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Dark Days (2002)

Subject

Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 84 minutes), £19.99

A documentary about a long-established and thriving community of homeless people living beneath a Manhattan train tunnel. The young director moved in with his subjects, used them as crew and sold his...

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Re-discovering Thorold Dickinson

Date

12 Dec 2011, 10:54

Author

bufvcsergio

Post Type

BUFVC Article

Film historian James Leahy provides a personal view of three of the films made by the educator and film director Thorold Dickinson which are now available on DVD. About the author: James Leahy is a...

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Graham Greene Collection, The

Director

John Boulting; Carol Reed; George More O’Ferrall

Producer

Roy Boulting

Subject

English language and literature; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 389 minutes), £29.99

Collection of four films based on Graham Greene novels. Includes Carol Reed’s The THIRD MAN and The FALLEN IDOL, George More O’Farrell’s The HEART OF THE MATTER, and John Boulting’s BRIGHTON ROCK.

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Beggar’s Opera, The (1953 Video)

Director

Peter Brook

Producer

Laurence Olivier; Herbert Wilcox

Subject

Drama; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £15.99

Peter Brook’s 1953 film adaptation of the John Gay opera. Laurence Olivier plays MacHeath, a highwayman in Newgate prison, and his love for too many beautiful women.

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Agronomist, The (2004)

Director

Jonathan Demme

Subject

Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

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

A presentation of the story of Jean Dominique, who ran Haiti’s first independent radio station during multiple repressive regimes. A radio journalist, human rights activist and freedom fighter, he was...

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Trial, The (1962) (1962 Video)

aka: ProcÈs, Le

Director

Orson Welles

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 113 minutes), £12.99

Adaptation by Orson Welles of Franz Kafka’s existentialist novel in which an ordinary man awakes one day to find a police inspector at the foot of his bed. Oblivious to his crime he is dragged into his own...

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Servant, The (1963)

Director

Joseph Losey

Producer

Joseph Losey; Norman Priggen

Subject

Drama; Film studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 111 minutes), £15.99

Based on a novel by Robin Maugham, the drama is the story of a sinister manservant who insinuates himself into the life of his master and gradually reverses their respective roles. It captures the unease...

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Look Back in Anger (1958)

Director

Tony Richardson

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £15.99

An angry young man fights against life and his wife in this 1958 film adaptation by Nigel Kneale of the celebrated anti-establishment drama by John Osborne. Directed by Tony Richardson and starring Richard...

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Babies (2009)

Director

Thomas Balmes

Subject

Anthropology; Psychology

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 76 minutes), £15.99

Filmmaker Thomas Balmes offers a glimpse of the first phase of life in this film following four newborn babies through the course of their first year. Ponijao, Bayar, Mari, and Hattie were born in Namibia,...

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Secret People (1952)

Director

Thorold Dickinson

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £15.99

Crime drama set in the 1930s and starring Valentina Cortese and a young Audrey Hepburn. Maria and her younger sister Nora flee to London after their political activist father is murdered by a European...

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