (writer), Eddie Saint-Jean (director), Vauxhall Jermaine (actor), Jamie Langlands (actor), Daniel Braveboy (actor), Dee Grant (actress), Sandra Evans (actress), Cleveland D. Herbert (actor), Steve Laopodis (actor), Duane Hannibal (actor), Louise Templeton (actress), Emma Jane Sullivan (actress),

Plot: Dayton Givens is a middle-aged out of work documentary maker who decides to return to further education to study for the A level history he never got. His teacher asks him to produce a time capsule film project on every day of his life for a year. The project makes Dayton scrutinise his everyday life and the wider world with ever greater detail. He notices every element of development in a very strange year - historic events such as the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa and the Royal Wedding but also the tightening of surveillance and monitoring in his local area in the countdown to the Olympics in East London.

Keywords: surveillance
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: He's filming a year in his life but who's filming who?

Unscripted (2009)

Actors: Jackie Sheppard (producer), Roger Alborough (actor), Daniel Sus (composer), Luke Walton (producer), Vicki Hackett (actress), Vicki Hackett (actress), Rachel Wilcock (actress), Rachel Wilcock (actress), Nigel Forde (writer), Jonathan Brown (producer), Jimi Lund (editor), Ivan Scoble (actor), Fred Denno (actor), Paul Burbridge (director), Jamie Higgins (actor),

Genres: Drama, Short,
Taglines: Rehearsing King Lear, an actor faces his own failings. Playing a part or living it ... a father has to improvise.

Cold and Dark (2005)

Actors: David Gant (actor), Matt Lucas (actor), Dan van Husen (actor), Luke Goss (actor), Michael Culkin (actor), Richard Bonehill (actor), Helene Oosthuizen (miscellaneous crew), Carn Burton (miscellaneous crew), Steven Elder (actor), David Higginson (producer), Kevin Howarth (actor), Elizabeth Healey (actress), Martin Poultney (miscellaneous crew), Jake Curran (actor), Stephanie Barker (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: When Detective Mortimer Shade is somehow killed in a freezer, a parasite called a grail possesses his body, revives him, but he needs blood to stay alive. His partner John Dark accepts the new situation and together they become vigilantes, judging and killing the bad guys, with Shade sucking their blood with his claw. However, Dark notes that Shade is losing the rest of his humanity and becoming a monster, being aware and afraid of the danger Shade represents to mankind and trying to stop him.

Keywords: back-from-the-dead, bad-cops, banana, bathroom, bathtub, beach, broken-ankle, cgi, cigarette-smoking, female-agent
Genres: Crime, Horror, Thriller,
Taglines: To Protect and Sever. Cold Cop, Bad Cop, It's In the Blood One Man's Journey Into Another Species.

Quotes:

John Dark: It takes forty minutes to bury a body... longer, if's it's still alive... tougher, if it's your best friend.

John Dark: When you do the job, right, because of the stress... I can see that you get off on it. I'd imagine that maybe the... you know, that nothing else got you off.::Albany: No. I get off on sex.::John Dark: Really?::Albany: I come at the drop of a head.

Superintendent Maddox: As they say in Alabama, they're making me drink monkeymilk!

Superintendent Maddox: Look in my club bag, Dark! Tell me what you see.::John Dark: Some irons, some woods... Jeez... I'm not a golfing man.::Superintendent Maddox: Some irons, some woods. They all hit the ball a little differently. Hard and heavy for the gliding long shot, soft as touch for the delicate putt. You can't play a varied course with one club, Dark! Same with a police force, it takes a range of officers. Some hit heavy, some nudge, and some knock the ball off the mother fucking course! If you're telling me that DCI Shade has on occasion taken events into his own hands to stuff shit back up the devil's anus, I call that hitting heavy when the course demands! Do I make myself absolutely clear, detective sergeant Dark?

Dr. Elgin: Ever had a tinkle in the Indos, mr. Dark? Because it's a very risky buisiness. In the Indos, there's a little fish called the candirú which can swim up a stream of urine. It does this to find it's way into your testicles, because the candirú is a parasite and every parasite has it's chosen... of occupation. Belly. Bowels. Balls. I tell you this in the hope that it will make what follows easier to accept. The candirú is from the natural world, our world. Supernatural means beyond natural. Not beyond what exists, just beyond what we know. It is supernatural only until we witness it, and you have witnessed the grail mr. Dark. Think of a grail as a spectral parasite that needs a very particular kind of host, a human corpse. Vacated by it's valid lifeforce, this fleshy vessel gives the grail all it needs. It enters after death, burroughing into the heart and reanimating the corpse. Digging itself deeper, and deeper, mutating and corrupting the heart into it's own monstrous form, and compelling it's host to seek out the blood of which they must both now live. I once had a fragment of the grail in a specimen jar, taken from the ruptured heart of a kurdistan goat farmer, but it is lost and gone forever, courtesy of British Airways.

