British Universities Film & Video Council

moving image and sound, knowledge and access

Results

51-60 of 393 results | Page 6 of 40
Sort results by
  1. Twelfth Night (1996) (1996 Film)

    Director
    Trevor Nunn
    Producer
    Stephen Evans; David Parfitt
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 128 minutes), £5.64

    An intelligent and meditative interpretation emphasising class distinctions and sexual confusion, which ‘has dated better than most...and which captures the shadowy magic of the play well’ (The Guardian...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other Online Online
  2. Romeo + Juliet (1996 Film, Video)

    aka: William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet

    Director
    Baz Luhrmann
    Producer
    Baz Luhrmann; Gabriella Martinelli
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 115 minutes), £4.93

    An adaptation of Romeo and Juliet radically interpreting the text, while preserving the verse. Set in a futuristic Verona, the film uses shock cuts, speeded-up trick motion, and a rock music score. Leonardo...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other Online Online
  3. Time and the Conways (1994)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 118 minutes), £12.99

    'Time and the Conways’ by JB Priestley follows the fortunes of one family over a period of years, and offers a moving perspective on the abstract nature of the past, present and future. It is 1919, the War...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other To order To order
  4. Much Ado About Nothing (1993) (1993 Film, Video)

    Director
    Kenneth Branagh
    Producer
    David Parfitt
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 104 minutes), £7.01

    Lavish and festive feature film adaptation of the play set in Tuscany and using a British and pan-American cast. Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation is ‘full of sunny high spirits and still terrific fun to...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other Online Online
  5. Tempest, The (1979) (1979 Film)

    Director
    Derek Jarman
    Producer
    Guy Ford; Mordecai Schreiber
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 91 minutes), £8.69

    Low-budget adaptation of the play using chiaroscuro lighting, location shooting, unusual casting, and eccentric costuming. The film remains faithful to the spirit of the play. Jarman’s understanding of the...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other Online Online
  6. Professional Foul (1977)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    VHS (PAL, 80 minutes), Subscription only

    Anderson, a decent, ineffectual English philosopher, goes to Prague on a lecture visit only to get caught up comically with the English football hacks in the hotel, and rather less comically with the plight...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other To order To order
  7. In Camera (Wednesday Play) (1964)

    Subject
    Drama; French studies
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 25 minutes), Subscription only

    Hell,' says Jean-Paul Sartre, ‘is other people’, and in tonight’s play he sets out to demonstrate this hypothesis. In Camera is a story of three individuals newly dispatched to Hell, utterly dissimilar...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other To order To order
  8. Hamlet (1964) (1964 Film)

    aka: Hamlet

    Director
    Grigori Kozintsev
    Subject
    Drama; Shakespeare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 144 minutes), £13.20

    Feature film version of the play, with a heavily cut text based on Pasternak’s translation. The political stance of the film-maker is to the fore, and the cinematography stark and elemental. recently...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other Online Online
  9. Saint Joan (1957)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    VHS (PAL, 110 minutes), Available to BUFVC members only

    The story of 15th-century French heroine Joan of Arc, a young farm girl who heard voices telling her to lead an army against the English occupying forces and crown the dauphin king of France. But Joan was...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other To order To order
  10. Throne of Blood (1957 Film, Video)

    aka: Throne of Blood

    Director
    Akira Kurosawa
    Producer
    Akira Kurosawa
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 104 minutes), £14.99

    The story of MACBETH transposed to medieval Japan, with Macbeth as a samurai and drawing on traditions from Noh drama. Toshiro Mifune is Macbeth. In Kurosawa’s masterly interpretation of MACBETH ‘the...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other Online Online
51-60 of 393 results | Page 6 of 40
Sort results by