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NEW WORLD CINEMA DVD RELEASES LES VACANCES DU PETIT NICOLAS/NICOLAS ON HOLIDAY (PG) 2014 FRANCE TIRARD, LAURENT £17.99 French family comedy based on the 1950s comics by René Goscinny. On a
summer seaside holiday with his parents and grandmother Nicolas quickly
makes friends and new adventures. |
FRENCH DVDSSAGE FEMME/MIDWIFE (12) 2017 FRANCE PROVOST, MARTIN £15.99
The stable life of midwife Claire Breton (Catherine Frot) is thrown into turmoil by the sudden reappearance of her late father's former lover Béatrice Sobolevski (Catherine Deneuve), who abandoned both of them three decades earlier. Sobolevski, now diagnosed with cancer, is shocked to learn of her former partner's death. However she is now hoping to reconnect with Claire and gradually the pair re-evaluate their contrasting outlooks on life. FRENCH LANGUAGE NOTE TO THE MIDWIFE |
GERMAN DVDS
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SPANISH, PORTUGUESE AND
LATIN AMERICAN DVDSNERUDA (15) 2016 CHILE LARRAÍN, PABLO £12.99
Set in Santiago in 1948, Gael García Bernal plays inspector Oscar
Peluchonneau, who is looking to arrest the poet Pablo Neruda for
denouncing the Chilean government. However on meeting Peluchonneau,
Neruda strikes up an unexpected friendship with the inspector, inspiring
Neruda to pen a collection of poems. The film was nominated for the
Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
In Spanish with English subtitles
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES TO NERUDA
FRENCH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO NERUDA |
FAI BEI SOGNI/SWEET DREAMS (12A) 2016 ITALY BELLOCCHIO, MARCO £19.99 Adapted from Massimo Gramellini's novel, middle-aged reporter Massimowho is still troubled mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of his mother when he was a child. He now needs to confront his traumatic past |
TWO WOMEN (U) 2014 RUSSIAN GLAGOLEVA, VERA £15.99 Adaptation of Ivan Turgenev’s play. Rich married Natalya laments losing her allure as middle age approaches and finds herself increasingly jealous of her adopted daughter Vera youthful beauty. When 21-year-old student Aleksei enters the household, Natalya and Vera compete for his affection. |
SCANDINAVIAN DVDS
A ROYAL AFFAIR (15) 2016 DENMARK ARCEL, NIKOLAJ DVD - £15.9 BLU RAY - £19.99
Academy Award-nominated period drama based on a novel by Bodil Steensen-Leth. Young physician to the psychologically unstable King Frederik of Denmark begins to dominate the court. He wins the affections of the young Queen and
becomes involved in state affairs to promote enlightenment, implementing freedom of the press and of expression, abolishing torture and serfdom, reforming the school system and curtailing the privileges of the aristocracy. |
EUROPEAN CINEMA THEMES ON DVDA list of available works by key European directors plus dvds listed under themes. This listing might be of help to teachers and students finding titles that could meet study requirements.AB HEUTE HEISST DU SARA/FROM NOW ON YOUR NAME IS SARA: GRIPS THEATRE BERLIN (E) GERMANY £19.99 The play, based on Inge Deutschkron’s book ‘Ich trug den gelben Stern’’ 1933 eleven years old Inge who refuses to understand why all of a sudden she is not allowed to play on the street. In the years after that for Inge, being a Jew means not only humiliation, attacks and restrictions, but also never going dancing or to the cinema. It means growing up without having been young. |
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A LEVEL SET FILMS AND LITERATURE |
ENGLISH FILMS WITH MULTILINGUAL DVD SOUNDTRACKS STAR WARS EPISODE VII - THE FORCE AWAKENS (12) 2016 (8717418478063) ABRAMS,J.J. £15.99 Latest instalment of the sci-fi film epic reuniting Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill. Languages: English, Castilian Spanish, Catalan Spanish Subtitles: Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Portuguese, Castilian Spanish, Swedish. |
AFRICAN/MIDDLE EASTERN/MEDITERRANEAN DVDS
CHEVALIER (18) 2015 GREECE TSANGARI, ATHINA RACHEL £19.99 Greek comedy following six men who decide to play a game while on a fishing trip in the Aegean Sea. To play the game the men score each other on their abilities and achievements and the winner will be deemed ‘the best of everything’. |
CHINESE DVDS
THE SPRING RIVER FLOWS EAST (U) 1947 CHINA CHUSHENG,C/ZHENG, J IN MANDARIN £19.99
Set in the Japanese occupation of China in the 1930s, the film is in two
parts. The first part o covers the early life and marriage of a young
working-class couple, Sufen (Bai Yang), and Zhang Zhongliang (Tao Jin)
and his flight to Chungkin . In the second part Zhang Zhongliang’s
return to Shanhai, now married into a wealthy bourgeois family whom
Sufenis forced to work as a maid.
