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Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Partition - Palestine Outburst Follows UN Assembly Vote

Date released

8 Dec 1947

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

966

NoS ID

014815

Story no

6 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Palestine Outburst Follows UN Vote. DESCRIPTION: The United Nations has reached a decision on the partition of Palestine and the Jewish and Arab states have been outlined. The following...

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Moscow Elegy - Alexander Sokurov (2007)

aka: Moskovskaya Elegiya

Director

Alexander Sokurov

Subject

Film Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £24.99

Originally intended to mark the 50th birthday of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. However, disagreements within the Soviet Professional Union of Cinematographers about the style and content of the film...

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Russian Film Posters

Date

23 Jul 2013, 09:40

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Russian Film Posters 1900-1930 with an introduction by Maria-Christina Boerner (Vivays Publishing, April 2012). 200 pages. ISBN: 978-1908126153 (hardback). Price £19.95 About the reviewer: Birgit Beumers...

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Acting Tapes: Acting in the Cinema (2 Parts) (1984 Video)

Director

Mark Nash; James Swinson

Producer

Mark Nash; James Swinson

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Hire (BFI) or sale (Zero One), Videocassette. VHS. col. 2 x 54 min.

Explores the ideas and training methods behind two opposing movements in 20th-century theatre and cinema. Argues that British film and television acting is out of touch with these movements, being too...

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Last Bolshevik, The (1994)

aka: Tombeau d’Alexandre, Le

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 120 minutes), £12.99

Based on the life and work of the Russian film director Alexander Medvedkin (1900-1989), THE LAST BOLSHEVIK is a tribute from one filmmaker to another in the form of six video "letters" sent to him...

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Chapayev (1935 Film)

Director

Georgi Vasiliev; Sergei Vasiliev

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Chapayev was a Red Army commander who fought against Czech and Kolchak forces in the Civil War. He was killed in action and became a folk hero when a book about him was published in the early twenties by his...

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End of St Petersburg, The (1927 Video)

aka: Konyets Sankt Peterburga

Director

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale (video - Tartan), Videocassette. VHS. st. b&w. 68 min., 1997 sale: £15.99 (inclusive) video

A deliberately symbolic propaganda film made to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the 1919 Russian revolution. The story tells of a young boy who travels to St Peterburg in search of work against the...

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Battleship Potemkin (1925 Video)

Director

Sergei Eisenstein

Subject

History; Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale (video - retail), Videocassette. VHS. sd (music only). b&w. 70 min.

Feature film reconstructing the events which took place in the town of Odessa during the Social Democratic movement of 1905-1907.

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October (1928)

aka: Sergei Eisenstein’s October

Director

Sergei Eisenstein

Subject

History; Russian studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 115 minutes), £24.99

Eisenstein’s feature film was reissued to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Revolution which it reconstructs. Original negatives from the world’s film archives were collected to present a print which...

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World Cinema

Date released

28 Sep 1970

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2156

NoS ID

028507

Story no

2 / 2

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: World Cinema. DESCRIPTION: An exhibition at the Round House to mark the 75th anniversary of the cinema. Stars at the opening include American silent screen comedian Harold Lloyd whose...

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