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Shakespeare’s Theatre and Macbeth (1978 Video)

Educational film. Footage of Stratford-upon-Avon and a depiction of the Globe Theatre aim to provide an understanding of the elements that influenced the style of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Features John...

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Beau Serge, Le (1958 Video)

Director

Claude Chabrol

Subject

French studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 95 min., 2000 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

French feature film. A student returns to his home town and tries to redeem his old friend who has become a drunkard. Credited with being the spearhead of the ‘new wave’.

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Strike (1924)

Director

Sergei Eisenstein

Subject

Film studies; Russian studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 94 minutes), £24.99 (MM) £19.99 (E)

Sergei Eisenstein’s first film, portraying a 1912 strike of factory workers which is brutally put down by the authorities. The version released in 2012 by Moviemail in the Classic Russian Cinema series is...

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Forget the Film, Watch the Titles (2011)

Subject

Design; Film studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 173 minutes), 19.95 euros

A 2-DVD set devoted to the art of film titling. The first DVD showcases t38 of the best contemporary film title sequences, with the emphasis on, but not confined to, European films, and the collection also...

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Beau Travail (2000)

Director

Claire Denis

Subject

Film studies; French studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £20.00

Inspired by Herman Melville’s ‘Billy Budd’, filmmaker Claire Denis’ film explores the near-mythical world of the French Foreign Legion. A sergeant-major whose position and power are threatened when...

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I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me (1992 Film)

aka: Ich Will Nicht Nur, Dass ihr Mich Liebt

Director

Hans Günther Pflaum

Subject

German studies; Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Portrait of film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder produced for the tenth anniversary of his death on 10 June 1982. Includes contributions from Fassbinder’s friends and closest colleges, extracts from his...

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Reading Movies (1990 Video)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Video cassette. VHS. col. 70 min.

18 extracts from feature films of the 1980s which illustrate aspects of filmmaking such as music, lighting and editing. Shows examples of the ways in which various sequences from film are put together to...

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Laxdale Hall (1952 Film)

aka: Scotch on the Rocks

Director

John Eldridge

Feature film comedy. A group of car owners in the Hebridean village of Laxdale refuse to pay their road fund licences until they have been given a proper road. A parliamentary delegation arrives, and among...

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Immortal Passado, The (1976 Film, Video)

Producer

Jeff Baynes

Shows how a repertory company at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, mounted a production of Romeo and Juliet in five weeks. Traces the progress of the production from ideas to drawings, then into the workshop...

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Leopard, The (2004)

Subject

History; Italian studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale Hire, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 188 minutes), £19.99 (sale)

A restored, original version of Visconti’s adaptation of the novel by Guiseppe di Lampedusa, set in 1860-62 during the period of Italian unification. It tells the story of an aristocratic Sicilian family...

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