A New York Times top 100 Notable Book of the Year Alexander Bruno is a man with expensive problems Sporting a tuxedo & trotting the globe he has spent his adult life as a professional gambler His particular line of work backgammon at which he extracts large sums of money from men who think they can challenge his peerless acumen In Singapore his luck turned Maybe it had something to do with the Blot
- a black spot which has emerged to distort Bruno's vision It's not showing any signs of going away As Bruno extends his losing streak in Berlin it becomes clinically clear that the Blot is the symptom of something terrible There's a surgeon who can help but surgery is going to involve a lot of money & worse returning home to the garish hash-smoke streets of Berkeley California Here the unseemly Keith Stolarsky
- a childhood friend in possession of an empire of themed burger bars & thrift stores
- is king & he's willing to help Bruno out But there was always going to be a price


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Track Li&115;ting Crying for the Moon What in the World On the Wing&115; of the Morning The Wild River Land&115;lide Comin' Fortune'&115; Wheel God'&115; Gift An Act of Faith I Keep Getting in the Way Nothing to Write Home About ...

Los Angeles 1936 Kay Fischer a young ambitious architect is shadowed by Salvador Carriscant an enigmatic stranger claiming to be her father Within weeks of their first meeting Kay will join him for an extraordinary journey into the old man's past initially in search of a murderer but finally in celebration of a glorious undying love ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play The Blue Angel is one of the first German language sound films (filmed simultaneously in an English-language version) & the picture that represents the initial collaboration between Josef von Sternberg & his immortal muse Marlene Dietrich Following up his role in Sternberg&s great silent The Last Command Emil Jannings portrays a schoolteacher named Immanuel Rath whose fateful expedition to catch his students frequenting the cabaret known as " The Blue Angel" leads to his own rapture with the establishment&s main attraction Lola (Dietrich)
- & as a result triggers the downward spiral of his life & fortune Directed by Sternberg while on loan from America to the pioneering German producer Erich Pommer The Blue Angel is at once captivating devastating & powerfully erotic laced-through with Sternberg&s masterful cinematography From here the director & Dietrich would go on to make six more films together in the span of five years & leave a legacy of some of the most indelible iconography in the cinema of glamour & obsession The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present The Blue Angel in a new Dual Format presentation that incorporates both versions of the film in 1080p HD for the first time in the UK Actors Emil Jannings Marlene Dietrich Kurt Gerron Rosa Valetti Hans Albers Reinhold Bernt Eduard von Winterstein Hans Roth Rolf Muller Roland Varno Carl Balhaus Robert Klein-Lörk Charles Puffy Wilhelm Diegelmann & Gerhard Bienert Director Josef Von Sternberg Certificate PGYear 1930 Screen 1191 OARLanguages German Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 47 minutes (approx)
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Tracklist Narcotica Caught Crow Bewitch My Senses Son Of The Ocean Corona Delete My Ideals Secure Existence Street & Exile Darklands New Ghandi I Will Never ...

From the Booker Prize-winning author of Offshore' comes this unusual romance between the poet Novalis & his fiancee Sophie newly introduced by Candia Mc William The year is 1794 & Fritz passionate idealistic & brilliant is seeking his father's permission to announce his engagement to his heart's desire twelve-year-old Sophie His astounded family & friends are amused & disturbed by his betrothal What can he be thinking? Tracing the dramatic early years of the young German who was to become the great romantic poet & philosopher Novalis The Blue Flower' is a masterpiece of invention evoking the past with a reality that we can almost feel ...

The year is 1883 The stark Icelandic winter landscape is the backdrop We follow the priest Skugga-Baldur on his hunt for the enigmatic blue fox We're then transported to the world of the naturalist Friethrik B Friethriksson & his charge Abba who suffers from Down's syndrome & who came to his rescue when he was on the verge of disaster Then to a shipwreck off the Icelandic coast in the spring of 1868 The fates of Friethrik Abba & Baldur are intrinsically bound & unravelled in this spellbinding book that is part thriller part fairy tale ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Nora is a pretty telephone operator engaged to a soldier overseas On her birthday she gets a Dear John letter from him Feeling despondent she agrees to a date with a wolf from her office He gets her drunk & leads her back to his apartment where she resists his advances & bludgeons him in self-defense She flees leaving behind the blue gardenia he bought her The next morning she&s can&t remember the details of what happened ...

From John Banville one of the world's greatest writers comes The Blue Guitar a story of theft & the betrayal of friendship Adultery is always put in terms of thieving But we were happy together simply happy Oliver Orme used to be a painter well known & well rewarded but the muse has deserted him He is also as he confesses a petty thief; he does not steal for gain but for the thrill of it HIs worst theft is Polly the wife of his friend Marcus with whom he has had an affair When the affair is discovered Oliver hides himself away in his childhood home From here he tells the story of a year from one autumn to the next Many surprises & shocks await him & by the end of his story he will be forced to face himself & seek a road towards redemption Shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2016 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD region B Blu-ray & will require a region 2 or region free DVDBlu-ray player in order to play The lush beauty & splendour of a South Pacific paradise is vividly captured in this version of Henry De Vere Stacpoole&8217;s 1903 novel Two small children & a ship&8217;s cook survive a shipwreck & find safety on an idyllic tropical island Soon however the cook dies & the young boy & girl are left on their own Days become years & Emmeline (Brooke Shields) & Richard (Christopher Atkins) make a home for themselves surrounded by exotic creatures & nature&8217;s beauty They learn to cope with the bewildering variety of physical & emotional changes that come with adolescence As they begin to mature their childhood affections lead to a sensitive & more profound love But will they ever see civilisation again? Actors Brooke Shields Christopher Atkins Directors Randal Kleiser Format CDDVDLanguage English Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Region Region B2 (Read more about DVDBlu-ray formats) Aspect Ratio 169
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