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Homme ‡ la Pipe, L’ (1960 Film)

Director

Roger Leenhardt

Subject

Art

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Life of the realist painter Gustave Courbet as seen through his work.

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Madame Bovary (1991 Video)

Director

Claude Chabrol

Producer

Marin Karmitz

Subject

French studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 136 minutes), £15.99

French-language cinema adaptation of the novel by Gustave Flaubert. In 19th-century France the young daughter of a farmer marries a dull doctor ten years her senior and soon becomes bored. She embarks on a...

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Madame Bovary (2005)

Subject

French studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 211 minutes), £19.99

1975 television adaptation by Rodney Bennett of Gustave Flaubert’s novel, starring Francesca Annis and Tom Conti. Trapped on a provincial French farm with her widowed father, Emma dreams of leading a...

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Madame Bovary (2006)

Director

Tim Fywell; Tony Redston

Producer

Bernard Krichefski; Tony Redston

Subject

French studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 211 minutes), £15.99

Television adaptation by Heidi Thomas of Gustave Flaubert’s novel, starring Frances O’Connor. The young daughter of a farmer marries a dull doctor ten years her senior and soon becomes bored. She embarks...

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From Romanticism to Realism

Director

Alain Jaubert

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 90 minutes), £19.99

Three 30-minute films from the Palettes series. The paintings studied are: Delacroix - Liberty Guiding The People; Ingres - The Turkish Bath; Courbet - A Burial At Ornans

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Impressionism - Revenge of the Nice (2006)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £19.99

Contemporary art critic Matthew Collings reappraises Impressionism, focussing on Courbet, Manet, Monet and Cezanne and shows that, even though the contemporary art world seemingly despises the movement, they...

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Education Sentimentale, L’: Impressions and Perceptions in Flaubert (1976 Video)

Director

Michael Steele

Producer

William Kirton

Subject

French studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 19 min.

Flaubert’s literary style is largely an exercise in the qualities and effects of perception. The efforts of the Impressionist painters coincided technically and chronologically with his writing of...

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Camp de Thiaroye (1987 Video)

aka: Camp at Thiaroye, The

Director

Ousmane Sembéne; Thierno Faty Sow

Producer

Mamadou Mbengue

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VH. col. 152 min., 1995 sale: £42.50 (inc. VAT +p&p)

An account of events in a Senegalese repatriation camp just before the end of World War 2, based on a historical episode. Soldiers from all over Africa who fought for the Franch and the Allies were interned...

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Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star / Extase (2009)

Director

Donatello Dubini; Fosco Dubini; Gustave Machatý

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 85 minutes + 79 minutes), 29.95 euros

This 2 disc set comprises a documentary about the Hollywood star and the 1933 Czech film EXTASE (ECSTASY), which caused controversy at the time for its sexual content, particularly the sequence depicting the...

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Statue of Liberty, The: Building a Colossus (2001)

Director

Corin Watson

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 52 minutes), $139.99

It is the symbol of freedom the world over. a "Modern Colossus" to represent America to the world. But the Statue of Liberty was a French invention, a result of the vision of 19th century artist Frédéric...

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