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  1. Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (1995 Video)

    Director
    Isaac Julien
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 70 minutes)

    Illustrates racism in the colonial and post-colonial worlds through the life of Frantz Fanon, a black intellectual who as a French citizen enlisted in fighting the Nazi regime, but his roots in Martinique...

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  2. Of Flesh and Blood: The Cinema of Hirokazu Kore-Eda (1995)

    Director
    Hirokazu Koreeda
    Subject
    Film studies; Japanese studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 483 minutes), £49.99

    A limited edition 4-disc Blu-ray box which includes Kore-Eda’s debut MABOROSI (1995), the lyrical fantasy AFTER LIFE (1998), NOBODY KNOWS (2004) and STILL WALKING (2008). Special features include Special...

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  3. Comfort of Strangers, The (1990)

    Director
    Paul Schrader
    Subject
    Film studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 104 minutes), £14.99

    Mary (Natasha Richardson) and Colin (Rupert Everett) attempt to reinvigorate their flagging relationship with a romantic trip to Venice. Soon though, they find themselves drawn into a complex web of deceit,...

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  4. I’m British but... (1989)

    Director
    Gurinder Chadha
    Subject
    Music; Sociology

    Using the sound beats of Bhangra music and testimonies of young people from Glasgow, Belfast, London and South Wales, Gurinda Chada’s first film offers an insight into how a new generation of British...

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  5. Friendship’s Death (1987)

    Director
    Peter Wollen
    Subject
    Film studies

    A British war correspondent discovers a strange being known as Friendship when covering the bloody conflict between the Palestinians and Jordanians. She looks human, but who is she? An alien? A spy? The...

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  6. Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987)

    Director
    Alan Clarke
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 94 minutes), £14.99

    Bradford teenagers Rita and Sue regularly babysit for Bob and Michelle, whose comfortable suburban lifestyle contrasts with the girls’ bleak life on a council estate. One evening when Bob is taking them...

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  7. Jarman Volume 2: 1987-1994 (1987)

    Director
    Derek Jarman
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (BR Region B), £59.99

    This second volume brings together Jarman’s last six features, made in the prolonged burst of creativity and political activism that followed his HIV diagnosis in 1987, ranging from the audacious anger of...

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  8. When the Wind Blows (1986)

    Director
    Jimmy Murakami
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 84 minutes), £14.99

    Jim and Hilda Bloggs are a middle-aged couple who put their faith in the government as they prepare for nuclear war. When the countdown begins, they roll up their sleeves and follow the advice contained in...

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  9. Heat and Dust (1983)

    aka: Heat & Dust

    Director
    James Ivory
    Subject
    History; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 130 minutes), £19.99

    A young historical researcher, inherits letters written by her great aunt Olivia and becomes obsessed with their revelations of her past in colonial India. Flitting between the present-day and the 1920s, the...

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  10. Margaret Tait: Film Maker (1983)

    Director
    Margaret Williams
    Producer
    Fiz Oliver
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 35 minutes), £50.00

    This portrait of the film-maker Margaret Tait includes extracts from many of her productions. In interview with video artist Tamara Krikorian, Tait talks about her introduction to the cinema in Italy and her...

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