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Silent Britain (2006)

Producer

David Thompson

Subject

Film Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 88 minutes), £19.99

A journey through the first three decades of British cinema celebrating its visionary filmmakers and the unsung stars. Presented by Matthew Sweet and illustrated throughout with film clips including the...

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Matter of Life and Death, A (1945 Film)

aka: Stairway to Heaven

Director

Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

Producer

Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

A British wartime aviator who cheats death by miraculously surviving bailing out of his plane without a parachute must argue for his life before a celestial court. Fantasy film, ostensibly produced with the...

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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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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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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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Jarman Volume 1: 1972-1986 (1972)

Director

Derek Jarman

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 515 minutes), £39.99

The first of two deluxe box sets brings together a selection of his feature films on Blu-ray for the first time. Volume 1 contains IN THE SHADOW OF THE SUN, SEBASTIANE, JUBILEE, THE TEMPEST, THE ANGELIC...

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Jarman Volume 2: 1987-1994 (1987)

Director

Derek Jarman

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B), £59.99

This second volume brings together Jarman’s last six features, made in the prolonged burst of creativity and political activism that followed his HIV diagnosis in 1987, ranging from the audacious anger of...

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Look at Life: Volume 1 - Transport (2010)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 540 minutes), £14.40

Fifty-four films from the LOOK AT LIFE series, produced by the Special Features Division Rank Organisation every week for screening in Odeon cinemas between 1960 and 1969. Digitally restored from the...

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Soviet Influence, The: Battleship Potemkin / Drifters (2012)

Director

Sergei Eisenstein; John Grierson

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 124 minutes), £19.99

The second in the BFI’s series looking at the influence of silent Soviet films on British filmmakers of the 1930s pairs Sergei Eisenstein’s 1929 film BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN) with John...

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Look at Life: Volume 2 - Military (2010)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 450 minutes), £10.80

Forty-five films from the LOOK AT LIFE series, produced by the Special Features Division of the Rank Organisation every week for screening in Odeon cinemas between 1960 and 1969. Digitally restored from the...

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