Films

Films

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  Ione or the Last Days of Pompeii (Jone, O Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei)

  Friday 13 September 2013, 18.30
  Stevenson Lecture Theatre
  £3, Members/concessions £2
  
  From the vaults of the British National Film Archive, and with live musical accompaniment, this early screen adaptation of Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novel plays out over Pompeii’s last days. It is a dark tale of lovers beset by seduction, murder and cosmic punishment.
  
  Introduced by Maria Wyke
  Directors: Giovanni Enrico Vidali, Ublado Maria del Colle
  Italy, 1913, 64 mins, with English titles
  
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  Papa Hedi

  Sunday 30 June 2013, 11.00-12.30
  Stevenson Lecture Theatre
  Free, booking essential
  
  Hedi Jouini has been described as the Frank Sinatra of the Arab world and remains one of Tunisia's best-loved musicians. Claire Belhassine was in her 20s and living in London when she discovered that Jouini was her grandfather. This film charts Claire's journey as she unravels the story of her grandfather's legacy within Tunisian popular culture and the divisive effects his success had on her own family.
  
  Followed by a Q&A session with Claire Belhassine.
  
  In association with Shubbak – A Window on Contemporary Arab Culture. 

  
  

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  Pompeii: The Last Day

  Saturday 6 July 2013, 14.00
  Stevenson Lecture Theatre
  Free, booking advised
  
  Drawing on fresh research in volcanology and using CGI, this award-winning BBC documentary vividly displays the main stages of the terrifying eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, and the consequences for people whose lives and deaths have been reconstructed from the bodies found at the site.
  
  Introduced by Maria Wyke.
  Director: Peter Nicholson
  UK, 2003, 50 mins
  
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  The Last Days of Pompeii (Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei)

  Saturday 11 May 2013, 14.00
  BP Lecture Theatre
  Free, booking advised
  
  A sword-and-sandals epic set in Pompeii, based on the Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel. American bodybuilder Steve Reeves plays Glaucus, a Roman legionary intent on avenging his father’s death. Along the way he wrestles a crocodile, stabs a lion, and comes to the aid of a persecuted Christian community.
  
  Introduced by Maria Wyke.
  Directors: Mario Bonnard, Sergio Leone
  1959, 93 mins, Cert. PG
  
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