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Ways of Seeing (4 Parts) (1972 Video)

Producer

Michael Dibb

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 4 x 30 min., 1996 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p) (each) 1996 sale: £160.00 (+VAT +p&p) (series)

Critic John Berger explores the ways in which we look at pictures, with emphasis on the way traditional European oil painting has looked at women and possessions. He shows that aspects of this tradition are...

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Mike Leigh at the BBC (2009)

Director

Mike Leigh

Subject

Drama; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 706 minutes), £59.99

A 6-DVD box set rounding up Mike Leigh’s work for the BBC, showcasing all of his surviving work, and including his contributions to the influential Play For Today series. Features Hard Labour (1973), The...

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From Duchamp to Pop Art

Director

Alain Jaubert

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 min each), £19.99

Three 30-minute films on modern art, concentrating on paintings by Marcel Duchamp (SPIRALING TIME), Yves Klein and Andy Warhol. MARCEL DUCHAMP : "Nude Descending a Staircase" (1913), is, with Picasso’s...

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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1935 Film)

Director

William Dieterle

Producer

Max Reinhardt

A film based on the Broadway production by Max Reinhardt. A combination of German expressionism and Hollywood realism. Hal Mohr’s cinematography is ‘astonishing, a surreal visual fantasy of dancing...

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Wild West, The (2 Parts) (1995 Video)

Director

Ric Burns

Producer

Lisa Ades; Ric Burns

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 214, 215 min., 1995 sale: £12.99 (inclusive) each volume

A series examining the history of the Native Americans as white Americans moved west in the mid-19th century. The programmes combine archival phogtographs, period paintings and early motion picture footage...

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Henry VIII (1979 Television)

aka: The Shakespeare Plays

Series

BBC Television Shakespeare

Director

Kevin Billington

Producer

Cedric Messina

Television production with John Stride in the title role and Claire Bloom as Queen Katherine.

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Henry IV. Part 2 (1979 Television)

aka: The Shakespeare Plays

Series

BBC Television Shakespeare

Director

David Giles

Producer

Cedric Messina

Television production shot entirely in a studio with Anthony Quayle as Falstaff and Jon Finch as King Henry.

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That Time, A Piece of Monologue, Play, And Catastrophe (2002)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, VHS (60 minutes), £19.99

During 1999 and 2000 all 19 of Samuel Beckett’s stage plays were filmed for television, and brought together a distinguished range of directors and actors. This tape combines THAT TIME, A PIECE OF...

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Julius Caesar (1979 Television)

aka: The Shakespeare Plays

Series

BBC Television Shakespeare

Director

Herbert Wise

Producer

Cedric Messina

A BBC television production starring Charles Gray as Julius Caesar, Richard Pasco as Brutus and Keith Michell as Mark Antony.

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Water Crisis II: Cyprus, China, Spain (2009)

Subject

Environmental science; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 41 minutes), £97.00

Three films highlight water shortages across the world. Film 1: Inner Mongolia has long been one of China’s driest regions; Film 2: In Spain the government is trying to solve its shortage by pumping water...

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