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Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, The (2007)

Director

John Doyle

Subject

Drama; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 133 minutes), £23.00

Mahagonny, an Old West boomtown rises from the desert to become a razzle-dazzle Mecca for lust, liberty, and the pursuit of pleasure. Cash is king, poverty is punishable by death, and anything worth doing is...

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College Brecht: Workshopping Brecht’s Approaches (2012)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL), £90.00

The film presents a series of workshops with college students, aged 16-18, to suggest approaches to Brecht as playwright and practitioner. The sessions can be adapted to suit high school, undergraduate or...

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Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui (1972)

aka: Gangster Show, The: The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui

Subject

Drama

Distribution

VHS (105 minutes), research viewing only

A 1972 BBC production of the Brecht play in which Arturo Ui (a Hitler look-alike) rises to prominence in mobster-ruled Chicago. Only available for individual or group research viewing on BFI premises

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Great Writers of the Twentieth Century (1997)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 50 minutes each), £125.00 each or £500 the set of 25

Profiles of 25 prominent 20th-century novelists, using interviews with friends, relatives and experts along with archive footage. Subjects of individual programmes are: D H Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, F Scott...

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Peter Gidal: Performance of Sorts with Brecht/Volcano/Denials (2011)

Director

Peter Gidal

Subject

Drama; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 97 minutes), £60.00

Peter Gidal is a renowned filmmaker, writer and theorist who has exhibited films internationally for the past 40 years. This limited edition (200) DVD presents a rare performance by Gidal in 2009 in which he...

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