"Natassja Kinski stars in Academy Award(r) winner Roman Polanski's (2003 Best Director, The Pianist) critically acclaimed screen adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1891 literary masterpiece, Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A visually stunning recreation of Victorian England's lush pastoral landscapes, TESS' Academy Award(r) winning cinematography (1981 Geoffrey Unsworth, Ghislain Cloquet, Best Cinematography) is presented in its original Panavisio ..."
"Natassja Kinski stars in Academy Award(r) winner Roman Polanski's (2003 Best Director, The Pianist) critically acclaimed screen adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1891 literary masterpiece, Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A visually stunning recreation of Victorian England's lush pastoral landscapes, TESS' Academy Award(r) winning cinematography (1981 Geoffrey Unsworth, Ghislain Cloquet, Best Cinematography) is presented in its original Panavisio ..."
"Unquestionably one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Roman Polanski (Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, The Pianist) turns his talents to the realm of sexual perversity and its emotional toll. While on a Mediterranean cruise, Nigel and Fiona (Hugh Grant and Kristin Scott Thomas) find a young French woman named Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner) crying in a bathroom. Mimi's paraplegic American husband Oscar (Peter Coyote) forces Nigel to lis ..."
"Roman Polanski adapted Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles and came up with this moody, haunting film starring Nastassia Kinski as the farm girl who is misused by the aristocrat for whom she works and who is then caught in a marriage where her initial happiness soon turns to grief. Fans of the novel may feel unpersuaded by Polanski's effort to marry Hardy's Dorset vision with his own fascination with psychosexual impulses tow ..."
"Unquestionably one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Roman Polanski (Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, The Pianist) turns his talents to the realm of sexual perversity and its emotional toll. While on a Mediterranean cruise, Nigel and Fiona (Hugh Grant and Kristin Scott Thomas) find a young French woman named Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner) crying in a bathroom. Mimi's paraplegic American husband Oscar (Peter Coyote) forces Nigel to lis ..."
"Unquestionably one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Roman Polanski (Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, The Pianist) turns his talents to the realm of sexual perversity and its emotional toll. While on a Mediterranean cruise, Nigel and Fiona (Hugh Grant and Kristin Scott Thomas) find a young French woman named Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner) crying in a bathroom. Mimi's paraplegic American husband Oscar (Peter Coyote) forces Nigel to lis ..."
"Captain Red runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor. One day Capt. Red is captured and taken aboard a Spanish galleon, but thanks to his inventiveness, he raises the crew to mutiny, takes over the ship, and kidnaps the niece of the governor of Maracaibo. The question is, can he keep this pace up?"
5(Reprint) Germany and the Second World War: Volume V/I: Organization and Mobilization of the German Sphere of Power: Wartime Administration, Economy, and Manpower Resources, 1939-1941 by Bernhard R. Kroener, Hans Umbreit, Rolf-Dieter Muller, Ewald Osers, JohnBrownjohn, Patricia Crampton Paperback, 1,312 Pages, Published 2015 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-873829-9, ISBN: 0-19-873829-3
"This volume is concerned with developments in wartime administration, economy, and manpower resources in Germany and its occupied territories from 1939-1941. It examines the mobilization of material and personnel resources in the German sphere of power for an industrialized conduct of the war. Indissolubly linked with this issue is the question of the way in which the regime's ideology affected that mobilization process, and why the 'op ..."
"He distinctly said, “Moselle, bien stir,” as he acknowledged the order with a
benevolent, appreciative little nod. In his eyes she ... I honestly don't know exactly
where the Mosel Valley is, apart from the fact that it's in Germany, of course.” “At
least ..."
"Gunter Ohnemus. again. Which means you're now short of a passport, I said. She
gave me an indulgent smile, reached back and retrieved her little brown rucksack
from behind the passenger seat. Then she opened it, took out three passports,
and said solemnly, as though reciting a short poem: One German. One French.
One Italian. One burgundy. One claret. ... I took an adjustable spanner from the
boot and removed the taxi sign from the ..."
"Ready or not, here he comes.... It's the same each time. A woman's body is found with a ticking stopwatch clutched in her dead hand. A distraught father must find his child before the boy suffocates - and the killer takes his left eye. Alexander Zorbach, a washed-up cop turned journalist, has reported all three of the Eye Collector's murders. But this is different. His wallet has been found next to the corpse, and now he's a suspect. Th ..."
Red Bks. Sailing by Starlight : In Search of Treasure Island by Alex Capus, JohnBrownjohn 220 Pages, Published 2011 by Haus Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-907973-45-1, ISBN: 1-907973-45-1
"Two hundred years before the Mary Dear, a ship ventured to leave the coast of
South America, sail out into the Pacific with the aid of the Equatorial Current and
follow the setting sun for days and weeks on end. This was the Dutch three-
masted barque Eendracht under the command of Jacob Le Maire, which in 1616
was the very first ship to round Cape Horn, cross the Pacific and, in the process,
make an interesting discovery. Jacob Le ..."
"It's a searing hot day in the middle of a Namibian summer, and a white man is watering the garden of his luxurious villa while his daughter plays nearby. The peaceful scene is shattered by the single shot that kills Van Zyl and sets in motion a breath-taking political thriller that clocks up 5 murders. The principal characters are real, and some are still living, all of which adds an extra frisson to this fascinating story.The heroine i ..."
"Garden design in England was entirely reinvented during the eighteenth century. The strictly symmetrical gardens of the French Baroque were replaced by the artificial landscapes that soon became almost indistinguishable from natural scenery. This ideal image of nature continues to govern our notions of a beautiful landscape today. Hans von Trotha guides us through the history of the English garden to the most important, original, and be ..."