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Shakespeare roundup
Published: 25 October 2011Roland Emmerich’s controversial new film Anonymous is released in UK cinemas this Friday (28 October) and it explores some of the theories that question whether Shakespeare did, or did not, in fact author the plays that we now ascribe to him. The film’s official website includes an amusing quiz to determine one’s level of knowledge …
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BUFVC Weekly Top 5 TV & Radio Programme Requests
Published: 5 October 2011For the week ending 30 September 2011 the most requested titles from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service include histories of cinema, language, disability and the 1951 Festival of Britain. 1. HOLIDAY HIJACK (CHANNEL 4) View TRILT record or watch now on BoB National More information is available from the Channel 4 website 2. THE STORY …
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40 million OU iTunes U downloads
Published: 5 October 2011The Open University now features alongside Stanford University in being one of the leading providers of audio and video recordings of lectures for free download via iTunes U. The online service, launched in 2007, currently provides 300 million downloads per year, with 350,000 lectures offered by over 1,000 universities around the world, including Harvard, Yale, …
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Online artists’ videos on Egypt
Published: 14 September 2011The LUX website is currently hosting an online exhibition of three short artists’ films about Mubarak and the Egyptian presidency: The President – Remix. In recent years a number of artists have started to salvage or restage archival images of the three long-term Egyptian presidents Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak and critically explore the relationships between …
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Central Office of Information (COI) to close
Published: 27 June 2011It has been announced that the Central Office of Information (COI), the government communications and marketing organ is set to close shortly. Responsible for making thousands of public information films since the 1940s, though the COI has antecedents going back almost a century, many of these can be viewed online at the National Archives website …
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Online film journals roundup
Published: 22 June 20111. Bright Lights Film Journal – Issue 72 – May 2011 www.brightlightsfilm.com This packed issue includes articles on films by Tarantino, Fassbinder, Carlos Atanes, Scorsese, Wong Kar-wai, forgotten minor auteur Norman Foster, Coppola’s The Godfather, sex in the movies, gender in Hindi cinema, exploitation films, the animated TV satire Archer, and representations of the FBI …
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BUFVC launches federated search environment
Published: 16 June 2011
Access nine online databases, containing over 13 million records and use intelligently designed interactive research tools to find and discover new content. -
June edition of Viewfinder is out
Published: 1 June 2011
Viewfinder 83 was published in June and profiles 10 years of the IWM Student Film Festival, the Women’s Film History Network and the TA2 project. -
Bill Douglas Symposium
Published: 10 May 2011Call for Papers: Bill Douglas Symposium Friday 23 September 2011 The Bill Douglas Centre University of Exeter The Bill Douglas Centre is hosting a symposium on Friday 23 September 2011 on the work of Bill Douglas to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of the great, innovative British filmmaker. Details on some of his …
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OU archival programmes on DVD
Published: 4 May 2011Open University Worldwide has recently announced that programmes from their extensive archive can now be supplied to order as on-demand DVD-Rs from the company Canny Minds. The range on offer will steadily increase and form the widest selection of titles available, including many acclaimed programmes which have previously been difficult to find. The BUFVC Find …
