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  1. Madame de... (1953 Video)

    aka: Diamond Earrings

    Director
    Max Ophüls
    Subject
    French studies; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 96 min., 2000 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

    French feature film adapted from a novel by Louise de Vilmourin set in ‘fin de siècle’ Paris. A countess has a pair of earrings given to her by husband. After a doomed love affair with a baron she sells...

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  2. Plaisir, Le (1951 Video)

    aka: House of Pleasure

    Director
    Max Ophüls
    Producer
    Max Ophüls
    Subject
    French studies; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 94 min., 2000 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

    French feature film adapted from three short stories by Guy de Maupassant, each dealing with one aspect of pleasure. In ‘Le masque’ a man regains his youth. ‘La maison tellier’ finds a prostitute in...

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  3. Orson Welles’ Macbeth Restored (1948) (1948 Film)

    aka: Macbeth (1948)

    Director
    Orson Welles
    Producer
    Orson Welles
    Subject
    Drama; Shakespeare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 107 minutes), £19.99

    Feature film adaptation of the Welles’s B-movie production. The video and DVDs are fully restored versions of Orson Welles’ MACBETH, based on his Mercury Theatre production.

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  4. Major Barbara (1941)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 131 minutes), £19.99

    Lighthearted tale of the daughter of a wealthy munitions manufacturer who joins the Salvation Army believing that money is the root of all evil. A young professor who falls in love with her makes her realise...

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  5. Pygmalion (1938) (1938)

    Director
    Anthony Asquith
    Producer
    Gabriel Pascal
    Subject
    Anthropology; Drama; Education; Languages
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 96 minutes), £19.99

    Later adapted as ‘My Fair Lady’, in George Bernard Shaw’s comedy of manners, Pygmalion Snobbish Professor Higgins has a wager with his friend Colonel Pickering that with the right instruction he can...

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  6. Aria

    Director
    Robert Altman; Nicolas Roeg; Ken Russell; Jean-Luc Godard; Derek Jarman
    Producer
    Don Boyd
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL)

    From a body-building Armide, to Tristian and Isolde in modern day Las Vegas and Verdi embroiled in a Californian sex farce, Aria transports the audience through the mediums of classical music and engaging...

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