Jan25

Opera (1987) 3 x Blu-Ray Scorpion Releasing Deluxe Collector’s Edition

by movieworld on January 25th, 2022 at 03:05
Posted In: .Other movies, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Opera 1987
Betty is a young opera understudy in Rome. One night after the lead singer in a recent production of Lady Macbeth is injured in an accident, Betty is asked to take her place. It won’t be an easy task, however. The production has had a long, troubled history, and Betty is hesitant at first about taking on such a role. As you probably have already guessed, Betty was right to be cautious…for on the night of her debut, a theater worker is murdered in the balcony and a lamp comes crashing down to the crowd below. The next night, as she and her new boyfriend finish up an unsatisfying round of sex, a mysterious masked stranger enters the room. He binds Betty’s hands and feet, and props her eyelids open with needles, so she will be forced to watch him brutally stab her boyfriend to death. Soon, others involved with the production begin dying in equally savage ways. Each time, the killer again wants Betty to watch everything he does. Is he trying to impress her or simply drive her mad? Who is Betty’s deranged fan, and why is he committing such horrible crimes?

Director: Dario Argento
Cast: Cristina Marsillach, Ian Charleson, Urbano Barberini
Country: Italy
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

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Jan25

Shooting the Past (1999) 2 x DVD9

by movieworld on January 25th, 2022 at 02:03
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, History

Shooting the Past 1999
The lives of 5 rather eccentric and sheltered photographic archivists are forever shattered when the building they are housed in is acquired by an American conglomerate, to be made into a technological business school. Faced with the horror of their collection of 10 million + photographs being destroyed, head curator Marilyn Truman (played exquisitely by Lindsay Duncan) sets out to find a way to save it in its entirety. Her efforts appear to be hampered by the outrageous Oswald (a magnificent performance by Timothy Spall) and only just tolerated by the corporate American boss, Christopher Anderson (a riveting display of acting by Liam Cunningham).

The work appears doomed, as do the lives of those who had cared for it, but redemption comes from the unlikely source and highly unorthodox behaviour of Oswald. The price is enormously high for all concerned, for none more so than Oswald himself, and the events that transpire have life altering effects on all the participants.

Director: Stephen Poliakoff
Cast: Lindsay Duncan, Timothy Spall, Liam Cunningham
Country: UK
Genre: Drama, History

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Jan25

Les visiteurs du soir / The Devil’s Envoys (1942) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on January 25th, 2022 at 01:03
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Romance

Les visiteurs du soir 1942
In the year 1485, the Devil sends two of his envoys to drive people to despair. Disguised as minstrels, they enter the castle of Baron Hughes (Fernand Ledoux), who is getting ready to marry his beautiful daughter Anne (Marie Dea).

During a lavish banquet, Baron Hughes invites Dominique (the legendary Arletty) and Gilles (Alain Cuny) to sing for Anne and her fiancee Renaud (Marcel Herrand). Gilles chooses a beautiful love song that quickly melts Anne's heart.

Later that night, the Devil's envoys use their magic and separate Anne and Renaud. Gilles forces Anne to fall in love with him, while Dominique puts a spell on Renaud and he accepts a ring from her that will always remind him of her. But in the days that follow something unusual happens - mesmerized by her purity and beauty, Gilles falls madly in love with Anne. The Devil (Jules Berry), who has been observing quietly his envoys from afar, immediately leaves his lair and heads to Earth.

Director: Marcel Carne
Cast: Arletty, Marie Dea, Fernand Ledoux, Alain Cuny
Country: France
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance

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Jan18

L’authentique proces de Carl-Emmanuel Jung / The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung (1966, 1977) DVD5

by movieworld on January 18th, 2022 at 15:55
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung 1966
20 years later, the recreation of the trial of a simple man that confesses himself as a war criminal, Carl Emmanuel Jung..

