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Immortal Story, The (2015)

aka: Histoire Immortelle

Director

Orson Welles

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 61 minutes), £8.99

Orson Welles’ second-to-last feature, THE IMMORTAL STORY is an adaptation of a book by Danish author Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen. In 19th century Macao, Mr. Clay (Orson Welles) is a wealthy merchant at the...

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Tropicalia (2013)

Director

Marcel Machado

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 87 minutes), £12.99

Marcel Machado’s documentary charts the history of the 1960s Brazilian counter-cultural movement known as Tropicália, which expressed itself in theatre, film, art and poetry, but is perhaps best known...

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I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba) / Siberian Mammoth (2007)

aka: Soy Cuba

Director

Mikhail Kalatozov; Vicente Farraz

Subject

Film studies; Politics & government; Spanish studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 230 minutes), £8.99

A 2-disc set. Disc 1 : I AM CUBA, partially written by renowned poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, captures the island just before it made the transition to a post-revolutionary society. Moving from city to country...

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Chung Kuo (1972)

aka: China

Director

Michelangelo Antonioni

Subject

Film studies; Geography; History; Politics & government; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 208 minutes), £7.99

In 1972, during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, Michelangelo Antonioni was invited by the People’s Republic of China to direct a documentary about the New China. His eight-week travels with a crew...

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King Lear (1971) (1971 Film)

aka: Korol Lir

Director

Grigori Kozintsev

Subject

Drama; Shakespeare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 139 minutes), £12.95

Feature film based on a translation by Boris Pasternak and scored by Dmitri Shostakovich. Jüri Järvet is Lear. Kozintsev’s Lear ‘goes for the wide anle, depicting how the insanity of one man...brings...

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Chimes at Midnight (1966 Film)

aka: Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight

Director

Orson Welles

Producer

Emiliano Piedra

Subject

Drama; Shakespeare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 113 minutes), £14.72

The story of Falstaff’s friendship with Prince Hal, and his rejection when the Prince becomes King, adapted chiefly from Shakespeare’s Henry IV Parts I and II, but also Richard II, Henry V and The Merry...

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Don Quixote (1957)

Director

Grigori Kozintsev

Subject

Film studies; Languages; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 102 minutes), £3.99

Adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes’ novel by Russian director Grigori Kozintsev. Russian language with English subtitles.

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My Voyage to Italy

Subject

Film & television production; Italian studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 246 minutes), £7.99

Filmmaker Martin Scorsese gained great inspiration from the Italian films he watched in his youth and others that made an impact later on in his life, changing the way he made films. My Voyage To Italy...

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