' Someone must have been telling tales about Josef K for one morning without having done anything wrong he was arrested' A successful professional man wakes up one morning to find himself under arrest for an offence which is never explained The mysterious court which conducts his trial is outwardly co-operative but capable of horrific violence Faced with this ambiguous authority Josef K gradually succumbs to its psychological pressure He consults various advisers without escaping his fate Was there some way out that he failed to see? Kafka's unfinished novel has been read as a study of political power a pessimistic religious parable or a crime novel where the accused man is himself the problem One of the iconic figures of modern world literature Kafka writes about universal problems of guilt responsibility & freedom; he offers no solutions but provokes his readers to arrive at meanings of their own This new edition

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A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit a crime whose nature is never revealed to him Once arrested he is released but must report to court on a regular basis
- an event that proves maddening as nothing is ever resolved As he grows more uncertain of his fate his personal life
- including work at a bank & his relations with his landlady & a young woman who lives next door
- becomes increasingly unpredictable As K tries to gain control he succeeds only in accelerating his own excruciating downward spiral


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Anthony Perkins plays Joseph K a man condemned for an unnamed crime in an unnamed country Seeking justice Joseph K is sucked into a labyrinth of bureaucracy (Welles once described the character as being a little bureaucrat himself who deserves to be punished This is never clearly expressed in the finished film) Along the way he becomes involved with three women -- Jeanne Moreau Romy Schneider Elsa Martinelli -- who in their own individual ways are functions of the System that persecutes him ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Jimmy Rose wants to be a family man But when he gets out of prison after serving twelve years for armed robbery he finds his wife & children have moved on without him Life for an ex-convict isn’t easy & the temptation to return to crime is hard to resist – especially when it might protect his loved ones Is Jimmy strong enough to do what&s right? The Trials of Jimmy Rose is a moving gripping drama about how the simplest things are often the hardest to achieve ...

Jimmy Rose wants to be a family man But when he gets out of prison after serving twelve years for armed robbery he finds his wife & children have moved on without him Life for an ex-convict isn easy & the temptation to return to crime is hard to resist
- The Trials of Jimmy Rose is a moving gripping drama about how the simplest things are often the hardest to achieve especially when it might protect his loved ones Is Jimmy strong enough to do what&s right?
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1916 Butte Montana City of the Copper Kings Solomon Parker is old broken & in debt to very bad people He's always managed to stay one step ahead of his last bad decision but more than anything he wishes life had turned out differently Little does he know that for him & his young protege Billy Morgan that wish is about to come true The Above Ones the gods of the People are bored Their servant Marked Face is coming & he's bringing his dice ...

A Guardian best history book of 2016 Eccentric shy aristocrat or mad bad & dangerous to know? Neighbour Jane Austen found the 3rd earl of Portsmouth a model gentleman & Lord Byron maintained that while the man was a fool he was certainly no madman Behind closed doors though Portsmouth delighted in pinching his servants so that they screamed asked dairy-maids to bleed him with lancets & was obsessed with attending funerals After he'd lived this way for years in 1823 his own family set out to have him declared insane Still reeling from the madness of King George society could not tear itself away from what would become the longest costliest & most controversial insanity trial in British history ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Horror co-directed by David Blair Nathaniel Peterson Adam Pitman Andrew Rizzo & Adam Stilwell When a group of film-makers receive an ominous postcard from a friend who is living in a peculiar & secluded community they decide to make the journey out to the reclusive group's location & document them & their drive for self-sufficiency What they end up capturing is the dangerous secret of a sinister group Actors Andrew Rizzo Lee Rizzo Brick Patrick Nathaniel Peterson Ciara Rose Griffin Directors Andrew Rizzo Nathaniel Peterson David Blair Adam Pitman Adam Stilwell Writers Andrew Rizzo Nathaniel Peterson David Blair Adam Pitman Adam Stilwell Producers Nathaniel Peterson David Blair Adam Pitman Adam Stilwell Gill Gayle Language English Number of discs 1 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A visceral cinematic experience like no other The Tribe is a story that needs no translation Deaf mute Sergey becomes embroiled in the illegal activities of the fearsome gang that rule the specialised boarding school he attends His burgeoning love for a fellow student however soon leads him on a collision course with the gang s hierarchy ...

From the corner of a darkened room Joy Stone watches herself As memories of the deaths of her lover & mother surface unbidden life for Joy narrows
- to negotiating each day each encounter each second; to finding the trick to keep living Told with shattering clarity & wry wit this is a Scottish classic fit for our time
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