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Hidden Faces (1996 Film, Video)

Director

Claire Hunt; Kim Longinotto

Subject

Women’s studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Originally intended as a film about feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi, the film is portrayal of the lives of modern Egyptian women in Islamic society. Safaa Fathay, a young Egyptian woman living in Paris,...

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Joan Miró: Theatre of Dreams (2008)

aka: MirÓ: Theatre of Dreams

Director

Robin Lough

Producer

Christopher Martin

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 57 minutes), £17.99

A sensitive profile of Spanish artist Joán Miró (1893-1983), a friend of Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst and André Masson, and one of the generation of great painters who worked in Paris in the 1920s. The film...

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Big Picture, The (2008)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 235 minutes), £19.99

The Cold War of the 1950s resulted in many US television programmes produced by government and industry to promote their own interests. The longest running and best received of these was the U.S. Army’s...

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I, Claude Monet (2018)

Director

Phil Grabsky

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 90 minutes), £14.99

Using letters and other private writings I, Claude Monet reveals new insight into the man who painted Impression, Sunrise, the picture that gave birth to impressionism, and who became perhaps the most...

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Panique

Director

Julien Duvivier

Subject

Film studies; French studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 98 minutes), £17.99

Proud, eccentric and anti-social, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town, discovers...

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Paul Klee: The Silence of the Angel/Paul Klee, 150 Pieces (2005)

aka: Stille des Engels, Die Silence de L’Ange, Le

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 130 minutes), £19.99

Two films on the work of Paul Klee.

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William Turnbull (2005)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 26 minutes), £13.99

William Turnbull is one of Britain’s most distinguished sculptors and painters. In the late 1940s he studied art in London and then spent time in Paris, and ever since he has rigorously explored a limited...

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Amazing Lives: Life After Burns (2007)

aka: My Shocking Story: My Coma Miracle

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £20.00

Mike Osborne almost lost his life when his plane exploded in a fireball leaving him with 80% burns. This film follows Mike’s recovery and his painful search to restore the face that once was. His search...

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Le Corbusier: Villa la Roche (1993 Video)

Producer

Nick Levinson

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Off-air recording license Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines the history of the Villa La Roche in Paris and explores the motives of Le Corbusier in developing the site for the Swiss Banker and art collector, Roal La Roche. Sets out to explain why and how the...

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Pompidou Centre (Beauborg), The: Design and Construction (1977)

Subject

Architecture; Art; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 55 minutes), £95.00

Film about the planning, construction, scope and controversial reception of the Pompidou Centre in Paris, presented by Arts writer and lecturer Rosamond Bernier. Many paintings - including works by...

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