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 director Yasujiro Ozu&s drama LATE AUTUMN (AKIBIYORI) a still-beautiful widow has a daughter who is sufficiently past the favored age for marriage to be in danger of becoming an old maid according to the norms of Japanese culture Three mature men friends of the family get together to discuss the widow & her problem daughter Despite the fact that they each would like to marry the mother they agree that one of them should make the sacrifice of marrying the daughter They discuss their marriage idea with the mother not the daughter (as is customary) Somehow the girl hears of it & is infuriated She has said all along that though she wants to get married someday she wants to remain single for some time longer Now she is angry enough to threaten to accept the family friend&s suit simply out of spite Also included in this release is Ozu&s rare 1933 film A MOTHER SHOULD BE LOVED (HAKA O KOWAZUYA) ...

Tracklist A1 Complacency A2 Sleeve A3 Heaven A4 January A5 Not the Same B1 Listen B2 All I Need B3 The Truth B4 Make It Go Away B5 Life is Weird ...

Tracklist Complacency Sleeve Heaven January Not the Same Listen All I Need The Truth Make It Go Away Life is Weird ...

Late Century Dream looks at a number of underground regional scenes in the US through the fertile years of the 1980s & 90s encompassing many different genres under the DIY banner The book's six key texts each revolve around a key city andor creative hub of groups These include a definitive alternative take on grunge-era Seattle largely circumnavigating the populist Sub Pop hegemony; the early cop-baiting punk rock weirdo skronk & post-psychedelic rock of Austin Texas; a varied oral account of the art school-derived post-punk scene in Athens Georgia; a personal account of an immersion in the college rock hotbed of Chapel Hill North Carolina; an in-depth look at Phoenix Arizona's rich history of left-field alternative & punk; & a geographically de-centralised primer on Chicago s Drag City Records Illustrated with a wealth of archival & unseen promo live & 'zine imagery from bands including The Accused The Gits Butthole Surfers JFA REM Big Boys & Meat Puppets Late Century Dream gives an alternative insight into the lasting legacies carved out by bands for whom making it big was rarely an aim Alongside extended appendices of new interviews & oral material the book provides an insightful social history featuring newly commissioned texts from Noel Gardner Pavel Godfrey Brian Howe Jimmy Martin Kevin Mc Caighy & Louis Pattison who have collectively contributed to various music publications & websites of note including The Quietus BBC Music The Guardian Pitchfork Independent Weekly Paste & Edge Mag ...

Stranger Shores a collection of JM Coetzee's essays from 1986 to 1999 was followed by Inner Workings which contained those from 2000 to 2005 Late Essays gathers together Coetzee's literary essays since 2006 The subjects covered range from Daniel Defoe in the early eighteenth century to Coetzee's contemporary Philip Roth Coetzee has had a long-standing interest in German literature & here he engages with the work of Goethe Hoelderlin Kleist & Walser There are four fascinating essays on fellow Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett & he looks at the work of three Australian writers Patrick White Les Murray & Gerald Murnane There are essays too on Tolstoy's great novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich on Flaubert's masterpiece Madame Bovary & on the Argentine modernist Antonio Di Benedetto JM Coetzee a great novelist himself is a wise & insightful guide to these works of international literature that span three centuries ...

The tenth title in the new " Usborne Very First Reading" series designed for younger children to introduce them to reading together with their parents Parents & children take turns to read from the page (the text clearly marked for who should be reading) & as the books progress in the series the adults read less & less & the child more & more There are puzzles at the end to check the child's understanding of the text & guidance notes for the parents Beautiful illustrations help to motivate beginner readers ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Legendary talk-show host Katherine Newbury (Emma Thompson) is a pioneer in her field The only woman ever to have a long-running program on late night she keeps her writers&8217; room on a short leash
- & all male But when her ratings plummet & she is accused of being a &8220;woman who hates women” Katherine puts gender equality on her to-do list & impulsively hires Molly Patel (Mindy Kaling) a chemical plant efficiency expert from suburban Pennsylvania as the first & only female on her writing staff Format PALLanguage 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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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Sean Vincent Lenny & Jody are a group of four friends who swap notes on most things including their love lives They are stuck in dead end jobs going nowhere they amuse themselves by watching Vincent&s success in attracting women things change however when Vincent sleeps with Sean&s girlfriend Age Rating 15 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Late September takes place over a 24 hour period & follows the course & aftermath of a birthday celebration arranged by a middle-aged woman for her husband to whom she has been married for nearly 40 years As the day & night progress old rifts new relationships & secrets emerge amongst friends & the underlying tensions in the marriage can no longer be contained This age group the post war generation now approaching old age has not received much attention in film & here their lives their hopes & fears for the future are portrayed with a total lack of sentimentality but also with great warmth humour & empathy The problems these friends face are specific but universal & recognisable to us all The question of whether it is better to live alone or to live with someone you feel lonely with is never answered but is reflected in different ways within the reality of the individual characters as it is played out with intensity & honesty in a beautiful Kent house & garden in the shadows of late September Actors Anna Mottram Bob Goody Charlotte Palmer Richard Vanstone Jan Chappell Emma Williams Sam Woodward Douglas Finch & Seonaid Goody Director Jon Sanders Certificate 15 years & over Year 2012 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 27 minutes (approx) ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & region B Blu-ray It will require a region B Blu-ray player to play the Blu-ray & DVD or a Region 2 DVD player for the DVD Continuing his exploration of the Japanese family & it&s permutations & variations LATE SPRING is Yasujiro Ozu&s fragile tale of a young woman slightly older than marrying age in traditional Japanese society who lives a tranquil life with her widowed father The father begins to worry that his beloved daughter may never leave him & thus spoil her chances for a happy life After she refuses a proposed husband the father tricks her by pretending to remarry The daughter eventually marries in order to leave her father alone with his new wife & the father who in reality had no intention of marrying is left alone Actors Chishû Ryû Setsuko Hara Yumeji Tsukioka Haruko Sugimura Hohi Aoki Jun Usami & Kuniko Miyake Director Yasujiro Ozu Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 1949 Languages Japanese Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 48 minutes (approx) ...