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  1. London Symphony: A Poetic Journey Through the Life of a City (2017)

    Director
    Alex Barrett
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 72 minutes), £12.00

    The ‘city symphony’ became a popular type of urban documentary during the last decade of the silent era. LONDON SYMPHONY pays homage to that subgenre. Its director, Alex Barrett, shot the film silent,...

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  2. Norte, The End of History (2014)

    Director
    Lav Diaz
    Subject
    Film studies; Literature; Philosophy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 250 minutes), £8.69

    In the northern Philippine province of Luzon, a law-school dropout commits a horrific double murder; a gentle family man takes the fall and receives a life sentence, leaving behind a wife and two kids. A...

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  3. Three Documentaries by Sergei Loznitsa: Blockade, Landscape, Revue (2013)

    aka: 3 Documentaries by Sergei Loznitsa: Blockade, Landscape, Revue

    Director
    Sergei Loznitsa
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL)

    Three documentaries by Russian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa. Includes; BLOCKADE, LANDSCAPE and REVUE. In BLOCKADE, Loznitsa draws on three-and-a-half hours of silent footage acquired from the St. Petersburg...

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  4. Cesare Deve Morire (2012 Film)

    aka: Caesar Must die

    Director
    Paolo Taviani; Vittorio Taviani
    Subject
    Drama; Shakespeare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 76 minutes), £15.99

    Documentary. A performance of scenes from Julius Caesar by inmates of the Roman maximum security prison Rebibbia. One of them comments: ‘Ever since I discovered art this cell has truly become a prison’....

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  5. Film Socialisme (2011)

    Director
    Jean-Luc Godard
    Subject
    Film studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 102 minutes)

    An allegorical , semi-documentary cine-essay that is a meditation on the history, culture, philosophy and economics of modern Europe. Described by Godard as ‘a symphony in three movements’: THINGS SUCH...

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  6. 5 Broken Cameras (2011)

    Director
    Emad Burnat; Guy Davidi
    Subject
    Film studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £5.99

    Filmed from the perspective of Emad, a Palestinian farm labourer, this documentary was shot using six different video cameras, five of which were destroyed in the process of documenting Emad’s family’s...

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  7. Bluebeard (2011)

    Director
    Catherine Breillat
    Subject
    French studies; Literature; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £16.49

    In the 1950s, Bluebeard was the favourite tale of good little girls, one of whom is Catherine, who loves to frighten her older sister Marie-Anne by reading this fairy tale to her until she starts to cry....

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  8. Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, Sicilia!, Une Visite Au Louvre (2010)

    Director
    Daniele Huillet; Jean-Marie Straub
    Subject
    Art; Music; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 202 minutes), £17.99

    CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA BACH covers the years of Bach’s life from his marriage to Anna Magdalena to his death in 1748. ‘It is at once a love story, a documentary, a socio-political statement, and a...

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  9. Arabian Nights

    Director
    Miguel Gomes
    Subject
    Film studies; Portuguese studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 377 minutes), £15.53

    Using the framing device from the original Arabian Nights of the young Scheherazade telling tale after tale in order to keep her murderous husband from killing her, Miguel Gomes channels the current...

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