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Is It Shakespeare, Or is It Hip-Hop? (2017 Audio)

aka: The Poet’s Pen Turns Them to Shapes

Subject

Shakespeare

Is is Shakespeare, or is it Hip Hop? This is the question posed to his audiences by the actor, poet, rapper and educator Kingslee James Daley after he recites a passage of Shakespeare to them. As the...

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Six Plays by Alan Bennett (2017)

Director

Stephen Frears; Giles Foster; Lindsay Anderson

Producer

Stephen Frears

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 414 minutes), £17.35

This DVD collects six Alan Bennett plays produced by Stephen Frears. Frears himself directs four of the six plays, with the remaining two directed by Giles Foster and Lindsay Anderson. ME! I’M AFRAID OF...

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Frighteners, The (2017)

Director

Gareth Davies; Mike Hodges

Subject

Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 390 minutes), £13.00

Television drama. This release consists of all 13 episodes of London Weekend Television’s 1972 anthology of half-hour psychological horror films. The release is the first in a range of DVDs presented by...

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Crunch and Other Stories, The: Three Plays by Nigel Kneale (2017)

Director

Michael Elliott; Roy Battersby; Herbert Wise

Subject

Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 158 minutes), £9.75

Television drama. Three plays written by Nigel Kneale for ITV. THE CRUNCH (1964) stars Harry Andrews as a prime minister attempting to avert a nuclear catastrophe in London; Maxwell Shaw, Anthony Bushell...

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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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Shakespeare Film Series Returns the Old Globe (2017)

Subject

Film & television production; Film studies; Shakespeare

Barry Edelstein, Artistic Director of The Old Globe, discusses the theatre’s film series featuring the work of four filmmakers: Julie Taymor, Peter Brook, Al Pacino and Baz Luhrmann.

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Dunkirk (2017)

Director

Christopher Nolan

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 102 minutes), £9.99

Director Christopher Nolan’s fictionalised account of the battle and mass evacuation of over 300,000 Allied troops from the French beaches of Dunkirk at the start of World War II. The story unfolds on...

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Our Mockingbird (2016)

Director

Sandy Jaffe

Subject

Literature; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 65 minutes), $295.00

OUR MOCKINGBIRD is a documentary that uses Harper Lee’s 1960 novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ as a lens to view race, class, gender and justice, then and now. Woven through the film is the story of two...

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John Berger: The Art of Looking (2016)

aka: John Berger or the Art of Looking

Subject

Art

Distribution

Out of distribution

Film exploring the life and work of the late writer and art critic John Berger. The film is an intimate portrait of a man who has shaped our understanding of the concept of seeing.

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Young Pope, The (2016)

Director

Paolo Sorrentino

Subject

Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 544 minutes), £14.99

Lenny Belardo, aka Pius XIII, is the first American Pope in history. Young and charming, his election might seem the result of a simple and effective media strategy by the College of Cardinals. But, as we...

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