Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (ca. 57 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in |
Summary |
Summary: A documentary that pays tribute to one of the most controversial figures in the history of literature, on the 150th anniversary of this Irish poet and playwrights birth. To celebrate Wildes birth on October 16, 1854, the filmmakers have taken 150 lines of the provocative Wildes finest prose, epigrams or verse and have them spoken by 150 luminaries of the arts: actors, writers, performers and musicians including U2s Bono and Larry Mullins, Liam Neeson, Martin Sheen, and Geoffrey Rush among others. Brief introductory pieces of chapters of Wildes life are presented by Simon Williams and are interspersed with various celebrities reading quotations from Wilde - including excerpts from his compelling works De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol, both renowned for their depth and for having been written in the worst circumstances |
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Off-air recording: broadcast by SBS TV on 16 October 2005; October 13, 2007. Copied under Part Va of the Copyright Act |
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"A Mind the Gap film for Amnesty International in association with WLIW Ch. 21 New York" --on screen |
Credits |
Credits: Director, Bill Hughes ; producers, Bernadine Carraher, Bill Hughes ; script and quote selection, Frank McGuinness, Noreen Doody |
Performer |
Presenter, Simon Williams |
Notes |
Originally released: [Ireland/United States/Australia] : Mind the Gap Films, c2004 |
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DVD R, compatible in most generic DVD players |
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Rated: G |
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Available for Deakin University staff and students only |
Subject |
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Quotations
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Dramatists, Irish -- 19th century -- Quotations
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English literature -- Irish authors
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Irish wit and humour
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Author |
Hughes, Bill, 1954-
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Carraher, Bernadine
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Williams, Simon
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McGuiness, Frank
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Doody, Noreen
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Mind the Gap Films
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Amnesty International
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WLIW (Television station : Long Island, N.Y.)
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