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Designers Box Set (2003)

Subject

Design

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 270 minutes), £29.99 (set of 3) or £12.99 each

Three DVDs on leading fashion designers, available as a set or separately. Disc 1 - Betsey Johnson, Halston, and Alexander McQueen; Disc 2 - Christian Dior and John Galliano; Disc 3 - Yves St. Laurent,...

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Pianomania (2011)

Director

Robert Cibis; Lilian Franck

Subject

Music

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 93 minutes), £16.99

Documentary about Steinway & Sons’ chief technician and Master Tuner in Vienna, Stefan Knüpfer, whose relationship with various famous concert pianists is explored over the course of a film which shows...

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Tess (2013)

Director

Roman Polanski

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 164 minutes), £19.99

Restoration of Roman Polanski’s acclaimed 1979 adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles. This is the first time that TESS has been available in High Definition. Nastassja Kinski...

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MoliÈre (2007)

Director

Laurent Tirard

Subject

French studies

Distribution

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

A disarmingly shameless French hommage to Shakespeare in Love, Laurent Tirard’s elegant and witty seventeenth-century comedy constructs a similar romantic contrivance around alleged events from the life of...

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Bella Freud (1995 Video)

Subject

Design

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min., 1996 sale: £40.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Bella Freud’s fashion designed was acclaimed for its combination of elegance and streetstyle. Freud talks with Paula Reed about her inspirations, how she approaches her clothes, working with Vivienne...

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Two in the Wave (2011)

aka: Deux de la Vague, Les

Director

Emmanuel Laurent

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes), £15.99

The film uses vintage interview and newsreel footage of two of Europe’s most important filmmakers, Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, to illustrate their friendship, their rise to fame, the films and...

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Color Purple, The (1998)

Subject

Literature; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 148 mins), £12.99.(version 1)£19.99 (version 2)

Film adaptation of the novel by Alice Walker. Version 1 of the DVD was released in 1998 and the extras are just 3 trailers. Version 2 of the DVD, released in 2003, includes four documentaries by Laurent...

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Publicity of Oxygen, The (1992 Video)

Producer

Charles Cooper

Subject

History; Science

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Discusses different explanations given for the existence of fire and air from Aristotle to Georg Ernst Stahl’s theory of phlogiston, before covering the dramatic events that effect those pneumatic chemists...

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Ymako (1997 Video)

Director

Robin Shuffield; Laurent van Lancker

Subject

Anthropology; Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Ymako Teatri, a theatre company based in the Ivory Coast, uses street theatre to question some contemporary West African problems. The group’s originality consists in using the ‘invisible theatre’...

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Medea (1970)

Director

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Producer

Marina Cicogna; Franco Rossellini

Subject

Classical studies; Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 111 minutes), £19.99

An adaptation of the Euripides play about the woman who helped Jason steal the Golden Fleece. Maria Callas plays her only non-operatic role. Presented in both High and Standard Definition. DVD extras:...

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