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Iaga (2014 Film)

Director

Dustin Dunaway

Independent fantasy feature film. IAGA is a gender-reversed version of Othello retold in the style of a live-action graphic novel. Iaga secretly exposes the marriage between Desdemona and Othella, but when...

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Georges Méliès: Le Premier Magicien du Cinéma (2010)

aka: Georges Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema

Director

Georges Méliès; Georges Franju

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 896 minutes), 65.95 Euros

Geoges Méliès built the world’s first movie studio in 1896 near Paris, from where he produced his films of fantasy, dream, historical reconstructions, imaginary journeys, melodramas, slapstick comedies;...

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Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet (2007 Radio, Television)

Series

Charles Hazlewood Discovering Music

Radio programme. In this episode of his weekly series on work from various composers of the past three centuries, Charles Hazlewood examines the ‘Fantasy Overture’ from Tchaikovsky’s Romeo And Juliet....

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Last Tasmanian, The (1978 Film)

Director

Tom Haydon

Producer

Ray Barnes; Roger Fauriat

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

In 1803 when the British arrived to establish a penal colony there were some 4000 aborigines on the island of Tasmania. By 1876, after a few decades of systematic persecution and atrocity, they had been...

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Distinct Smell of Red, The (2000 Film)

Director

Jason Kittelberger

Producer

Donna Strader

Low-budget independent feature film. Katherine, a single, middle-aged woman, owns a small flower shop in the city. Vernon, a pathological liar, is her only employee. Instead of working, Vernon spends his...

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Songe d’Une Nuit d’Ete, Le (2005 Video)

aka: Midsummer Night’s Dream, A

Series

Opera Francais

Director

Pierre Jourdan

Comic opera. Ambroise Thomas’ comic three-act fantasy in which Queen Elizabeth intervenes in a young Shakespeare’s life to save him from debauchery with his friend Falstaff, and to turn him toward his...

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South Bank Show: Vol.1: Ken Russell (2012)

Director

Ken Russell

Subject

Film studies; Media studies; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 500 minutes), £29.99

Compilation of the eight films made by Ken Russell between 1983 and 2002 for The South Bank Show, on Vaughan Williams, Arnold Bax, Elgar, a portrait of the widows of four British composers, a found-footage...

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Sofies Verden (1999 Film)

aka: Sophie’s World

Director

Eric Gustavson

Producer

Oddvar Bull Tuhus; John M. Jacobsen

An epic fantasy film. Sophie (Silje Storstein) is a 15 year-old-girl who believes she is living an ordinary life but through an unusual set of circumstances realises she is not. She is in fact a fictional...

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Dragonwyck (1946)

Director

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Producer

Ernst Lubitsch

Subject

American Studies; Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B)

The directorial debut of American director Joseph L Mankiewicz, the film is a melding of Gothic chills and baroque melodrama. A Connecticut farm girl (Gene Tierney) finds herself embroiled in a conspiracy of...

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Iguana (1988 Film)

Director

Monte Hellman

Producer

Franco di Nunzio

Feature film described by some as a cross between The Tempest and The Phantom of the Opera. A grotesquely disfigured harpooner named Iguana is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on a whaling ship in...

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