Joseph Papp

Meryl Streep is one of the most versatile and successful actresses of all time and is still considered a superstar after 50 years of career. She fascinates filmmakers and audiences alike with her broad range of expression.

Joe Papp, the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and, subsequently, The Public Theater—arguably the most important theatre in North America—is profiled in this documentary that neither sanctifies nor vilifies him. He brought us free Shakespeare in the Park, Hair and A Chorus Line, and nurtured many of America’s greatest playwrights, directors and actors. His complex personality and mercurial behavior are much in evidence and spoken of with frankness through interviews with some of America’s most celebrated artists, including Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Kevin Kline, and James Earl Jones.

2차대전, 영국인 수잔(메릴 스트립)은 프랑스에서 첩보원으로 활동하면서 레지스탕스 운동을 돕는다. 2차 대전이 끝나갈 무렵에는 다른 비밀 요원 라자르(샘 닐)와 운명적인 사랑에 빠지기도 한다. 전쟁이 끝난 뒤, 결혼을 하게된 그녀는 일상적인 생활 속에서 삶의 의미를 찾지 못하고 자꾸 사람들과 멀어지며 고립되어 가는데..

스물한 살이 되는 날, 프레드릭(렉스 스미스)은 견습 해적으로서의 계약의 의무를 다하게 된다. 그리고 해적으로 살 의사가 없다고 밝혀 나머지 해적들을 놀라게 하는데, 그건 그가 놀라운 사실을 알게 됐기 때문이었다. 프레드릭이 아직 어린 아이였을 때, 그의 아버지는 보모인 루스(안젤라 랜스베리)에게 아들을 배의 키잡이(파일럿)한테 도제로 보내라고 지시했으나 그 말을 잘못 알아들은 루스가 프레드릭을 해적(파이어럿)의 도제로 보냈던 것. 자신의 의무를 충실히 이행한 프레드릭은 이제 정직한 삶을 살겠다고 결심하고 해적선을 떠난다. 문명사회로 돌아가는 길에 프레드릭은 스탠리 장군(조지 로즈)의 아름다운 딸들을 만나게 되고 그중에서도 메이블(린다 론스태드)과 사랑에 빠지게 된다. 하지만 장군의 딸들을 아내로 맞아들이려는 해적의 침입으로 둘의 사랑은 방해를 받는다. 꾀 많은 스탠리 장군은 해적들에게 자신이 고아라고 속여 동정을 자아낸 후, 딸들과 함께 풀려난다. 한편, 해적왕(케빈 클라인)은 프레드릭의 생일이 윤년인 해의 2월 29일인 것을 발견하고, 그에게 아직 다섯 살에 불과하니 21살이 될 때까지 계속 해적의 도제 생활을 하라고 한다. 의무를 소중히 여기는 프레드릭은 하는 수 없이 해적들을 따라가기로 하는데 그때 경찰들이 공격해온다. 사나운 해적들은 경찰을 물리치지만 빅토리아 여왕을 들먹이는 경사의 말에 항복하고 만다. 그리고 모두 포로로 잡히려는 순간, 루스가 놀라운 진실을 폭로한다. 해적들이 나쁜 길로 들어서긴 했지만 모두 귀족이라는 사실이었다. 이에 관대한 스탠리 장군은 딸들을 해적들과 결혼하도록 승낙한다. (EBS)

A documentary about the 1978 stage production of The Taming of the Shrew by the New York City Shakespeare company at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. Includes scenes from the production, interviews with Meryl Streep (Kate) and Raul Julia (Petruchio) as well as an introduction by producer Joseph Papp and audience commentary.

Winnie, a woman in her fifties, is buried waist-deep in a mound of scorched earth, with just a large, black shopping bag and a collapsed parasol. Behind her and hidden from view sleeps Willie.

This Pirates of Penzance is primarily a historical document, part of the Broadway Theater Archive television series. It presents, with some inevitable, tiny technical shortcomings, a live 1980 performance in Central Park, not the 1983 movie of the same name that also starred Linda Ronstadt and Kevin Kline. Those who remember that film, which had the benefit of retakes and editing, a lavish production budget, and the spaciousness of a Hollywood studio, may find this video less polished. On its own terms, it is nonetheless thoroughly enjoyable.

A video recording of a New York Shakespeare Festival 1979 stage production of Coriolanus with an all-black and Hispanic cast. Producer Joseph Papp intended to provide professional opportunities for actors of minority ethnic backgrounds. A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.

This documentary explores the growth and development of black theatre from its earliest roots, also examining its close ties with the civil rights movement. Included are interviews with veterans of the theatrical world such as James Earl Jones and Ed Bullins.

A cocktail party at which no topic, thought or action is taboo. The result is Jungian pornography a wickedly funny and often troubled look at what we feel and think but dare not say. Recorded theatre performance.

A drama which examines the enduring nature of love between a white man and a black woman in 1918 South Carolina.

A young man returns home from Vietnam blind. He is very bitter about the war and alienates his family and friends. This movie deals with the aftermath of war and how people react to it both veterans and their families. (IMDb)

Don Pedro and his men (Teddy Roosevelt Roughriders) have returned from the wars. After Beatrice turns down his proposal, Don Pedro decides to matchmake her with Benedick (her former boyfriend), but she being an independent-minded, bicycle-riding Suffragette type, it's going to take a bit of trickery.

A German scientist works on a way of quelling overly aggressive soldiers by developing implants that directly stimulate the pleasure centers of the brain.