Lardeson Dahl: [as Dark is walking away] So, the apology? [Dark stops and Dahl catches up with him] Did you hear me?::John Dark: [Turns around] I'm sorry, you see... that... ehhmm... that was a silent "fuck you". [Walks away]

Dr. Elgin: Detective Sergeant Dark. My name is Dr. Elgin from the CUUC, that's Civilian Unexplained... ehhh... something, something.

King Lear: A Critical Guide (1997)

Actors: Graham McTavish (actor), Chris Gormlie (editor), Brian Blessed (actor), Bob Carruthers (producer), Paul Farrer (composer), Hildegard Neil (actress), Vanessa Tovell (producer), Gary Russell (producer), Robert Whelan (actor), Iain Stuart Robertson (actor), Peter Balderstone (actor), Phillipa Peak (actress), Gavin Bott (miscellaneous crew), Stanley Wells (actor), Jason Riddington (actor),

Genres: Documentary, Short,

Danger Passion (1986)

Actors: Pierre Frag (actor), Marilyne Canto (actress), Michel Beaune (actor), Serge Franklin (composer), Etienne Chicot (actor), Caroline Cellier (actress), Etienne Draber (actor), Daniel Duval (actor), Jean-Louis Foulquier (actor), Bernard Rosselli (actor), Saïd Amadis (actor), Gilda Albertoni (actress), Philippe Triboit (director), Michel Carliez (actor), David Gerson (actor),

Genres: ,

King Lear (1983)

Actors: William Shakespeare (writer), Leo McKern (actor), John Hurt (actor), Colin Blakely (actor), Harry Fielder (actor), Laurence Olivier (actor), Diana Rigg (actress), Brian Cox (actor), Esmond Knight (actor), Robert Lang (actor), Robert Lindsay (actor), Geoffrey Bateman (actor), William Hobbs (miscellaneous crew), David Threlfall (actor), Jeremy Kemp (actor),

Plot: Lear is an aging King who wants to retire by abdicating to his three daughters. However, in an act of petty ego stroking, he asks them who among them loves him most. While two daughters eagerly toady to him, his one loving daughter, Cordelia, refuses play along with this foolish charade. In a rage, Lear exiles her along with his one loyal aide who dares to stick up for her. This foolish move works to Lear's sorrow as his two remaining daughters cruelly and gradually strip him of his status and possessions until he is rendered an insane hermit attended only by his fool. All the while, the illegitimate son of another lord is plotting his own ambitions while contributing to this tragic tale of ego and familial cruelty.

Keywords: abandonment, ambition, banishment, based-on-play, betrayal, blindness, brother-murders-brother, character-name-in-title, craziness, cruelty
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

King Lear: How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

Kent: Fellow, I know thee.::Oswald: What dost thou know me for?::Kent: A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking, whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deny'st the least syllable of thy addition.

King Lear: You do me wrong to take me out of the grave. Thou art a soul in bliss.

Gloucester: As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport.

King Lear: Ay, every inch a king.

King Lear: I know you do not love me, For your sisters have, as I remember, done me wrong. You have some cause; they have not.::Cordelia: No cause, no cause.

Edmund: Now gods, stand up for bastards.

Korol Lir (1971)

Actors: Dmitri Shostakovich (composer), William Shakespeare (writer), Donatas Banionis (actor), Jüri Järvet (actor), Aleksey Petrenko (actor), Juozas Budraitis (actor), Emmanuil Vitorgan (actor), Vladimir Yemelyanov (actor), Regimantas Adomaitis (actor), Aleksandr Vokach (actor), Grigori Kozintsev (writer), Grigori Kozintsev (director), Roman Gromadsky (actor), Oleg Dal (actor), Leonhard Merzin (actor),

Plot: King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.

Keywords: based-on-play, character-name-in-title, foreign-language-adaptation, shakespeare's-king-lear, tragedy
Genres: Drama,

King Lear (1971)

Actors: Patrick Magee (actor), William Shakespeare (writer), Cyril Cusack (actor), Mogens Skot-Hansen (producer), Paul Scofield (actor), Peter Brook (director), Peter Brook (writer), Jack MacGowran (actor), Alan Webb (actor), Ian Hogg (actor), Anne-Lise Gabold (actress), Irene Worth (actress), Søren Elung Jensen (actor), Kasper Schyberg (editor), Barry Stanton (actor),

Plot: The Shakespeare tragedy that gave us the expression "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child." King Lear has not one but two ungrateful children, and it's especially galling because he turned over his entire kingdom to them. Paul Scofeld is an ancient, imposing shell of a Lear tormented by his too-long life as well as by daughters he calls "untatural hags." At one point, the king looks his eldest daughter, Goneril (Ireme Worth), straight in the eye and declares, "Thou art a boil, a plague-sore, of embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood." These are the troubles not even the best-trained family counselor could ever hope to resolve.

Keywords: banishment, based-on-play, battle, betrayal, blindness, brother, castle, character-name-in-title, court-jester, curse
Genres: Drama,