A Sunday Times top ten bestseller An exploration of suburbia from music icon Tracey Thorn; singer-songwriter & bestselling author of Bedsit Disco Queen 224 pages Thorn Tracey ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Ealing tragi-comedy set in post-war Dublin Robert Beatty stars as Gulliver Sheils an impoverished young daydreamer who harbours a fantasy of emigrating to Tahiti To this end he hatches the ingenious plan of loitering on a particularly dangerous street corner in the hope that he might be able to save a wealthy person from having a traffic accident the idea being that said person might subsequently offer him a financial reward However just as it looks as though his dreams might come true his feelings for local beauty Jennifer (Moira Lister) get the better of him & his fantasies of a South Seas island are nipped in the bud ...

One of the seminal works from the writer who defined modern comics Alan Moore is re-mastered for the first time in breathtakingly vibrant color! Alan Moore’s performance works making up the play Another Suburban Romance are translated into print & lavishly illustrated as full sequential stories Comprised of three major pieces adapted from Moore’s original presentations by frequent collaborator Antony (Fashion Beast) Johnston this original graphic novel is completely illustrated by Juan Jose Ryp Running from the 1920’s Chicago style killings in Old Gangsters Never Die to the ruminations on modern life in the namesake piece Another Suburban Romance this powerful work is an essential piece of the Alan Moore graphic novel library that no fan will want to miss! ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A powerful searing adult drama examining the life of an accomplished philosophy professor teetering on the brink of self-understanding Actors Gena Rowlands Mia Farrow Ian Holm Blythe Danner Gene Hackman Directors Woody Allen Writers Woody Allen Producers Charles H Joffe Helen Robin Jack Rollins Robert Greenhut Thomas A Reilly Format PAL Colour Anamorphic Widescreen Mono Language Spanish English German French Subtitles Dutch French Italian Portuguese Spanish English Dubbed French German Spanish Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English German Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Aspect Ratio 169
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play United Kingdom released PALRegion 2 DVD LANGUAGES English (Dolby Digital 51 ) English (Subtitles ) WIDESCREEN (2351) SPECIAL FEATURES Cast Crew Interview (s) Interactive Menu Scene Access Trailer (s) SYNOPSIS Class consciousness has frequently played a role in Mike Leigh&s films & not only because as a storyteller whose native terrain is modern Britain he can hardly hope to avoid it & sure enough the observant viewer of his splendidly rich & wise new feature & Another Year& will notice the shadows that an always-evolving system of social hierarchy casts over the passage of the seasons (& We&re all graduates& one character reminds another with the prickly pride of belonging to the first generation to receive a university education in an era of expanded opportunity) But in this movie as in its immediate precursor & Happy-Go-Lucky& Mr Leigh is also after a more elusive & troubling form of injustice one that is almost cosmically mysterious even as it penetrates & sometimes threatens to poison the relationships that make up everyday life Like & Happy-Go-Lucky& though on a somewhat larger scale & Another Year& is about the unequal distribution of happiness Why do some people
- like Tom & Gerri the post-&60s 60-something couple at the center of this episodic story
- seem to have an inexhaustible even superabundant supply while others seem unable to acquire even the smallest portion? Can happiness be borrowed stolen or inherited? Is it earned by meritorious works or granted by the obscure operations of grace? These may sound like silly abstract questions but they could hardly be more serious or more relevant Here in America after all the pursuit of happiness has the status of a foundational right coincident but not quite identical with material prosperity In Britain where dourness can seem Another Year (Untitled Mike Leigh Project )

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There is no other designer quite like Anouska Hempel & this volume is both a celebration of her achievement & an intimate insight into it Here is a designer whose vision & creative flair know no bounds whose interiors & landscapes are truly incomparable The book is divided into thirteen chapters each highlighting one of her many stunning achievements There is Beluga Hempels own opulent yacht masquerading as a black-sailed pirate ship; the luxurious interiors & perfectly manicured gardens of Cole Park the quintessential English country house; the clean lines of the Grosvenor House Apartments in Mayfair; & more With over 400 stunning colour photographs of interiors architecture & gardens this beautiful volume is itself a masterwork of art a joy for lovers of distinctive design & an essential reference for design professionals ...

Original Trilogy Stormtrooper Helmet This offering is available as a Pre Made replica All ready to wear Utilizing the best features of the various helmets made for the original Star Wars trilogy this offering consists of the following features Gloss white ABS construction Distinctive asymmetry an artifact of the h&-sculpted screen-used pieces created for the original production of 1977’s STAR WARS™ EPISODE IV A NEW HOPE with replicated h&-painted style decoration Flat lenses for optimum visibility Details matched from existing artifacts ...

The work of Anselm Kiefer begins with a crucial question How after the Holocaust can one be an artist within the German tradition? Born at the end of the Second World War Kiefer&s career represents a quasi-existential quest to redefine Germanness This new monograph will examine the foundation of Kiefer&s work memory & our response to it Kiefer&s work is informed by great literary works myths tales & legends & particularly the world of Kabbalistic mysticism This book explores his passion for alchemy his admiration for great female figures obscured by history & his relationship with the landscape & nature a notable topic of his most recent works Steeped in culture Kiefer mixes many forms & media The &total work of art& has characterized his work for more than four decades Art historian Dominique Baque highlights an aspect of Kiefer&s work here that has received very little critical attention before now his conceptual understanding of the book & photography She also considers the often overlooked performance element of his work starting with his first &actions& from the end of the 1960s ...

Among the many configuration management tools available Ansible has some distinct advantages-it's minimal in nature you don't need to install anything on your nodes & it has an easy learning curve With this updated second edition you'll learn how to be productive with this tool quickly whether you're a developer deploying code to production or a system administrator looking for a better automation solution Authors Lorin Hochstein & Rene Moser show you how to write playbooks (Ansible's configuration management scripts) manage remote servers & explore the tool's real power built-in declarative modules You'll discover that Ansible has the functionality you need-and the simplicity you desire Manage Windows machines & automate network device configuration Manage your fleet from your web browser with Ansible Tower Understand how Ansible differs from other configuration management systems Use the YAML file format to write your own playbooks Work with a complete example to deploy a non-trivial application Deploy applications to Amazon EC2 & other cloud platforms Create Docker images & deploy Docker containers with Ansible This book is best read start to finish with later chapters building on earlier ones Because it's written in a tutorial style you can follow along on your own machine Most examples focus on web applications ...

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