Archive for ‘February, 2018’

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Feb07

Nadja – White Nights, Aidan Baker – Drone Fields (2010) 2 x DVD9

by movieworld on February 7th, 2018 at 12:50
Posted In: .Other movies, Musical

Nadja - White Nights, Aidan Baker - Drone Fields (2010)
Nadja is a duo of Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff from Toronto (now based in Berlin) making music that encompasses experimental/drone, ambient, shoegazer, and doom metal. Originally formed by Baker in 2003 as a solo endeavour, Buckareff joined in 2005 to bring Nadja out of the studio and into a live setting. They have since released numerous albums with several different labels and have toured extensively in North America and Europe.
White Nights music recorded live between 4am and 7am on September 9th, 2007 at the Nuit Blanche event in Toronto. Nadja's set was part of Insomnosonic, an evening of musical performances at the Toronto City Works Parking Garage.

Aidan Baker is a Canadian musician and writer. He performs as a solo artist and with the groups Nadja and Arc. A classically trained multi-instrumentalist, his primary instrument is the electric guitar with which he creates music ranging from experimental/drone to ambient post-rock to contemporary classical. He has released numerous albums on labels from around the world and has authored several books of prose/poetry.
Drone Fields was recorded live between 10pm and 1am at the OM Festival in Killaloe, ON (Canada) on June 21, 2003 as part of the Field of Drones exhibition.
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Feb07

Shen nu / The Goddess (1934) DVD9

by movieworld on February 7th, 2018 at 11:50
Posted In: .Other movies, Asian, Drama

The Goddess 1934
The unnamed heroine is played by Ruan Lingyu, and is referred to as the Goddess. The Shanghai resident works at night as a streetwalker to support her infant son. Things take a turn for the worse when during a police raid of the red-light district, to escape the Goddess is forced to hide in the apartment of a portly street criminal known as the "Boss" (Zhang Zhizhi) and later is forced to secure him as her uncaring pimp. This dire situation causes the Goddess to flee the city with her child for an industrial city, where she experiences hard times. The pimp soon tracks her down and kidnaps her child, forcing her to work for him again...

It is a profoundly moving drama, all the poignant by the fact that its star committed suicide at the age of 24, a year after the film's release.

DVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 01:18:30 | 5.27 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Mandarin intertitles
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Silent

Director: Yonggang Wu
Cast: Lingyu Ruan, Tian Jian, Zhizhi Zhang
Country: China
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Feb07

Temenos (1998) DVD5

by movieworld on February 7th, 2018 at 11:10
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary

Temenos 1998
'Temenos' means a sacred site or ritual precinct. Temenos, the film, explores the phenomenon of visionary experience.

'Temenos' is an experimental film conceived and directed by London-based artist, filmmaker and lecturer Nina Danino, composed almost entirely of images shot in numerous European locations where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to women – including Banneaux, Lourdes, Fatima, Gibraltar and Medjugorje.

Brooding b/w landscapes make up much of the running time in this evocation of the lingering sense of history in a number of sacred geographical sites. The testimonies of various Marian visionaries are spoken in voice-over as the camera prowls through deep forest and across rugged mountain, while vocal performances at the extreme end of female expressiveness, from guttural howling to soaring soprano, provide an aural complement. It's all very vivid for a while, but not easy to discern just what director Danino is getting at.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:16:57 | 2.68 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Documentary

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Feb05

Ulrich Seidl: Alle Filme 1980-2017 (Complete Works) 18 x DVD

by movieworld on February 5th, 2018 at 13:34
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary, Drama

Ulrich Seidl: Alle Filme 1980-2017 (Complete Works)
Ulrich Maria Seidl is an Austrian film director, writer and producer.

His films aren't for everyone. With a tar-blackly comical spirit, Seidl depicts a modern universe that is bleak, crude, confrontational, mundane, explicit, and bracingly real. Seidl doesn’t just blur the line between documentary and narrative. He erases it. He does this so confoundingly well, in fact, that the question of “is it fact or fiction?” becomes utterly irrelevant when discussing his work.

Seidl's overarching directorial mission is to present a nearly hellish vision of modern life at its most grotesquely mundane. Rather than setting up more traditionally artificial climaxes and confrontations, he chooses instead to depict scenes from everyday life—some dramatic, most not—in which characters resort to depraved behavior out of what appears to be either boredom or a historically ingrained sense of purposelessness.

18 x DVD | PAL | 2040 minutes | 92.4 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Deutsch
Subtitles: English, Deutsch
Genre: Drama, Documentary, Short

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Feb05

Jabberwocky (1977) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on February 5th, 2018 at 12:24
Posted In: .Other movies, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Jabberwocky 1977 Criterion Collection
After a prologue in which a cheerful poacher (Terry Jones) goes through the woods emptying his traps, only to find himself stalked and killed by an unseen monster, we meet Dennis Cooper (Michael Palin), the cheerfully vacuous son of a village craftsman. Dennis has no interest in the craft of barrel-making; he wants to make money by doing things as cheaply as possible, an attitude which enrages his father, who on his deathbed disowns his son. Forced out into the world, Dennis bids farewell to his beloved Griselda (Annette Badland), the monstrous daughter of a tradesman who cares nothing for him, and heads to the city to seek a trade and a fortune.
In the big city, Dennis finds strife and misery. On his last legs, he's mistaken for a prince and a champion and sent off to fight the Jabberwocky, the monster that has been pillaging the village and killing many an innocent folk.

BD50 + DVD9 | 1080p AVC, NTSC | 01:46:02 | 44.3 Gb + 7.37 Gb
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: Michael Palin, Harry H. Corbett, John Le Mesurier
Country: UK
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