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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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Homage to Dr e J Marey (1954 Film)

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Like Dr Eadweard Muybridge earlier, Dr Etienne-Jules Marey produced a set of time and motion study plates in the 1890s: originally published as a series of still photographs they can reproduce the actual...

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Georges Méliès: Le Premier Magicien du Cinéma (2010)

aka: Georges Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema

Director

Georges Méliès; Georges Franju

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 896 minutes), 65.95 Euros

Geoges Méliès built the world’s first movie studio in 1896 near Paris, from where he produced his films of fantasy, dream, historical reconstructions, imaginary journeys, melodramas, slapstick comedies;...

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Entr’Acte (1924 Film)

Director

René Clair

Subject

Art; Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The famous surrealist film made by a team of leading French intellectuals of the 1920s to fill an intermission between the two acts of the Francis Picabia’s Dada ballet ‘Rel ache’, performed by the...

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Best of Springdance Cinema 96, The (1996 Video)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 75 min., 1997 sale: NLG 59.00 (inclusive)

Compilation of the best dance films and videos chosen from the Springdance Cinema 1996 programme and produced in 1995 and 1996. Criteria for selection included the camera’s forming part of the...

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CinÉma et L’Astrophysique, Le (1948 Film)

Director

Joseph Leclerc

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Movements of the sun and moon as seen by time-lapse photography. Movement of the midnight sun in polar regions. distortions of the sun at sunset, caused by refraction. Rotation of the planet Mars, seen from...

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Madame de... (1953 Video)

aka: Diamond Earrings

Director

Max Ophüls

Subject

French studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 96 min., 2000 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

French feature film adapted from a novel by Louise de Vilmourin set in ‘fin de siècle’ Paris. A countess has a pair of earrings given to her by husband. After a doomed love affair with a baron she sells...

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Life of Jesus, The (1997)

aka: La Vie de Jesus

Director

Bruno Dumont

Subject

French studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £42.75

A story of life’s brutality and exhilaration played out by turns within the quarters of a tiny Flemish country town. Here, positioned in relative isolation from the rest of so-called cultural Europe, the...

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Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (3 Parts) (1995 Video)

Director

Kevin Brownlow; Dan Carter; David Gill; Michael Winterbottom

Producer

Kevin Brownlow; David Gill

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 3 x 120 min., 1998 sale: £44.95 (inclusive) retail (set)

Series telling the story of early film-making in Europe. Narrator: Kenneth Branagh.

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Passion of Joan of Arc, The (1928)

aka: Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, La

Director

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Subject

Film studies; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 105 minutes), £17.99

Carl Th. Dreyer’s 1928 film follows the final days of the eponymous heroine as she undergoes the debasement and interrogation that accompanies her trial for charges of heresy, followed by imprisonment and...

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