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Jubilee (1978 Video)

Director

Derek Jarman

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

DVD

Queen Elizabeth I is transported to the latter part of the twentieth century and is appalled by what she sees. The first punk movie. Features a 40 minute interview with Derek Jarman.

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Orson Welles’ Othello Restored (2003 Film)

aka: Othello (1950)

Feature film. Welles’ first European work, shot in fits and starts over four years at various locations in Morocco and Italy, due to lack of finance. This original technical quality was poor, but this...

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Sebastiane (1976 Video)

Director

Derek Jarman

Subject

Classical studies; Media studies

Distribution

DVD

A Roman legionnaire, stationed in the middle of nowhere, becomes convinced he is a holy man. He is executed by his commander when he rejects his sexual advances. Dialogue in Latin with English subtitles....

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Beau Serge, Le (1958 Video)

Director

Claude Chabrol

Subject

French studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 95 min., 2000 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

French feature film. A student returns to his home town and tries to redeem his old friend who has become a drunkard. Credited with being the spearhead of the ‘new wave’.

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Wise Blood (1979)

Director

John Huston

Subject

Literature; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 101 minutes), £19.99

Based on Flannery O’Connor’s first novel, this is an hilarious and deeply moving account of a confused religious fanatic. He is unwittingly used by a variety of unsavoury characters for their own ends....

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Daniel Deronda (2011)

Director

Tom Hooper

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 207 minutes), £19.99

A television drama based on the novel by George Eliot, adapted by Andrew Davies. It is the story of the eponymous 19th century man, a Jew who reluctantly enters a marriage of convenience with an anti-Semitic...

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Browning Version, The (2007)

Director

Anthony Asquith

Subject

Drama; Film Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 87 minutes), £19.99

Michael Redgrave gives a poignant performance as Crocker-Harris, a disillusioned public schoolmaster in Anthony Asquith’s film of Terence Rattigan’s classic play. DVD extras include a commentary by film...

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Madame de... (1953 Video)

aka: Diamond Earrings

Director

Max Ophüls

Subject

French studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 96 min., 2000 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

French feature film adapted from a novel by Louise de Vilmourin set in ‘fin de siècle’ Paris. A countess has a pair of earrings given to her by husband. After a doomed love affair with a baron she sells...

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Aria

Director

Robert Altman; Nicolas Roeg; Ken Russell; Jean-Luc Godard; Derek Jarman

Producer

Don Boyd

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL)

From a body-building Armide, to Tristian and Isolde in modern day Las Vegas and Verdi embroiled in a Californian sex farce, Aria transports the audience through the mediums of classical music and engaging...

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Major Barbara (1941)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 131 minutes), £19.99

Lighthearted tale of the daughter of a wealthy munitions manufacturer who joins the Salvation Army believing that money is the root of all evil. A young professor who falls in love with her makes her realise...

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