Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Comedy classic from the & Saturday Night Live& stable which comes packed with car chases music & cameo appearances Blues brothers Jake & Elwood (John Belushi & Dan Ackroyd) have sold their souls to rhythm&n&blues but still lend a hand when the church orphanage in which they were raised is threatened with closure Resolving to get their old band together & stage a fund-raising gig the brothers have God on their side but everyone else against them
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Includes:: a bunch of Country & Western rednecks an angry chapter of neo-Nazi thugs the massed ranks of the Chicago police force & Jake&s psychotic ex-girlfriend Camille (Carrie Fisher) Actors John Belushi Dan Aykroyd Cab Calloway Henry Gibson Carrie Fisher Directors John Landis Writers Dan Aykroyd John Landis Producers Robert K Weiss Language English 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 The Blues Brothers (Dir John Landis 1980) They&ll never get caught They&re on a mission from God After the release of Jake Blues (John Belushi) from prison he & brother Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) go to visit the orphanage where they were raised by nuns They learn that the church stopped its support & will sell the place unless the tax on the property is paid within 11 days The brothers decide to raise the money by putting their blues band back together & staging a big gig They may be on a "mission from God" but they&re making enemies everywhere they go Featuring performances by some of blues finest James Brown Cab Calloway Ray Charles Aretha Franklin & co-starring John Candy Carrie Fisher Henry Gibson & Steve Lawrence The Blues Brothers 2000 (Dir John Landis 1998) Eighteen years after the brothers& original "mission from God" Elwood Blues is getting out of prison & discovering that much has changed in the time he&s been away His partner Jake is gone his band is no longer together & the orphanage where he grew up has been demolished Elwood soon realizes that he must embark on a whole new mission to reassemble the old band this time with the help of a soulful bartender (John Goodman) & compete at Queen Moussette&s Battle of the Bands while setting a wayward orphan named Buster on the path to redemption Actors John Belushi Dan Aykroyd John Goodman James Brown Cab Calloway Ray Charles Aretha Franklin Carrie Fisher Frank Oz John Lee Hooker Steven Spielberg BB King Lou Marini Wilson Pickett Eric Clapton Isaac Hayes & Chaka Khan Director John Landis Certificate 15 years & over Year 1980 ; 1998 Screen Widescreen 1851 Languages English Additional Languages French ; Spanish ; German ; Italian Subtitles English ; French ; German ; Polish ; Czech ; Hungarian ; Turkish ; Swedish ; Finnish ; Danish ; Norwegian ; Dutch ; Portuguese ; Bulgarian ...

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Praised as suave soulful ebullient (Tom Waits) & a meticulous researcher a graceful writer & a committed contrarian (New York Times Book Review) Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation In The Blues Wald surveys a genre at the heart of American culture It is not an easy thing to pin down As Howlin' Wolf once described it When you ain't got no money & can't pay your house rent & can't buy you no food you've damn sure got the blues It has been defined by lyrical structure or as a progression of chords or as a set of practices reflecting West African tonal & rhythmic approaches using a five-note blues scale Wald sees blues less as a style than as a broad musical tradition within a constantly evolving pop culture He traces its roots in work & praise songs & shows how it was transformed by such professional performers as W C Handy who first popularized the blues a century ago He follows its evolution from Ma Rainey & Bessie Smith through Bob Dylan & Jimi Hendrix; identifies the impact of rural field recordings of Blind Lemon Jefferson Charley Patton & others; explores the role of blues in the development of both country music & jazz; & looks at the popular rhythm & blues trends of the 1940s & 1950s from the uptown West Coast style of T-Bone Walker to the down home Chicago sound of Muddy Waters Wald brings the story up to the present touching on the effects of blues on American poetry & its connection to modern styles such as rap ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable ...

BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVEDToni Morrison's debut novel immerses us in the tragic torn lives of a poor black family
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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 Richard Curtis (" Love Actually") delves into the world of 60&s pirate radio in this coming-of-age comedy Amidst a cast of crazies played by the likes of Philip Seymour Hoffman & Bill Nighy disillusioned teen Carl is about to experience the rebellious spirit of rock &n& roll Radio Rock-style! On air Off shore Out of control Recently expelled from school Carl (Tom Sturridge) is sent by his mother to find some direction in life by visiting his godfather Quentin (Bill Nighy Underworld) However Quentin is the boss of Radio Rock a pirate radio station in the middle of the North Sea populated by an eclectic crew of rock &n& roll DJs They are led by The Count (Oscar Award-winning Philip Seymour Hoffman Capote)
- big brash American god of the airwaves & totally in love with the music He&s faithfully backed up by his co-broadcasters Dave (Nick Frost Hot Fuzz)
- ironic intelligent & cruelly funny; Simon (Chris O& Dowd TV&s The IT Crowd)
- super-nice & searching for true love; Midnight Mark (Tom Wisdom)
- enigmatic handsome & man of few words; Wee Small Hours Bob
- the late night DJ whose hobbies are folk music & drugs; Thick Kevin (Tom Brooke)
- possessor of the smallest intelligence known to mankind; On-The-Hour John (Will Adamsdale)
- the newsreader; & Angus & The Nut& Nutsford (Rhys Darby of TV&s The Flight Of The Conchords)
- possibly the most annoying man in Britain Life on the North Sea is eventful Simon finds the woman of his dreams & is married on the boat only to be left by his bride the next day Gavin (Rhys Ifans Notting Hill) returns from his drug tour of America to his rightful position as the greatest DJ in Britain clashing with The Count Meanwhile Carl discovers the opposite sex & who his real father is whilst government minister Dormandy (Kenneth Branagh Wallander) is out for the blood of these rebellious lawbreakers What results is a literal storm on the high seas With Radio Rock in peril it&s devoted fans rally together & stage an epic Dunkirk-style hundred boat rescue to save their DJ heroes Some things may come to an end but rock &n& roll never dies Actors Philip Seymour Hoffman Bill Nighy Emma Thompson Gemma Arterton Kenneth Branagh January Jones Rhys Darby Nick Frost Jack Davenport Tom Wisdom Rhys Ifans Talulah Riley Chris O& Dowd Katherine Parkinson Tom Sturridge & Ralph Brown Director Richard Curtis Certificate 15 years & over Year 2009 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages Hungarian Subtitles English for the hard of hearing ; Arabic ; Danish ; Dutch ; Finnish ; Hungarian ; Icelandic ; Norwegian ; Swedish Closed Captions Yes Duration 2 hours & 10 minutes (approx)








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