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Yvette Chauvire pour L’Exemple and les Cahiers Retrouves de Nina Vyroubova. (2005)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 180+ minutes), £17.99

Two French documentaries by Dominique Delouche, with English sub-titles, the first on the French ballerina Yvette Chauviré, the second on the Franco-Russian dancer and teacher Nina Vyroubova. They are each...

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Katia et Volodia and Maia. (Ekaterina Maximova and Vladimir Vasiliev and Maya Plisetskaya (2005)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0), £17.99

Two French documentaries by Dominique Delouche, with English sub-titles, on the careers of great dancers. The first is on the great Russian dancers Ekaterina Maximova and Vladimir Vasiliev, the second on the...

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Interview with Eugene Ionesco, An (1961)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 30 minutes), £110 [University rate]

Eugene Ionesco (1912-1994), the Romanian-born French dramatist, speaks at length about his childhood, his studies, the type of theatre he enjoyed in his youth, his original personality, and his constant need...

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John Berger: The Art of Looking (2016)

aka: John Berger or the Art of Looking

Subject

Art

Distribution

Out of distribution

Film exploring the life and work of the late writer and art critic John Berger. The film is an intimate portrait of a man who has shaped our understanding of the concept of seeing.

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Original and the Translation, The [26/04/1947] (1947 Radio)

Series

Original and the Translation, The

Andre Gide reads extracts from his French translation of Antony and Cleopatra.

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Viol (2005 Television)

Director

Luc Bondy

Television production of Viol (Rape) directed by Luc Bondy and using a French translation of Botha Strauss’ play Schaendung, informed by Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. Gerard Desarthe is Titus.

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Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources (2000)

Subject

French studies; Literature

Distribution

DVD (225 minutes), £19.99

The two films by Claude Berri, based on the books by Marcel Pagnol, combined on one DVD

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Battle of the Pyramid, The (2010)

aka: Bataille de la Pyramide, La

Director

Frédéric Compain

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 52 minutes), 19.99 euros

The film is based on the notepad jottings of architect Yann Weymouth, the man who worked closest to I.M. Pei, the architect who designed the Grand Louvre. Featuring a haphazard collection of sketches,...

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Time Regained (1999)

Director

Raul Ruiz

Subject

French studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 155 minutes), £19.99

Raoul Ruiz directs this complex adaptation of the final volume of IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME, Marcel Proust’s masterwork. On his deathbed in 1922, Proust begins reflecting upon his past experiences, but the...

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Theatre National Populaire, Le (1956 Film)

Director

Georges Franju

Work and rehearsals at the Th àtre National Populaire (TNP) with extracts from Macbeth and the Prinze von Homburg featuring Jean Vilar, G rard Philipe and Maria Casar s.

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