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My War Years: Arnold Schoenberg (1992 Video)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (PAL). col. 85 min., 2000 sale: US$315.00 (+p&p) PAL

Focuses on composer Arnold Schoenberg in the years 1906-1923, during which he braved bitter poverty and isolation - the fate of a revolutionary in a conservative world. His concerts resulted in riots,...

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Veiled Revolution, A (1984 Film)

Director

Marilyn Gaunt

Producer

Elizabeth Fernea

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Examines feminist politics in Egypt, the first Islamic society to cast aside the veil in 1923, and a reaction there to the wearing of Western dress.

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Laban Dance Works, Recreations from Laban’s Chamber Dance Repertoire, 1923-1928 (2002)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL NTSC, 30 mins approx.), £17.99

A short documentary showing the reconstruction and performance of excerpts from some of Rudolf Laban’s early dance works, by staff and students at the Laban Centre in London.

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Maria by Callas (2018)

Director

Tom Volf

Subject

Music

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 119 minutes), £19.40

A portrait of opera singer Maria Callas. Told through private letters, unpublished memoirs, performances and TV interviews, this is the first film to tell the life story of the legendary Greek-American...

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Marcel Duchamp: A Game of Chess (1987)

Director

Jean-Marie Drot

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 56 minutes), £14.95

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1868), inventor of the ready-made and ‘godfather’ of Dada and surrealism, abandoned art in 1923. This interview was filmed for his first one-man show in 1963 and gives a unique...

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Shadow of a Gunman (2004)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 90minutes), $24.95

An American television production of O’Casey’s play, writtten in 1923. It is a tragi-comedy set in a squalid Dublin tenement in 1920. Portrays the life of some obscure people during the time of the...

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Colin Pearson (5 Parts) (1999 Multimedia)

Producer

Michael Hughes

Subject

Crafts

Distribution

CD-ROM

Videorecordings made in 1998 of potter Colin Pearson at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, talking to Walter Keeler about a selection of pots. Pearson taught ceramics at Harrow and Camberwell, and ran a...

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Roy Lichtenstein (1990)

Director

Chris Hunt

Producer

Chris Hunt

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 51 minutes), £19.30 (I)

Roy Lichtenstein was a leading exponent of the American pop art movement of the 1960s, and his monumental paintings of comic-strip images have become modern icons. In a rare interview he discusses both his...

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Is That All There is? (1994)

Director

Lindsay Anderson

Producer

Trevor Ingman

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 mins.), £100

Lindsay Anderson’s last film. An autobiographical "mockumentary" on Anderson’s daily routine, social and professional life. He also discusses his passions, inspirations and his time as a film critic and...

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Friedrich Schiller: Eine Dichterjugend (2009)

aka: Friedrich Schiller: The Poet As a Young Man

Director

Curt Goetz

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 102 minutes), 19.95 Euros

Silent film. After 16 years’ experience on stage, the actor and playwright Curt Goetz (1888-1960) made his debut as a film director and producer with the silent movie ‘Friedrich Schiller - Eine...

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