movies about theater – Stream On Demand

Sylvain Chomet's animated film of a Jacques Tati script

‘The Illusionist’ on Criterion Channel

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An unproduced screenplay by French comedy master Jacques Tati is transformed into a tender tale of a French magician and a Scottish girl in the theater-folk society of London.

‘Topsy-Turvy’ – Gilbert and Sullivan reborn on HBO Max and Criterion Channel

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Mike Leigh’s drama tackles the creative partnership between the reigning kings of light operetta at a turning point in their career.

James Cagney plays George M. Cohan in the musical directed by Michael Curtiz

‘Yankee Doodle Dandy’ – James Cagney is George M. Cohan on Criterion Channel

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Cagney shows off his skills as a song and dance man in this rousing, old-fashioned showbiz bio-pic directed by the great Michael Curtiz.

Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart in Clouds of Sils Maria

‘Clouds of Sils Maria’ on Criterion Channel and free on Kanopy

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Juliette Binoche plays a veteran actress facing a career transition and Kristen Stewart is her assistant in this beautiful drama from Olivier Assayas.

Christopher Plummer hosts 'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,' a film by Terry Gilliam

Last chance: Terry Gilliam’s ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’ on Hulu

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Christopher Plummer is the traveling showman as steampunk fantasist in this carny sideshow of a Faust tale, costarring Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell.

‘Me and Orson Welles’ on Criterion Channel and Kanopy

!Featured, based on a novel, Comedy, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Free, Kanopy, movies about theater, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/05/2022 Sean Axmaker

Zac Efron plays a high school teen in 1937 who gets cast in a play by Orson Welles in this enourmously entertaining mix of fiction and history directed by Richard Linklater.

Laurence Olivier is ‘The Entertainer’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, BAFTA winner, based on a play, British Cinema, Classic Movie, drama, DVD, HBO Max, movies about theater 03/21/2021 Sean Axmaker

Laurence Olivier broke with the grand roles and theatrical poise of previous parts to play seedy music hall entertainer Archie Rice in John Osborne’s play The Entertainer. He reprised the role for Tony Richardson’s screen adaptation The Entertainer (1960), earning an Oscar nomination for his performance. Olivier gives his all as the gap tooth vaudevillian […]

What to stream: Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Chicago 7’ on Netflix, Heidi Schrek’s ‘Constitution’ on Amazon

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Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … Courtroom drama meets political theater in “The Trial of the Chicago 7” (2020, not rated), Aaron Sorkin’s dramatization of the real-life trial of the protest leaders at the 1968 Democratic National Convention charged […]

Ingrid Thulin and Max Von Sydow in the Swedish classic by Ingmar Bergman

Dark theater: Ingmar Bergman’s ‘The Magician’ on Criterion Channel

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Max von Sydow stars as a mute mesmerist who engages in a battle of wills with a rationalist in this chamber drama of theater, magic, and reason.

Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Smiles of a Summer Night’ on The Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Comedy, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, International Classics, movies about theater, SVOD 07/14/2018 Sean Axmaker

Bergman’s international breakthrough came via this light, sunny, airy sex comedy, a satire of love and class and sex by way of a Shakespeare comedy of mismatched couples.