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Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in the New England seaport of Salem, Massachusetts. Steeped in the history of his Puritan forebears and at the same time a part of the astonishing development of the new American...
Video of Emeritus Professor John Worthen in conversation with Dr Andrew Harrison, Director of the University of Nottingham’s D. H. Lawrence Research, discussing the question of Lawrence and biography in...
Documentary. The first part of the film tells the orthodox story of William Shakespeare of Stratford and the longstanding views held by academia. Professors Stanley Wells and Jonathan Bate defend the...
A portrait of the life and work of Franz Joseph Haydn. Performers such as Gianandrea Noseda, Sir Roger Norrington, Frans Bruggen, Ronald Brautigam, Emanuel Ax, and Christophe Rousset play and then explain...
The film uses vintage interview and newsreel footage of two of Europe’s most important filmmakers, Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, to illustrate their friendship, their rise to fame, the films and...
Ths film tackles the mythical Gustav Mahler, proposing a cinematic autopsy of the many facets of this musical genius, who was at once composer, orchestra conductor and opera house director. It takes us on a...
The DVD includes some forty poems and thirty letter extracts written by Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson’s stature as a major poet has taken many years to emerge. Through dramatisations this film imagines...
Educational DVD. The film examines Shakespeare’s works and discusses the locations key to Shakespeare’s life.
This portrait of the Austrian writer, Thomas Bernhard, combines a monologue delivered by Thomas Bernhard and the artful film work of Ferry Radax. The location chosen for three summer days is a park in...
As mystifying and peculiar as his work, Rene Magritte painted in a style that was at once real and surreal, witty and disturbing. His enigmatic nature and amazing career deserve more than a routine...
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