Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play " We were somewhere around Barstow when the drugs began to take hold" It is 1971 journalist Raoul Duke barrels towards Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race accompanied by a trunkful of contraband & his slightly unhinged Samoan attorney Dr Gonzo But what is ostensibly a cut-&-dry journalistic endeavor quickly descends into a feverish psychedelic odyssey & an excoriating dissection of the American way of life Director Terry Gilliam & an all star cast (headed by Johnny Depp & Benicio Del Torro) show no mercy bringing Dr Hunter S Thompson&s legendary Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas to the screen creating a film both hilarious & savage Gilliam took over the reigns as director after Alex Cox (Repo Man) left the production due to creative differences Gilliam quickly re-wrote the screenplay in its entirety to fit his unique creative vision & style while staying true to Thompson&s writings Actors Johnny Depp Benicio Del Toro Tobey Maguire Ellen Barkin Gary Busey Christina Ricci Cameron Diaz Craig Bierko Lyle Lovett Flea Harry Dean Stanton Christopher Meloni Jenette Goldstein Michael Jeter & Hunter S Thompson Director Terry Gilliam Certificate 18 years & over Year 1998 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English for the hard of hearing ; Norwegian ; Finnish ; Danish ; Swedish Duration 1 hour & 53 minutes (approx)
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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 " We were somewhere around Barstow when the drugs began to take hold" It is 1971 journalist Raoul Duke barrels towards Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race accompanied by a trunkful of contraband & his slightly unhinged Samoan attorney Dr Gonzo But what is ostensibly a cut-&-dry journalistic endeavor quickly descends into a feverish psychedelic odyssey & an excoriating dissection of the American way of life Director Terry Gilliam & an all star cast (headed by Johnny Depp & Benicio Del Torro) show no mercy bringing Dr Hunter S Thompson&s legendary Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas to the screen creating a film both hilarious & savage Gilliam took over the reigns as director after Alex Cox (Repo Man) left the production due to creative differences Gilliam quickly re-wrote the screenplay in its entirety to fit his unique creative vision & style while staying true to Thompson&s writings Actors Johnny Depp Benicio Del Toro Tobey Maguire Ellen Barkin Gary Busey Christina Ricci Cameron Diaz Craig Bierko Lyle Lovett Flea Harry Dean Stanton Christopher Meloni Jenette Goldstein Michael Jeter & Hunter S Thompson Director Terry Gilliam Certificate 18 years & over Year 1998 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English for the hard of hearing ; Norwegian ; Finnish ; Danish ; Swedish Duration 1 hour & 53 minutes (approx)
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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 In 1971 journalist Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) & his companion Dr Gonzo (Benicio Del Toro) arrive in Las Vegas ostensibly so Raoul can cover the Mint 400 off-track race The duo embark on a massive drugs binge checking into the Mint hotel before visiting the Bazzoka Circus casino while high on ether The hedonistic weekend continues the following day with Raoul & Gonzo meeting various way-out characters along the way Watch out for cameos by Cameron Diaz Christina Ricci & Gary Busey in Terry Gilliam's visually stunning adaptation of Hunter S Thompson's cult novel ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A triple-bill of comedies & Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas& (1998) Terry Gilliam&s visually stunning adaptation of Hunter S Thompson&s cult novel finds journalist Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) & his companion Dr Gonzo (Benicio Del Toro) arriving in Las Vegas ostensibly so Raoul can cover the Mint 400 off-track race The duo embark on a massive drugs binge checking into the Mint hotel before visiting the Bazzoka Circus casino while high on ether The hedonistic weekend continues the following day with Raoul & Gonzo meeting various way-out characters along the way In & The Big Lebowski& (1998) Jeff &the Dude& Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) is a bowling buff laid-back to the point of horizontal who gets mixed up in a blackmail plot involving a millionaire namesake Roped into delivering the ransom to secure the release of the millionaire&s kidnapped wife the Dude&s karmic balance is really put in a spin when his gun-toting buddy Walter (John Goodman) decides to help out Finally the Coen brothers crime comedy & Burn After Reading& (2008) concerns the whereabouts of a sensitive disc containing the incriminating memoirs of alcoholic CIA agent Osbourne Cox (John Malkovich) Cox&s wife Katie (Tilda Swinton) who is having an affair with married federal marshall Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney) is making plans to leave her husband & is advised by her divorce lawyer to copy his personal files onto a disc The disc finds its way via a circuitous route to the Hardbodies fitness gym where two unscrupulous employees Linda (Frances Mc Dormand) & Chad (Brad Pitt) decide to exploit their find for all they can get Events soon spiral out of everyone&s control in a cascading series of surreal & darkly comic encounters & misunderstandings ...

