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Van Gogh (1991)

Director

Maurice Pialat

Subject

Art; French studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 158 minutes), £9.99

Van Gogh has arrived at Auvers-sur-Oise to come under the care of Dr. Gachet for his nervous agitation. Soon after the arrival of Vincent’s brother Théo and his wife, plein air portraiture and...

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Three Colours CÉzanne (1996)

aka: Paul Cézanne

Director

Janice Sutherland

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 55 minutes), £17.99

Paul Cézanne is widely acknowledged as the ‘father’ of modern art. Although initially associated with the impressionists, his innovations in representing the natural world laid the foundations for the...

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Glass Beadmaking in Turkey and Ghana (2006)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 45 minutes), £14.99

Documentary. This DVD shows two traditional methods of glass beadmaking and shows in detail how beautiful handcrafted beads are produced. In Turkey, glass beads are made in a furnace and the technique is...

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Caught in a Web (2017)

aka: Caught in a Web Trilogy

Director

Toni de Bromhead

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (52 minutes (each film)), £50.00

Three films comparing and contrasting aspects of life in a Dorset community in the Bride Valley and in Villes-sur-Auzon, a French village in Provence. The first film in the trilogy is A VILLAGE HERITAGE...

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Edouard Manet: Model with the Black Cat (2006)

Director

Alain Jaubert

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £19.99

A nude woman on a bed. The subject was a common one common in the history of painting. And yet Olympia caused a violent scandal at the Salon Exhibition of 1865. This indecent woman staring back at the viewer...

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France ActualitÉs. No 27 (1944 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

This issue of the Vichy newsreel released in June 1944 shows: 1) Franco meets Civil War veterans at Alicante; 2) Funeral of Patriach Sergins of Lithuania and Latvia after his murder by Bolshevik agents; 3)...

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Art & Cinema: Die Belgishche Kunstdocumentarie/Le Documentaire Sur L’Art en Belgique/The Belgian Art Documentary (2013)

Director

Henri Storck; Charles Dekeukeleire; André Cauvin; Paul Haesaerts; Luc de Heusch

Subject

Art; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 425 minutes), 47 Euros

This 3 DVD collection presents twenty films about art made by Belgian documentary filmmakers Charles Dekeukeleire, André Cauvin, Henri Storck, Paul Haesaerts and Luc de Heusch. The films cover a period of...

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Private Life of a Masterpiece, Series 1-5 Collection (2007)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1100 minutes), £69.99

This television series reveals the stories behind famous works of art: how the pieces were created, how they have influenced others and how they have come to have a life of their own in the modern world. All...

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Birth of Impressionism, The (2002)

Director

Alain Jaubert

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 min), £19.99

Three films from the Palettes series devoted to great works in painting history. Thanks to recent developments in video animation technique, secrets of these images are revealed like thrilling adventures of...

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