Archive for ‘April, 2019’

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Apr04

Long men kezhan / Dragon Inn (1967) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on April 4th, 2019 at 14:41
Posted In: .Other movies, Action, Adventure, Asian

Dragon Inn 1967
It is the eighth year of the Jinghtai Era during the Ming dynasty (1457 A.D.) and powerful eunuchs have taken over the Chinese government. The country's two most important agencies are the Eastern Agency and Imperial Guards.

The leader of the Eastern Agency, Zhao Shao Qin, executes the supposedly corrupt Minister of Defense, Yu Qian, and publicly announces that his children will be exiled at the remote outpost Dragon Inn. However, Zhao Shao Qin also secretly orders his top assassins to meet the children at Dragon Inn and kill them.

Soon after, the traveling swordsman Xiao Shaozi arrives at Dragon Inn where Zhao Shao Qin's assassins are patiently waiting for their targets to appear. The swordsman annoys them and they attempt to poison him, but he repeatedly outsmarts them. The assassins' plan is further complicated when two new swordsmen, the Zhu brothers, arrive and announce that they will spend a few days in Dragon Inn. Convinced that Xiao Shaozi and the Zhu brothers have been sent to save Yu Qian's children, the assassins decide to eliminate them as quickly as possible.
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Apr04

Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on April 4th, 2019 at 14:35
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Sex, Lies, and Videotape 1989
"People are in general not candid over sexual matters," Sigmund Freud observed. "They do not show their sexuality freely but to conceal it they wear a heavy overcoat woven of a tissue of lies, as though the weather were bad in the world of sexuality." The weather is overcast in the world of sex for the four main characters in Steven Soderbergh's sex, lies, and videotape, the American film that won the Palme d'Or (Best Film) at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.

Our story is told largely from the perspective of Ann Mullany (Andie MacDowell), who lives in Baton Rouge with her yuppie husband John (Peter Gallagher). Their marriage is crumbling after just a few years together. Ann seems reserved and almost puritanical; John works long hours, just became junior partner, and is having an affair with Ann's younger sister Cynthia (Laura San Giacomo). It's obvious that the Mullanys are bored with their marriage -- for completely different reasons, of course -- and Cynthia doesn't seem to care about hiding the secret from her uptight, reserved sister. The cracks in their marriage really start to show upon the arrival of John's old college friend, Graham Dalton (James Spader). It's been seven years since they've seen each other and both have changed dramatically, but the introspective Graham immediately becomes a catalyst...especially once Ann discovers a personal project he's been working on.
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Apr04

The Odessa File (1974) Blu-Ray Indicator, DVD9 Columbia Tristar

by movieworld on April 4th, 2019 at 13:57
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Thriller

The Odessa File 1974
A political thriller based on the novel by Frederick Forsyth. The story revolves around a secret organization named Odessa that was formed after the war that helps former Nazi SS men get new identities and escape war criminal trials. The Odessa is a real organization, the narrative is fiction.

The year is 1963. The place: Hamburg, Germany. An elderly Jewish man commits suicide, leaving a diary which falls into the hands of a freelance newspaperman, Peter Miller (Jon Voight). The diary documents the unspeakable crimes of cruelty, torture and mass murder perpetrated by SS Captain Eduard Roschmann (Maximilian Schell), commandant of the notorious wartime death camp at Riga, Latvia. Miller launches a personal manhunt to track down Roschmann, an investigation that leads him into the very heart of Odessa, a powerful secret organization formed by the SS to protect and re-establish its fugitive members throughout the world...

Director: Ronald Neame
Cast: Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell
Country: UK, West Germany
Genre: Drama, Thriller
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Apr04

The Tree of Life (2011) 3 x DVD9 and 2 x Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on April 4th, 2019 at 13:48
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

The Tree of Life 2011
Terrence Malick is a bold filmmaker who is not afraid to take risks as demonstrated by Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, and The New World. He's known for creating visually stunning dramas that explore the depths and reach of human emotions. The Tree of Life is his most ambitious film yet as he takes us on a journey from stardust to wonder, exploring the natural world, the joys of new life, the impact of memories, and the dynamics of family life.

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

The Tree of Life is an unconventional film that challenges moviegoers to stretch their minds and souls as they surrender to the drama that explores nature and spirit, past and present, and the abstract story of the universe set alongside the intimate story of one family.

Director: Terrence Malick
Cast: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain
Country: USA
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Apr03

Paul Clipson – Layers of Light: Celluloid Sketches & Watercolor Movies, Super 8 and 16mm Films, Compound Eyes Nos. 1 and other films by Paul Clipson (2004-2016) 8 x DVD5

by movieworld on April 3rd, 2019 at 19:21
Posted In: .Other movies

Paul Clipson - Layers of Light
How can one translate the experiences offered by Paul Clipson’s films into linear writing? It can’t be impossible, for the films themselves proceed in such a direction: each one has a beginning, a middle and an end. Yet they do not work in that way exclusively—there is more at stake here than simple causality.

The elegantly ravishing super 8 films of Paul Clipson are lyrical explorations of light and movement. His images, mostly edited in-camera, reveal the rhythms, energy and sensuality of the everyday that we often fail to see. The influence of experimental filmmakers such as Stan Brakhage, Marie Menken, Bruce Conner and Bruce Baillie is palpable in his multi-layered studies, as well as that of the many sound artists and musicians with whom he has collaborated over the years, such as Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Gregg Kowalsky and William Fowler Collins.

