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Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan (1916 Video)

Director

Fred Paul

Producer

Chris Austin

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. st. 62 min., 2004 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

The first of Oscar Wilde’s social comedies, directed by British director Fred Paul. The screenplay by Benedict James involves the addition of subplots and an inventive rethinking of the order in which...

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Aging Successfully: The Psychological Aspects of Growing Old (1997 Video)

Subject

Psychology; Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 31 min., 2000 sale: US$250.00 (+p&p)

Systematic examination of old age is a new field inspirecd by the unprecendented number of people living long enough to become elderly. Rigorous research on the part of the Berlin Group under Paul Baltes has...

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Ken Russell: The Great Passions: Always on Sunday; Isadora; Dante’s Inferno (2016)

Director

Ken Russell

Subject

Art; Dance; Literature; Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 45 minutes + 64 minutes + 88 minutes), £29.99

This collection brings together three films from 1965-7. The collection opens with ALWAYS ON SUNDAY (1965) a dramatized examination of the painter Henri Rousseau. ISADORA, THE BIGGEST DANCER IN THE WORLD...

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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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Hans Westmar, Einer von Vielen (1933 Film)

Director

Franz Wenzler

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

This feature film is derived from the book ‘Horst Wessel’ by Hans Heinz Ewers and is typical of early Nazi attempts at entertainment films. It was eventually released under the title HANS WESTMAR because...

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Lucian Freud: Portraits (2005)

Director

Jake Auerbach

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 66 minutes), £13.99

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Visions of Change: The Evolution of the British TV Documentary Vol. 1: BBC 1951-1967 (2016)

Subject

Broadcasting; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 382 minutes), £34.99

An extensive collection of television films made during the 1950s and 1960s, covering a range of topics, and including films by such influential directors as Denis Mitchell, Philip Donnellan, Ken Russell,...

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Taking the Long View: The Life of Shiing-Shen Chern (2011)

Director

George Paul Csicsery

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 60 minutes), $25.00

Biographical documentary examining the life of Shiing-shen Chern (1911-2004). Chern is one of the fathers of modern differential geometry. The film traces his life and accomplishments through interviews with...

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Screening Shorts (2004)

Subject

English language and literature; Film Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 125 minutes), £49.95

A teaching pack including a video compilation of six short films and three advertisements, accompanied by a teaching guide and support materials on a CD-Rom. It introduces innovative ways of teaching with...

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Exotic Europe

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL), 29.95 euros

This DVD presents fifteen previously little-seen short non-fiction films from 1905-1926 preserved and digitised by the Technical College for Technology and Economics in Berlin (Fachhochschule für Technik...

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