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FRENCH DVDSUNE VIE/A WOMAN’S LIFE (12) 2016 FRANCE BRIZÉ, STÉPHANE DVD £15.99 BLU RAY £19.99
A powerful adaptation of Guy de Maupassant’s first novel ‘Une vie’.
Convent educated young woman, Jeanne, returns home full of childish
dreams and innocence. However on her marriage to Viscount Julien de
Lamare, her childish illusions are stripped away as she finds her
husband to be a miserly and adulterous partner, in this timeless story
of love, betrayal and anguish set in the repressive patriarchal world of
early 19th century Normandy. FRENCH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO UNE VIE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO UNE VIE |
GERMAN DVDS
DIE UNSICHTBAREN– WIR WOLLEN LEBEN/THE RESISTANCE (12) 2017 GERMANY RÄFLE, CLAUS £12.99 1943 and the Nazi’s have declared Berlin free of Jews. However this is far from the truth, 7000 Jews have successfully gone underground.
However four young Jews survive in the middle of Berlin by living so recklessly that they become "invisible."
The film tells the stories of four Jews living in wartime Berlin.
Hanni Lévy, who has just turned 17, has lost both of her parents. Thanks to her dyed, blonde hair, she is practically invisible to her pursuers, and strolls along the Ku'damm to pass the time away.
Cioma Schönhaus has also gone underground and leads an adventurous life that consists of buying a sailboat, dining in Berlin's best restaurants, and becoming a forger of passports, through which he saves the lives of dozens of other Jews.
Eugen Friede joins a resistance group that distributes anti government leaflets,
Ruth Arndt and a friend dream about life in America during the daytime; at night, she pretends to be a war widow and serves black-market gourmet foods in the apartment of an NS officer.
The dramatic re-enactments are intertwined with interviews with the actual people whose lives inspired this film. In German with English subtitles GERMAN LANGUAGE FILM S NOTES TO UNSICHTBAREN  |
SPANISH, PORTUGUESE AND
LATIN AMERICAN DVDS |
L COMMISSARIO MONTALBANO/ INSPECTOR MONTALBANO: COLLECTION EIGHT (15) ITALY £19.99
All four episodes from the eighth series of the Italian crime drama
based on the of novels by Andrea Camilleri. Salvo Montalbano comes
between two crime families who are battling for control of the Sicilian town
of Vigata.
The episodes are: ‘The Potter’s Field’, ‘The Dance of the Seagull’, ‘Treasure Hunt’ and ‘Age of Doubt’. |
ANDREI TARKOVSKY COLLECTION (15) RUSSIA (5021866837307) DVD - £62.99 BLU RAY - £71.99 This
features - Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror, Stalker, Nostalgia, The
Sacrifice and Ivan's Childhood along with many special features and a
177-page book. |
SCANDINAVIAN DVDS
BORG VS. MCENROE (15) 2017 SWEDEN PEDERSEN, JANUS METZ DVD - £9.99 BLU RAY - £15.99
Shia LaBeouf and Sverrir Gudnason star as tennis greats John McEnroe
and Björn Borg in this biographical drama about the pair's rivalry
during the 1980 Wimbledon Championships. |
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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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 |
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
DARKEST HOUR (PG) 2017 WRIGHT, JOE (5053083145415) £19.99 Gary Oldman plays British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in a crucial junction in World War II. |
DOCUMENTARIES ON DVDS
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 THE STORY OF FILM - AN ODYSSEY (15) 2011 COUSINS, MARK 5 DISCS £19.99
15 hour documentary series from director and film expert Mark Cousins, takes an in-depth look at the evolution of movies, from their tentative first steps to the multi-million dollar bluster of modern blockbusters. The 900 minutes documentary includes the following 15 episodes - 1 - Birth of the Cinema (1895-1918) 2 - The Hollywood Dream (1918-1928) 3 - The Golden Age of World Cinema (1918 - 1932) 4 - The Arrival of Sound (1930s) 5 - Post-War Cinema (1939-1945) 6 - Sex & Melodrama (1953-1957) 7 - European New Wave (1957-1964) 8 - New Directors, New Form (1965-1969) 9 - American Cinema of the 70s (1967-1979) 10- Movies to Change the World (1969-1979) 11- The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream 12- Fight the Power: Protest in Film (1980s) 13- New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America (1990-1998) 14- New American Independents & the Digital Revolution (1990s) 15- Cinema Today and the Future |
LITERATURE ON DVD
JOURNEY'S END (12) 2017 DIBB, SAUL £16.99 Saul Dibb directs this British war drama adapted from R. C. Sherriff's play. |
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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