Hanoun used a near documentary style to portray the imaginary trial of the title character, cast in the film as the former commandant of a Nazi concentration camp, finally called to account for his actions. The “real” Carl Jung, of course, held no such position, but his close association with a number of official Nazi organizations, and his implicit approval of Hitler’s regime through most of the war, remains deeply problematic for most observers. In this film, Hanoun suggests that “his” Jung has been seduced by a life of postwar luxury, and is all too willing to forget his past, even as he is directly confronted with it.

Shot in stark black and white 35mm, the film is by turns abrasive, seductive, and damning, ultimately leaving any “moral judgments” entirely up to the viewer, thus making the spectator, in a sense, the co-creator of the film.

Director: Marcel Hanoun
Cast: Maurice Poullenot, Ellen Bernsen, Raymond Jourdan
Country: France
Genre: Drama
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Jan17

Smultronstallet / Wild Strawberries (1957), Ingmar Bergman on Life and Work (1998) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on January 17th, 2022 at 18:23
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary, Drama, Romance

Wild Strawberries 1957 Criterion CollectionWild Strawberries captures the thoughtful and compassionate side of Ingmar Bergman rarely seen in his films. It is the story of an aging man’s introspective journey on the meaning of his life, and inevitability of death.

Isak Borg is a doctor well into his autumn years and about to receive an honorary degree celebrating his fifty years in medicine. As he makes the trip to the university, he and his daughter-in-law travel across the areas where he grew up, leading Isak to reflect on his life, which ultimately makes him confront his fears and the fact that he has become a cold, inadequate man. They pick up a group of kids and a husband and wife, and even these strangers begin to meld into Isak's nightmares and reflections. Isak Borg is forced to confront his wasted emotional life, the inevitability of his death, and he struggles to make amends with who he has become.

Wild Strawberries is the most beautiful of Ingmar Bergman's pessimistic films. There are splashes of humor in it, but its effective depiction of the suffocating loneliness elderly people struggle with towards the end of their lives is indeed quite depressing.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Victor Sjostrom, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin
Country: Sweden
Genre: Drama, Romance
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Jan17

In God We Trust / Sa verom u Boga / Са вером у бога (1932) Blu-Ray

by movieworld on January 17th, 2022 at 12:43
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, War

Sa verom u Boga 1932
Tragic destiny of a Serbian rural family in World War I, during the Austrian occupation. Husband leaves for war where he is wounded and his wife is raped and killed by the occupying forces. Grandfather saves the newly born grandson and when the son comes back from the war as an invalid, his grown-up son and the neighbour woman, who brought him up, awaits him. The best Yugoslav feature film between two World Wars; the most honest apology of suffering and salvation of the Serbian people in World War I. It was restored in 1988 and screened on the Festival in Pordenone with great success.

BD25 | 1080i MPEG-2 | 00:40:38 | 7.43 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Serbian intertitles
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, War, Silent

Director: Mihajlo Popovic
Cast: Djovani Bertoto, Dimitrije Dimitrijevic, Jelisaveta Dimitrijevic
Country: Yugoslavia
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Jan17

A Dandy in Aspic (1968) Blu-Ray Powerhouse Films Indicator Series

by movieworld on January 17th, 2022 at 11:37
Posted In: .Other movies, Action, Drama, Thriller

A Dandy in Aspic 1968
A Dandy in Aspic (1968) is Mann's final film. He died during its production, and the film was completed by its star, Laurence Harvey.

The plot revolves around a Russian assassin named Krasnevin who pretends loyalty to British intelligence under the pseudonym Alexander Eberlin while periodically killing off its best operatives. However, Eberlin has been in the game too long and can feel his luck running out. He wants nothing more than to come in out of the English cold and return to Russia. Even as his Soviet bosses tell him nyet, his British superiors, aware of a Russian threat in their midst, order Eberlin to find and assassinate Krasnevin. He soon finds himself in Berlin, where he makes a pretense of searching for his alter ego while attempting unsuccessfully to cross into East Germany. Meanwhile, Eberlin is pursued romantically by a London photographer named Caroline (played by Mia Farrow), who may or may not be allied with his antagonists. And he’s accompanied by a British agent named Gatiss, who becomes increasingly suspicious of Eberlin’s loyalty to king and queen. The narrative takes many sudden twists and turns before arriving at the film’s jolting climactic revelation.

