Off The Bookshelf The Complete Stories Search Related Items:

Bookmark the site

Return to Homepage

US Shopping
UK Shopping

Related Items: Search

Search Related Items: - select a category

1.The Metamorphosis - A Study: Nabokov on Kafka starring: Christopher Plummer directed by: Peter Medak August 07, 2007
Average Rating: >>More Details		List Price: $19.95 Off The Bookshelf's Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.96 (10%) Prices subject to change.
I first saw this at school, last school year ('07, '08) in my Literature class, when we had just finished 'The Metamorphosis'. Christopher Plummer's performance is stunning; simply ease, for example, with which his imitation of Nabokov's rough, Russian voice comes across, stuns you. He is extremely funny as Nabokov. Only one thing: the sound and picture quality on the DVD (DVD! - not VHS - profesional, commercial DVD of a PBS broadcast!) is colourful, yes, but the clarity is terrible for 1989, and the sound is as if it came from either a date long before the late 1980's, or a well-enhanced audiocassette. Still, despite the horrible sound quality, it is a masterpiece of simplicity and genius - the simple, and almost haunting cold violin and piano, perfectly capture the icy mood of this brilliant ... Read More

2.David Lynch's Inland Empire (Limited Edition Two-Disc Set) starring: Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Justin Theroux directed by: David Lynch August 14, 2007
Average Rating: >>More Details		List Price: $29.98 Off The Bookshelf's Price: $16.49 You Save: $13.49 (45%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $8.99
Lynch really out-did himself with this film. 1 minute short of 3 straight hours of abstract, non-linear, mind opening, mind blowing darkness... Laura Dern's performance was astounding, and really shook my senses. The only reason she hasn't been recognized for this role, that I can think of, is that this film is so much to take in, that some people would find it hard to sit threw...mostly for 2 reasons. Because its sooo long and intense, and because it is honestly twisted and difficult to catch on to on a first-viewing basis. BUT, David Lynchs' work (with the exception of "Wild At Heart" and "Blue Velvet") is pretty much made to be watched more than once... This is his most abstract film since "Eraserhead". It is honestly a modern masterpiece...especially after watching "Lynch (one)" ... Read More

3.The Trial starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Anthony Hopkins, Jason Robards, Juliet Stevenson, Polly Walker (II) directed by: David Hugh Jones March 11, 1998
Average Rating: >>More Details		Used Price: $69.95
Kafka is my favorite modern writer. Anyone who wants to understand Kafka should read Ruth Tiefenbaum's Moment of Torment, which quite convincingly makes the case that Kafka was a passive homosexual, who used his famous code to tell the truth about himself in a way that wouldn't destroy his position in society. The literary world has always recognized the eery power of Kafka's oeuvre, but has always been puzzled about exactly what it means, if anything. So we get rather absurd interpretations such as that the Trial is a novel about bureaucracy, etc. There is a great deal of academic posing - Kafka exegesis, one might say, or explaining the incomprehensible, but certifiably great Kafka to the masses (or to students rather). The novel The Trial concerns a young man ... Read More

4.Delicatessen starring: Eric Averlant, Robert Baud, Pascal Benezech, Jean-Luc Caron, Dominique Defever May 02, 2006
Average Rating: >>More Details		Used Price: $13.19
I'm a fan of this director's later work but this one just didn't do anything for me. It's not common that I find something that's too weird for me, but this kinda was.. I just didn't get it. It was well shot and acted, but I felt the story fell flat.

5.Naked Lunch - Criterion Collection starring: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider directed by: David Cronenberg November 11, 2003
Average Rating: >>More Details		List Price: $39.95 Off The Bookshelf's Price: $28.99 You Save: $10.96 (27%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $21.25
Conspiring monster bugs. . .ejaculating typewriters. . .inter-zone intrigue. . . As a statement on addiction--interesting. As a statement on writing--interesting. As entertainment--duh? Well-acted, well-made, but just, at times, so flat-out weird that it makes it, well--not enjoyable.

