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Sofies Verden (1999 Film)

aka: Sophie’s World

Director

Eric Gustavson

Producer

Oddvar Bull Tuhus; John M. Jacobsen

An epic fantasy film. Sophie (Silje Storstein) is a 15 year-old-girl who believes she is living an ordinary life but through an unusual set of circumstances realises she is not. She is in fact a fictional...

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Tempest, The (1979 Film)

Director

Derek Jarman

Producer

Guy Ford; Mordecai Schreiber

Low-budget adaptation of the play using chiaroscuro lighting, location shooting, unusual casting, and eccentric costuming. The film remains faithful to the spirit of the play. Jarman’s understanding of the...

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Iguana (1988 Film)

Director

Monte Hellman

Producer

Franco di Nunzio

Feature film described by some as a cross between The Tempest and The Phantom of the Opera. A grotesquely disfigured harpooner named Iguana is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on a whaling ship in...

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Luna Papa (1999 Film)

aka: Lunnyy Papa

Director

Bakhytar Khudojnazarov

Producer

Bakhytar Khudojnazarov; Philippe Avril; Karl Baumgartner; Thomas Koerfer; Heinz Stussak; Igor Tolstunov

Feature film. Comedy-fantasy partly narrated by the unborn baby of a young stagestruck girl who finds herself pregnant following the visit of a touring theatre to the ancient city by the sea which is her...

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Macbeth (2003 Film)

Director

Bryan Enk

Low-budget, modern dress, adaptation of Macbeth. Macbeth is conceived as a bland, corporate hatchet man, the three witches as svelte clubbers, and the porter a doorman at a comedy club. The settings include...

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Early Russian Cinema (1991 Video)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, 10 videocassettes. VHS. b&w. 45, 55, 58, 55, 45, 94, 95, 104, 100, 72 min., 1995 sale: £165.00 (+p&p) set

An anthology in ten volumes of Russian filmmaking from the early years of the 20th century. The films were rediscoved at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival in 1989. This selection was made by Ian Christie...

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Jubilee (1978 Film)

Director

Derek Jarman

Producer

Howard Malin; James Whaley

Independent feature film. A visceral, punk fantasy made in the year of Queen Elizabeth II’s silver jubilee, and solo directorial debut for Derek Jarman. Anxious to gain knowledge, Queen Elizabeth I has her...

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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1935 Film)

Director

William Dieterle

Producer

Max Reinhardt

A film based on the Broadway production by Max Reinhardt. A combination of German expressionism and Hollywood realism. Hal Mohr’s cinematography is ‘astonishing, a surreal visual fantasy of dancing...

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Wizards

Date

19 Jan 2017, 12:31

Author

Ben Hodson

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Wizards GB. DVD. Fabulous Films. 81 mins. £5.99. About the reviewer: Dr Birgitta Hosea is Head of Animation at the Royal College of Art in London. Prior to joining the RCA in 2015, Birgitta Hosea was...

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Žižek and Media Studies: A Reader

Date

1 Sep 2014, 17:22

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Zizek and Media Studies edited by Matthew Flisfeder and Louis-Paul Willis (Palgrave Macmillan, April 2014). 316 pages. ISBN: 978-113736624-5 (hardback), £60 About the reviewer: Gareth Longstaff is Teaching...

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