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Jan17

Knock on Any Door (1949) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Sidonis Calysta

by movieworld on January 17th, 2022 at 10:55
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Drama

Knock on Any Door 1949
Knock On Any Door opens with the murder of a policeman in New York City. Nick Romano (John Derek) is arrested for the crime. Nick is a troubled young man who has grown up in the slums and is fond of saying that his goal is to “Live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse.” Now on trial for his very life, Nick reaches out to lawyer Andrew Morton (Humphrey Bogart), who once unsuccessfully defended Nick’s father in a similar criminal trial. At first, Morton wants nothing to do with Nick but he changes his mind, partially out of guilt over Nick’s father and partially because Morton himself came from the same slums that produced Nick. Even as the district attorney (George Macready) goes for blood, Morton argues that Nick isn’t a menace but instead a victim of a society that left him with little choice but to become a criminal.

BD50, DVD9 | 1080p AVC, PAL | 01:39:53 | 29.3 Gb + 6.42 Gb
Language: English, French
Subtitles: French(DVD only)

Director: Nicholas Ray
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, John Derek, George Macready
Country: USA
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
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Jan17

Hitler… connais pas / Hitler – Never Heard of Him (1963) DVD9, Blu-Ray

by movieworld on January 17th, 2022 at 09:42
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary

Hitler... connais pas 1963
In 1963, 22-year-old Bertrand Blier invited 11 of his peers to come to a film studio and talk about their lives. The record of what was said, Hitler? Connais pas!, is a discussion of values that remains relevant and fascinating today. The footage was shot just five years prior to May 1968, and the atmosphere of that time is clearly discernible: these young people may not yet be revolutionaries, but there is clearly a ferment in the air. One young woman describes how she dances the twist every evening; a young man relates his mother's marital infidelities; another young woman describes her own sexual escapades. A bourgeois life holds no appeal for her whatsoever: that would be "a small life," like that of her parents -- and that is certainly not the way to happiness. Another young man has a very traditional attitude: a carbon copy of his father, typical of the 1950s. All he wants is a nice family, a good job, and a nice car in the driveway. Blier focused his camera on an interesting historical gray area. The aesthetics are typically 1960s: each of the twenty-somethings is filmed in isolation, sitting on a chair, under bright lights, from different angles, and in black-and-white.

Director: Bertrand Blier
Country: France
Genre: Documentary
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Jan17

To Sleep with Anger (1990) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on January 17th, 2022 at 08:53
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

To Sleep with Anger 1990
Sometimes a performance is so transfixing, it overtakes a mediocre movie and elevates it, even as everyone else seems to be operating at half speed. Such is the case of Danny Glover and To Sleep with Anger. No one who sees this film will forget Glover’s performance as Harry, the charming drifter who, even when he’s putting on his best, never seems to be at rest. There is something vibrationally wrong with this man, something that can’t be trusted. As one person describes him, he’s the moon, always eager to show his light side, but never forget that the other side lies in darkness.

When Harry arrives on Gideon's (Paul Butler) front porch, he is warmly welcomed by the patriarch and his wife, Suzie (Mary Alice), a hard-working, God-fearing couple who attempt to pass on their traditions to their adult sons. Junior (Carl Lumbly) and his wife share his parents' beliefs, which are thought backward by his buppie brother, Babe (Richard Brooks), and Babe's wife (Sheryl Lee Ralph). And the longer Harry stays, the more volatile the relations between the generations, the brothers, the couples and even the neighbors...

Director: Charles Burnett
Cast: Danny Glover, Paul Butler, DeVaughn Nixon, Mary Alice
Country: USA
Genre: Drama
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