Some other asylums:
BEDLAM, with Boris Karloff, from the Val Lewton group at RKO
THE PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF JEAN-PAUL MARAT AS PERFORMED
BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM AT CHARENTON, UNDER THE
DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE (aka MARAT/SADE)
You might also check out the treatment of Ophelia in the new
Branagh HAMLET
Some other prisons, especially depictions of non-US prisons:
Hector Babenco's PIXOTE and KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
Guney's YOL
Sembene's CAMP AT THIAROYE
Sven Nykquist's version of
ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH
MIDNIGHT EXPRESS--you might want to compare it to the autobiographical
book on which it's based!
Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)
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