Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play A widowed lawyer travels to a secluded village on an important assignment & encounters a vengeful ghost with mysterious motives After losing his beloved wife Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe) was nearly consumed by grief When an important client of Arthur&s dies he pulls himself out of mourning to settle the man&s affairs But in this town everyone has a secret Something horrible once happened here & it seems that the locals are determined to ensure Arthur never finds out what it was Now the more time Arthur spends in his client&s crumbling estate the more aware he becomes of a presence that isn&t quite human In this house dwells a woman&s ghost In life she lost something precious & now in death she&ll do whatever it takes to get it back Until she does anyone who dares enter this house is doomed Actors Daniel Radcliffe Sophie Stuckey Harmon Molly Emma Shorey Misha Handley Jessica Raine Roger Allam Lucy May Barker Indira Ainger Andy Robb Ciarán Hinds Shaun Dooley Mary Stockley Alexia Osborne & Alfie Field Director James Watkins Certificate 12 years & over Year 2012 Screen Widescreen Languages English
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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 A widowed lawyer travels to a secluded village on an important assignment & encounters a vengeful ghost with mysterious motives After losing his beloved wife Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe) was nearly consumed by grief When an important client of Arthur&s dies he pulls himself out of mourning to settle the man&s affairs But in this town everyone has a secret Something horrible once happened here & it seems that the locals are determined to ensure Arthur never finds out what it was Now the more time Arthur spends in his client&s crumbling estate the more aware he becomes of a presence that isn&t quite human In this house dwells a woman&s ghost In life she lost something precious & now in death she&ll do whatever it takes to get it back Until she does anyone who dares enter this house is doomed Actors Daniel Radcliffe Sophie Stuckey Harmon Molly Emma Shorey Misha Handley Jessica Raine Roger Allam Lucy May Barker Indira Ainger Andy Robb Ciarán Hinds Shaun Dooley Mary Stockley Alexia Osborne & Alfie Field Director James Watkins Certificate 12 years & over Year 2012 Screen Widescreen Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51)
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Ryan Reynolds & Helen Mirren star in this drama based on the real-life story of Maria Altmann & her legal campaign against the Austrian government Mirren plays Altmann who since fleeing Europe during the Second World War now lives in Los Angeles When the death of her sister leads to Altmann finding out that a portrait of her aunt painted by Gustav Klimt was stolen by the Nazis from her family home during the war & now hangs in the Belvedere Palace in Vienna she enlists the help of young lawyer Randy Schoenberg (Reynolds) & embarks on a legal campaign to reclaim her family&s losses ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Ryan Reynolds & Helen Mirren star in this drama based on the real-life story of Maria Altmann & her legal campaign against the Austrian government Mirren plays Altmann who since fleeing Europe during the Second World War now lives in Los Angeles When the death of her sister leads to Altmann finding out that a portrait of her aunt painted by Gustav Klimt was stolen by the Nazis from her family home during the war & now hangs in the Belvedere Palace in Vienna she enlists the help of young lawyer Randy Schoenberg (Reynolds) & embarks on a legal campaign to reclaim her family&s losses ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play In this American remake of the 1977 French farce Pardon Mon Affaire Teddy Pierce is a happily married man who gets into hot water when he becomes attracted to a beautiful model He begins to pursue the woman in red as his married buddies who are each unfaithful to their own wives cheer him on Teddy&s attempts to woo the model without his family finding out causes some comic confusion What makes the situation even more chaotic is a female co-worker who is attracted to Teddy & begins to pursue him ...

Richard Avedon redefined portrait & fashion photography in the 20th century In the 1940s Avedon burst onto the fashion scene infusing his photographs with touches of realism & the fantastic His images were among the first to replace the stiff poses of the past with energetic action scenes that commanded the pages of Harper&s Bazaar & Vogue magazines from the mid-&40s through the 1980s He took his models out of the studios & brought them to cafes & casinos posing them with well-dressed escorts His models nuzzled elephants stood amongst circus performers & leapt like gymnasts As his career progressed Avedon developped a deceptively simple studio portrait style which he would continue throughout his life With uncompromising directness he portrayed his subjects against a white background with no extraneous details to distract from the essential specificity of face gaze dress & gesture This challenging innovation coupled with the artist&s intense interest in his subjects & mastery of his craft resulted in mesmerizing portraits among them Marilyn Monroe Anna Magnani Suzy Parker Tina Turner Stephanie Seymour & many more ...

My life is free random & spontaneous This in itself creates enormous energy & clarity in body & mind
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' Woman much missed how you call to me call to me' After the death of his wife Emma a grief-stricken Hardy wrote some of the best verse of his career Moving & evocative it ranks among the greatest elegiac poetry in the language Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range & diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world & across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California & the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical & savage; poems epic & intimate; essays satirical & inspirational; & ideas that have shaped the lives of millions Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Hardy's works available in Penguin Classics are A Laodicean A Pair of Blue Eyes Desperate Remedies Far from the Madding Crowd Jude the Obscure Selected Poems Tess of the d' Urbervilles The Distracted Preacher & Other Tales The Fiddler of the Reels & Other Stories The Hand of Ethelberta The Mayor of Casterbridge The Pursuit of the Well-beloved & The Well-beloved The Return of the Native The Trumpet-Major The Withered Arm & Other Stories The Woodlanders Two on a Tower & Under the Greenwood Tree ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Femme Fatale supreme Joan Bennett & Oscar nominated Robert Ryan star in this haunting & compelling 1947 RKO psychological drama directed by the great Jean Renoir A traumatised war veteran Lt Scott Burnett (Robert Ryan) meets a strange & tormented couple living in an isolated beach house Tod Butler (Charles Bickford) is a once-famous artist who is now blind bitter & intensely jealous after an assault by his wife Peggy Butler (Joan Bennett) is a passionate & wayward woman who stays with her husband out of guilt but soon falls for the charms of the handsome Burnett Burnett spurns his fiancee (Nan Leslie) to start an affair with Peggy while her blind husband remains oblivious Or does he? Burnett starts to suspect that the artist is faking his blindness & as passions rise one of the tortured characters begins to have thoughts of murder Jean Renoir s last (and most controversial) American film this chilling & complex drama has now been digitally restored & remastered especially for this its first ever appearance on UK DVD ...

Often compared to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
- Woman on the Edge of Time has been hailed as a classic of speculative
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