Russian Harper
Posted on Thursday, January 21, 2010 in Antiquities of France, Italian, Greece, Celtic, Indian, European
Stephen Harper's Russian Cousin
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The Jackal [VHS] $0.42 The best way to enjoy this 1997 thriller is to forget the much better film that inspired it (1973's The Day of the Jackal) and get whatever kicks you can from this heavy-metal remake. It's not bad as hokey thrillers go, but all of the original film's suspenseful finesse has been traded in (not traded up) for bigger, bolder action and nonsensical plotting. It's as if Hollywood had forgotten to crea... |
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Suspiria [VHS] $4.99 Outside of devoted cult audiences, many Americans have yet to discover the extremely stylish, relentlessly terrifying Italian horror genre, or the films of its talented virtuoso, Dario Argento. Suspiria, part one of a still-uncompleted trilogy (the luminously empty Inferno was the second), is considered his masterpiece by Argento devotees but also doubles as a perfect starting point for those unfa... |
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The Jackal [VHS] The best way to enjoy this 1997 thriller is to forget the much better film that inspired it (1973's The Day of the Jackal) and get whatever kicks you can from this heavy-metal remake. It's not bad as hokey thrillers go, but all of the original film's suspenseful finesse has been traded in (not traded up) for bigger, bolder action and nonsensical plotting. It's as if Hollywood had forgotten to crea... |
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CSI: New York - The Complete First Season $10.99 All 24 episodes from the series's debut season--including "Blink," "American Dreamers," "Tri-Borough," "The Closer," and "What You See Is What You See"--are featured in a seven-disc set. 16 3/4 hrs. total. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital stereo Surround; audio commentary on selected episodes; featurettes. **24 episodes on 7 discs. 16 3/4 hrs.**... |
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The Madonnas of Leningrad: A Novel $5.89 Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. An elderly Russian woman now living in America, she cannot hold on to fresh memoriesâthe details of her grown children's lives, the approaching wedding of her grandchildâyet her distant past is miraculously preserved in her mind's eye. Vivid images of her youth in war-torn Leningrad arise unbidden, carrying her ... |
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Russian Winter: A Novel (P.S.) $2.99 When Nina Revskaya puts her remarkable jewelry collection up for auction, the former Bolshoi Ballet star finds herself overwhelmed by memories of her homeland, and of the events, both glorious and heartbreaking, that changed her life half a century earlier. It was in Russia that she discovered the magic of dance and fell in love, and where, faced with Stalinist aggression, a terrible discovery in... |
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The Plays of Anton Chekhov $9.08 These critically hailed translations of The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters and the other Chekhov plays are the only ones in English by a Russian-language scholar who is also a veteran Chekhovian actor.Without compromising the spirit of the text, Paul Schmidt accurately translates Chekhov's entire theatrical canon, rescuing the humor "lost" in most academic translations while respecting th... |
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