Originally released in two parts in 1947, The Spring River Flows East is
generally considered one of the great Chinese films of the period.
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JAPANESE DVDS
 HARMONIUM - THE MASTERS OF CINEMA SERIES (15) 2016 JAPAN FUKADA, KÔJI DUAL FORMAT EDITION £19.99 Yasaka is released from prison and seeks out his old friends Toshio, who welcome him into his family and gives him a job in his workshop.
However, the close Toshio family starts to fall apart as Yasaka oversteps his welcome and the past he shares with Toshio begins to come to light. |
KOREAN, VIETNAMESE,
THAI,INDONESIAN DVDS
 TRAIN TO BUSAN (15) 2016 YEON, KOREA SANG-HO DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99 Following the outbreak of a deadly virus throughout the country, a high-speed train is overrun by a swarm of frenzied zombies. Seok-woo, a divorced city trader, and his young daughter Su-an are on the train battling the Zombies. |
IRANIAN DVDS
THE SALESMAN (12A) 2016 IRAN FARHADI, ASGHAR DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Asghar Farhadi returns with an Oscar-winning exploration of the potent power of pride, guilt and shame. The
future looks promising for amateur actors Emad and Rana as they prepare
for opening night on their production of Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a
Salesman’. However, when dangerous work on a neighbouring building
forces the couple to leave their home and move into a new apartment, a
case of mistaken identity sees a shocking and violent incident throw
their lives into turmoil. In Farsi with English subtitles ENGLISH FILM NOTES TO SALESMAN
FRENCH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO SALESMAN
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO SALESMAN RELEASE 29TH MAY 2017 |
THE SATYAJIT RAY COLLECTION: VOLUME 3 (PG) INDIA BENGALI £29.99 Three films from the final phase of the career of Indian master of cinema Satyajit Ray. Om Puri stars in ‘The Deliverance’ (1981), a critique of the Indian caste system, as Dukhi, an ‘untouchable’ who approaches the village Brahmin to ask him to suggest an auspicious date for his daughter’s upcoming wedding. The Brahmin promises to do this in exchange for Dukhi performing some household chores for him. But the chores prove too much for Dukhi, who dies before they are completed. ‘The Home and the World’ (1984) explores the relationship between a woman (Swatilekha Sengupta), her husband (Victor Banerjee) and his best friend (Soumitra Chatterjee) in the chaotic aftermath of the partitioning of Bengal into Muslim and Hindu states. ‘The Public Enemy’ (1990), an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s play ‘An Enemy of the People’, depicts the deep-rooted superstition and ignorance that give rise to conflict in a small Indian town. |
BRITISH CINEMA ON DVD
I, DANIEL BLAKE (15) 2016 UK LOACH, KEN £19.99 Set in the North-East of England, 59-year-old joiner and widower Daniel Blake (Dave Johns) is forced to stop working and we follow him as he tries to navigate the British benefits system jumping through the bureaucratic hoops system puts in his way. |
DOCUMENTARIES ON DVDS
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LETTERS FROM BAGHDAD (PG) 2016 KRAYENBUHL,S/OELBAUM, Z £15.99
Tilda Swinton voices this documentary of Arabist Gertrude Bell, often
referred to as the female Lawrence of Arabia. She held extraordinary
power in the British Empire due to her knowledge and contacts in the
Middle East but seems to have been written out of history.
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LITERATURE ON DVD
THE CHILDHOOD OF A LEADER (12A) CORBET, BRADY £17.99
Loosely based on Jean-Paul Sartre's short story about a young American boy living a dysfunctional and unhappy childhood with his diplomat father in France just after the end of the First World War. Here he becomes seduced by fascism. |
NEW ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILMS ON DVDS
MOONLIGHT (15) 2016 JENKINS, BARRY DVD – £15.99 BLU RAY – £19.99
Set in a rough Miami neighbourhood, the film chronicles, from
early life to young adulthood, the life of poor African-American Chiron.
Chiron is a small withdrawn boy who is bullied at school and who
falls under the wings of drug dealer Juan. Juan tries to help Chiron
not to accept his lot in life. |
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