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Heavenly Voice (1986 Television)

Director

Bednai Nandor

Producer

Istvan Kallai

Comedy about a theatre stagehand who is taken over by the voice of his grandmother, a deceased opera soprano, and is called upon to take over the role of Desdemona in a production of Otello.

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Work of Director Michel Gondry, The (2003)

Subject

Media studies; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £17.99

Michel Gondry has a reputation for producing some of the most eclectic and innovative work in the music video field. Rising to prominence with videos for bands including Massive Attack, Bjork, and...

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Culloden; The War Game (2016)

Director

Peter Watkins

Producer

Peter Watkins

Subject

History; Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 69 minutes + 46 minutes), £19.99

This edition contains newly remastered HD versions of Peter Watkins’ controversial films originally broadcast by the BBC. CULLODEN (1964) reconstructs the famous battle in the style of contemporary...

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Transcendent Man (2011)

Director

Barry Ptolemy

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 83 minutes), $29.95

Technology will accelerate exponentially. Within 25 years, computers will have consciousness. Humans will soon be bionic. These predictions make bestselling author Ray Kurzweil a prophetic genius to some and...

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Fugitive Kind, The (1961)

Director

Sidney Lumet

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 122 minutes + 110 minutes extras), $40.00

This adaptation of the one-act Tennessee Williams play ‘Orpheus Descending’ stars Marlon Brando as the drifter in a small Southern town who provokes violence and lust in equal measure. Directed by Sydney...

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Why Do Some People Become Psychopaths? (2017)

Subject

Psychiatry; Psychology

Professor Essi Viding, winner of the 2017 Rosalind Franklin Award Lecture, explains why some people develop psychopathy and whether it can it be prevented. Psychopathy has long captured the public...

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Everybody in Our Family (2012)

Director

Radu Jude

Subject

Film studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region free, 107 minutes), £19.99

Recently divorced Marius plans to take his young daughter away on a weekend holiday. When things do not go as planned, he strikes out at those around him, and what began as comic drama soon turns bitter as...

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Henry V (1989 Film)

Director

Kenneth Branagh

Producer

Bruce Sharman

Feature film version of Shakespeare’s play. Kenneth Branagh’s directorial debut which is widely regarded as heralding a ‘renaissance’ in filmed Shakespeare in the 1990s.

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Romeo and Juliet (1968 Film, Video)

Director

Franco Zeffirelli

Producer

John Brabourne; Anthony Havelock-Allan

A feature film adaptation, much cut, and aimed at a mainstream, young audience. Beautifully photographed and costumed, the film was a huge box office success and a forerunner of the ‘teen movie’.

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Alice (2011)

aka: N Co z Alenky

Director

Jan Svankmajer

Subject

Film studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 86 minutes), £19.99

Jan Švankmajer’s award-winning ALICE is a distinctly disturbing and creepy interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s perennial literary classic, yet it is perhaps the closest to the original work. Combining a...

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