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Faust (1926)

Director

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

Subject

Drama; Film Studies; German studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 110 minutes), £29.99

A silent version of the legend about a man who sells his soul to the devil. Based on a play by Goethe. The DVD is taken from the recently rediscovered German version of the film rather than the export...

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Tartuffe (2005)

Director

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

Subject

Drama; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 64 minutes), £19.99

F. W. Murnau made this film adaptation of Molière’s satire for UFA early in 1925 and it was released the following year, shortly followed by Faust. By presenting the play as a film-within-a-film, Murnau...

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For All Mankind (2011)

Director

Al Reinert

Subject

Space science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 80 minutes), £19.99

During the Apollo lunar missions from 1968 to 1972, those onboard were given 16mm cameras and told to film anything and everything they could, in space, in orbit, and on the surface of the moon itself. Two...

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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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Woman in the Window, The (1944)

Director

Fritz Lang

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 99 minutes), £14.99

Richard Wanley, a successful psychiatrist biding his time while his wife and children are on vacation, encounters beautiful Alice, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the subject of a portrait he had just...

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If.... (1969 Film)

Director

Lindsay Anderson

Producer

Lindsay Anderson; Michael Medwin

Subject

Education; Film studies; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 112 minutes), £11.99

Feature film. Explores life in a public school, using it as a metaphor for society in general. Based on ‘Crusaders’ by David Sherwin and John Howlett. The ‘Masters of Cinema’ Blu-Ray release...

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Truth About Climate Change, The (2008)

aka: Are Changing Planet Earth?/ Can we Save Planet Earth?

Subject

Environmental science; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £15.99

A two-part television documentary presented by Sir David Attenborough who explores just how far climate change is altering our planet, from drought-stricken rainforest to declining polar bears, from flooded...

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Dear Kitty: Remembering Anne Frank (2008)

Director

Wouter van der Sluis

Subject

History

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 51 minutes), £7.99

Miep Gies was an employee of the Frank family business and was one of the helpers who watched Anne grow up. It was Miep who found Anne’s diary on the floor of the hiding place after her arrest. More than...

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Grey Gardens (1976)

Director

Albert Maysles; David Maysles

Subject

Film studies; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 91 minutes), £39.99

An impossibly intimate, absorbing insight into the lives of two eccentric and reclusive women: Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie. As aunt and cousin to Jackie Onassis, "Big Edie" and "Little Edie"...

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Woman in the Moon (2007)

aka: Frau in Mond

Director

Fritz Lang

Subject

Film studies; Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 163 minutes), £19.99

FRAU IM MOND is: (a) The first feature-length film to portray space-exploration in a serious manner, paying close attention to the science involved in launching a vessel from the surface of the earth to the...

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