Feb01

Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema Criterion Collection

by movieworld on February 1st, 2019 at 05:59
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Romance

Ingmar Bergman's Cinema
No filmmaker more deserves the lavish treatment that the Criterion Collection recently bestowed on Ingmar Bergman. Created to honor the Swedish writer-director’s centenary, “Ingmar Bergman's Cinema” pairs 39 films on 30 Blu-ray discs (regrettably, there is no DVD edition) with a nearly 250-page coffee-table book featuring a series of essays by Bergman authorities along with excerpts from archival materials and a multitude of compelling photographs.

But the box is more than a compendium of movies gathered in an attractive vessel—or at least it purports to be. Conceived as a permanent “film festival”, it divides Bergman’s singular oeuvre into vague categories like Opening and Closing Nights, Centerpieces and Double Features. Whether that enriches a film lover’s appreciation of this master’s work is debatable, but it might prove a useful starting point for those in need of some guidance. After all, Bergman directed 45 feature films (and wrote even more) before he died at age 89 in 2007.

Bergman deserves his reputation among cineastes as a meticulous prober of life’s big questions and man’s inability to come to terms with most of them.
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Mar22

Khane-ye doust kodjast? / Where is the Friend’s Home? (1987) DVD9, Blu-Ray

by movieworld on March 22nd, 2019 at 12:56
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Khane-ye doust kodjast? / Where is the Friend's Home? (1987) DVD9
A young northern Iranian schoolboy, Ahmed, wishes to return a school notebook to his rural classmate who is threatened with expulsion if he does not bring to school a lost notebook. The problem is that the student lives in the next village and Ahmed does not know his address. How he gets the notebook to his friend's house, turns out to be an odyssey of great human endeavor for this 8-year-old. He must get help from the adults he meets on his way. Ahmed has to overcome his mother's harsh outlook on life, his grand-father's caustic perception of how to raise a child, his strict school teacher, and the strangers he meets who are unconcerned with his problem...

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Cast: Babek Ahmed Poor, Ahmed Ahmed Poor, Kheda Barech Defai
Country: Iran
Genre: Drama, Family
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Mar22

Zire darakhatan zeyton / Under the Olive Trees / Through the Olive Trees (1994) DVD9, Blu-Ray

by movieworld on March 22nd, 2019 at 12:28
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary, Drama

Zire darakhatan zeyton / Under the Olive Trees / Through the Olive Trees (1994) DVD9
The third part in Abbas Kiarostami's masterful Koker trilogy (sometimes called the "earthquake trilogy"), Through the Olive Trees tells a fictionalized story of the shooting of the previous film, "Life and Nothing More..."

A film director is making a movie in the Iranian countryside. He recruits local actors, but when shooting begins, a problem comes to light. His male lead, a young man named Hossein (playing himself), is madly in love with his fifteen-year old female co-star, Tahereh (playing herself). Because of Hossein’s illiteracy and homelessness, a marriage is impossible, at least from the perspective of Tahereh’s grandmother (who is also her guardian). Mohamad Ali Keshavarz plays the Kiarostami-like film director who tries to sort it all out.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Cast: Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Farhad Kheradmand, Zarifeh Shiva
Country: France, Iran
Genre: Drama
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Mar22

Videodrome (1983) 2 x DVD and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection, 2 x DVD Arrow Video

by movieworld on March 22nd, 2019 at 11:49
Posted In: .Other movies, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Videodrome 1983
Jaded Max Renn (James Woods) heads up a tiny, independent cable TV station that specializes in edgy softcore erotica and disturbing violence. Max is always on the lookout for the next piece of provocative sleaze, hunting the airwaves with his technical assistant Harlan (Peter Dvorsky) and searching the globe with the help of video freelancers like Masha (Lynne Gorman). When, with the help of Harlan, he stumbles on a fuzzy broadcast of something called Videodrome, which seems to feature graphic depictions of torture and murder, Max believes he's found something significant, the type of aggressively offensive video that's perfect for his station. As he pitches forward into his investigation of Videodrome's origin, he becomes involved with self-help maven Nicki Brand (Deborah Harry), and we find, as their relationship develops, that both share sadomasochistic desires that feed directly into Videodrome's allure. After Nicki disappears on her own quest to find Videodrome, Max finds himself experiencing increasingly bizarre hallucinations involving his stomach and his TV. By the time he meets Videodrome's Barry Convex (Les Carlson) and the elusive Brian O'Blivion (Jack Creely), Max is at the epicenter of a horrifying dreamscape, under the sway of some kind of video-borne mind control...

