FILMS ABOUT THEATRE
By: Kenji

Les Enfants du Paradis
All the world’s a stage. Films in chronological order. See also my list Shakespeare Films
Sadly, 2 films in Mizoguchi’s geidomono theatre triptych, A Woman of Osaka and The Life of an Actor (both apparently excellent) are lost. At least the marvellous Story of the Late Chrysanthemums, the first, is with us. Mizoguchi was a great lover of theatre, as was Renoir, while numerous directors, including Bergman, were also renowned stage directors.
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01John Ford
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02Paul Leni
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03Kenji Mizoguchi
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04Howard Hawks
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05Yasujirô Ozu
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06Yasujirô Ozu
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07Kenji Mizoguchi
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08James Whale
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09Kenji Mizoguchi
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10Mikio Naruse
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11Hiroshi Shimizu
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12Ernst Lubitsch
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13Laurence Olivier
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14Marcel Carné
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15George Cukor
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16Kenji Mizoguchi
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17Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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18Mario Monicelli
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19John Huston
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20Charlie Chaplin
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21Stanley Donen
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22Jean Renoir
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23Vincente Minnelli
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24Jean Renoir
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25Ingmar Bergman
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26Ingmar Bergman
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27Shôhei Imamura
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28Yasujirô Ozu
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29Jacques Rivette
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30Ritwik Ghatak
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31Kon Ichikawa
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32Xie Jin
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33James Ivory
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34Ingmar Bergman
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35Peter Brook
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36Jean-Marie Straub
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37Ingmar Bergman
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38Masahiro Shinoda
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39Douglas Hickox
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40Ariane Mnouchkine
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41Giuseppe Bennati
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42Jacques Rivette
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43Andrzej Żuławski
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44Theodoros Angelopoulos
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45Herbert Ross
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46Ariane Mnouchkine
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47Bob Fosse
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48John Cassavetes
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49François Truffaut
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50Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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51István Szabó
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52David Greene
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53Ingmar Bergman
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54Peter Yates
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55Jacques Rivette
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56Tsui Hark
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57Fernando E. Solanas
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58Fernando E. Solanas
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59Jacques Rivette
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60Denys Arcand
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61Carlos Saura
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62Tom Stoppard
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63Chen Kaige
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64Hou Hsiao-hsien
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65Jan Švankmajer
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66Louis Malle
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67Woody Allen
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68Zhang Yimou
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69Frederick Wiseman
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70Al Pacino
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71John Madden
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72Pedro Almodóvar
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73Mike Leigh
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74Jia Zhangke
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75Jacques Rivette
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76Manoel de Oliveira
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77Stephen Frears
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78Richard Eyre
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79Rithy Panh
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80Laurent Tirard
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81Charlie Kaufman
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82Maurizio Zaccaro
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83Richard Linklater
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84Andrucha Waddington
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85André Barsacq
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86Jakub Hejna
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87Alain Resnais
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88Roman Polanski