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  1. Arts in Exile (2015)

    aka: Kunst im Exil

    Director
    Giovanni Angella
    Subject
    Arts and Humanities; History
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 204 minutes), $129.95

    Nine short films about artists impacted by the Nazis. ARNOLD ZWEIG (Joop Huisken, 1962); Erich Fried: The Whole World Should Endure (Roland Steiner, 1988); Even Today He’d Speak His Mind (Volker Koepp,...

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  2. Iris (2015)

    Director
    Albert Maysles
    Subject
    Arts and Humanities; Design
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 78 minutes), £9.99

    A documentary by Albert Maysles about Iris Apfel, the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven who has had an outsized presence on the New York fashion scene for decades. More than a...

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  3. Mathematics and Culture (2015)

    Subject
    Arts and Humanities; Mathematics

    Judith Grabiner describes how the 19th century saw radical change, producing new ideas of space, destroying the unchallenging authority of mathematics, revolutionising art, making relativity possible and...

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  4. Cathedrals of Culture (2014)

    Director
    Wim Wenders; Michael Glawogger; Karim Ainouz; Michael Madsen; Robert Redford
    Subject
    Architecture; Arts and Humanities
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 165 minutes), £11.34

    Six acclaimed filmmakers, including Robert Redford, Michael Glawogger and Michael Madsen, each explore the architecture and history of six iconic buildings; the Berlin Philharmonic, the National Library of...

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  5. Regarding Susan Sontag (2014)

    Director
    Nancy Kates
    Subject
    Arts and Humanities; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 100 mins), $395

    An investigation into the life of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century. This documentary tracks Sontag’s life through evocative experimental images, archival materials,...

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  6. Looking for Light (2014)

    Director
    Luke Dodd
    Producer
    Michael Whyte
    Subject
    Arts and Humanities
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £8.20

    A portrait of the photographer Jane Bown: her quiet determination working in an almost exclusively male world; her unique working method; and how the sorrow of her early childhood informed her unique...

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  7. Tempo (2013)

    Subject
    Arts and Humanities; Drama; Film studies; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £12.24

    ITV’s seminal arts programme, TEMPO ran for eight years through a decade which saw a creative explosion within all aspects of the performing arts. Its fluid style of presentation allowed an almost...

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  8. Bill Cunningham, New York (2012)

    Director
    Richard Press
    Subject
    Arts and Humanities
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 84 minutes), £6.99

    The "Bill" in question is veteran New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and...

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  9. Frost on Coward (2012)

    Subject
    Arts and Humanities; Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £6.99

    This recording of a conversation between actor, composer and singer Noel Coward and David Frost was recorded at the Mayfair Theatre in September 1968, and covers current affairs, Coward’s life and his...

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  10. Romantic Spirit, The (2011)

    Director
    Daniel Lander
    Subject
    Arts and Humanities; Literature; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 420 minutes), $39.49

    A fourteen-part documentary television series made in 1983 about the history of the Romantic movement in art,music and literature on 7 DVDs. Individual programmes are: BATTLE OF T HE STAGE- Plays of...

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