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Film / Notfilm (2017)

aka: Film: A Film by Samuel Beckett / Notfilm: A Kino Essay by Ross Lipman

Director

Ross Lipman; Alan Schneider

Subject

Drama; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 152 minutes), £19.99

FILM (Alan Schneider,1965, 22 mins) is the Nobel prize winner Samuel Beckett’s only screenplay, starring Buster Keaton. In his extensive Kino-Essay, NOTFILM (2015, 129 mins), Ross Lipman explores the...

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How Silent Movie Special Effects Were Done (2017)

Subject

Film studies

Films have always used special effects. This short video offers a compilation of clips showing some famous tricks in the following titles: -Safety Last! (1923) -Modern Times (1936) -Ella Cinders (1926)...

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Around China with a Movie Camera: A Journey from Beijing to Shanghai, 1900 - 1948 (2016)

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 68 minutes), £11.99

This DVD is a compilation of home movies, travelogues and newsreels, made by British and French filmmakers, from professionals to tourists, colonial-era expatriates and Christian missionaries. The collection...

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Play on! Shakespeare in Silent Film (2016 Video)

Producer

Jane Giles

Subject

Drama; Film studies; Shakespeare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £9.99

A feature-length celebration of Shakespeare on silent film drawing on two dozen titles from the BFI National Archive many of which are rarely seen. Of the estimated 300 Shakespeare films produced in the...

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Charlie Chaplin: The Mutual Comedies (2015)

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 355 minutes), £24.99

The twelve films Chaplin made for the Mutual Film Corporation from 1916-17, previously only available on two DVD volumes from the BFI, have been fully restored in High Definition and brought together in a...

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Make More Noise: Suffragettes in Silent Film (2015)

Subject

Film studies; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 71 minutes), £19.99

This compilation combines documentary footage of the suffragettes’ public activities with comedy films of the period. These gloriously anarchic pre-war comedies are full of bright sparks like the Tilly...

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Underground (2013)

Director

Anthony Asquith

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 94 minutes), £19.99

Dual format DVD BluRay release of the British Film Institute’s restoration of Anthony Asquith’s 1928 film. Extras include the transport film SCENES AT PICCADILLY CIRCUS AND HYDE PARK CORNER (1930 - 1932)...

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Förste Filmarkiv, Det/The First Film Archive (2013)

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 225 minutes), 19.95 Euros

In celebration of the 60th Anniversary of The Danish Film Institute, the first seventy films donated to the Danish state have been made available on this DVD, which shows Danish events and people of the...

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Artist, The (2011 Film)

Director

Michael Hazanavicius

Producer

Thomas Langmann

Feature film. A romance taking place in Hollywood between 1927 and 1932 focusing on a declining male film star (Dujardin) and a rising actress (Bejo), as silent cinema declines and is replaced by the...

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Here’s a Health to the Barley Mow: A Century of Folk Customs and Ancient Rural Games (2011)

Subject

Anthropology; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 365 minutes), £22.99

A collection of films celebrating British folk customs and rural games, ranging from morris and maypole dancing, sword and step dances to Shrove Tuesday football games and the Padstow Obby Oss ceremony. The...

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