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Carmen [Blu-ray] $21.44 Classic film adaptation of composer Georges Bizet’s opera concerning obsessive, doomed love stars Placido Domingo as the soldier who falls for Carmen (Julia Migenes-Johnson), a sultry and tempestuous seductress. He abandons his career and family to be with the lusty Gypsy, but when she eventually spurns him, it results in tragedy. Lavishly filmed on location in Spain. AKA: “Bizet’s Carmen.” 155 mi… |
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Babette’s Feast [VHS] $19.99 Some movies can only be described as delicious. In Babette’s Feast, a woman flees the French civil war and lands in a small seacoast village in Denmark, where she comes to work for two spinsters, devout daughters of a puritan minister. After many years, Babette unexpectedly wins a lottery, and decides to create a real French dinner–which leads the sisters to fear for their souls. Joining th… |
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Le Beau Serge (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] $20.00 Renowned auteur Claude Chabrol’s directorial debut is a somber tale about two friends that’s recognized as one of the first films of the French New Wave. Jean-Claude Brialy stars as a man who returns home after 10 years to a small village in France only to find his lifelong pal (Gerard Blain) resigned to a deplorable life as an alcoholic in a troubled marriage, and that any attempts to help may re… |
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Babette’s Feast $14.98 Some movies can only be described as delicious. In Babette’s Feast, a woman flees the French civil war and lands in a small seacoast village in Denmark, where she comes to work for two spinsters, devout daughters of a puritan minister. After many years, Babette unexpectedly wins a lottery, and decides to create a real French dinner–which leads the sisters to fear for their souls. Joining th… |
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Massenet: Cendrillon $26.69 Recent Grammy award-winner Joyce DiDonato stars as Cinderella in the debut Covent Garden production of Massenet’s Centrillon. DiDonato captures all hearts- not just Prince Charming’s- in this enchanting, sophisticated retelling of the classical fairy tale. The charming production is by the famed French opera director Laurent Pelly (who also directed the best-selling DVD of Donizetti’s La Fille du … |
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100 Best Opera Classics $12.35 No Description Available.Genre: Classical MusicMedia Format: Compact DiskRating: Release Date: 29-AUG-2006… |
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Rise to the Occasion: A French Food Experience $23.08 Book annotation not available for this title.Title: Rise to the OccasionAuthor: Dowd, Hedda Gioia/ Brahmi, Cherif/ Chick, Celine/ Perry, Courtney (PHT)/ Giobbi, Edward (FRW)/ CorrPublisher: Pelican Pub Co IncPublication Date: 2010/11/15Number of Pages: 192Binding Type: HARDCOVERLibrary of Congress: 2010024108… |
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The Theory of Incentives: The Principal-Agent Model $32.29 Economics has much to do with incentives–not least, incentives to work hard, to produce quality products, to study, to invest, and to save. Although Adam Smith amply confirmed this more than two hundred years ago in his analysis of sharecropping contracts, only in recent decades has a theory begun to emerge to place the topic at the heart of economic thinking. In this book, Jean-Jacques Laffont a… |
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Fundamentals of Public Economics $38.95 This text by one of Europe’s leading economists covers a wide variety of public economics issues with great clarity and precision, illustrating them with a wealth of carefully-chosen examples and problems. Starting from theories of general equilibrium analysis, Laffont considers issues of market failure, collective decisionmaking, and distributional equity. He analyzes the important informational … |
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