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Venus and Adonis (1949 Radio)

aka: Masque for the Entertainment of the King, A

Series

John Blow

Last of a four-part programme prepared by by Anthony Lewis showcasing the music of English Baroque composer John Blow. This episode focuses on Blow’s miniature opera that is based on the classical fable of...

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Lyric Ode on the Fairies, Aerial Beings and Witches of Shakespeare (2003 Audio)

Producer

Martin Compton

Secular cantatas composed by Thomas Linley (1756-1788); libretto by French Lawrence. Lorna Anderson and Julia Gooding (sopranos) and Richard Wistreich, (bass) with The Parley of Instruments Baroque...

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300 Years of Housing (2002)

Subject

Architecture; Civil Engineering & Building

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £65.00

This film provides a brief introduction to the evolution of UK housing over the last three hundred years. It replaces an earlier film ‘A Brief History of Housing’, which has now been discontinued. Using...

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Rupture/Rapture/Jouissance: The Religious Trilogy 1990-1997 (2018)

Director

Nina Danino

Subject

Film studies; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 52 minutes), £20.00

Nina Danino is one of the foremost British experimental filmmakers of her generation. Her films explore the relationship of image to sound, and of theory to practice. She draws upon her own personal history...

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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1972 Radio)

The Scottish Opera production from the MacRobert Centre, Stirling, of Britten’s opera in three acts, produced for radio by Toby Robertson. Tim Curry stars as Puck in a spoken role. The Scottish Baroque...

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Evening with Shakespeare, An (1925 Radio)

Radio programme dedicated to Shakespeare’s works in music and verse. J. Forbes Knowles and Neil Mclean perform Act III, iii of Much Ado About Nothing (19:55-20.05) and the ‘tent scene’ (III iii) from...

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Warui Yatsu Hodo Yoku Nemuru (1960 Film)

aka: The Bad Sleep Well

Director

Akira Kurosawa

Producer

Akira Kurosawa; Tomoyuki Tanaka

Kurosawa directed three adaptations from Shakespeare. Two were recreated as samurai movies: Macbeth became THRONE OF BLOOD (1957), and King Lear inspired his last major film, the epic RAN (1985). THE BAD...

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Dragonwyck (1946)

Director

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Producer

Ernst Lubitsch

Subject

American Studies; Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B)

The directorial debut of American director Joseph L Mankiewicz, the film is a melding of Gothic chills and baroque melodrama. A Connecticut farm girl (Gene Tierney) finds herself embroiled in a conspiracy of...

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Dreams That Money Can Buy (1946 Video)

Director

Hans Richter

Subject

Art; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £19.99

Painter, film theorist and film-maker Hans Richter, one of the most influential members of the cinematic avant-garde, assembled some of the century’s liveliest artists as co-creators for this film,...

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Maria Lassnig - Animation Films (2009)

Subject

Art; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0), 28/80 euros

Maria Lassnig trained at the academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, and then spent several years in Paris in the 1950s and 60s, where she was exposed to Art Informel and Surrealism. From 1968 to 1980, she lived in...

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