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Mar20

John Carpenter’s Village of the Damned (1995) Blu-Ray Shout! Factory Collector’s Edition

by movieworld on March 20th, 2019 at 17:09
Posted In: .Other movies, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller

Village of the Damned 1995
The small coastal town of Midwich, California gets a shocking surprise when at approximately 10 a.m. on an otherwise benign morning all of the town’s residents are suddenly rendered unconscious. The source of this outbreak is unclear, though the affected area appears to have clear, defined borders. Soon the townsfolk begin to wake, with some discovering loved ones perished during the blackout period. Strangely, ten of the town’s women learn they are pregnant and every conception coincides with the unexplained epidemic.
Fast forward nine months and a slew of platinum blonde babies are born. The only problem is, these babies aren’t normal, and they’re not remotely near friendly. As the years pass, and the children grow, the adults begin to witness first hand that these little bastards are flat out evil....

Village of the Damned was adapted from The Midwich Cuckoos, one of John Wyndham's best books. It was almost as popular as his groundbreaking The Day of the Triffids, the story about deadly walking plants that now seems a progenitor of the post-apocalyptic subgenre. Wyndham's narrative logic is impeccable. Weird scientific mysteries are followed by further impossibilities that overturn everything dear to the English heart: Order, propriety, civilization itself.

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Mar20

Jonas Mekas – The Sixties Quartet: Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections (1990), Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus) (2002), Happy Birthday to John (1997), This Side of Paradise (1999) DVD5

by movieworld on March 20th, 2019 at 16:13
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary

Jonas Mekas - The Sixties Quartet
Four films that shed light on the life, art and atmosphere of the sixties.

Jonas Mekas is a pioneer of the avant-garde and has often been called the “godfather of American avant-garde cinema.”

Mekas was born in Lithuania in 1929. In 1944 he fled his home country because of the war and went on a long and dangerous journey through Europe before settling in the US. In 1949 he bought his first 16mm Bolex camera and started filming moments of his life. In his long and eventful carrier he has made countless films, both long and short, and received awards for his work all over the world. His films are varied in form but he is perhaps most known for his “diary films”, which are made up of snapshots of his daily life. Mekas has collaborated with some of the the world’s most celebrated artists, such as Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, Salvador Dali, Yoko Ono and John Lennon.

Mekas is man of many talents. Through the years he has done a lot of writing on cinema and he founded the magazine Film Culture with his brother Adolfas Mekas, which was to devoted to writings about the art of cinema. Mekas is also a prolific writer of poetry and is considered one of Lithuania’s greatest contemporary poets.

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Mar20

Light Years: The Film Diaries of Tim Cawkwell (1968-87 / 2015-18) (2018) DVD9

by movieworld on March 20th, 2019 at 15:42
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary

Light Years The Film Diaries of Tim Cawkwell
Tim Cawkwell was born in Oxford in 1948, and completed his studies in Latin, Greek and Ancient History at the University there in 1970. He received another education - parallel, unofficial - in the cinema, and has been watching films ever since. Between 1968 and 1987, he made films, first in 8mm then in 16mm, specializing in working directly on the film frame. He has had a career first in publishing, then in the voluntary sector, ending up as chief administrative officer (a lay position) at Norwich Cathedral. He was involved in the publication of 'The World Encyclopaedia of Film' in 1972, and published 'The Filmgoer's Guide to God' in 2004.

Drawing inspiration from the American Underground films reaching Britain at the time, The Light Years seeks to emulate the qualities of the diary, thus making the personal public. The work brings together a series of short films made on 8mm between 1968 and 1987 to create a single diary film in 25 sections with its own narrative arc as a story of self-education. The material was digitized, re-edited, and voice-over and sound added between 2015 and 2018.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 193 minutes | 7.04 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Experimental

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Mar20

Fast Company (1979), Stereo (1969), Crimes of the Future (1970) Blu-Ray and 2 x DVD9 Blue Underground

by movieworld on March 20th, 2019 at 14:53
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Fast Company 1979
Years before he melded his body grotesqueries with car collisions in the controversial Crash, director David Cronenberg helmed this more straightforward ode to one of his more obscure passions, competitive auto racing.

