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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. Dickens Before Sound (2006)

    Subject
    Film Studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 171 minutes), £12.99

    This collection of films, the majority of which are previously unreleased, shows how early cinema storytelling developed, as practitioners of this new art struggled to transform a tale from page to screen....

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  4. 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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  5. War and Peace (1967) (2006)

    Director
    Sergei Bondarchuk
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 431 minutes), £19.99

    An epic Russian version of Tolstoy’s classic tale.with a cast of thousands, stupendous sets and backgrounds, grand balls and palaces all adding to the authenticity. DVD extras include interviews with...

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  6. Vanity Fair (2004) (2005)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 141 minutes), £19.99

    A film adaptation of Thackeray’s novel, with Gabriel Byrne, Reese Witherspoon, Rhys Ifans and Romola Garai, directed by Mira Nair.

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  7. Vanity Fair (1998) (2005)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 320 minutes), £17.99

    A television adaptation of Thackeray’s novel adapted by Andrew Davies, directed by Marc Munden and starring Natasha Little.

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  8. War of the Worlds (2005) (2005)

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 116 minutes), £24.99

    A film adptation of the novel by H G Wells, directed by Steven Spielberg.

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  9. Idiot, The (2005)

    Subject
    Literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 166 minutes), £19.99

    Kurosawa’s only adaptation of a Dostoevsky novel. His dramatisation uproots the novel’s Russian summer setting to a snowbound Hokkaido — the northernmost island of Japan. DVD extras: newly restored...

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  10. Sons and Lovers (2005)

    Subject
    Literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £12.99

    Classic film version of the DH Lawrence novel, directed by Jack Cardiff in 1960. DVD extras include a newly filmed 30-minute interview with Jack Cardiff, photo galleries and biographies.

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