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Date released

16 Mar 1929

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

406

NoS ID

332118

Story no

1 / 5

NoS Summary - Mrs Francis-Lewis makes Renasco Work boxes. British Pathe synopsis: Mrs Francis-Lewis shows the Eve’s Film Review audience the Italian Renaissance craft of Renasco Work "which any handy...

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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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Maledetto, Il (2022 Film)

Director

Giulio Base

Producer

Manuela Cacciamani

Italian crime film based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

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Cinema Paradiso (2007)

Director

Giuseppe Tornatore

Subject

Film Studies; Italian studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 285 minutes), £19.99

A digitally remastered version of this multi award-winning film in which a young boy in a small Italian village is overjoyed when the local movie projectionist reveals to him the mysteries of moviemaking,...

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Decameron, The (1970 Video)

aka: Decamarone, Il

Director

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Producer

Alberto Grimaldi

Subject

Italian studies

Distribution

DVD

An uncut version of Pasolini’s film adaptation of ten stories from Boccaccio’s ‘Decameron’, his 14th-century reworking of a hundred bawdy Italian folk-tales.

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Histoire(S) Du Cinema (2008)

Director

Jean-Luc Godard

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 260 minutes), £34.99

In the this 3-DVD volume HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA, consisting of eight episodes made between 1988 and 1998, Jean-Luc Godard examines many of cinemas most important facets, including its birth, the emergence of...

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Conformist, The (1970)

aka: Conformista, Il

Director

Bernardo Bertolucci

Subject

Film studies; Italian studies; Politics & government; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 113 minutes), £27.99

A man named Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant) attempts to escape his emotional past by subscribing to totalitarianism in Bernardo Bertolucci’s masterpiece of Italian cinema. But when Clerici is asked to...

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Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978 Video)

aka: Albero Degli Zoccoli, L’

Director

Ermanno Olmi

Subject

Italian studies; Media studies

Distribution

Videocassette. VHS. col. 170 min., 2001 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

Feature film about a poor farming family in Italy at the beginning of the 20th century. The family sacrifices to send the son to school, but his shoes break and there is no money to replace them.

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Rome, Open City (1993)

aka: Roma Citta Aperta

Subject

History; Italian studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £15.99

Often seen as the true beginning of neo-realism with its documentary-style imagery and the authenticity of its performances, Rossellini’s classic tells the story of resistance under German occupation....

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Oedipus Rex (Edipo Re) (1967)

Director

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Subject

Classical studies; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 105 minutes), £19.99

Filmed on location in Morocco, Pasolini’s take on Sophocles’ tragedy reimagines the story in three different eras. The first takes place in 1920s Italy and is shaded with autobiographical tones,...

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