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& Ingenious With great delicacy Nothomb updates the age-old divide between East & West in this delectable little book& O The Oprah Magazine Amelie a well-intentioned & eager young westerner goes to Japan to spend a year working at the Yumimoto Corporation Returning to the land where she was born is the fulfilment of a dream for Amelie but once there her working life quickly becomes a comic nightmare of terror & self-abasement Disturbing hilarious & totally convincing Fear & Trembling displays an elegant & shrewd understanding of the intricate ways in which Japanese relationships are made & spoiled &A vituperatively funny attack on an alien culture& Daily Telegraph& Nothomb is the latest enfant terrible of French letters
- she has an acidic yet passionately romantic view of human nature& Elle&A scathingly funny novella& Newsday
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In Fear & Trembling Soren Kierkegaard's infamous & controversial work made a lasting impression on both modern Protestant theology & existentialist philosophers such as Sartre & Camus This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Danish with an introduction by Alistair Hannay Writing under the pseudonym of ' Johannes de silentio' Kierkegaard expounds his personal view of religion through a discussion of the scene in Genesis in which Abraham prepares to sacrifice his son Isaac at God's command Believing Abraham's unreserved obedience to be the essential leap of faith needed to make a full commitment to his religion Kierkegaard himself made great sacrifices in order to dedicate his life entirely to his philosophy & to God The conviction shown in this religious polemic
- that a man can have an exceptional mission in life
- informed all Kierkegaard's later writings His 'teleological suspension of the ethical' challenged the contemporary views of Hegel's universal moral system & was also hugely influential for both protestant theology & the existentialist movement Alastair Hannay's introduction evaluates Kierkegaard's philosophy & the ways in which it conflicted with more accepted contemporary views This edition also

Includes:: detailed notes to complement this groundbreaking analysis of religion & a new chronology Danish-born Scren Kierkegaard (1813-55) wrote on a wide variety of themes including religion psychology & literature He is remembered for his philosophy which pioneered the idea of the Absurd & was influential & in the development of 20th century existentialism His other works include The Sickness unto Death Either Or & Papers & Journals all of which are available in Penguin Classics If you enjoyed Fear & Trembling you might like Kierkegaard's The Sickness unto Death also available in Penguin Classics



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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 After a tragedy shatters their lives & leaves them with crippling phobias five people decide to seek treatment from Dr Andover (Robert Englund) who works to cure patients by placing them inside his Fear Chamber Once inside his invention patients are put into complete isolation & must face their worst fears in nightmarish hallucinations However soon after treatment & outside the confines of the chamber they discover their fears are not only still there but are more real than ever ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Want to see a really killer website? It&s the last site you&ll ever see A series of bloody stragely similar deaths force New York City detective Mike Reilly (Dorff) & beautiful health examiner Terry Houston (Mc Elhone) together to investigate the mysterious crimes The only link between the victims is their visit to a sick voyeristic website To find the mad killer who created the site Mike & Terry are forced to log on
- into a horrifying netherworld of nightmare hallucinations & murder without mercy Actors Stephen Dorff Natascha Mc Elhone Stephen Rea Udo Kier Jeffrey Combs Nigel Terry & Michael Sarrazin Director William Malone Certificate 18 years & over Year 2002 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English ; Hungarian ; Italian
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles Arabic ; Croatian ; Czech ; Danish ; Dutch ; English ; Finnish ; Greek ; Hebrew ; Hindi ; Hungarian ; Icelandic ; Italian ; Norwegian ; Polish ; Portugese ; Slovenian ; Swedish ; Turkish Duration 1 hour & 37 minutes (approx)

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