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Bill Morrison: Selected Films 1996-2014 (2015)

Director

Bill Morrison

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £49.99

3-disc Blu-ray set of films by New York-based filmmaker Bill Morrison. Disc 1: THE FILM OF HER (1996). CITY WALK (1999), GHOST TRIP (2000), DECASIA (2002), THE MESMERIST (2003), LIGHT IS CALLING (2004),...

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Dickens Before Sound (2006)

Subject

Film Studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 171 minutes), £12.99

This collection of films, the majority of which are previously unreleased, shows how early cinema storytelling developed, as practitioners of this new art struggled to transform a tale from page to screen....

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Whistle and I’Ll Come to You (1968 Video)

aka: Oh, Whistle, And I’Ll Come to You, My Lad

Director

Jonathan Miller

Producer

Jonathan Miller

Subject

Literature; Media studies

Distribution

DVD

A television adaptation by Jonathan Miller for the BBC ‘Omnibus’ series, of M R James’s story of the supernatural ‘Oh, whistle, and I’ll come to you, my lad’. A tale of solitude, terror and the...

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Casting the Runes

Director

Lawrence Gordon Clark

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes + extras), £9.99

A contemporary reworking of M.R. James’ classic ghost story, Casting the Runes is adapted by BAFTA-nominated playwright Clive Exton and directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark. It stars Iain Cuthbertson, Edward...

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Michael Ondaatje - BBC Radio Interviews (2003)

Subject

Literature

Extracts from two BBC Radio 3 NIGHTWAVES programmes of interviews with Michael Ondaatje, the Canadian novelist known for his skill in combining the real and the imaginary, the surreal and the factual. In...

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Future is Now, The (2012)

Director

Gary Burns; Jim Brown

Subject

Philosophy; Psychology; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 91 minutes), Canadian $ 24.95

A drama-documentary in which a journalist meets "The Man of Today" who, while a responsible citizen, is disengaged from greater society. He believes once he’s dead nothing more matters!. As an experiment...

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Heavy Water: A Film for Chernobyl (2006)

Director

Phil Grabsky; David Bickerstaff

Subject

Environmental science; Film studies; Social Studies

Distribution

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

Based on Mario Petrucci’s award-winning book-length poem, the film tells the story of the people who dealt with the disaster at ground-level: the fire-fighters, the soldiers, the ‘liquidators’, and...

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Don Giovanni (1979) (1979)

Director

Joseph Losey

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 162 minutes), £24.99

Infamous womanizer Don Giovanni makes conquest after conquest, leaving seduced and abandoned women in his wake. When the ghost of the Commendatore he has killed appears, he is given a final chance to change...

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Wild West, The (2 Parts) (1995 Video)

Director

Ric Burns

Producer

Lisa Ades; Ric Burns

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 214, 215 min., 1995 sale: £12.99 (inclusive) each volume

A series examining the history of the Native Americans as white Americans moved west in the mid-19th century. The programmes combine archival phogtographs, period paintings and early motion picture footage...

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In Conversation with D M Thomas: The Novelist and the Therapist (1996 Video)

Subject

English language and literature; Psychiatry

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 59 min., 1997 sale: £49.95 (inclusive) 1997 sale: £200.00 (inclusive) set of 5

D M Thomas, author of ‘The White Hotel’, talks to Michael Jacobs. The novel is about one of Freud’s patients and combines the themes of love and death. The book raises questions about the relationship...

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