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Twelfth Night (1992 Video)

Director

Griff Rhys Jones

Video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1991 production of Twelfth Night. Directed by Griff Rhys Jones with Freddie Jones as Malvolio and Sylvestra Le Touzel as Viola.

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Six Plays by Alan Bennett (2017)

Director

Stephen Frears; Giles Foster; Lindsay Anderson

Producer

Stephen Frears

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 414 minutes), £17.35

This DVD collects six Alan Bennett plays produced by Stephen Frears. Frears himself directs four of the six plays, with the remaining two directed by Giles Foster and Lindsay Anderson. ME! I’M AFRAID OF...

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End of the Road (1969 Film)

Director

Aram Avakian

Producer

Terry Southern; Stephen F. Kesten

Feature film adapted from the novel by John Barth. Jacob Horner (Keach) is an emotionally disturbed young college professor who enters a catatonic state and undergoes therapy from an unorthodox psychologist,...

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Ken Loach Collection Vol 1 (2007)

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 768 minutes), £59.99

This collection brings together many of Ken Loach’s most celebrated films, along with some that are ripe for rediscovery. Featured titles are Poor Cow (1967), Kes (1969), The Gamekeeper (1980), Riff Raff...

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Target for Tonight (1941 Film, Video)

Director

Harry Watt

Producer

Ian Dalrymple

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Illustrates the work of the Bomber Command in World War 2. Shows what it was like to fly on some of the earliest Wellington bomber raids agains Nazi Germany, following the fictional ‘F for Freddie’ on a...

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Squadron 992 (1940 Video)

Director

Harry Watt

Producer

Alberto Cavalcanti

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 26 min.

In response to a request for a film that showed the importance of balloon barrage, Harry Watt made this drama-documentary about the training of a balloon squadron and its first assignment to the Forth...

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Blackadder Back and Forth (2000 Film)

aka: Blackadder Back & Forth

Director

Paul Welland

Producer

Sophie Clarke-Jones

A film charting British history since Roman times, made especially for the Millennium Dome in London. In the Shakespeare sketch at a 1999 New Year’s Eve dinner party given by Edmund Blackadder for old...

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Two Shakespearean Actors (1990 Video)

Director

Roger Michell

Video recording of the play by Richard Nelson staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Nelson gives an account of the rivalry between two great 18th century actors, one quintessentially American (Edwin...

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King Lear (1991 Video)

Director

Nicholas Hytner

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1990 production of King Lear. Directed by Nicholas Hytner with John Wood as Lear.

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Lost, Lost, Lost (200)

Subject

Media studies; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL SECAM, 180 minutes), 56 Euros (+p&p)

Diaries, notes and sketches filmed 1949-1963, edited 1976. Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas invented the diary form of filmmaking. Born in Lithuania in 1922, and displaced from his...

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