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Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise (1986)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 90 minutes), $39.00 ($89.00 institiutional use)

From the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia to the New York City docks where he worked as a customs inspector, this documentary tracks the personal and intellectual adventures of Herman Melville. Narrated...

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Wise Blood (1979)

Director

John Huston

Subject

Literature; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 101 minutes), £19.99

Based on Flannery O’Connor’s first novel, this is an hilarious and deeply moving account of a confused religious fanatic. He is unwittingly used by a variety of unsavoury characters for their own ends....

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Freud (1962)

aka: Freud - The Secret Passion

Director

John Huston

Subject

Psychiatry

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 134 minutes), 9 euros

1962 feature film starring Montgomery Clift looking at the development and initial rejection by the medical community of Sigmund Freud’s controversial theories on Psychoanalysis. ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN THE...

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Orson Welles Story, The (Television)

Producer

Alan Yentob; Leslie Megahey

Subject

Drama

Two-part television documentary on Orson Welles. In the first part, which covers his career in America, Welles talks to interviewer Alan Yentob about MACBETH (1948) saying it was a B-picture quickie. He...

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