Results

Georges Méliès: Le Premier Magicien du Cinéma (2010)

aka: Georges Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema

Director

Georges Méliès; Georges Franju

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 896 minutes), 65.95 Euros

Geoges Méliès built the world’s first movie studio in 1896 near Paris, from where he produced his films of fantasy, dream, historical reconstructions, imaginary journeys, melodramas, slapstick comedies;...

DVD Find Other To order

Hamlet (1907 Film)

aka: Hamlet and the Jester’s Skull Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Director

Georges Méliès

Fiction film. An abridged version of Hamlet which begins with the graveyard scene and ends with the duel scene. Hamlet also sees Ophelia’s ghost. Ball (op cit) writes: ‘It is easy to brand this...

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions To order

2011 Kraszna-Krausz Winners

Date

28 Apr 2011, 10:59

Author

bufvcsergio

Post Type

Post

Winners of the Best Photography Book Award and the Best Moving Image Book Award were announced by the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation at the Sony World Photography Awards at the Odeon Leicester Square on...

Other Record only

Melies the Magician (2004)

aka: Magic of Melies, The

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 185 minutes), £19.99

The DVD contains a 130-minute documentary THE MAGIC OF MELIES by Jacques Meny (1997, 130 min.) and MELIES’ MAGIC SHOW which consists 15 restored films made by Melies between 1898 and 1909. The compilation...

DVD Find Other To order

Trip to the Moon, A (1902)

aka: Voyage Dans la Lune, Le

Director

Georges Méliès; Serge Bromberg; Eric Lange

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 107 minutes), £15.99

The 1902 film La VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE [14 minutes] is the most famous of the many fantasy films made by Georges Méliès, using animation and special effects to tell the story of how the members of the...

DVD Find Other To order

Fairy Tales: Early Colour Stencil Films from Pathé (1901)

Director

Georges Méliès

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 164 minutes), £19.99

During the belle époque in turn-of-the-century Paris, a short-lived film form called ‘scènes de feeries’, or ‘fairy films’, was made popular thanks to the Pathé Frères company. The films...

DVD Find Other To order

Mort de Jules Cêsar, La (1907 Film)

aka: Shakespeare Writing Julius Caesar

Director

Georges Méliès

Fiction short which shows Shakespeare suffering from writer’s block while planning the assassination scene in Julius Caesar. He falls asleep in his study and dreams of the scene he is to write. Shakespeare...

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions Record only

History of Science Fiction Movies, A (1996)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 60 minutes), £9.99

How the future was viewed in the first half of the twentieth century, using original archive film clips of many classic science fiction movies. Films like THE FIFTH ELEMENT were inspired by the dreams of...

DVD Find Other To order

Miroir de Venise (Une Mésaventure de Shylock), Le (1905 Film)

aka: Venetian Looking Glass

Director

Georges Méliès

Fiction film, possibly based on The Merchant of Venice.

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions Record only

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

Date

26 Jul 2012, 10:54

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

2012. GB. DVD. 915 minutes. Network DVD. Certificate 15. Price: £50.40 About the Author: Martin Carter is a film lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. He is a regular contributor to Vertigo magazine and...

Other Record only