Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Jared Hess makes an unforgettable directorial debut with NAPOLEON DYNAMITE a hilarious tender & original portrait of a truly eccentric character Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder) is a high-school outcast in every sense of the word More interested in playing tetherball by himself & drawing pictures of his favourite animal the &liger& (a combination of a lion & a tiger) Napoleon is ignored by everyone in his tiny hometown of Preston Idaho At home things aren&t much better His uber-nerd older brother Kip (Aaron Ruell) & ultra-vain Uncle Rico (Jon Gries) are too busy with their own obsessions to give Napoleon the time of day It isn&t until a new student Pedro (Efren Ramirez) arrives that Napoleon finds friendship & performs an act of brave defiance that makes him a true hero Written by Hess & his wife Jerusha NAPOLEON DYNAMITE brilliantly captures the awkwardness of high school without succumbing to condescension Most of this can be attributed to Heder who steps into Napoleon&s moon boots with a jaw-dropping flawlessness The rest of the cast is just as natural underplaying their roles & letting the comedy unfold without forcing any of the jokes Add a hilarious soundtrack of 1980s hits & you have an instant classic a crowd-pleasing riot that has an undeniably universal appeal ...

NOW A MAJOR BBC2 TV SERIESAWARDED THE PRIX DU JURY DES GRANDS PRIX DE LA FONDATION NAPOLEON 2014 From Andrew Roberts author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Storm of War this is the definitive modern biography of Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives In the space of just twenty years from October 1795 when as a young artillery captain he cleared the streets of Paris of insurrectionists to his final defeat at the (horribly mismanaged) battle of Waterloo in June 1815 Napoleon transformed France & Europe After seizing power in a coup d'etat he ended the corruption & incompetence into which the Revolution had descended In a series of dazzling battles he reinvented the art of warfare; in peace he completely remade the laws of France modernised her systems of education & administration & presided over a flourishing of the beautiful ' Empire style' in the arts The impossibility of defeating his most persistent enemy Great Britain led him to make draining & ultimately fatal expeditions into Spain & Russia where half a million Frenchmen died & his Empire began to unravel More than any other modern biographer Andrew Roberts conveys Napoleon's tremendous energy both physical & intellectual & the attractiveness of his personality even to his enemies He has walked 53 of Napoleon's 60 battlefields & has absorbed the gigantic new French edition of Napoleon's letters which allows a complete re-evaluation of this exceptional man He overturns many received opinions including the myth of a great romance with Josephine she took a lover immediately after their marriage & as Roberts shows he had three times as many mistresses as he acknowledged Of the climactic Battle of Leipzig in 1813 as the fighting closed around them a French sergeant-major wrote ' No-one who has not experienced it can have any idea of the enthusiasm that burst forth among the half-starved exhausted soldiers when the Emperor was there in person If all were demoralised & he appeared his presence was like an electric shock All shouted Vive l' Empereur! & everyone charged blindly into the fire' The reader of this biography will understand why this was so ...

Napoleon&s Last Battles is an operational level simulation of the battles which comprised the Campaign of 1815 in Belgium which was the culmination of Napoleon&s brief hundred-day reign after his return from exile on the island of Elba The four battles are Ligny Quatre Bras Wavre & Waterloo ...

From Dragon ball Z NAPPA as a stylized pop vinyl from Funko Figure stands 3 34 inches & comes in a window display box Check out the other Dragon ball Z figures from Funko Collect them all! ...

