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Dec 31, 2013 · 1. The Selfish Giant. Arriving in limited theaters this week and available online now, Clio Barnard’s new film The Selfish Giant is loosely based on the Wilde short story of the same name.
- Flesh and Fantasy. In 1943, the Julien Duvivier directed anthology film Flesh and Fantasy premiered. It's made up of three unrelated stories tied together by two men at a club talking about the occult.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray. Wilde wrote the gothic novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, in 1890. There have been multiple screen adaptations, with the first in 1945, starring Hurd Hatfield, George Sanders, Lowell Gilmore and Angela Lansbury.
- The Fan. In 1892, Wilde's four-act comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman, was first performed at St. James's Theatre in London. A 1949 film adaptation cut the title cut down to, The Fan, but stuck to the original sorry, which revolves around Lady Windermere (Jeanne Crain).
- Salomè. Published in 1891, the tragic play Salomè, which was first performed in French, is an interpretation of a New Testament story about Herod's stepdaughter, Salomè, who agrees to perform the seductive "Dance of the Seven Veils."
Oct 10, 2018 · With Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Emily Watson, Colin Morgan. The untold story of the last days in the tragic times of Oscar Wilde, a person who observes his own failure with ironic distance and regards the difficulties that beset his life with detachment and humor.
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Life Itself is a 2018 American psychological drama film written, co-produced and directed by Dan Fogelman. It stars Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Mandy Patinkin, Olivia Cooke, Laia Costa, Annette Bening, and Antonio Banderas, and follows multiple couples over numerous generations, and their connections to a single event.
Jun 14, 2024 · Put plainly, Steve McQueen’s Oscar-winning film based on the memoirs of Solomon Northup, a Black man born free in New York who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841, can be difficult to...
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The Happy Prince is a 2018 biographical drama film about Oscar Wilde, written and directed by Rupert Everett in his directorial debut. The film stars Everett, Colin Firth , Colin Morgan , Emily Watson , Edwin Thomas and Tom Wilkinson .
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Apr 5, 2019 · The title "The happy prince" seems ironic. It comes from a story by Wilde himself. But this film literally records not the happiness, but the misery experienced by the poet and renewned author in his final years, days and hours. Based on his true story. A true human tragedy.
