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NEW WORLD CINEMA DVD RELEASES
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FRENCH DVDS
LA DOULEUR /MEMOIR OF WAR (12) FRANCE 2017 FINKIEL, EMMANUEL £15.99Based on Marguerite Duras’ ‘La douleur’, the film tells the wartime story of Duras’ husband Robert Antelme, a communist resistance fighter who was arrested by the Germans in 1944 and sent to a Nazi concentration camp. Duras begins a relationship with French Gestapo agent, Pierre Rabier, in an effort to find her husband. But does Rabier really want to help her? Or is he trying to dig up information about the anti-Nazi underground? FRENCH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO LA DOULEUR ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO LA DOULEUR |
GERMAN DVDS
WERK OHNE AUTOR/NEVER LOOK AWAY (15) 2018 GERMANY DONNERSMARCK, FLORIAN HENCKEL VON DVD – £17.99 BLU RAY – £21.99A historical drama that explores the complexity of 20th century Germany and is loosely based on the painter Gerhard Richter. The films cover the three decades from the 1930s to the 1960s in the life of painter Kurt Barnert. Starting with the 1937 Nazis’ Degenerate Art exhibition which the young Kurt attends, the films follow Kurt as he finds employment as an artist in East Germany after the war. However finding the artistic restrictions placed on him just as overbearing as the Nazi regime, he moves to West Germany as penniless artist in 1961. Admitted to the avant-garde Kunstakademie Dusseldorf his career takes off. |
SPANISH, PORTUGUESE AND
LATIN AMERICAN DVDSDOLOR Y GLORIA/PAIN & GLORY (15) 2019 SPAIN ALMODÓVAR, PEDRO DVD – £12.99 BLU RAY – £19.99 Antonio Banderas stars Salvador an aging film director struggling with his health and creative inspiration. He recalls his memories as a young boy and his relationship with his mother, Jacinta, his experiments with heroin and discovering his sexuality. The film is part an autobiography of Pedro Almodóvar’s life and part fiction. |
L’AMICA GENIALE /MY BRILLIANT FRIEND (12) 2018 ITALY DVD – £23.99 BLU RAY – £28.99
All eight episodes of the Italian miniseries based on Elena Ferrante’s novel. Set in an impoverished Naples of the 1950s, two young girls, Elena and Lila, form a life long friendship.
Years later, Elena, now in her 60s, receives a phone call informing
her of Lila’s disappearance and begins to reflect on their friendship. |
SUNSET (15) 2018 HUNGARY NEMES , LÁSZLÓ £15.99
1913, with war looming over Europe, Írisz Leiter travels from Trieste to Budapest to see the shop her late parents once owned.
While she is in Budapest, Írisz becomes aware that she has a brother and she sets out to find him. |
SCANDINAVIAN DVDS
GIRLS LOST (15) 2016 SWEDEN KEINING, ALEXANDRA-THERESE £10.99
After drinking the curious nectar that drips from a mysterious plant, best friends Kim, Bella and Momo magically transform into boys. Geeky girls by day and popular boys by night they find themselves living in two completely different worlds. |
EUROPEAN CINEMA
LISTED BY TOPIC
A 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.
 FRANCE IN WWII LE SILENCE DE LA MER (PG) 1949 FRANCE MELVILLE, J.P. £19.99 |
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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.
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AFRICAN/MIDDLE EASTERNMEDITERRANEAN DVDS
CAPERNAUM (15) 2018 LEBANON LABAKI, NADINE DVD £15.99 BLU RAY – £19.99
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, the film
follows a 12-year-old Lebanese boy, Zain, living on the streets caring
for a baby.
After serving a prison sentence, Zain sues his parents for the “crime” of giving him life.
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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.
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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.
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IRANIAN DVDS
TEHRAN TABOO (15) 2017 IRAN SOOZANDEH, ALI £15.99
Animated drama in which a group of strangers with their own separate paths each take risks in order to break away from their oppressive lives in an Islamic society. A woman wants nothing more than to work despite the protests of her husband, a mother takes desperate measures to provide for her son and an aspiring musician attempts to release an album despite its contradictions of Islamic values. They must carry out their lives in secrecy if they are to both keep themselves alive and find happiness. |
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.
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DOCUMENTARIES ON DVDS
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THROUGH LOTTE'S LENS - THE STORY OF THE HITLER ÉMIGRÉS (E) 2018 BRITTEN, TONY £12.99
Told through the portal of Austrian portrait photographer; Lotte Meitner-Graf, we find out about ‘Hitler Émigrés’, the refugees – mainly Jewish who escaped the Nazi regime in the 1930s and found refuge in the UK. Although many of the German speaking Jewish refugees where interned on the Isle of Man after war broke out in 1939, they eventual went on to enrich the cultural, political and scientific landscape of Post war Britain with a shared a belief in the power of democracy and a loyalty to the country that had welcomed them. |
LITERATURE ON DVD
JOURNEY'S END (12) 2017 DIBB, SAUL £16.99 Set during WWI and adapted from the R. C. Sherriff's play, the film follows new recruit Raleigh who joins up with his prospective brother-in-law Captain Stanhope. The officers do their best to keep up moral of the company, all the while knowing the regiment could be sent out into the field at any time with no reinforcements and little hope of survival.
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NEW ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILMS ON DVDS
I AM NOT A WITCH (12A) 2017 ZAMBIA RUNGANO, NYONI £12.99
This Zambian film contains elements of magical realist drama, deadpan
satire and feminist allegory. Nine-year-old Zambian Shula is exiled to a
witch camp after one of her fellow villagers claims she is a witch. At
the camp local official decides she is his little witch and parades her
around local TV stations, lining his pockets with any fees.
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