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Life of Jesus, The (1997)

aka: La Vie de Jesus

Director

Bruno Dumont

Subject

French studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £42.75

A story of life’s brutality and exhilaration played out by turns within the quarters of a tiny Flemish country town. Here, positioned in relative isolation from the rest of so-called cultural Europe, the...

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Istoriya pro Richarda, Milorda I Prekrasnuyu Zhar-Ptitsu (1997 Film)

aka: Story of Richard, Milord and the Beautiful Firebird, The

Director

Nino Akhvlediani

Feature film. A former theatre director, Dima Kamentsev, stages Richard III using young amateur actors. He engages a ‘difficult’ teenager, nicknamed ‘Milord’ to play the part of Richard. No further...

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Nation’s Health, The (2004)

Subject

Film Studies; History; Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £55.00

The late nineteenth century saw many discoveries and new technologies that transformed clinical medicine. A different kind of invention from this period came to be seen as an essential weapon in the war...

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American Cinema: Film Language / Writing and Thinking About Film / Classical Hollywood Style Today (1994 Video)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (NTSC). col. 90 min.

Follow-up to the 10-part history of seven decades of American cinema.

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Secret People (1952)

Director

Thorold Dickinson

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £15.99

Crime drama set in the 1930s and starring Valentina Cortese and a young Audrey Hepburn. Maria and her younger sister Nora flee to London after their political activist father is murdered by a European...

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Rosa Luxemburg (1986)

Director

Margaretha Von Trotta

Subject

German studies; History; Politics & government; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 117 minutes), £18.99

Biopic of one of the most fascinating and inspiring figures in modern European history. 'Red Rosa’ Luxemburg, a dedicated pacifist and Marxist revolutionary, is arrested in 1905 for her political...

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Subject

Film studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 81 minutes), £7.99

Adapted from the Grimm fairytale, this ‘Disney’s groundbraking gem (The Guardian, 2019), is chillingly dark in places, reflecting its roots in European folklore, but the deft Disney touch ensures that...

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World’s Media, The (1995 Multimedia)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

CD-ROM

A general outline of the business dimension of the global media industry with detailed analyses of European countries, including Eastern Europe, and a comprehensive coverage of the UK. Covers television...

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Otello, Comando Negro (1982 Film)

aka: Othello, The Black Commando

Director

Max H. Boulois

Feature film. A French-Spanish derivative of Othello set in the late 1970s in which Othello is cast as a mercenary soldier fighting in Africa. Courtney Lehmann in Shakespeares After Shakespeare (op cit)...

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King is Alive (2000 Film)

Director

Kristian Levring

Producer

Patricia Kruijer; Vibeke Windelov

Feature film emerging from the Dogme 95 manifesto and the first to be filmed outside Scandinavia in the English language. 10 tourists, travelling by bus in the Namibian desert, are stranded when the bus runs...

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