When Kokone sleeps she dreams of Heartland a place full of technology & warring machines where she&s the Princess Ancien who possesses magical powers But when events in her dreams & real life start to intersect Kokone has to run from bad guys in both worlds Will her dreams provide a way out or get her into deeper trouble? The light novel of Napping Princess will be available May 2018! About the Author Kenji Kamiyama is known for his work as the director of Ghost in the Shell & Eden of the East The anime film titled Ancien & the Magic Tablet inspired the manga adaptation & was screened at the New York International Children&s Film Festival 2017 Hana Ichika is the artist of Napping Princess ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play In this cinematic concert mesmerizing images are plucked from everyday reality then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques The result is a chronicle of the shift from a world organized by the principles of nature to one dominated by technology the synthetic & the virtual Extremes of intimacy & spectacle tragedy & hope fuse in a tidal wave of visuals & music giving rise to a unique artistic experience that reflects the vision of a brave new globalized world Actors Marlon Brando Bella Donna Elton John Julia Louis-Dreyfus Madonna Bhagwan Mirchandani Jack Shamblin Steven Soderbergh Troy Aikman The Beatles Osama bin Laden Fidel Castro & Warren Christopher Director Godfrey Reggio Certificate PGYear 2002 Languages English ...

With a pulsing Philip Glass soundtrack graced by the beautiful cello music of Yo-Yo Ma Godfrey Reggio's NAQOYQATSI is the final instalment of his Qatsi trilogy which also

Includes:: KOYAANISQATSI & POWAQQATSI In this film computer-enhanced imagery rolls across the screen to the tune of the Glass concert music NAQOYQATSI makes a departure from the previous films which centred on the often cruel but always fascinating struggle for survival on Earth This film focuses mostly on technology industry & our increasingly machine-operated world focusing on the United States Not only are its images largely computer-generated the film is in itself about computer-generated images Strings of numbers swirl into a tunnel of black & green code rainbow-coloured Windows icons flash across the screen & a glowing computerised globe twirls in programmed perfection More natural imagery such as a horse running oceans waves crashing or soldiers sounding off in formation is displayed in computer-edited negative While the visuals start to look like stock photography their generic nature communicates another message about the narrowing of our vision as technology & industry facilitate the conversion to a more efficient systemised productivity driven global society

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Nara lives with her father on a tiny island & dreams of visiting the island across the waves So when she gets the opportunity to visit this mysterious place an amazing adventure unfolds This stunning story is the debut of exciting author-illustrator talent Dan Ungureanu ...

In Narabi players are dealt 3-4 cards at the start of the round with those cards bearing either a blank or a number from 0 to 9 Each card is sleeved & within the sleeve on its back is a rule explaining how this card can be swapped with another card swap it with a red card a card with an even number a card with a higher number & so on You can look at all the rules on cards in front of you but you cannot communicate to others what those rules are You cannot change the order of cards in front of you On a turn a player must swap one of their cards (following that card&s rule) with another player&s card then someone records that move on a chart Blanks are considered to be 0 & an even number for the purpose of swaps When one of your cards is swapped you can look at the rule on the card you receive You can suggest moves to others or ask questions of them & they can respond with "yes" or "no" answers as long as they don&t identify the rule on any of their cards If you place all the numbers in numerical order (disregarding blanks) in either clockwise or counterclockwise order before you would need to make a 25th move you all win the game Your team&s score is " Great" " Good" " Horrible" etc based on how many moves it took you to win If you don&t win then you must all be worse than horrible which is very bad indeed In the game&s expert mode you cannot speak at all & you cannot undo a player&s swap on your next turn Players 3-5 Playing time 1-15 mins Ages 10 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Jason Patric & Ray Liotta deliver edgy driven performances in this compelling crime drama Nick Tellis (Patric) is a suspended narcotics officer recruited to investigate the murder of Michael Calvess a rookie cop killed under mysterious circumstances Tellis is teamed with Calvess&s partner Henry Oak (Liotta) a hot-tempered renegade who&ll stop at nothing to avenge his friend&s death As Tellis & Oak follow a shadowy trail through the seamy drug underworld the lines start to blur
- between right & wrong good & evil & justice & revenge Actors Ray Liotta Jason Patric Dan Leis Lloyd Adams Chi Mc Bride & Booth Savage Director Joe Carnahan Certificate 18 years & over Year 2002 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 40 minutes (approx)

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