Timothy Dalton plays James Bond for the first time in this instalment of the 007 franchise The action this time sees Bond running around various exotic places in pursuit of a couple of seedy dealers in arms drugs & diamonds Actors Timothy Dalton Maryam d& Abo Jeroen Krabbe Joe Don Baker Art Malik Directors John Glen Producers Albert R Broccoli Michael G Wilson Format PAL Language English Subtitles English Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe) Aspect Ratio 169
- 2351 Number of discs 2 Classification PG Studio MGM Entertainment DVD Release Date 20 Oct 2008 Run Time 126 minutes
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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 Dark brooding & haunting The Living Dead Girl is one of director Jean Rollin s most successful & powerful films Centring on two childhood friends (Françoise Blancard Marino Pierro) one of whom Catherine (Blanchard) dies & is brought partially back to life by the accidental spill of toxic chemicals which effectively zombify her & leave her with an overwhelming need for blood & human flesh Surprisingly moving & emotional in places The Living Dead Girl mixes extreme gore nudity & exploitative violence with an almost fairytale poignancy as Catherine struggles against the forces that are compelling her to kill in order to live Shown here fully uncut & newly remastered from the original negative ...

When well-meaning Jason discovers a disembodied finger that appears to be "alive" it quickly becomes the sole focus of his life He names the digit " Wendy" learns to communicate with it via "tap code" & discovers that the one thing Wendy wants more than anything else is a living breathing human body to attach to Just how far will Jason go to satisfy his ambulatory appendage? ...

In this masterpiece of nature writing Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times & shockingly harsh at others Her intense poetic prose explores & records the rocks rivers creatures & hidden aspects of this remarkable landscape Shepherd spent a lifetime in search of the 'essential nature' of the Cairngorms; her quest led her to write this classic meditation on the magnificence of mountains & on our imaginative relationship with the wild world around us Composed during the Second World War the manuscript of The Living Mountain lay untouched for more than thirty years before it was finally published ...

In The Living Stones the British surrealist painter & writer Ithell Colquhoun drifts through Cornwall in search of an artist's studio & sanctuary from the modern world Her finely wrought & learned observations of festivals fairs & druidic rituals quickly establish her as the reader's gnostic guide to the county She paints a land of ghosts pedlars borrowed saints & holy sites charmed wells & crumbling megaliths & finds in the city emigrants a prefiguring of hippie culture Above all Colquhoun connects us with the eerie numinous beauty of the Cornish countryside quietly insisting that we see the Cornwall she sees an ancient land of myth & legend ...

Even though his server the criminal Sein Yun sees compromising the singer as a ticket out of jail Teza befriends him risking falling into the trap of forbidden conversation food & the most dangerous contraband of all paper & pen Lastly there's Little Brother an orphan child growing up inside the walls 448 pages Connelly Karen ...

Todays beautifully scenic LLangollen Railway runs over a ten mile section of the former Ruabon Junction to Barmouth route that was absorbed into the Great Western Railway in 1877 The line originally opened to freight traffic as far as Llangollen in December 1861 with passenger train services commencing early in June the following year The current day section of the heritage line to Corwen was opened to traffic on 1st May 1865 by which time a larger & more centrally located station had been constructed in Llangollen Closure by British Railways came about in 1964 as a result of the infamous report of Dr Beeching which had been commissioned by the government of the day in order to study potential rationalisation of the rail network in Britain In the early 1960s standard gauge railway preservation was very much in its infancy in Britain although there were a number of narrow gauge preservation concerns up & running in Wales so the idea of a dedicated band of enthusiasts restoring & operating services along no longer commercially viable stretches of line had already become established The beginnings of a Preservation Society in this corner of Wales came about in 1975 when the whole process which has eventually resulted in what exists today started with the humble presence of a band of enthusiastic volunteers taking over the occupancy of Llangollen Station in order to start the process of restoration & reconstruction Over the ensuing years progress was made with the gradual extension of the line from initial running within the station limits at Llangollen to Corwen where a temporary station is currently in use whilst a new purpose built station is constructed The position of the Llangollen Railway as one of Britain's leading heritage lines is clear to see from the images included in this edition of the Recollections series of publications which captures the character of this preserved section of the former Great Western Railway in Wales ...

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- Thirds Pleasure Dig Where Dat's At! St Margaret's Church Effervescence Warmth Of A Sunny Day ...

A rural working class New England town elects as its mayor a New York hedge fund millionaire in this urgent & inspired novel for our times Mark Firth is a home builder in Howland Massachusetts who after being swindled by a financial advisor feels opportunity passing him & his family by What future can he promise to his wife Karen & their young daughter Haley? When a wealthy money manager Philip Hadi moves to Howland to escape post-911 New York he hires Mark to turn his his house into a secure location The collision of these two men's very different worlds -- rural vs urban middle class vs rich -- propels Jonathan Dee's powerful new novel After the town's first selectman passes away suddenly Hadi runs for office & begins subtly transforming the town in his image with unexpected results for Mark & his extended family THE LOCALS is that rare work of fiction capable of capturing a fraught American moment in real time It is also a novel that is timeless in its depiction of American small town life ...

Rethinking questions of identity social agency & national affiliation Bhabha provides a working if controversial theory of cultural hybridity
- one that goes far beyond previous attempts by others In The Location of Culture he uses concepts such as mimicry interstice hybridity & liminality to argue that cultural production is always most productive where it is most ambivalent Speaking in a voice that combines intellectual ease with the belief that theory itself can contribute to practical political change Bhabha has become one of the leading post-colonial theorists of this era
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