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Entr’Acte (1924 Film)

Director

René Clair

Subject

Art; Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The famous surrealist film made by a team of leading French intellectuals of the 1920s to fill an intermission between the two acts of the Francis Picabia’s Dada ballet ‘Rel ache’, performed by the...

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Cinema Paradiso (2007)

Director

Giuseppe Tornatore

Subject

Film Studies; Italian studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 285 minutes), £19.99

A digitally remastered version of this multi award-winning film in which a young boy in a small Italian village is overjoyed when the local movie projectionist reveals to him the mysteries of moviemaking,...

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Farewell to the Welfare State (1986)

Subject

Film studies; Media studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes), £31.90

A radical film examining the birth of the welfare system in the UK and its future under the Thatcher government. Archive material is used to show how poor the nation’s health was before the introduction of...

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JetÉe, La/Sans Soleil (2003 Video)

aka: Pier, The

Director

Chris Marker

Producer

Anatole Dauman

Subject

Film studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (126 minutes), £19.99

Two films by Chris Marker combined on one tape/DVD - LA JETEE and SANS SOLEIL.

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Penelope (2011)

Director

Ben Ferris

Subject

Classical studies; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 80 minutes), £90.00

A lyrical treatment of Homer’s tale of Penelope, depicting her psychological struggle as she waits twenty years for her husband to return from the Trojan War. It draws on the long-take filmmaking style of...

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Jennifer (2015)

Director

Nina Danino

Subject

Film studies; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 66 minutes), £50.00

A documentary about one day in the life of an enclosed Carmelite nun. The film, which took seven years to make, invites the audience into the world of a cloistered community that live out an ideal of work...

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Wheel of Time (2007)

Director

Werner Herzog

Subject

Film studies; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 81 minutes), £19.99

Herzog’s documentary film about the largest Buddhist ritual to promote peace and tolerance, held by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Bodh Gaya, India and Graz, Austria in 2002. The film includes exclusive...

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Brit Muslim: A Community Profile (2010)

Director

Reza Shirazi

Producer

Susan Noori; Reza Shirazi

Subject

Religious studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 77 minutes), £14.99

The film gives an insight into the life of two million British Muslims, challenging the important issues of identity and Britishness, and examining the contribution made by Muslims to British society. The...

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Ear, The (1970)

Director

Karel Kachyna

Subject

Czech studies; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 95 minutes), £19.99

A high-ranking Communist official and his wife begin to suspect that their home has been put under surveillance by the Party. Over one night, the growing tension exposes a bitter fault-line in their...

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Agrindus Way, The (1973 Film)

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows how Indian peasants are forming co-operatives, and working for the common good, building dams for irrigation, introducing new farming methods, and reducing the power of the money lenders.

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