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Balthus the Painter (1997 Video)

Director

Mark Kidel

Producer

Emma Crichton-Miller

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 58 minutes), £14.95

Profile of the painter Balthus (Count Balthasar Klossowski de Rola), born in Paris in 1908. Chronicles his life and traces the themes and motifs which recur in his work: young girls, knowing cats, spare...

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Joli Mai, Le

aka: Joli Mai, Le: Version Restaurée 2013

Director

Chris Marker; Pierre Lhomme

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 207 minutes), 24.99 Euros

1963 documentary by Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme. Marker (who is unseen in the film) asked people on the streets of Paris questions about their personal lives, as well as questions relating to the social...

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Mon Frère Jacques Par Pierre Prévert (2004)

Director

Pierre Prévert

Subject

French studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 386 minutes), 35 Euros

Portrait of French poet and screenwriter Jacques Prévert by his brother Pierre, featuring interviews with Marcel Duhamel, Raymond Bussières, Marcel Carné, Jean Gabin and Arletty, together with excerpts...

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Tchaikovsky Complete Symphonies

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 340 minutes), £60.23

Philippe Jordan ranks among the most established and moust sought-after conductors of his generation. As Music Director of the Paris Opera he performed the complete symphonies of Tchaikovsky in total three...

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Jeune Homme et la Mort, Le & Carmen (2006 Film)

Subject

Dance; Drama; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 67 minutes), £24.99

Filmed at the Palais Garnier in 2005, this features two ballets choreographed by Roland Petit as performed by the Ballet de l’Opera national de Paris: Le jeune homme et la mort and Carmen. Premiered in...

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Street Art - Painting the City: London Paris Madrid (2008)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 22 minutes), £9.99

The term ‘street art’ has evolved to define the more visual and engaging aspects of urban art, as opposed to simply text-based graffiti and tagging. This film follows cult figures such as Blek Le Rat,...

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ActualitÉs FranÇaises, Les: No 6 (1945 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

This issue of the post-liberation newsreel released in February 1945 shows 1) students at the Ecole de Hautes Etudes Commerciales in Paris donating blood for wounded soldiers; 2) Tollet, president of the...

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Chronicle of a Summer (1961 Video)

aka: Chronique d’Un Eté

Director

Jean Rouch

Subject

Film studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £19.99

Pioneering cinéma verité documentary consisting of a series of interviews with a variety of real-life individuals in Paris and Saint-Tropez. The result is a film that questions the level of reality and...

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Markova la Legende and Serge Peretti, Le Dernier Italien (2005)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 175 minutes), £17.99

Two French documentaries by Dominique Delouche, with English sub-titles, the first on our Dame Alicia Markova, the second on the Franco-Italian dancer and teacher Serge Peretti.

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Paris: Spectacle of Modernity (1993 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

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

Presented by three art historians, all experts on different aspects of 19th-century French art and urbanism. Each displays a particular art historical methodology: that’s the point. Francis Frascina...

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