(Ed. Note: This film was shown at the Summer School a decade ago. We reprint herewith the review of it that ran in these pages ten years ago to the day.) Over the past half century Randolph-Macon ...

Splendid Productions present an epic, murderous tale of family, history, vengeance and honour in a story nearly as old as theatre. Condensing Aeschylus’s classic trilogy into an hour, Splendid’s regal ...

As unhappy families go, the House of Atreus is difficult to outdo, or rather out-woe. A man who kills his brother’s sons and feeds their flesh to him. A king who sacrifices his daughter for better ...

Imagine an Old Testament movie epic in which only the Genesis part is filmed by Cecil B. DeMille, Exodus goes to Alfred Hitchcock and Deuteronomy to Quentin Tarantino. The laws of Israel would still ...

Vengeful gods and a family curse. Happy days are here again in this semi-comedic backyard adaptation of Aeschylus' classic of Greek tragedy that tells a timeless story of bloody revenge, familial ...

Leave it to iconoclastic Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini to make a feature-length movie out of his production notes! Fascinated by the ancient Greek legend of Orestes, Pasolini travels not to ...