Jun23

Hard Country (1981) Blu-Ray

by movieworld on June 23rd, 2018 at 16:13
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Hard Country 1981
Hard Country had its genesis in a song written by Michael Murphy about an individual trying to decide whether his roots or his wings are more important to him. Kyle Richardson (Jan-Michael Vincent) doesn't like his factory job much but he loves his ritualized visits to the Texas town's honk-tonk bar. There dancing, brawling, drunkenness, and pranks are regular events.

His girlfriend Jodie (Kim Basinger) longs for something more out of life than work at the telephone company or evenings with Kyle doing the same things they did as teenagers. When she is accepted by Western Airlines for a flight attendant position and called to Los Angeles for training, she must decide her priorities.

BD25 | 1080p AVC | 01:41:49 | 22.1 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

Director: David Greene
Cast: Jan-Michael Vincent, Kim Basinger, Michael Parks
Country: UK
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Jun23

The Apartment (1960) Blu-Ray Arrow Academy, DVD9 Collector’s Edition

by movieworld on June 23rd, 2018 at 15:49
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama, Romance

The Apartment (1960) DVD9
An ode to the good guy written with truly ravishing intentions, Billy Wilder's The Apartment is the kind of Hollywood classic that never loses its touch, working its way down the generations with a heartfelt tale of unassuming meekness where the only nice guy in a city of big-heads becomes tangled up in a wacky romance.

The Apartment stars Jack Lemmon as C.C. Baxter, a lonely nobody who works for a huge insurance company. Keen to move up in the world, he greases the wheels by loaning his apartment to his superiors for their extramarital affairs. This works in terms of getting him a promotion, but it plays havoc with his life and health. The breaking point comes when he falls for elevator operator Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), only to find out she’s his boss Jeff D. Sheldrake’s (Fred MacMurray) ‘bit on the side’ and has been brought up to his apartment. This situation takes a shocking turn half way through the film when Kubelik attempts suicide in Baxter’s apartment. After he saves her life and plays nursemaid to the troubled woman, he falls ever more in love and ever more angry at Sheldrake’s mistreatment of her. So Baxter reaches a point where he must decide whether to continue to be a lap dog to his superiors or be a mensch (a human being), as the honourable Dr. Dreyfuss (Jack Kruschen) puts it.
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Jun22

The Jerk (1979) Blu-Ray

by movieworld on June 22nd, 2018 at 17:30
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy

The Jerk 1979
It was Steve Martin's first foray into a comedic leading role, playing the most insanely dumb and most ignorant white man on Earth.

Having been abandoned as a baby on the door steps of some poor, black sharecroppers in Mississippi, Navin Johnson (Steve Martin) has grown up believing that these poor, kindly folk were his own flesh and blood. But having reached adulthood, Navin is surprised to discover that the people he calls kin are not and in fact that he is very different to all of them. Feeling at a loss from this devastating news, he decides that he needs to leave home and experience the real world so that he can find his special purpose in life. Through his journey of discovery into the real world, Navin finds work in a gas station before ending up working in a carnival where he falls for the shows motorbike riding stuntwoman. But through a series of fortunate and funny twists he manages to find wealth through inventing a device called an "Opti-Grab" and meets the real love of his life, Marie Kimble (Bernadette Peters).

Director: Carl Reiner
Cast: Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams
Country: USA
Genre: Comedy
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Jun22

The Day of the Jackal (1973) Blu-Ray Arrow

by movieworld on June 22nd, 2018 at 16:10
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Drama, Thriller

The Day of the Jackal 1973
A secret military organization, the OAS, believing French President Charles de Gaulle has betrayed the nation by giving Algeria its independence, backs an assassination attempt in July 1962 that fails. A year later, the OAS steps up its efforts, hiring a professional killer who goes by the code name The Jackal for $500,000. The Jackal, believed responsible for the murder of Dominican leader Trujillo and at least one other head of state in Africa, sets out on an elaborate plan using forged identity papers, a weapon hand-crafted according to his specifications, and a mole in De Gaulle's staff to tip him off to any information authorities may gather about him. The story cuts back and forth in the cat-and-mouse game between the ever-elusive Jackal and the French authorities trying to stop him before it too late.

BD50 | 1080p AVC | 02:22:36 | 45.7 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Director: Fred Zinnemann
Cast: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair
Country: UK, France
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Jun22

Pulp (1972) Blu-Ray Arrow Film

by movieworld on June 22nd, 2018 at 14:19
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Pulp 1972
England’s ‘Three Michaels’ – they being writer-director Mike Hodges, producer Michael Klinger and actor Michael Caine – followed up the success of Get Carter with a film so completely different from that earlier picture that you’d almost swear it were made by a different team.

