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  1. Day of Wrath (2006)

    Director
    Carl Theodor Dreyer
    Subject
    Drama; Film Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), ££19.99

    A classic film by Carl Dreyer depicting the events in a seventeenth century Danish community which sees an accusation of witchcraft levelled against the wife of a cathedral notary. It deals with his prime...

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  2. Gertrud (2006)

    Director
    Carl Theodor Dreyer
    Subject
    Drama; Film Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 112 minutes), £19.99

    Carl Dreyer’s final film centres on a woman, loved by four different men, who rejects the compromise of her marriage, suffers disappointment in her younger lover and retreats into a serene isolation. The...

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  3. Night of Truth, The (2006)

    aka: Nuit de la VÉritÉ, La

    Director
    Fanta Régina Nacro
    Subject
    Development studies; Film Studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £19.99

    Set in an unnamed African country, after ten years of bloody war, the film dramatises the process of truth and reconciliation, echoing the recent histories of South Africa, Sierra Leone and Rwanda, and...

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  4. Silent Waters (2006)

    Director
    Sabiha Sumar
    Subject
    Development studies; Film Studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £19.99

    The first feature by Pakistani independent documentary filmmaker Sabiha Sumar, is an intense and rare cinematic perspective of the political evolution of Pakistan, the advent of fundamentalism and the...

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  5. Oh! What a Lovely War (2006)

    Director
    Richard Attenborough
    Subject
    Film Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 144 minutes), £15.99

    A restored version of Richard Attenborough’s directorial debut film which re-interprets real First World War events as a musical. Based on the 1963 radio play written by Charles Chiltern which was adapted...

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  6. Reel Bad Arabs (2006)

    Director
    Sut Jhally
    Subject
    Film studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 60 minutes), $250.00

    This groundbreaking documentary dissects a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has run virtually unchallenged form the earliest days of silent film to today’s biggest Hollywood blockbusters....

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  7. Movie Lover’s Guide to Film Language, A (2005)

    Subject
    FE; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 45 minutes), £19.99

    A general introduction to film language and five "lessons" covering the major elements of cinematic language: LIGHTING, CAMERA, MISE EN SCENE, SOUND and EDITING. For each of these lessons there is a short...

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  8. Nighthawks (2005)

    Subject
    Media studies; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 109 minutes), £12.99

    A homosexual geography teacher is forced to hide his sexuality by day while living his secret life by night. Hugely controversial on its initial release, Nighthawks was one of the first British movies to...

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  9. Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The (2003)

    Director
    Tony Richardson
    Producer
    Michael Holden; Tony Richardson
    Subject
    Literature; Media studies; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 104 minutes), £17.99 (BFI)

    Feature film adapted by Alan Sillitoe from his own short story. A borstal boy finds freedom in the solitude of cross-country running. When his sporting prowess catches the eye of the governor he is coached...

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  10. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (2003)

    Subject
    Drama; Media studies; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 89 minutes), £17.99

    Adapted by Alan Sillitoe from his novel about an angry young man. Arthur Seaton is a young labourer who just wants to get through the week and raise hell at the weekend. Albert Finney’s performance as the...

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