6.The Lives of Others starring: Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur, Thomas Thieme directed by: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck August 21, 2007
Average Rating: >>More Details		List Price: $19.94 Off The Bookshelf's Price: $14.99 You Save: $4.95 (25%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $8.90
In a heartless time under a heartless regime, somehow, someone found a heart, and faced with a dilemma made a decision, that would impact the Lives of Others. It is a rare sign only seen in the best movies, and masterful how this movie builds up, and unwinds, and unwinds even more just as you think its already completely unwound. This story is as intricate as the inner working of a watch, make the slightest wrong adjustment and.... So Ulrich Muhe gives an excellent performance as does Sebastian Koch as Dreyman. Apparently, Muhe was bugged himself when he live in East Germany, and his ex wife sued him for mentioning this in a radio interview. Lives of Others won Best Foreign Language movie at the Oscars. After watching the movie, I watched some of the earlier scenes ... Read More

7.Who Was Kafka (Full Sub) starring: Who Was Kafka directed by: Richard Dindo September 25, 2007
Average Rating: >>More Details		List Price: $29.95 Off The Bookshelf's Price: $26.99 You Save: $2.96 (10%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $20.10
In a heartless time under a heartless regime, somehow, someone found a heart, and faced with a dilemma made a decision, that would impact the Lives of Others. It is a rare sign only seen in the best movies, and masterful how this movie builds up, and unwinds, and unwinds even more just as you think its already completely unwound. This story is as intricate as the inner working of a watch, make the slightest wrong adjustment and.... So Ulrich Muhe gives an excellent performance as does Sebastian Koch as Dreyman. Apparently, Muhe was bugged himself when he live in East Germany, and his ex wife sued him for mentioning this in a radio interview. Lives of Others won Best Foreign Language movie at the Oscars. After watching the movie, I watched some of the earlier scenes ... Read More

8.The Diaries of Franz Kafka (Schocken Classics Series) by: Franz Kafka October 30, 1988
Average Rating: >>More Details		List Price: $17.00 Off The Bookshelf's Price: $11.56 You Save: $5.44 (32%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $8.50
Yes, yes, I know it's odd to describe Kafka's writing as comic, but he really was one of the funniest writers of the Twentieth Century. His outlook on life reminds me so much of Charlie Chaplin's famous mantra that life is a tragedy in close up, in long shot it's a comedy. Kafka is loved by millions because he is the most universal writer of them all. High on the peaks of Twentieth Century literature features the brilliant stylistic prose of Nabokov, the pyrotechnics of Joyce, the pitch black comedy of Beckett, the sublime little observations of Proust. But right at the summit sits the unlikely figure of the wretched, kvetching tortured sick soul and body of Kafka, the world's greatest underdog. With these diaries chronicling his dreams, his awareness of the fragility of his physical body, his anguished relations with his family ... Read More

9.The Trial starring: Max Buchsbaum, Raoul Delfosse, Suzanne Flon, Arnoldo Foà, Jess Hahn March 07, 2000
Average Rating: >>More Details		List Price: $29.99 Off The Bookshelf's Price: $26.99 You Save: $3.00 (10%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $19.00
What The Trial lacks in comprehension (purposely at that) it makes up for in cinematography, set design, art direction and music. Essentially a nightmare tale, Joseph K. slowly comes to madness as his accusation for some unknown crime leads him into the abyss of a legal system, full of strange, abusive, mysterious, confusing people. As a film I couldn't sit through it at once, I had to get up and return a couple times because the convoluted situation makes it hard to follow. This aspect is surely purposeful, Welles is a master of storytelling and images, and the production itself proves amazing. I would highly recommend this for it's adaptation of Kafka's posthumous story, beautiful and horrible direction, cinematography, set and art direction and music.

10.The Complete Stories by: Franz Kafka November 14, 1995
Average Rating: >>More Details		List Price: $15.00 Off The Bookshelf's Price: $10.20 You Save: $4.80 (32%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $5.95
Franz Kafka was born into a Jewish middleclass family in Prague in July 1883 and succumbed to Tuberculosis in June of 1924. Much of his literary work was published posthumously is reported to be amongst the most influential in Western Literature for it's time. Much of the work is reported to be incomplete and the larger portion of it is collected in this book "The Complete Stories". In the interest of full disclosure I did not finish the whole book. To be honest I couldn't bear to read another page of it. I know many will say that I cant give a complete review because of this but I am only giving my opinion of what I read which was all similar in one form or fashion so I am operating under the assumption the I would have found all of the stories I left unread as unbearable as those I did read. If you think there is a story ... Read More

Off The Bookshelf gives you a unique shopping experience, you can find all the products you like within a few minutes online, locate the latest charting CD's, DVD's & Games, read user reviews on the bestselling Books and Household products. All items are available to buy Used (at a greater saving) or New (at a great discounted RRP). Add the items to your shopping basket, pay securely online and we send these products to be delivered to your door. We take great pride in being able to offer you the great savings partnering with Amazon, offering you cheaper prices than the high street retailers, we have thousands of discounts on all the the items you can buy off the shelf and hope you find the website easy to use.

Thanks for visiting and browsing Off The Bookshelf

In association with Amazon.com

SME-WS
HolidayHavens - Holiday Rental Accommodation