The film revolves around a man named Mickey King (Caine), a man who makes a very good career out of writing trashy, lurid pulp novels... all of which he churns out with lurid titles and under various pseudonyms. When he’s offered a handsome fee to ghostwrite an autobiography for a mysterious celebrity named Preston Gilbert (Mickey Rooney) who has left the Hollywood system for a quiet life in Malta, he accepts. There is, after all, a good amount of money on the line. He sets out getting to work but soon learns that the gangsters and hoodlums that Gilbert became known for playing on the silver screen aren’t quite as fictitious as some might expect – he’s got some very real underworld connections.

When Preston turns up dead one day, the strange group of eccentrics that hung around him all turn into suspects, at least in King’s eyes, as he tries to solve the murder without getting knocked off himself.
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Jun22

Kin-dza-dza! / Кин-дза-дза! (1986) Blu-Ray, 2 x DVD9 RUSCICO, 2 x DVD5

by movieworld on June 22nd, 2018 at 13:22
Posted In: .Russian movies, Comedy, Drama

Kin-dza-dza 1986Kin-dza-dza! is cult sci-fi of the highest calibre, a truly inspired work from Daneliya mocking not just Soviet but worldwide customs we take for granted.
Foreman "Uncle Vova" and Georgian student Gedevan accidentally found themselves on a strange desert planet, Plyuk, in the faraway galaxy "Kin-Dza-Dza". The planet’s inhabitants looked like humans and understood Russian, because they could read people’s minds, although their own language was pretty limited. Virtually everything, with a rare exception, was expressed by one word – "koo". The planet's entire population was divided into two castes: the superior one – "chatlians", and the lower one – "patsaks". Uncle Vova and Gedevan, who learned they were patsaks, had been trying throughout the film to get back to Earth, in which they finally succeeded, after many an adventure...
Kin-Dza-Dza is something like an "advanced cyberpunk film". It's a lot about people and social structures which on the planet of "Pluke" of course have many parallels to our society. It's a very funny movie, but it's also a melancholic movie with great philosophical sense.

Director: Georgiy Daneliya
Cast: Stanislav Lyubshin, Evgeniy Leonov, Yuriy Yakovlev, Levan Gabriadze, Olga Mashnaya
Country: Soviet Union
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Cyberpunk
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Jun21

History of Soviet Puppet Animation (1937-1977) 10 x DVD

by movieworld on June 21st, 2018 at 17:24
Posted In: .Russian movies, Family

History of Soviet Puppet Animation
A series that tells the history of Soviet puppet animation by means of an anthology of puppet animation together with brief texts.

10xDVD | PAL | 47 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Russian and others
Subtitles: English
Genre: Animation

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Jun20

Tmar a jeho rod aneb Slzave udoli pyramid / Obscurantist and His Lineage or The Pyramids’ Tearful Valleys (2011) DVD9

by movieworld on June 20th, 2018 at 13:10
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary, Mystery

Obscurantist and His Lineage or The Pyramids' Tearful Valleys 2011
Karel Vachek's documentary essay deals with the fine line between an internal belief in God and institutionalized religion. At the same time it brings up the need for a healthy sense of skepticism and the benefit of not believing in anything that advertises itself as certain. The filmmaker sets out for the USA, Japan, Great Britain, Poland, and the Balkans in his sometimes amusing investigation of spiritual substitutes, such as esoteric "teachings" or various fraudulent and magical practices, to which we sometimes fall prey due to our natural religious cravings. In addition to a Czech "prefab" family, who describe the carryings-on of their poltergeist, well-known mystery buffs appear in the film: Erich von Daniken, Raymond Moody Jr., and Ivan Mackerl. Director Vachek, however, uses no irony or ridicule, and although his position of skepticism in the film is clear, he is quick to point out surprising correspondences between the newest scientific hypotheses and the most ancient religious texts.

Whilst Brno welcomes Pope Benedict XVI. and Barack Obama is promising a world without nuclear arms in Prague, the members of the Academy of Sciences are protesting by the National Theatre, and ghosts appear nearby in the basement of the Film and Photography Academy (FAMU), Egon Bondy mulls over the principle of God in the binary system, Raymond A. Moody lectures about life after life, governments use the media and the intelligence services to keep secret the existence of a UFO and a lady member of a Czech Tai-chi club is being subjected to remote astral torture by the Chinese...
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