Montclair Film Festival 2016: 'All The World's A Screen,' An American Debut
by The Daily Eye Team May 2 2016, 1:38 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 29 secsThe Bard, William Shakespeare, turned 400 this past Saturday.
To honor that legacy, BBC's long-standing series of arts documentaries, Arena, commissioned a look at the history of Shakespeare on film."All the World's a Screen," narrated by Penelope Wilton (Lady Isobel Crawley, "Downton Abbey") will have its first screening outside of the U.K. in Montclair during the festival.Producer Adrian Wootton, who will appear in-person at the screening, said that he has been passionate about Shakespeare since he was a child, because he comes from the Midlands, near where Shakespeare was born.