7 x DVD5 | NTSC | ~500 mins | 18.4 Gb + 3% rec
Language: none
Subtitles: none
Genre: Experimental

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Apr03

La Dolce Vita (1960) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on April 3rd, 2019 at 19:19
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama, Romance

La Dolce Vita 1960
There is hardly another film in the history of Italian cinema that is as influential and as highly regarded as the classic La Dolce Vita (1960).
Directed by one of the icons in European cinema Federico Fellini La Dolce Vita follows the young reporter Marcello Rubini (Marcello Mastroianni) during his search for the ultimate story. Marcello is captivated by the glimmer of aristocratic night life and often ends up experiencing what his stories aspire to describe. But he hardly ever feels satisfied...the rampant never-ending parties, the pretentious aristocratic chatter, even the seductive women which he encounters, they all feel the same, their "stories" have already been told. Until one day the beautiful movie star Silvia (Anita Ekberg) arrives in Rome.

BD50, 2xDVD9 | 1080p AVC, NTSC | 02:55:46 | 43.9 Gb 14.1 Gb
Language: Italiano
Subtitles: English

Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimee
Country: Italy, France
Genre: Drama, Comedy
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Apr03

Menschen am Sonntag / People on Sunday (1930) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on April 3rd, 2019 at 18:52
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama, Romance

People on Sunday 1930
A brief, tranquil morning reading the paper, a quick dalliance with a lover, a peaceful walk through the city, a fun game of catch, a sudden flirtatious glance, or perhaps even a lazy afternoon spread out on a beach. Often we take these trivial occurrences for granted, letting them slip from our minds and memories. Sometimes though, it's in these deceptively simple moments -- the ones we think are unimportant or disposable, the ones seeped in our routines and everyday lifestyles -- that real truth lies. 'People on Sunday,' a 1930 silent film set in Weimar-era Berlin, is a movie about such moments. Shot by a dream-team of young German filmmakers including Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, and Billy Wilder, along with nonprofessional actors and an improvisational, quasi-documentary style of loose narrative structure, the film offers a beautiful window into the past, through an effortless yet still potent rumination on the carefree minutia of weekend life.

Directors: Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, Rochus Gliese, Curt Siodmak, Fred Zinnemann
Cast: Erwin Splettstosser, Brigitte Borchert, Wolfgang von Waltershausen
Country: Germany
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Silent
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Apr03

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1970) DVD5

by movieworld on April 3rd, 2019 at 18:46
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 1970
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich -- British screen version of Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn's account, based on his own experience, of what daily life meant to a prisoner of a forced labor camp in the Soviet penal system.

Both novel and movie examine a single day in the 10-year sentence of a prisoner in a Siberian prison camp. If the temperature falls to 40 below zero the men do not have to go out and work. But this day it is a mere 27 below...

The film was released on laserdisc in 1988 and VHS in 1998, but has never had a DVD release. This is a Laserdisc rip with VHS like quality.

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:45:31 | 1.57 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Drama

Director: Caspar Wrede
Cast: Tom Courtenay, Espen Skjonberg, Alf Malland
Country: UK, Norway
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Apr03

This Filthy Earth (2001) DVD9

by movieworld on April 3rd, 2019 at 18:45
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

This Filthy Earth 2001
Shot entirely on location in Cumbria and the Yorkshire Dales, "This Filthy Earth" tells the tragic tale of two sisters, Francine (Palmer) and Kath (newcomer Randall). Together with Kath's daughter Etta (Etta Kotting, the director's niece), they tirelessly work the land bequeathed them by their parents.

The primitive, swaggering Buto (Attwooll) has designs on their realm, and brutishly proposes marriage to Kath in order to get it. Meanwhile, Lek (Tchili), a stranger and hired hand on a neighboring farm, takes a shine to Francine - much to the consternation of the suspicious villagers who ostracise him, labelling him a "darky". When nature takes its toll, the superstitious locals - led by the cantankerous meddler Armandine (Clough) - look for a scapegoat, focusing their blame and hatred on Lek.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:46:22 | 7.69 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

Director: Andrew Kotting
Cast: Rebecca Palmer, Shane Attwooll, Demelza Randall
Country: UK
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Apr03

Sadie Benning Videoworks: Volume 1, 2, 3 (1989-1998) 3 x DVD5

by movieworld on April 3rd, 2019 at 18:44
Posted In: .Other movies

Sadie Benning Videoworks
A compilation of Sadie Benning's works.
Sadie Benning is a lesbian videomaker who began making videos when she was 15-years old, using a Fisher Price Pixelvision toy camera. A Pixelvision pioneer, she has significantly defined the language of the format since the late eighties, recognising its uncanny intimacy and its psychodramatic potential. Benning's early works were made in the privacy of her childhood bedroom, using scrawled and handwritten text from diary entries to record thoughts and images that reveal the longings and complexities of a developing identity. Evoking in turn playful seduction and painful honesty, Benning’s floating, close-up camera functions as a witness to her intimate revelations, and as an accomplice in defining her evocative experimental form. Her work emerges from a place half-innocent and half-adult—with all the honesty, humor, and desperation of a personality just coming into self-awareness, trapped and uneasy. Her more recent work moves beyond the Pixelvision camera and into animation, film and installation.

3 x DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 155 mins | 1.61 Gb + 2.41 Gb + 3.22 Gb
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Experimental

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