William Smith stars as Lonnie "Lucky Man" Johnson, an ex-champion drag racer who survives a harrowing explosion while testing a newly-designed, supercharged engine. His racing team's sponsor, the crooked FastCo Oil rep Phil Adamson (John Saxon), thinks this is the final nail in Lonnie's long careerhe's over the hill, and Adamson wants to throw the FastCo name behind up-and-coming funny car driver Gary Black (Cedric Smith). Ignoring the protests of his girlfriend Sammy (Claudia Jennings), Lonnie is determined to show up Black, and even takes a funny car out from under fellow team member Billy "The Kid" Brocker (Nicholas Campbell) to show Adamson he can still compete. But Adamson intends to use any means to stop Loonie...

Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: William Smith, Claudia Jennings, John Saxon, Nicholas Campbell, Don Francks, Cedric Smith
Country: Canada
Genre: Drama, Sport
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Mar19

A Raisin in the Sun (1961) 2 x DVD and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on March 19th, 2019 at 22:02
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

A Raisin in the Sun 1961
The first filmed adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's landmark Broadway play, Daniel Petrie's A Raisin in the Sun (1961) still rings true for all the right and wrong reasons. It stars Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, and Claudia McNeil as three divided members of a Chicago family who'd love nothing more than to escape their cramped apartment...but they all have different ideas on how to do it. Their plans all come from the same source: a $10,000 life insurance check issued to matriarch Lena Younger (McNeil) after the recent death of her husband. Lena plans to put a down payment on a roomy house in the suburbs and send her daughter Beneatha (Diana Sands) to medical school. But her brash son Walter Lee (Poitier) has bigger ambitions: to invest all $10,000 in a liquor store with two friends and, hopefully, make a lot more money in the long run. Walter's wife Ruth (Dee), meanwhile, is trapped in the middle; she wants to support her husband, but his short temper and impatience have been straining their marriage in recent years. Their son Travis (Stephen Perry), who sleeps on the living room couch, rarely sees them fight but it's practically unavoidable.

Director: Daniel Petrie
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee
Country: USA
Genre: Drama
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Mar19

Andrei Rublev / Andrey Roublev / The Passion According to Andrey / Андрей Рублев (1966) 2 x DVD9 RUSCICO, 2 x Blu-Ray Curzon Artificial Eye, 3 x DVD9 and 2 x Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on March 19th, 2019 at 21:52
Posted In: .Russian movies, Biography, Drama, History

Andrei Rublev 1966
Andrei Rublev was considered to be one of the greatest Russian medieval painters of Orthodox frescos and icons. His authenticated work was all carried out in the 15th century and he was canonised as a saint by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1988. Andrei Tarkovsky took up the challenge of documenting his life on film, spending two years writing the script with Andrei Konchalovsky and researching medieval history.

Divided into eight chapters, with a prologue and epilogue, Andrei Rublev is epic in many ways. The film begins with Andrei (Anatoly Solonitsyn) leaving Andronikov Monastery, roaming the countryside searching for work with fellow monks and painters Daniil (Nikolai Grinko) and Kirill (Ivan Lapikov). Over the next three hours Tarkovsky charts their separate paths in the lives of three very different characters, through famines, wars, poverty, fame and crises of faith.

Andrei Rublev is a staggering feet of cinema. It’s undoubtedly Tarkovsky’s masterpiece and most meditative and strikingly beautiful film.
By opinion poll of the members of the European Academy of Film and Television (1995), this motion picture was recognized one of the world’s ten best films (8th place). Its original title – "The Andrei Passion".

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Mar19

Poll / The Poll Diaries (2010) 2 x DVD9

by movieworld on March 19th, 2019 at 20:14
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

The Poll Diaries 2010
In the summer of 1914, Oda Schaefer (Paula Beer) travels from Berlin to her father’s estate in Estonia. She is bringing her mother’s coffin, to be buried on native soil, and a gift her father had specifically asked for - a jar with the fetus of a two headed baby in it.

Her father Ebbo (Edgar Selge) is a scientist who has somehow lost his professorship and is keen to regain in through the research he is engaged on at the estate. For him, humanity exists only as an object for dissection and analyse, witb the impending war of no interest.

The Germans and the Estonians on the estate are all under the close supervision of a Russian garrison, dispatched to hunt local anarchists. Oda finds one of those anarchists (Tabet Tuisk), wounded on the premises, hides him in the attic of her father’s lab. Alienated by a family that doesn’t pay attention to her - her stepmother would much rather organise musical soirees than take care of her - Oda is fascinated by her secret companion whose life she has saved and is willing not only to help him escape, but join him as well.

Director: Chris Kraus
Cast: Paula Beer, Edgar Selge, Tambet Tuisk, Jeanette Hain
Country: Germany, Austria, Estonia
Genre: Drama
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