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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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Canterbury Tales, The (2001)

Director

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Subject

English language and literature; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 107 minutes), £14.99

Pasolini takes the role of Chaucer in a vivid and grotesque adaptation of some of Chaucer’s bawdy tales. The dual format Blu-Ray edition includes an alternative English-language version presented with...

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Madame de... (1953 Video)

aka: Diamond Earrings

Director

Max Ophüls

Subject

French studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 96 min., 2000 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

French feature film adapted from a novel by Louise de Vilmourin set in ‘fin de siècle’ Paris. A countess has a pair of earrings given to her by husband. After a doomed love affair with a baron she sells...

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The Queen at Film Festival

Date released

28 Oct 1954

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1325A

NoS ID

019621

Story no

1 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Italian Film Festival. DESCRIPTION: The opening of the Italian Film Festival at the Tivoli Theatre was a gala occasion. Her Majesty came with the Duke and Princess Margaret and many...

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Round the World - For Fun

Date released

3 Dec 1964

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

519

NoS ID

121587

Story no

1 / 1

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: We visit more countries than there are colours in the rainbow. We go to a country a minute, without leaving our cinema seats. And without encountering anything tense or harsh. Usually it is...

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Passenger, The (1975)

Director

Michelangelo Antonioni

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 119 minutes), £15.99

Film about an Anglo-American journalist, David Locke, who assumes the identity of a dead businessman while working on a documentary in Chad, unaware that he is impersonating an arms dealer with connections...

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The Cinema Tax Must Go

Date released

27 Mar 1958

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1503A

NoS ID

022299

Story no

2 / 3

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Cinema Tax Must Go. DESCRIPTION: Comments on the cinema tax from the well-known exhibitor, Sir Alexander King, Richard Todd and Anna Neagle. Famous film studios have had to cut down...

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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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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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Whoever Says the Truth Shall die: A Film About Pier Paulo Pasolini (1981 Video)

Director

Philo Bregstein

Producer

Frank Diamond; Harry Prins

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 59 min., 1995 sale: £12.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

A documentary about writer, poet, screenwriter and film director Pier Paulo Pasolini which begins by looking at Pasolini’s violent death in 1975 when he was found murdered on a deserted beach. Bregstein...

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