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Caretaker, The (2002)

aka: Guest, The

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 126 mins), £19.99

Based on the play by Harold Pinter in which a tramp moves in with two brothers. The play was first performed in 1960 and the shooting of this film began two years later. Two cast members of the original...

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Theatre in the Modern World (2011)

Subject

Drama; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 22 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

Not long after the start of the 20th century, playwrights, influenced by the horrors of war, began to experiment with theatre in a way which depicted many of the long held historical, social and cultural...

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Go-Between, The (1970)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 118 minutes), £9.99

Film adaptation of LP Hartley’s novel with a screenplay by Harold Pinter, direction by Joseph Losey and starring Alan Bates ands Julie Christie.

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French Lieutenant’s Woman, The (1981)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 125 mins), £12.99

Film adaptation of John Fowles’ post-modern classic, adapted by Harold Pinter and starring Meryl Street and Jeremy Irons.

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Rogue Male (1976)

Director

Clive Donner

Subject

Film studies; Literature; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 NTSC, 100 minutes), £14.99

In early 1939, with the Second World War looming, aristocrat Sir Robert Hunter (Peter O’Toole) attempts to avert the impending catastrophe by assassinating Adolf Hitler. But his mission fails. Captured by...

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Beckett on Film (2005)

Director

Atom Egoyan; Damien Hirst; Neil Jordan; Conor McPherson; Damien O’Donnell; David Mamet; Anthony Minghella

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 647 minutes), £59.00

This box set contains four DVDs featuring 19 film adaptations of Samuel Beckett’s plays by 19 directors, a documentary on the making of the films, interviews with the directors, an interview with John Hurt...

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Tempo (2013)

Subject

Arts and Humanities; Drama; Film studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £12.24

ITV’s seminal arts programme, TEMPO ran for eight years through a decade which saw a creative explosion within all aspects of the performing arts. Its fluid style of presentation allowed an almost...

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Comfort of Strangers, The (1990)

Director

Paul Schrader

Subject

Film studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 104 minutes), £14.99

Mary (Natasha Richardson) and Colin (Rupert Everett) attempt to reinvigorate their flagging relationship with a romantic trip to Venice. Soon though, they find themselves drawn into a complex web of deceit,...

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In Camera (Wednesday Play) (1964)

Subject

Drama; French studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 25 minutes), Subscription only

Hell,' says Jean-Paul Sartre, ‘is other people’, and in tonight’s play he sets out to demonstrate this hypothesis. In Camera is a story of three individuals newly dispatched to Hell, utterly dissimilar...

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Samuel Beckett: Works for Radio (2006)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 235 minutes), £39.95

Released to mark the centenary of the birth of Samuel Beckett [1906-1989], this set of four CDs collects the five works that Beckett created expressly for the radio: All That Fall, Embers, Words and Music,...

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