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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2000)

Director

Richard Brooks

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 108 minutes), £7.99

Adaptation of the play by Tennessee Williams about a feuding family living in America’s Deep South. DVD includes trailer.

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Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources (2000)

Subject

French studies; Literature

Distribution

DVD (225 minutes), £19.99

The two films by Claude Berri, based on the books by Marcel Pagnol, combined on one DVD

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Odyssey, The (1999)

Subject

Classical studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 173 minutes), £5.99

A television adaptation of Homer’s epic classic poem about the travels of Odysseus. After the Greek victory at Troy, Odysseus is hindered in returning home by the gods he has offended and must confront a...

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Les Miserables (1998) (1999)

Subject

French studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 128 minutes), £15.99

A film adaptation of the story by Victor Hugo, set in France in 1796.

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10 Things I Hate About You (1999 Film, Multimedia, Video)

aka: Ten Things I Hate About You

Director

Gil Junger

Producer

Andrew Lazar

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 93 minutes), £5.85

What would happen if you made a boring old set text into a high-school romcom?. Junger’s adaptation, set in a suburban Seattle high school is ‘smart and sassy, a brightly contemporary retelling of The...

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Regeneration (1998)

Subject

History; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 109 minutes), £19.99 (retail sale) £80.00 - BFI non-theatric hire))

Based on Pat Barker’s novel of the same name, ‘Regeneration’ tells the story of soldiers of World War One sent to an asylum for emotional troubles. Two of the soldiers meeting there are Wilfred Owen...

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Threepenny Opera, The (1998)

aka: Dreigroschenoper, Die

Subject

Drama; Music

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 110 mins (BC) 220 mins (BFI)), £12.49 (BC) £15.99 (BFI)

The classic black & white film version of the Brecht-Weill musical. In London at the turn of the century, the bandit Mack the Knife marries Polly without the knowledge of her father, Peachum, the ‘king of...

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Dancing at Lughnasa (1998)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

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

The life and times of the Mundy family, who live in Donegal in the 1930s. Their close-knit existence is threatened by the arrival of Welshman Garry Evans who is travelling to Spain to fight for Franco.

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Black Beauty (1998)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 84 minutes), £5.99 (Prism)

Film based on the classic story by Anna Sewell about a horse originally owned by a wealthy man who was forced to sell him when he lost his fortune.

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Julius Caesar: A Critical Guide (1997 Video)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £14.90

Professor Stanley Wells and Dr Russell Jackson of the Shakespeare Institute, and Dr Robert Smallwood of the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford-upon-Avon, discuss issues arising from the study of Shakespeare’s...

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