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My Voyage to Italy

Subject

Film & television production; Italian studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 246 minutes), £7.99

Filmmaker Martin Scorsese gained great inspiration from the Italian films he watched in his youth and others that made an impact later on in his life, changing the way he made films. My Voyage To Italy...

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Antony and Cleopatra (1972 Film)

aka: Maro Antonio y Cleopatra

Director

Charlton Heston

Producer

Peter Snell

Feature film version of the play. Ponderous, under-resourced film presented as an epic whose poor reviews prevented its wide distribution.

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How Art Made the World (5 Parts) (2005)

Subject

Art; Classical studies; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £19.99

Fusing anthropology, politics, neuro-biology, archaeology and religion, this series of five programmes looks at how and why human beings create images and tells the epic story of how the images that we...

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Media Screen Roundup - August 2014

Date

10 Sep 2014, 16:05

Author

Linda

Post Type

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The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. From Beowulf to Hugo Chávez, this...

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Latest at Viewfinder Online

Date

4 Dec 2012, 11:09

Author

Sergio Angelini

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Some of the latest article, reviews and news published at Viewfinder Online include: Peter M. Lewis, Senior Lecturer in Community Media at London Metropolitan University, looks at Tom Stoppards radio...

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Fitzcarraldo (1983)

Director

Werner Herzog

Subject

Anthropology; Film Studies; Geography; History; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 157 minutes), £19.99

With Fitzcarraldo, one of his most renowned films, acclaimed German director Werner Herzog emulates Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ in this mammoth epic set in the heart of the Amazon rainforest....

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Aviation History Films (2011)

Subject

Aviation

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 300 minutes), $18.49

A 3-DVD set containing a compilation of 18 films made between 1917 and 1966 illustrating the history of flight. Contents: THE EPIC OF FLIGHT (1966, 48 MIN.) A Wolper production documenting the history of...

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Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, The (2006)

Director

Sophie Fiennes

Subject

Film Studies; Media studies; Philosophy

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 150 minutes), £21.99

THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO CINEMA takes the viewer on a ride through some of the greatest movies ever made. Serving as presenter and guide is Slavoj Zizek, the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst, who...

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Dna: The Story of the Pioneers Who Changed the World (2004)

Subject

Biology; Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (300 minutes), £24.95

A double DVD consisting of five programmes (four of them broadcast on Channel 4) tracing the history of one of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century - the double-helix structure of DNA.

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Intolerance

Date

7 Apr 2016, 13:55

Author

Ben Hodson

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Intolerance GB. Blu-ray/DVD. Eureka (Masters of Cinema series). 167 minutes + 200 minutes extras. £19.99 About the reviewer: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones is Professor of Ancient Greek and Iranian Studies at...

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