Acclaimed Russian director Alexei Balabanov (THE BROTHER) is the brains behind this award-winning film about the dark side of the late Victorian upper classes Dark & subversive OF FREAKS & MEN is the story of a seedy man named Johann & his equally sinister assistant who together take pictures of half-naked women being flogged After sneaking their way into the homes of the wealthy they shrewdly managed to engage their victims in some pornographic situations Black comedy at its bravest OF FREAKS & MEN is a ground-breaking Russian film ...

A monastery perched in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990s Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers When a crew of foreign workers is massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group fear sweeps though the region The army offers them protection but the monks refuse Should they leave? Despite the growing menace in their midst they slowly realize that they have no choice but to stay come what may This film is loosely based on the life of the Cistercian monks of Tibhirine in Algeria from 1993 until their kidnapping in 1996 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A monastery perched in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990s Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers When a crew of foreign workers is massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group fear sweeps though the region The army offers them protection but the monks refuse Should they leave? Despite the growing menace in their midst they slowly realize that they have no choice but to stay come what may This film is loosely based on the life of the Cistercian monks of Tibhirine in Algeria from 1993 until their kidnapping in 1996 Actors Lambert Wilson Michael Lonsdale Olivier Rabourdin Philippe Laudenbach Jacques Herlin Loïc Pichon Xavier Maly Jean-Marie Frin Abdelhafid Metalsi Sabrina Ouazani Abdellah Moundy Olivier Perrier Farid Larbi Adel Bencherif & Benhaïss Director Xavier Beauvois Certificate 15 years & over Year 2010 Languages French ; Arabic Subtitles English Duration 2 hours & 2 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players
...

Of Human Bondage is the first & most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces It is the story of Philip Carey an orphan eager for life love & adventure After a few months studying in Heidelberg & a brief spell in Paris as would-be artist Philip settles in London to train as a doctor & that is where he meets Mildred the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative tortured & masochistic affair which very nearly ruins him ...

In this personal & practical guide to moral self-improvement & living a good life the second-century philosopher Epictetus tackles questions of freedom & imprisonment stubbornness & fear family friendship & love & leaves an intriguing document of daily life in the classical world GREAT IDEAS Throughout history some books have changed the world They have transformed the way we see ourselves
- & each other They have inspired debate dissent war & revolution They have enlightened outraged provoked & comforted They have enriched lives
- & destroyed them Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers pioneers radicals & visionaries whose ideas shook civilization & helped make us who we are

...

Nobel Prize winner & author of One Hundred Years of Solitude & Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez blends the natural with supernatural in Of Love & Other Demons
- a novel which explores community superstition & collective hysteria ' An ash-grey dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst on to the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday of December' When a witch doctor appears on the Marquis de Casalduero's doorstep prophesising a plague of rabies in the Colombian seaport he dismisses her claims
- until he hears that his young daughter Sierva Maria was one of four people bitten by a rabid dog & the only one to survive Sierva Maria appears completely unscathed
- but as rumours of the plague spread the Marquis & his wife wonder at her continuing good health In a town consumed by superstition it's not long before they & everyone else put her survival down to a demonic possession & begin to see her supernatural powers as the cause of the town's woes Only the young priest charged with exorcizing the evil spirit recognises the girl's sanity but can he convince the town that it's not her that needs healing?' Superb & intensely readable' Time Out'A compassionate witty & unforgettable masterpiece' Daily Telegraph' At once nostalgic & satiric a resplendent fable' Sunday Times


...

Tracklist Gravedancer As We Suffocate Taste Of Regret Mushroom Cloud Pieces Deceiver Deceived Earth &38; Sky The Mountain Meltdown Linger How To Survive ...

Public Service Announcement Feels Like Forever Bones Exposed Would You Still Be There Glass Hearts Another You Break Free You Make Me Sick Identity Disorder You&re Not Alone Space Enough To Grow ...

Drifters in search of work George & his childlike friend Lennie have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back
- &
...

Drifters in search of work George & his simple-minded friend Lennie have nothing in the world except each other
- & a dream A dream
...