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Nameless Star, A (2003)

aka: Bezymyannaya Zvezda

Subject

Drama; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (NTSC, 130 minutes), $25.00

Based on the 1943 stage play, "Steaua Fara Nume" by Romanian Jewish writer Iosef Hechter, writing under the pen name Mihail Sebastian (1907-1945). This version was made for television in 1978, but there was...

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Tcm Greatest Classic Films Collection - Shakespeare (2011 Video)

2-disc set. See individual entries on this database for full details of cast and credits. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (1935). d. Dierterle. Commentary by film historian Scott Hamilton. Olivia de Havilland...

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Mister Cinders (1934 Film)

Director

Friedrich Zelnik

Producer

Walter C. Mycroft

Feature film musical comedy concerning a male Cinderella who wins the heart of an American heiress. Features a village production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in rehearsal and shambolic performance (Hermia...

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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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Hollywood Revue of 1929, The (1929 Film)

Director

Charles Riesner

Feature film. Jack Benny and Conrad Nagel host a musical revue of MGM acts, including Joan Crawford, Laurel and Hardy and Buster Keaton. Includes a skit (c 6 mins) on Romeo and Juliet, where John Gilbert and...

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Red, White and Zero (1967)

Director

Lindsay Anderson; Peter Brook; Tony Richardson

Subject

Film studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 98 minutes), £14.99

A portmanteau feature composed of three shorts, RIDE OF THE VALKYRIE, THE WHITE BUS AND TED AND BLUE. Comic legend Zero Mostel stars as an opera singer navigating the London transport network as he attempts...

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Oskar Fischinger, Volume 1 (2003)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 33 minutes), £17.99

Oskar Fischinger discovered cinema at the age of 20 from the German avant-garde animators (Eggeling, Richter and Ruttman) and began his own visual experiments in 1921. From 1929 to 1934 he composed his...

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Epic of Everest, The (2014)

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 88 minutes), £19.99

The 1924 Everest expedition culminated in the deaths of two of the finest climbers of their generation, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, and sparked an ongoing debate over whether or not they did indeed...

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Red, Hot and Blue (1949 Film)

Director

John Farrow

Producer

Robert Fellows

Feature film. Musical comedy with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser. An aspiring chorus girl finds herself in a jam when a gangster, who is backing the show she is appearing in, is found dead in her...

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King of Jazz, The (1930)

Director

Thomas Anderson Murray

Subject

American Studies; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 98 minutes), $31.96; $23.96

Made during the early years of the movie musical, this was one of the most extravagant, eclectic, and technically ambitious Hollywood productions of its day. Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then...

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