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Music Lovers, The (2011)

Director

Ken Russell

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 119 minutes), £15.99

Ken Russell’s film about the life of Tchaikovsky, starring Richard Chamberlain.

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Shades: Three Plays by Samuel Beckett (1977 Video)

Director

Donald McWhinnie; Anthony Page

Producer

Tristram Powell

Subject

Drama

Distribution

REFERENCE ONLY, Videocassette. VHS. col?. 60 min.

Documents the early life of Samuel Beckett. Martin Esslin talks about the playwright. Includes performances of ‘Ghost Trio’, '...But the Clouds...' and ‘Not I’.

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History of History (2010)

Subject

History

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the writing of history has changed over time, from ancient epics to medieval hagiographies and modern deconstructions. In the 6th century AD, the bishop of Tours began his...

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Howard Hodgkin (1996 Video)

Director

Melissa Raimes

Producer

Melissa Raimes

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 52 minutes), £14.95

British artist Howard Hodgkin talks about capturing an emotion into painting and about his use of colour, scale, materials, titles and framing, his choice of themes, the artists he admires, his experience of...

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David Hockney: Joiner Photographs (1983)

Director

Don Featherstone

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 51 minutes), £14.95

During the early 1980s David Hockney abandoned conventional painting to experiment with photographic collages which he termed ‘joiners’. Hockney is seen at his Los Angeles studio creating ‘Fredda...

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Patrick Heron (1986)

Director

John Read

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 53 minutes), £14.95

Patrick Heron (b.1920) is among the most famous of the St Ives school of painters. Shot in St Ives, Cornwall, and at his 1985 London retrospective at London’s Barbican Gallery, this film shows the artist...

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Hockney at the Tate (1988 Video)

aka: David Hockney at the Tate

Director

Alan Benson

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 52 minutes), £17.99

David Hockney (b.1937) in an extended interview filmed at his Tate Gallery retrospective in 1988, discusses his career and provides insights into some of his key works and the contemporary art scene.

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Paula Rego (1992 Video)

Director

Melissa Raimes

Producer

Melissa Raimes

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 50 minutes), £14.95

Born in Portugal, Paula Rego (b.1935) has achieved celebrity as a painter in Britain. Here, she discusses her work with the childlike enthusiasm and poetic eloquence that characterise her paintings, and...

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Roy Lichtenstein (1990)

Director

Chris Hunt

Producer

Chris Hunt

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 51 minutes), £19.30 (I)

Roy Lichtenstein was a leading exponent of the American pop art movement of the 1960s, and his monumental paintings of comic-strip images have become modern icons. In a rare interview he discusses both his...

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Apostles, The (2001)

Subject

Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £19.99

A series that examines the lives, legends and heritage of the first twelve men chosen by Jesus. Some of them, like Peter and Judas, are instantly recognisable but others, like Thaddeus and Bartholomew, are...

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