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  1. Every Picture Tells a Story: The Art Films of James Scott (1967)

    Director
    James Scott
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 263 minutes), £19.99

    The son of artists William and Mary Scott, James Scott’s filmmaking career began while a student at the Slade School of Fine Art in London in the 1960s. After his acclaimed debut THE ROCKING HORSE, Scott...

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  2. Derek (2009)

    Director
    Isaac Julien
    Subject
    Art; Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 76 + 170 minutes), £19.99

    Painter, author, gay militant, AIDS activist and, above all, filmmaker, Derek Jarman was one of Britain’s best-loved and most original artists. This film is a remembrance of one of independent film’s...

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  3. Henry V (1989 Film)

    Director
    Kenneth Branagh
    Producer
    Bruce Sharman

    Feature film version of Shakespeare’s play. Kenneth Branagh’s directorial debut which is widely regarded as heralding a ‘renaissance’ in filmed Shakespeare in the 1990s.

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  4. Mephisto (1981 Film)

    Director
    István Szabó

    Feature film which details the rise of a Faustian character who figuratively sells his soul in exchange for greatness. Hendrik Hoefgen (Brandauer) is the head of a state-funded theatre department who tires...

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  5. My Voyage to Italy

    Subject
    Film & television production; Italian studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 246 minutes), £7.99

    Filmmaker Martin Scorsese gained great inspiration from the Italian films he watched in his youth and others that made an impact later on in his life, changing the way he made films. My Voyage To Italy...

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  6. Hamlet (1948 Film, Video)

    Director
    Laurence Olivier
    Producer
    Laurence Olivier

    Oscar-winning feature film adaptation of the play directed by and starring Laurence Olivier.

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  7. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)

    Director
    F W Murnau
    Producer
    Robert J Flaherty
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 82 minutes), £19.99

    In 1929, German filmmaker F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu, Faust, Sunrise), invited leading documentarist Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North, Moana, Man of Aran) to collaborate on a film to be be shot on location...

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  8. Broken Lance (1954 Film)

    Director
    Edward Dmytryk
    Producer
    Sol C. Siegel

    Feature film western. The story concerns Matt Devereaux (Tracy), a cattle baron who in his brutal ambition to build a ranching empire tyrannises his three eldest sons - Ben, Denny and Mike. Only Joe, his son...

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  9. Enfants du Paradis, Les (1945 Film)

    aka: Children of Paradise

    Director
    Marcel Carne
    Producer
    André Paulvé

    Feature film. Set in a mime theatre in Paris in the 1820s, tells the story of a free-spirited young woman, Garance, and four men who fall in love with her. There are two scenes from Othello (including V...

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  10. Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (1945 Film)

    Director
    Elia Kazan
    Producer
    Louis D. Lighton

    Feature filmed based on Betty Smith’s novel of the same name. A young girl, Francie, tries to keep her idealism alive and surmount the hardships of her slum tenement life in the face of her family’s...

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