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Design Interviews (2008)

Director

Anna Pitscheider

Subject

Design

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 138 minutes), £280.00 [University/College rate]

Interview series featuring interviews with four Italian designers: Andrea Branzi, Alessandro Mendini, Richard Sapper and Ettore Sottsass. Directed by Anna Pitscheider, co-edited by Museo Alessi and Edizioni...

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Vatican Museums, The (2007)

Director

Luca de Mata

Subject

Art; Librarianship; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 420 minutes), £59.99

This 3-volume DVD set on the Vatican museums is the culmination of three years of research and filming, the collaboration of thirty-two scholars and historians from around the world, a crew of forty...

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Cinema Paradiso (2007)

Director

Giuseppe Tornatore

Subject

Film Studies; Italian studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 285 minutes), £19.99

A digitally remastered version of this multi award-winning film in which a young boy in a small Italian village is overjoyed when the local movie projectionist reveals to him the mysteries of moviemaking,...

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1900 (2007)

aka: Novecento

Director

Bernardo Bertolucci

Subject

Film Studies; History; Italian studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 326 minutes), £15.99

Bertolucci’s epic film of the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half on the 20th century. It chronicles the lives of two men born on the same day in 1900. Depardieu plays the bastard...

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Macbeth (2007 Video)

Director

Liliana Cavani; Andrea Bevilacqua

Subject

Drama; Music

Verdi’s opera with libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. Bruno Bartoletti conducts the Campagnia Balletto di Roma and the Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma in a production directed for stage by...

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Falstaff (2007 Video)

Director

Paolo Longobardo

Producer

Luca Ronconi

Subject

Drama; Music

Verdi’s opera in a staging by Luca Ronconi. The Opera and Chorus of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino are conducted by Zubin Mehta. Ruggero Raimondi is Falstaff. Directed for television and video by Paolo...

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Otello (2007 Video)

Director

Willy Decker; Ángel Luis Ramírez

Subject

Drama; Music

Verdi’s Otello recorded in performance at the Gran Teatre del Liceu. The opera was directed for stage by Willy Decker and for television by Angel Luis Ramírez. José Cura is Otello and Lado Atanell, Iago....

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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (2007 Television)

Director

Tina Protasoni

Subject

Dance; Music

George Balanchine’s ballet danced by the Corpo di Ballo del Teatro alla Scala with the Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Nir Kabaraetti. Alessandra Ferri is Titania and Roberto Bolle, Oberon. The Act II...

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Viva Zapatero! (2006)

Director

Sabina Guzzanti

Subject

Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £9.99

Sabina Guzzanti’s documentary deals with her own ill-fated television show, RAIot, which aired on RAI, the Italian public television service. The show featured comedy sketches in which Guzzanti, a...

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Falstaff (2005 Television, Video)

Director

Herbert Graf

Subject

Drama; Music

Verdi’s Falstaff. The Orchestra and Chorus of Radiotelevisione Italiana Milano are conducted by Tullio Serafin. Guiseppe Taddei as Falstaff in the production staged by Herbert Graf.

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