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Irma la Douce (1963 Video)

Director

Billy Wilder

Producer

Edward L Alperson

Subject

Drama; Media studies

Distribution

DVD

Wilder’s film adaptation of the Broadway musical, without the music. An ex-cop falls in love with a prostitute and will do anything to keep her for himself.

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Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938 Film)

Director

Ernst Lubitsch

Producer

Ernst Lubitsch

Romantic comedy feature film. Michael Brandon (Cooper) is a millionaire who enjoys getting married but has difficulty staying married: he’s had seven wives and is looking for number eight. He thinks he may...

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Brackett on Wilder - It's the Pictures That Got Small

Date

18 Mar 2016, 11:50

Author

Ben Hodson

Post Type

BUFVC Review

"It's the Pictures That Got Small": Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age Edited by Anthony Slide (Columbia University Press, 2015). 448 pages. ISBN: 978-0231167086 (hardback),...

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Double Indemnity (1944) (1944)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £15.99

Celebratred film noir starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurrary as doomed lovers who plan an insurance scam. Directed by Billy Wilder and co-written by Raymond Chandler from James M. Cain’s bestselling...

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People on Sunday (1929 Video)

aka: Menschen Am Sonntag

Director

Robert Siodmak; Edgar G Ulmer

Subject

Media studies; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. st. with music soundtrack. 73 min., 2001 sale: £19.99 (inclusive)

A snapshot of Berlin life, telling a story of five young Berliners - a taxi driver, a travelling wine dealer, a record shop sales girl, a film extra and a model - spending a typical Sunday. A trip to the...

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One, Two, Three (1961)

Director

Billy Wilder

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region free, 108 minutes), £14.99

Mac MacNamara, a top Coca-Cola executive, is shipped off to Berlin and told to keep an eye on his boss’ 17-year-old Atlanta socialite daughter Scarlett while she visits Germany. Scarlett’s tour seems...

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Film Unfinished, A (2010)

Director

Yael Hersonski

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes), £14.99

At the end of WWII, 60 minutes of raw film, having sat undisturbed in an East German archive, was discovered. Shot by the Nazis in Warsaw in May 1942, and labeled simply "Ghetto," this footage quickly became...

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Media Screen Roundup - November 2015

Date

9 Dec 2015, 11:52

Author

Linda

Post Type

Post

The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, and published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. A special issue of Word and Image on...

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Design 2 (2008)

Subject

Design; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 160 minutes), £24.99

The DVD features six 26-minute programmes from the second DESIGN series that places the art of design in its sociological and technological context. The programmes tell the story of the 20th century through...

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Night Will Fall (2014)

Director

André Singer

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £19.99

When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had...

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