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  1. Magic Flute, The (2007)

    Director
    Kenneth Branagh
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 125 minutes), £19.99

    Adeaptation by Stephen Fry of Mozart’s classic opera directed by Kenneth Branagh with the action transposed to the first world war. The score is played by the The Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

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  2. Macbeth (2006 Film)

    Director
    Geoffrey Wright
    Producer
    Martin Fabinyi

    Fiction film. A re-telling of Macbeth set in the ganglands of Melbourne. Macbeth (Worthington), a loyal henchman to his crime boss Duncan (Sweet), is told by teenage witches that he will one day assume a...

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  3. Imposter, The (2013)

    Director
    Bart Layton
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £15.99

    Documentary, featuring dramatised sections, telling the story of French-Algerian Frédéric Bourdin, who convinced the Barclay family from Antonio Texas, that he was in fact their son Nicholas, who had...

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  4. Fermat’s Room (2007)

    Director
    Luis Piedrahita; Rodrigo Sopena
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £7.95

    Summoned to a remote warehouse by the enigmatic Fermat, four mathematicians are tasked with solving highly complex numerical riddles. Correct solutions will slow down the process by which the walls, operated...

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  5. Real Outlaws, The (2008)

    Director
    Peter Crystal
    Subject
    Psychology; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 63 minutes), £12.99

    An unflinching look at Britain’s antisocial youth, REAL OUTLAWS examines the triple threat of hoodie/ASBO culture, football hooliganism, and vigilantism. Filmed around some of the roughest, most notorious...

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  6. Taxi to the Darkside (2008)

    Director
    Alex Gibney
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 106 minutes), £19.99

    This in-depth look at the mistreatment prisoners of the US in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay, focuses on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan, who was tortured and killed in 2002. The film uses...

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  7. Impressionism - Revenge of the Nice (2006)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £19.99

    Contemporary art critic Matthew Collings reappraises Impressionism, focussing on Courbet, Manet, Monet and Cezanne and shows that, even though the contemporary art world seemingly despises the movement, they...

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  8. Taking Liberties (2007)

    Director
    Chris Atkins
    Subject
    Law; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 102 minutes), £15.99

    A shocking, polemical film that charts the destruction of basic liberties under 10 years of New Labour. Released to coincide with Tony Blair’s departure, the film and the book follow the stories of normal...

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  9. Alice Neel (2009)

    Director
    Andrew Neel
    Subject
    Art; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 77 minutes), £19.99

    Director Andrew Neel delves into the personal and professional life of his famous grandmother, painter Alice Neel, in this documentary. Born in 1900, Alice Neel lived an unconventional life as both a single...

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  10. Status Anxiety (2006)

    Subject
    Psychology; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £19.99

    Philosopher and author Alain de Botton investigates the possibility that people are as concerned by status in modern society as they are by wealth. He travels to the United States to test his theory that the...

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