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Raymond Carver - Dreams Are What You Wake Up from (1989)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 60 minutes), £125.00

When Raymond Carver died in 1988, he was mourned as a national literary figure and shortlisted for the Pulitzer prize, yet only ten years earlier he was marooned in a drying-out clinic. From his experiences,...

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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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Bloomsbury Group, The (2009)

Subject

Arts and Humanities; Literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 131 minutes), £15.50

The Bloomsbury Group remains of great public interest for its influence on art, literature and politics in the first half of the 20th century. Recordings of this informal association of writers, artists and...

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Ken Russell at the BBC (2008)

Director

Ken Russell

Subject

Arts and Humanities

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 477 minutes), £29.95

Collection of six films made by Ken Russell for the BBC in the 1960s: ELGAR (1962); THE DEBUSSY FILM (1965); ALWAYS ON SUNDAY (1965); ISADORA DUNCAN (1966); DANTE’S INFERNO (1967) and SONG OF SUMMER...

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Written on Water: A Film About Budapest (1996 Video)

Director

Dennis Marks

Producer

Paul Neuberg

Subject

Art; History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

History, geography, architecture, art, music, politics and atmostphere of the city of Budapest, dissected by the River Danube and watered by hunderds of springs.

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David Hockney: Secret Knowledge (2001)

Director

Randall Wright

Producer

Andrea Miller

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 70 minutes), 3195.00

David Hockney demonstrates his theory that cameras were instrumental artists’ tools 400 years before the birth of photography and that painters traced projected images to produce a realistic...

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Whistler (1995 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1999 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Portrait of artist James McNeill Whistler’s as seen through the images found in his paintings, unfolding in a mixture of humour, sadness and pathos. Painter, draughtsman, etcher, watercolourist and...

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From Bitter Earth: Artists of the Holocaust (1988 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 65 min., 1997 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Over 30,000 drawings and paintings survived the concentrations camps, ghettoes and hiding places of World War 2. Yehuda Bacon, Dinah Gottliebova and Walter Spitzer, all artists who survived the Holocaust,...

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Three Looms Waiting (1971 Video)

Subject

Drama; Education

The story of drama teacher Dorothy Heathcote, who left school at age 14 to go to work in a mill. At 20 she won a place at a theatre school with her fees paid by the mill owner and four years later she was a...

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Music from the Flames: Shostakovich (1978)

Producer

Ian Engelmann

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 64 minutes), £50.00

This film tells the story of the Russian composer’s life covering his training during the 1917 revolution, the criticism he faced during the 1930s when he was dubbed a formalist by the authorities, and how...

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