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Best Laid Plans (DVD)
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Stephen Graham, David O'Hara, Lee Ingleby, Maxine Peake, …
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David Blair directs this British drama, loosely inspired by John
Steinbeck's novel 'Of Mice and Men'. Set in Nottingham, the film
revolves around the relationship between the thuggish Danny
(Stephen Graham) and Joseph (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), a giant of
a man with a mental age of seven. When Danny finds himself in debt
to a local crime boss, he feels he is left with no choice but to
manipulate Joseph into participating in a series of underground
cage fights from which Danny can profit. Salvation appears to call
out to both men when they begin relationships with Lisa (Emma
Stansfield) and Isabel (Maxine Peake), but will they be able to
escape the bloody world of gambling and fighting Danny has plunged
them into?
The Eye You See With - the first and only collection of Robert
Stone's nonfiction - was carefully selected by award-winning
novelist and Stone biographer Madison Smartt Bell. Divided into
three sections, the collection includes the best of Stone's war
reporting, his writing on social change, and his reflections on the
art of fiction. This is an extraordinary volume that offers up a
clear-eyed look at the twentieth century and secures Robert Stone's
place as one of the most original figures in all of American
letters.
In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War,
the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, more than one-fifth
of the people on the planet paused to watch the live transmission
of the Apollo 11 mission. To watch as humanity took a giant leap
forward. A companion book to the landmark documentary series on BBC
TV. The journey from Cape Canaveral to the Moon was a tremendous
achievement of human courage and ingenuity. It was also a long,
deadly march, haunted by the possibility of catastrophic failure on
the world's stage. In an era when the most advanced portable
computer weighed 70 pounds, had a 36-kilobite memory and operated
on less power than a 60-watt lightbulb, the sheer audacity of the
goal is breath-taking. But the triumph of imagination and the unity
of the Earth that day would change the world. Based on eyewitness
accounts and newly discovered archival material, Chasing the Moon
reveals the unknown stories of the individuals who made the Moon
landing a possibility, from inspirational science fiction writer
Arthur C. Clark and controversial engineer Wernher von Braun, to
pioneers like mathematician Poppy Northcutt and astronaut Edward
Dwight. It vividly revisits the dawn of the Space Age, a heady time
of scientific innovation, political calculation, media spectacle,
visionary impulses and personal drama.
The 7th edition includes changes reflecting modern understanding,
terminology and teaching of the musculoskeletal system. There are
changes on 42 different pages including many new or enhanced notes
on function and 20 new descriptions or explanations of anatomical
relationships. All muscle illustrations are new.
Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and
morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man who had better motives for
all the trouble he caused," Graham Greene's narrator Fowler remarks
of Alden Pyle, the eponymous "Quiet American" of what is perhaps
the most controversial novel of his career. Pyle is the brash young
idealist sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission to Saigon,
where the French Army struggles against the Vietminh guerrillas. As
young Pyle's well-intentioned policies blunder into bloodshed,
Fowler, a seasoned and cynical British reporter, finds it
impossible to stand safely aside as an observer. But Fowler's
motives for intervening are suspect, both to the police and
himself, for Pyle has stolen Fowler's beautiful Vietnamese
mistress. Originally published in 1956 and twice adapted to film,
The Quiet American remains a terrifiying and prescient portrait of
innocence at large. This Graham Greene Centennial Edition includes
a new introductory essay by Robert Stone. For more than seventy
years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature
in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin
Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout
history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series
to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes
by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as
up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
This thorough account of the life and films of the Spanish-Basque
filmmaker Julio Medem is the first book in English on the
internationally renowned writer-director of Vacas, La ardilla roja
(Red Squirrel), Tierra, Los amantes del Circulo Polar (Lovers of
the Arctic Circle), Lucia y el sexo (Sex and Lucia), La pelota
vasca: la piel contra la piedra (Basque Ball) and Caotica Ana
(Chaotic Ana), Initial chapters explore Medem's childhood,
adolescence and education and examine his earliest short films and
critical writings against a background of a dramatically changing
Spain. Later chapters provide accounts of the genesis, production
and release of Medem's challenging and sensual films, which feed
into complex but lucid analyses of their meanings, both political
and personal, in which Stone draws on traditions and innovations in
Basque art, Spanish cinema and European philosophy to create a
complete and provocative portrait of Medem and his work. -- .
Rheinhardt, a disk jockey and failed musician, rolls into New Orleans looking for work and another chance in life. What he finds is a woman physically and psychically damaged by the men in her past and a job that entangles him in a right-wing political movement. Peopled with civil rights activists, fanatical Christians, corrupt politicians, and demented Hollywood stars, A Hall of Mirrors vividly depicts the dark side of America that erupted in the sixties. To quote Wallace Stegner, "Stone writes like a bird, like an angel, like a circus barker, like a con man, like someone so high on pot that he is scraping his shoes on the stars."
