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Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (1943 Video)

Director

Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

Subject

Film studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (157 minutes), £15.99

Classic feature film in which a British soldier survives three wars and falls in love with three women. Roger Livesey is the colonel whose past life is revealed in flashback. The 2012 DVD release features...

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Volunteer, The (1943 Film)

Director

Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

Producer

Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

Propaganda short feature film. Fred is an inept but willing dresser to a famous actor (Richardson), who makes himself up to play Othello. The news of the invasion of Poland comes in, and (in Othello costume)...

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The Devils

Date

4 May 2012, 09:24

Author

bufvcsergio

Post Type

BUFVC Review

2012. GB. DVD. 107 minutes (plus 2 hours of extras). BFI Home Video. Certificate 18. Price: £19.99 About the Author: Dr Brian Hoyle lectures in film studies at the University of Dundee and is currently...

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Michael Powell with Chris Peachment (1986 Video)

Subject

Dance; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min.

Michael Powell is interviewed by Chris Peachment, film editor and critic for ‘Time Out’. The occasion is the publication of Powell’s autobiography which takes him up to 1947, ‘A Life in the...

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Matter of Life and Death, A (1948 Radio)

Producer

Archie Campbell

Radio version of the film about RAF pilot (and poet, lunatic and lover) Peter Carter who unwittingly cheats death when he survives bailing out of his plane without a parachute. Originally written and...

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Matter of Life and Death, A (1945 Film)

aka: Stairway to Heaven

Director

Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

Producer

Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

A British wartime aviator who cheats death by miraculously surviving bailing out of his plane without a parachute must argue for his life before a celestial court. Fantasy film, ostensibly produced with the...

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Claude Chabrol double

Date

16 Sep 2013, 11:51

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

2013. DVD. Blu-ray or DVD. Le Beau Serge (1959) and Les Cousins (1960). 99 minutes and 109 minutes respectively (plus extras). Eureka Home Video / Master of Cinema series. Certificate 12. Recommended...

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John Cassavetes: Shadows / Faces

Date

26 Apr 2012, 18:10

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Shadows (1959) 2012. GB. Blu-ray + DVD. 82 minutes (plus 30 minutes of extras). BFI Home Video. Certificate PG. Price: £19.99 + Faces (1968). 2012. GB. Blu-ray + DVD. 130 minutes (plus 80 minutes of...

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Adventures in Cult Cinema: Richard Stanley's Dust Devil (1992)

Date

16 Sep 2013, 09:02

Author

bufvclinda

Post Type

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Following on from Ieuan Franklin's excellent blog which discussed such mind-bendingly psychedelic Films on Four as Born of Fire (Jamil Dehlavi, 1987), Shadey (Phillip Saville, 1987) and Silent Scream (David...

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