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Outcast of the Islands (1951)

Director

Carol Reed

Subject

Film studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £15.99

A vivid and stormy film from 1951 based on a Joseph Conrad novel and directed by Carol Reed.

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Othello Stage History: Black Performance (2014 Video)

aka: Othello at the National Theatre

Professors Carol Chillington Rutter and Tony Howard with Adrian Lester discuss productions of Othello. The video briefly comment on the performances of Ira Aldridge, Paul Robeson, and Willard White, Rutter...

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Alabama 40 Years on (1979 Film)

Director

Carol Bell

Producer

Alan Yentob

Subject

History; Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

At the height of the American depression in the summer of 1936, writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans (1903-1975) travelled south to Alabama. They lived with a family of poor white white farmers...

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Poor Cow (1967 Video)

Director

Ken Loach

Producer

Joseph Janni

Subject

Literature

Distribution

DVD

Feature film based on a novel by Nell Dunn in which a young London woman has to cope with poverty and squalor while her husband is in prison. Sadly clutching at any slight hope of happiness, she enters into...

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Lola MontÈs (1955 Video)

Director

Max Ophüls

Producer

Albert Caraco

Subject

Film studies; French studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 110 minutes), £19.99

A new version of the acclaimed French feature film restored and remastered by the Cinematheque Francaise with Max Ophuls’ approval. The tragic life of a famous courtesan and her romance with the King of...

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Cathy Come Home (1966)

Director

Ken Loach

Producer

Tony Garnett

Subject

Drama; Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 77 minutes), £15.99

Dramatised documentary on the inadequacy of welfare and housing facilities in Britain. Through a variety of circumstances a young family in 1960s’ London becomes a ‘problem’ family - Cathy’s husband...

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Ken Loach at the BBC (2011)

Director

Ken Loach

Producer

Tony Garnett

Subject

Drama; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1100 minutes), £49.99

This six disc collection spans Ken Loach’s years at the BBC from 1965 - 1977, including films he made for the WEDNESDAY PLAY slot as well as his four-part period drama DAYS OF HOPE. The complete contents...

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True Identity (1991 Film)

Director

Charles Lane

Producer

Carol Baum; Teri Schwartz

Feature film comedy. Miles Pope is a black actor trying to make a name for himself on the stage. He finds himself in danger when he discovers that a supposedly dead Mafia chief, Frank Luchino, is the patron...

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Orson Welles’s Almanac [26/04/1944] (1944 Radio)

Series

Orson Welles’s Almanac

Director

Orson Welles

Radio variety show broadcast only in California, not nationally. This episode includes Welles reading from the last act of Macbeth. The guest star was Carol Landis but she did not participate in any...

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Ken Loach Collection Vol 1 (2007)

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 768 minutes), £59.99

This collection brings together many of Ken Loach’s most celebrated films, along with some that are ripe for rediscovery. Featured titles are Poor Cow (1967), Kes (1969), The Gamekeeper (1980), Riff Raff...

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