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Oedipus Rex (Edipo Re) (1967)

Director

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Subject

Classical studies; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 105 minutes), £19.99

Filmed on location in Morocco, Pasolini’s take on Sophocles’ tragedy reimagines the story in three different eras. The first takes place in 1920s Italy and is shaded with autobiographical tones,...

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Histoire(S) Du Cinema (2008)

Director

Jean-Luc Godard

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 260 minutes), £34.99

In the this 3-DVD volume HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA, consisting of eight episodes made between 1988 and 1998, Jean-Luc Godard examines many of cinemas most important facets, including its birth, the emergence of...

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Commedia Dell’Arte

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 53 minutes), £75.00

Antonio Fava, director, author and maestro of the Commedia dell’arte is the Director of the International Comic School in Reggio Emilia in Italy. He designs and makes his own commedia masks and teaches...

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Don Giovanni (1979) (1979)

Director

Joseph Losey

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 162 minutes), £24.99

Infamous womanizer Don Giovanni makes conquest after conquest, leaving seduced and abandoned women in his wake. When the ghost of the Commendatore he has killed appears, he is given a final chance to change...

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Rossellini’s History Films - Renaissance and Enlightenment: Blaise Pascal, The Age of the Medici, Cartesius (2009)

Director

Roberto Rossellini (1906-177)

Subject

French studies; History; Italian studies; Philosophy

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 546 minutes), $59.95

"In 1963, Rossellini announced that he had abandoned cinema and would start working in television. He directed nine telefilms on historical subjects and six short documentaries, claiming TV could be used as...

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Gospel According to Matthew, The (1964)

Director

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Subject

Film studies; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 137 minutes), £22.99

Filmed at the behest of the Pope himself, The GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW [Il VANGELO SECONDO MATTEO], won plaudits from the Vatican and the Archbishop of Canterbury, despite its director’s avowed atheism....

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Cosi Fan Tutte (2017)

aka: Così Fan Tutte: W.A. Mozart

Director

Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker

Subject

Dance; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 188 minutes), £21.58

An unconventional ballet production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte for the Opéra National de Paris. Così is an opera of double meanings, plot twists and partner-swapping. Choreographer Anne Teresa De...

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Anger, The (2011)

aka: Rabbia, La

Director

Pier Paolo Pasolini; Giovanni Guareschi

Subject

Film studies; Social sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 104 minutes), $29.98

THE ANGER (made in 1963) taps into topics from the 1950s and the early 1960s, such as racism, the Middle East, Cuba, Stalinism, the Atomic bomb, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. The directors of the film -...

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Chung Kuo (1972)

aka: China

Director

Michelangelo Antonioni

Subject

Film studies; Geography; History; Politics & government; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 208 minutes), £7.99

In 1972, during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, Michelangelo Antonioni was invited by the People’s Republic of China to direct a documentary about the New China. His eight-week travels with a crew...

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Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, Sicilia!, Une Visite Au Louvre (2010)

Director

Daniele Huillet; Jean-Marie Straub

Subject

Art; Music; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 202 minutes), £17.99

CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA BACH covers the years of Bach’s life from his marriage to Anna Magdalena to his death in 1748. ‘It is at once a love story, a documentary, a socio-political statement, and a...

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