Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play New Iberia Louisiana Detective Dave Robicheaux (Tommy Lee Jones) is on the hunt for a serial killer who preys on young women Driving home from another gruesome crime scene Dave meets glamorous Hollywood star Elrod Sykes (Peter Sarsgaard) Sykes is in town shooting his new movie with backing from local crime kingpin Baby Feet Balboni (John Goodman) He tells Dave he saw a body lying in a swamp
- the decomposed corpse of a black man in chains The discovery brings memories hurtling out of Dave&s past He senses the two cases are linked But as Dave gets closer to the murderer the murderer gets closer to Dave & his family Actors Tommy Lee Jones John Goodman Peter Sarsgaard Kelly Macdonald Mary Steenburgen Justina Machado Ned Beatty & James Gammon Director Bertrand Tavernier Certificate 15 years & over Year 2009 Screen 169 Anamorphic Languages English Duration 1 hour & 57 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 A detective tracking a serial killer who preys on young women finds his investigation complicated by a glamorous Hollywood starlet & a ruthless crime kingpin in director Bertrand Tavernier&s adaptation of the James Lee Burke novel In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead Jerzy Kromolowski Mary Olson-Kromolowski & Tommy Lee Jones collaborate on the screenplay for the film which stars Jones John Goodman Peter Sarsgaard Ned Beatty & Tom Sizemore Actors Tommy Lee Jones John Goodman Peter Sarsgaard Kelly Macdonald Mary Steenburgen Justina Machado Ned Beatty & James Gammon Director Bertrand Tavernier Certificate 15 years & over Year 2009 Screen 169 Anamorphic Languages English Duration 1 hour & 57 minutes (approx) ...

For five years Sapphire has been the King of Sari's most treasured concubine Independent at last she refuses to put herself in anyone's control again But now another's scheming has led her into the path of proud arrogant Wulfric Crown Prince of the rival kingdom of D' Ashier a man who is dangerous to her in every way 368 pages Day Sylvia ...

The leading art theorist takes on art in the age of the Internet In the early twentieth century art & its institutions came under critique from a new democratic & egalitarian spirit The notion of works of art as sacred objects was decried & subsequently they would be understood merely as things This meant an attack on realism as well as on the traditional preservative mission of the museum Acclaimed art theorist Boris Groys argues this led to the development of "direct realism" an art that would not produce objects but practices (from performance art to relational aesthetics) that would not survive But for more than a century now every advance in this direction has been quickly followed by new means of preserving art's distinction In this major new work Groys charts the paradoxes produced by this tension & explores art in the age of the thingless medium the Internet Groys claims that if the techniques of mechanical reproduction gave us objects without aura digital production generates aura without objects transforming all its materials into vanishing markers of the transitory present ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play In 1942 Belarus is in the hands of Nazis & the local militia Sushenya is taken from his house in the middle of the night by Burov & his sidekick Voitik two partisan fighters hiding out in the hills & forest Sushenya is the only one of four captured rail workers who has been allowed to live by the occupying Germans after seemingly sabotaging the rail tracks With the village & even his wife turned against him as a collaborator Sushenya accepts what must happen next until the Germans suddenly appear & he is
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- given a second chance leaving space for doubt both on his betrayal & on the legitimacy of punishment by death The three & later two
- men walk in the wood exhausted fleeing death from the Nazis while discussing & living the moral dilemmas of treason heroism guilt & revenge Shot in sumptuous long takes & vibrant colour In the Fog ultimately questions the corruption of man's very humanity in the context of war Actors Vladimir Svirski Vlad Abashin Sergei Kolesov Directors Sergei Loznitsa Format PALLanguage Russian Subtitles English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 1


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A story of grim comedy amid the apocalypse & a celebration of the sheer indestructibility of the human spirit in a nation run riot Michela Wrong's vision of Congo Zaire during the Mobutu years is incisive ironic & revelatory Mr Kurtz the colonial white master brought evil to the remote upper reaches of the Congo River A century after Conrad's Heart of Darkness' was first published Michela Wrong revisits the Congo during the turbulent era of Mobutu Sese Seko From the heart of Africa comes grotesque confusion pink-lipsticked rebel soldiers mingle with track-suited secret policemen in hotels where fin de siecle dinner parties are ploughing through vintage wines rather than leave them to the new regime Congo the African country richest in natural resources has institutionalised kleptomania Everyone is on the take Someone has even swiped one of the uranium rods from the country's only nuclear reactor Having presided over unprecedented looting of the country's wealth Mobutu like Kurtz retreated deep within the jungle to his palace of marble floors & gold taps A hundred years on & nothing has changed ...

n a lush green forest a sloth sleeps Can you see him? CLANG! Machines come to tear down the trees but the sloth still sleeps will he wake up? Turn the pages of this ingenious & stylish pop-up book which tells the story of one lazy sloth who hangs on in there as the forest is destroyed & then reborn 8 pages Strady Sophie ...

Charles Todd a successful artist who paints horses arrives at his cousin Donald's house & stumbles on a grisly scene police cars everywhere his cousin arrested for murder & Donald's wife brutally slain 320 pages Francis Dick ...

Based on a true story unfolding through the subsequent rise of Hitler & the Nazis this gripping tale is about beauty & justice & the truth that may be found when our most treasured beliefs are revealed as illusions By the Women's Prize for Fiction twice-longlisted author 432 pages Clark Clare ...

Berlin 1933 William E Dodd a mild-mannered academic from Chicago has to his own & everyone else's surprise become America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proves to be a turning point in history Dodd & his family notably his vivacious daughter Martha observe at first-hand the many changes
- some subtle some disturbing & some horrifically violent
- that signal Hitler's consolidation of power Dodd has little choice but to associate with key figures in the Nazi party his increasingly concerned cables make little impact on an indifferent US State Department while Martha is drawn to the Nazis & their vision of a ' New Germany' & has a succession of affairs with senior party players including first chief of the Gestapo Rudolf Diels But as the year darkens Dodd & his daughter find their lives transformed & any last illusion they might have about Hitler are shattered by the violence of the ' Night of the Long Knives' in the summer of 1934 that established him as supreme dictator Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the times & with brilliant portraits of Hitler Goebbels Goering & Himmler amongst others Erik Larson's new book sheds unique light on events as they unfold resulting in an unforgettable addictively readable work of narrative history

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