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War Requiem (2008)

Director

Derek Jarman

Subject

English language and literature; History; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 89 minutes), £19.99

Based on the life of Wilfred Owen, the poet, who died in 1918, this film is a blend of Benjamin Britten’s music, Owen’s poetry and director Derek Jarman’s visuals. The film includes wartime footage...

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Hamlet (1992 Television)

Series

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

Director

Natalia Orlova

Producer

Dave Edwards

The story in an animated version. All the lines spoken by the characters are Shakespeare’s own. Narrated by Michael Kitchen.

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Media Screen Round-up November 2016

Date

15 Dec 2016, 10:46

Author

Andrew Ormsby

Post Type

Post

The monthly round-up of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research and published at Learning on Screen by Andrew Ormsby. This month's bumper issue...

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Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger, The (2017)

aka: The Seasons in Quincy

Director

Colin MacCabe; Christopher Roth; Tilda Swinton; Bartek Dziadosz

Subject

Arts and Humanities

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes), £9.99

A four-part cinematic portrait of artist, philosopher and writer John Berger. In 1973, Berger moved from urban London to the tiny village of Quincy. These shorts examine different aspects of Berger’s life...

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Letters from Baghdad (2017)

Director

Zeva Oelbaum; Sabine Krayenbuhl

Subject

Archaeology; History; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £7.00

Biographical documentary about the explorer, cartographer, photographer, archaeologist and ethnographer Gertrude Bell, who travelled widely in Arabia before being recruited by British military intelligence...

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We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012)

Director

Lynne Ramsay

Subject

Film studies; Mental Health and Counselling; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 112 minutes), £5.99

Psychological drama about a tormented mother grappling with feelings of accountability and intense grief after her troubled 15-year-old son commits an act of violence that shakes their community to its very...

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Wittgenstein (1993)

Director

Derek Jarman

Producer

Tariq Ali

Subject

Film Studies; Philosophy

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 69 minutes), £19.99

A digitally- restored and remastered version of Derek Jarman’s film. It covers in tableaux form the greater part of the influential philosopher’s life. Written by literary theorist Terry Eagleton, the...

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Caravaggio (2006)

Director

Derek Jarman

Subject

Art; Film Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 89 minutes), £19.99

Derek Jarman’s freely dramatised portrait of the controversial seventeenth-century Italian artist Michelangelo da Caravaggio is a powerful meditation on sexuality, criminality and art. The film centres on...

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Derek (2009)

Director

Isaac Julien

Subject

Art; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 76 + 170 minutes), £19.99

Painter, author, gay militant, AIDS activist and, above all, filmmaker, Derek Jarman was one of Britain’s best-loved and most original artists. This film is a remembrance of one of independent film’s...

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Friendship’s Death (1987)

Director

Peter Wollen

Subject

Film studies

A British war correspondent discovers a strange being known as Friendship when covering the bloody conflict between the Palestinians and Jordanians. She looks human, but who is she? An alien? A spy? The...

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