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Chronicle of a Summer (1961 Video)

aka: Chronique d’Un Eté

Director

Jean Rouch

Subject

Film studies; Media studies

Distribution

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

Pioneering cinéma verité documentary consisting of a series of interviews with a variety of real-life individuals in Paris and Saint-Tropez. The result is a film that questions the level of reality and...

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Markova la Legende and Serge Peretti, Le Dernier Italien (2005)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 175 minutes), £17.99

Two French documentaries by Dominique Delouche, with English sub-titles, the first on our Dame Alicia Markova, the second on the Franco-Italian dancer and teacher Serge Peretti.

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Paris: Spectacle of Modernity (1993 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Presented by three art historians, all experts on different aspects of 19th-century French art and urbanism. Each displays a particular art historical methodology: that’s the point. Francis Frascina...

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Memories of Sekoto (1993 Video)

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 38 min., ?

A tribute to the pioneering South African painter Gerard Sekoto, who died in exile in Paris during the making of this film.

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Témoins de la Libération de Paris, Les, Et 20 Ans en Août 1944: Deux Films de Jorge Amat

Director

Lorenzo Alvary

Subject

French studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL), 15 Euros

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Resistance! (1996 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 52 min., 1996 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

Surviving French Resistance fighters and wartime Special Operations Executive agents tell the the story of their work in Occupied France, leading to the Liberation of Paris.

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Liberation (1994 Video)

Director

Arnold Schwartzman

Producer

Marvin Hier; Arnold Schwartzman

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 100 min., 1995 sale: £12.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Interweaves the history of World War 2 with the story of the Holocaust. Beginning in 1942, the film combines archive footage, period music and radio broadcasts collected from archives around the world to...

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Picasso: Magic, Sex and Death (2002)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 175 min), £19.99 (Revolver)

A biography of Picasso, originally shown as a 3-part television series, presented by his friend and biographer, John Richardson. The first programme reveals the influence of magic on the artist’s life and...

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Colonial Encounter, The (1993)

Producer

Nick Levinson

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 25 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

Introduces the ways in which the culture and history of the French colonies have been represented to a western European audience since the turn on the 19th century through an interview with Joseph Adande....

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Sex and Sensibility: The Allure of Art Nouveau (2013)

Subject

Architecture; Art; Design

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 150 minutes), £240.00

This film tells the story of Art Nouveau, beginning in the 1890s, this first international modern style was born. Art Nouveau was an explosion of new ways of depicting the world that swept rapidly from...

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