In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killers - and the price of survival was dangerously high.
For two decades Robert Stone made his living on the high seas. A
modern-day pirate, he was a pioneer saturation oil-field diver,
treasure hunter and smuggler, which brought him more money than he
knew how to spend. Stone spent the last ten of his smuggling years
in Africa, where he traded in illicit fuel. The murky waters of the
Niger delta were his place of business as he operated in the most
corrupt regime in the world, a place ruled by money and guns.
Protected by the military he sold his black cargo to legitimate
businesses all over the world, making millions of dollars in the
process. Chasing Black Gold is a tale straight out of Hollywood,
one which throws the reader into a world where suitcases full of
millions in cash are flown around the globe on private jets, where
the corrupt practices of Third World governments and military
regimes must be mastered and a world of numbered bank accounts and
countries of convenience, where living under false IDs and money
laundering are all in a day's work.
In an elite New England college, Professor Steven Brookman embarks
upon a careless affair with a brilliant but reckless student, Maud
Stack. She is a young woman whose passions are not easily contained
or curtailed, and is known as something of a firebrand on campus.
As the stakes of their relationship prove higher than either one
could have anticipated, their union seems destined to yield tragic
and far-reaching consequences.
A "New York Times Book Review" Editors' Choice
"Fast-paced and] riveting . . . Stone is one of our transcendently
great American novelists." -- Madison Smartt Bell
"Brilliant." -- "Washington Post"
At an elite college in a once-decaying New England city, Steven
Brookman has come to a decision. A brilliant but careless
professor, he has determined that for the sake of his marriage, and
his soul, he must end his relationship with Maud Stack, his
electrifying student, whose papers are always late yet always
incandescent. But Maud is a young woman whose passions are not
easily curtailed, and their union will quickly yield tragic and
far-reaching consequences.
"Death of the Black-Haired Girl" is an irresistible tale of
infidelity, accountability, the allure of youth, the promise of
absolution, and the notion that madness is everywhere, in plain
sight.
"At once unsparing and generous in its vision of humanity, by turns
propulsive and poetic, Death of the Black-Haired Girl is wise,
brave, and beautifully just." -- "Boston Globe"
"Unsettling and tightly wrought--and a worthy cautionary tale about
capital-C consequences." -- "Entertainment Weekly"
"A taut, forceful, lacerating novel, full of beautifully crafted
language." -- "Los Angeles Review of Books"
In this volume, eighteen experts from a variety of academic
backgrounds explore the use of songs in films from the Spanish- and
Portuguese-speaking worlds. This volume illustrates how - rather
than simply helping to tell the story of - songs in Hispanic and
Lusophone cinema commonly upset the hierarchy of the visual over
the aural, thereby rendering their hearing a complex and rich
subject for analysis. Screening songs... constitutes a
ground-breaking, interdisciplinary collection. Of particular
interest to scholars and academics in the areas of Film Studies,
Hispanic Studies, Lusophone Studies and Musicology, this volume
opens up the study of Hispanic and Lusophone cinema to vital, new,
critical approaches. The soundtracks of films as varied as City of
God, All About My Mother, Bad Education and Buena Vista Social Club
are analysed alongside those of lesser-known works that range from
the melodramas of Mexican cinema's golden age to Brazilian and
Portuguese musical comedies from the 1940s and 1950s. Fiction films
are studied alongside documentaries, the work of established
directors like Pedro Almodovar, Carlos Saura and Nelson Pereira dos
Santos alongside that of emerging filmmakers, and performances by
iconic stars like Caetano Veloso and Chavela Vargas alongside the
songs of Spanish Gypsy groups, Mexican folk songs and contemporary
Brazilian rap. -- .
"A stunning novel by a great American writer."--"Washington Post"
Jerusalem: home to seekers, heretics, hustlers, and madmen of many
faiths. In this most fractious city, a plot unfolds to bomb the
sacred Temple Mount.
Christopher Lucas, an expatriate American journalist, stumbles
upon the plot while investigating religious fanatics. Entangled in
the intrigue are a nightclub singer, an unstable Jewish guru, a
strung-out Kabbalist seeking the messiah, and a soldier of fortune
routinely found at the world's violent clashes. A confrontation in
Gaza, a chase through riot-filled streets, a cat-and-mouse game in
an underground maze--as Lucas races against time, he uncovers the
duplicity and depravity on all sides of Jerusalem's sacred
struggle.
An explosive bestseller, "Damascus Gate" lays bare the dangers at
the fringes of faith.
"A transcendent thriller."--"Time"
"Brims over with plots, subplots, and an impressive array of
incisively drawn characters . . . The range of Stone's] knowledge
is spectacular."--"The New Yorker"
"Damascus Gate asks enormous questions about cosmic truth--and its
effect on those who think they own it--with intensity, intellectual
rigor and abiding morality."--"San Francisco Chronicle"
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