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Congo Belge: Filmé Par Gérard de Boe, André Cauvin et Ernest Genval

aka: Belgisch Congo Gefilmd Door Gérard de Boe, André Cauvin & Ernest Genval

Director

Ernest Genval; Gérard De De Boe; André Cauvin

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 276 minutes), 21 Euros

This 2 DVD set presents the work of the three most prominent Belgian ‘colonial filmmakers’. The pioneer Ernest Genval began filming in the Belgian Congo in around 1925; from 1937 Gérard De Boe took up...

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AndrÉ Gide (1952 Film)

Director

Marc Allégret

Producer

Pierre Braunberger

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The author’s career is traced in some detail up to his marriage in 1895, but the subsequent years of his life are only briefly dealt with. The rest of the film consists mainly of footage shot shortly...

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Bricks! (2016)

Director

Claire Beavan

Subject

Art

Documentary celebrating the artwork that captured a nation’s imagination: the exhibition of Carl Andre’s Equivalent VIII, a minimalist sculpture consisting of 120 fire bricks laid out on the floor of the...

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Belle et la BÍte, La (1946 Video)

aka: Beauty and the Beast

Director

Jean Cocteau

Producer

André Paulvé

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

DVD

A remastered version of Jean Cocteau’s lavish production of ‘Beauty and the Beast’.

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AndrÉ Malraux and ‘La Condition Humaine’ (1975 Film)

Director

Pierre Samson

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An analysis of the knowledge Malraux had of China, political and philosophical, when he was writing ‘La Condition Humaine’. Includes an interview with Clara Malraux and Jean Lacouture and uses...

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Gospel According to Andre, The (2018)

Director

Kate Novak

Subject

Design; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 89 minutes), £10.00

Documentary about the life of fashion editor Andre Leon Talley. The film follows his steps from the segregated American South to the fashion capitals around the world; from the struggles of his youth through...

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AndrÉ Gide 1869-1951 (1972 Video)

Director

D Walker

Producer

Peter Coltman

Subject

English language and literature; French studies

Distribution

Hire, Videotape reel. Ampex. 1. b&w. 23 min.

Biographical background to the work of the writer, beginning with the political involvements of the mature Gide and going beyond these to the problems of childhood and adolescence which formed his moral...

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Foucault Contre Lui-Même (2014)

Subject

French studies; Philosophy

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 123 minutes), 14.70 Euros

A collection of interviews with and programmes about French philosopher Michel Foucault. Includes: LES MOTS ET LES CHOSES (14’) interview with Michel Foucault by Pierre Dumayet - 1966; MARX S’INVITE AU...

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Wassily Kandinsky (2010)

Director

Andre Labarthe

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 56 minutes), £11.80

Colour, form, area, this is the formula of the greatest pioneer of abstract painting. Wassily Kandinsky came to art late in life, but his impact through Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) and Bauhaus paved...

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Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)

Director

Louis Malle

Producer

Fred Berner

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 119 minutes), $24.98

A version of Chekov’s ‘Uncle Vanya’. Film director Louis Malle films stage director André Gregory rehearsing a production of the play. The shabby grandeur of the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York,...

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