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Hotel International

Date released

May 1958

Series name

Ingot Pictorial

Issue no

32

NoS ID

349498

Story no

1 / 2

BFI Summary - Italian Ambassador opens a new-style industrial hotel for foreign workers employed at the Company’s Irthlingborough (in Northamptonshire) Iron Ore mine. NFA synopsis: An item looking at...

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Viva Zapatero! (2006)

Director

Sabina Guzzanti

Subject

Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £9.99

Sabina Guzzanti’s documentary deals with her own ill-fated television show, RAIot, which aired on RAI, the Italian public television service. The show featured comedy sketches in which Guzzanti, a...

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Peccato di Anna, Il (1952 Film)

aka: Anna’s Sin

Director

Camillo Mastrocinque

Feature film. An American black actor (Johnson) arrives in Rome to star in a stage production of Othello and also to locate Sam, a man for whom he served seven years in prison on a false charge of raping a...

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Hayes on Sunday (1979)

Genre

Interview; News bulletin; Talk show; Phone-in

Brian Hayes talks to Italian filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli about his life and career, his films and the style of his filmmaking. He discusses the great actors he has worked with, including Maggie Smith and...

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Media Screen Round-up, June 2016

Date

14 Jul 2016, 16:18

Author

Andrew Ormsby

Post Type

Post

The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research and published at the BUFVC by Andrew Ormsby This month's round-up includes journal...

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Canterbury Tales, The (2001)

Director

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Subject

English language and literature; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 107 minutes), £14.99

Pasolini takes the role of Chaucer in a vivid and grotesque adaptation of some of Chaucer’s bawdy tales. The dual format Blu-Ray edition includes an alternative English-language version presented with...

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(Untitled record)

Date released

1 May 1969

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

69/36

NoS ID

113558

Story no

2 / 6

Extras

1 film clip

While France wrestled with its latest problems, Scotland warmly greeted President Saragat of Italy. It was a crowded schedule for the president, but proved a tremendously successful part of his 10-day State...

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From the Pole to the Equator (1986 Video)

Director

Yervant Gianikian; Angela Ricci Lucchi

Producer

Yervant Gianikian

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w (tinted). silent (with music soundtrack). 80 min., 1997 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

Uses footage shot in 1910 by Italian cinematographer Luca Comerio (1894-1949) and reworks it into a montage of hand-tinted black-and-white images of exotic people and places, set to a minimalist musical...

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World Champ Goes Slow

Date released

16 Sep 1963

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1789

NoS ID

025251

Story no

4 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Champion Goes Slow. DESCRIPTION: Back home to Scotland after a brilliant win in the Italian Grand Prix, Jim Clark with the 1964 world motor racing championships in his pocket. The...

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Viva L’Italia (1961)

aka: Garibaldi

Director

Roberto Rossellini (1906-177)

Subject

History; Italian studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 129 minutes), £15.00/£12.00

To celebrate the centenary of the unification of Italy, the Italian government commissioned Rossellini to make a biopic of Giuseppe Garibaldi and his 1860 campaign to unify Italy. The result is visually...

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