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Mind of a Murderer, The (1984 Video)

Producer

Michael Barnes

Subject

Law; Psychiatry

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 2 x 60 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) both parts

The true story of mass murderer Kenneth Bianchi, known as the Hillside Strangler, who was responsible for the murder of 12 young women in the USA from 1977 to 1979. He appeared to have no memory of the...

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Painters Painting: The New York Art Scene, 1940-70 (1972)

Director

Emile de Antonio

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 116 minutes), £19.99

Emile de Antonio was a close friend of many New York painters long before abstract expressionism, action painting and pop art became well known and filmed the painters informally in their studios. Shows...

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Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star / Extase (2009)

Director

Donatello Dubini; Fosco Dubini; Gustave Machatý

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 85 minutes + 79 minutes), 29.95 euros

This 2 disc set comprises a documentary about the Hollywood star and the 1933 Czech film EXTASE (ECSTASY), which caused controversy at the time for its sexual content, particularly the sequence depicting the...

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Fear and Desire (1953 Film)

Director

Stanley Kubrick

Producer

Stanley Kubrick

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 62 minutes), £17.99

Stanley Kubrick’s first feature film, an allegory about four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines in a nameless war, is presented in the Masters of Cinema edition in its new restoration carried out in 2012...

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Reckoning, The (1970)

Director

Jack Gold

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 111 minutes), £15.99

A ruthless business executive returns home to his Liverpool roots to investigate his father’s death. Described by Sight & Sound’s deputy editor Kieron Corles as a ‘potent character...

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Rembrandt (5 Parts) (1974 Film)

aka: Rembrandt: The 1974 Kenneth Clark Lectures

Director

Colin Clark

Producer

Colin Clark

Subject

Art

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Part 1: Rembrandt was the first artist to make the self-portrait a major means of artistic expression. The series begins with the image of a vigorous roughneck, passes through confident celebrity, and ends...

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Three Sisters (1970)

Director

Laurence Olivier

Producer

John Goldstone

Subject

Drama

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 156 minutes), £19.99

A feature film version of the play by Anton Chekhov, translated by Moura Budberg, with music by William Walton, based on the 1967 National Theatre production of the play. Two fantasy sequences are added for...

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British Writers: The Spoken Word (2008)

Subject

English language and literature; Literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 214 minutes), £19.50

This three-CD compilation forms part of the British Library’s series of documentary recordings by English-language authors and playwrights. 30 British writers are represented, talking about their lives and...

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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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Oh! What a Lovely War (2006)

Director

Richard Attenborough

Subject

Film Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 144 minutes), £15.99

A restored version of Richard Attenborough’s directorial debut film which re-interprets real First World War events as a musical. Based on the 1963 radio play written by Charles Chiltern which was adapted...

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