Results

Life of Jesus, The (1997)

aka: La Vie de Jesus

Director

Bruno Dumont

Subject

French studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £42.75

A story of life’s brutality and exhilaration played out by turns within the quarters of a tiny Flemish country town. Here, positioned in relative isolation from the rest of so-called cultural Europe, the...

DVD Find Other To order

Kes (1970)

Director

Ken Loach

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 106 minutes), £14.99

Ken Loach’s landmark film tells the story of Billy Caspar (played by David Bradley) - a working-class teenager growing up in a Yorkshire mining community. Bullied at home and picked on and ridiculed at...

DVD Find Other To order

Human Desire (1954)

Director

Fritz Lang

Subject

Film studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £14.99

Adapted from the same Emile Zola novel previously filmed by Jean Renoir in La BETE HUMAINE (1938), Lang’s startlingly dark, late film noir reunites Lang with his hero Glenn Ford and femme fatale Gloria...

DVD Find Other To order

Van Gogh (1991)

Director

Maurice Pialat

Subject

Art; French studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 158 minutes), £9.99

Van Gogh has arrived at Auvers-sur-Oise to come under the care of Dr. Gachet for his nervous agitation. Soon after the arrival of Vincent’s brother Théo and his wife, plein air portraiture and...

DVD Find Other To order

Salesman (2007)

Director

Albert Maysles; David Maysles

Subject

Business studies; Psychology; Religious studies; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes), £19.99

Honoured by the Library of Congress as one of the 25 best American films ever made, SALESMAN is a fascinating, non-narrated account of four Boston bible sellers, selling lavish bibles to low income families....

DVD Find Other To order

Edvard Munch (1976 Video)

Director

Peter Watkins

Subject

Art

Distribution

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

A dramatised documentary which studies the formative years of the Expressionist painter Edvard Munch (1863-1944). The non-professional cast creates a convincing portrait of Oslo’s bohemian and bourgeois...

DVD Find Other To order

Ivan the Terrible (2 Parts) (1945 Film, Video)

aka: Ivan Groznyj

Director

Sergei Eisenstein

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

DVD

1 (1944): Story of Tsar Ivan IV - Ivan the Terrible. Begins with his crowning as Tsar of Russia, follows his struggle to consolidate the Russian Empire, freeing it from Eastern domination, through his...

DVD Find Other To order

Shoah (2007 Video)

Director

Claude Lanzmann

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 550 minutes), £49.99

A distillation of 350 hours of interviews with living ‘witnesses’ to what happened at the extermination camps of Treblinka, Auschwitz, Sobibor, Chelmno and Belzec. The director spent 10 years tracking...

DVD Find Other To order

One, Two, Three (1961)

Director

Billy Wilder

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region free, 108 minutes), £14.99

Mac MacNamara, a top Coca-Cola executive, is shipped off to Berlin and told to keep an eye on his boss’ 17-year-old Atlanta socialite daughter Scarlett while she visits Germany. Scarlett’s tour seems...

DVD Find Other To order

Fear and Desire (1953 Film)

Director

Stanley Kubrick

Producer

Stanley Kubrick

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 62 minutes), £17.99

Stanley Kubrick’s first feature film, an allegory about four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines in a nameless war, is presented in the Masters of Cinema edition in its new restoration carried out in 2012...

DVD Find Other To order