Archive for ‘February, 2020’

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Feb21

The Quiet Earth (1985) Blu-Ray Arrow Video, DVD9 Film Movement

by movieworld on February 21st, 2020 at 16:12
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Musical

The Quiet Earth 1985
Scientist Zac Hobson (Bruno Lawrence) wakes up one morning and heads to the research station where he works. However, he quickly discovers that all of the people who would normally be around him seem to have disappeared into thin air. A gas station he stops at to fill his car is left unattended. Vehicles are left abandoned on the road. A house which he knocks at the door of is revealed to be completely empty. He also discovers the smoldering wreckage of an airliner which has fallen out of the sky. When he eventually enters the lab, he finds that there is nobody there either. When he sends signals out to other labs across the world, he receives no responses from any of them. It appears that a scientific experiment which he has been involved with, known as Project Flashlight, has wiped out most of humanity...

As Zac wanders the deserted city of Hamilton, New Zealand, hoping to find some remnant of life besides himself, his mind begins to disintegrate until fantasy and reality blur together in a heady, terrifying cocktail.

Director: Geoff Murphy
Cast: Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge, Pete Smith
Country: New Zealand
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
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Feb21

Do the Right Thing (1989) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on February 21st, 2020 at 14:55
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama

Do the Right Thing 1989
Spike Lee produced, directed, wrote, and stars in Do the Right Thing, a powerful and poignant portrait of contemporary urban life.

The film looks at the hottest day in New York in one neighborhood (Bedford Stuy) and the relationships and behaviors of its residents. We have Lee himself as a pizza boy, Ossie Davis as a neighborhood drunk and Danny Aiello as the pizza store owner among many other characters. These characters have deep resentments, hatred and bigotry that, in this film, explode into violence.

Do the Right Thing is a cautionary tale that graphically depicts the racial hatred seething just beneath the surface in cities across the country. It is a scary and sad glimpse of the divisive bigotry that still remains an open wound on the soulscape of America.

Director: Spike Lee
Cast: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, John Turturro, Spike Lee, Samuel L. Jackson, Martin Lawrence
Country: USA
Genre: Drama, Comedy
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Feb21

4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile / 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on February 21st, 2020 at 14:40
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 2007
In just his second feature film, Romanian director Cristian Mungiu wasn't shy about tackling a challenge.
While the idea and process of the abortion itself is the driving force of the movie, as cliche as it may sound, it’s not what the movie is really ‘about’.

Set in 1987 at the tail end of the Ceausescu dictatorship in Romania, “4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days” concerns a young woman seeking an abortion in an authoritarian state that has all but outlawed the procedure. As if the basic subject wasn't thorny enough, writer/director Mungiu also chose to make the young woman rather difficult to like, or at least difficult to fully sympathize with. Gabita (Laura Vasiliu) is passive, forgetful, flighty, and relies almost entirely on her friend Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) to negotiate all of the details of a complex (and illegal) deal. Safe in the security of being the “unreliable one” in the relationship, Gabi exploits Otilia's courage and conscientiousness, with harrowing repercussions for both of them.

Director: Cristian Mungiu
Cast: Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, Alexandru Potocean, Luminita Gheorghiu
Country: Romania, Belgium
Genre: Drama

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Feb21

Ring of Bright Water (1969) Blu-ray Kino Lorber

by movieworld on February 21st, 2020 at 13:24
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama

Ring of Bright Water 1969
Whoever said dog is man's best friend never met Mij! Mij is a cute, cuddly pet shop otter who captures the heart of Graham Merill (Bill Travers). It doesn't take Graham long to realize that London is no place to raise a slippery otter. So he takes Mij to live in a ramshackle cottage on the coast of Scotland. Together they set out to explore the curious and magnificent natural wonders that surround their seaside home--from orphaned geese to tooth-less sharks. While Mij spends his days frolicking in the icy cold sea, Graham finds himself falling in love with the beautiful town doctor, Mary (Virginia McKenna). Before long, the three become inseparable friends.

Ring of Bright Water is based on the eponymous nonfiction autobiography by Gavin Maxwell. It's co-scripted by Travers and director Jack Couffer, who was known for directing Disney nature films.

Director: Jack Couffer
Cast: Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Jeffrey
Country: UK, USA
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Feb12

Prize Winners of Seoul Independent Film Festival 2007 DVD9

by movieworld on February 12th, 2020 at 16:00
Posted In: .Other movies, Asian

Prize Winners of Seoul Independent Film Festival 2007
Presented by the Association of Korean Independent Film&Video, Seoul Independent Film Festival (SIFF) is undoubtedly one of the representative events for independent films in Korea. Starting from the 1975 Korean Youth Film Festival, its journey from Golden Crown Short Film Festival to Korean Independent Short Film Festival to present day leaves a memorable footprint in the history of Korean independent cinema.
Held in every December, SIFF is a competition film festival and covers all sorts of film genres and forms of the year. It also provides an opportunity for independent filmmakers to join and develop solidarity an mutual understanding.

DVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 03:31:40 | 7.69 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English, Korean
Genre: Short

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Feb12

Le petit soldat / The Little Soldier (1963) Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on February 12th, 2020 at 14:54
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, War

Le petit soldat 1963
The politically charged film takes place during the Algerian war for independence from France. The setting is Geneva, and introduces us to Bruno Forestier (Michel Subor), a Frenchman who has deserted the army he was in, now making a living as a newspaper photographer. He also does work for an underground organization with anti-Algerian leanings based out of Switzerland. He's also very much in love with a beautiful Russian woman named Veronica Dreyer (Anna Karina, in her debut role). When this group asks him to assassinate a radio host with Algerian sympathies, he gets caught in the middle and is captured and then tortured by his own team, men who now suspect him as working as a double agent.

It was filmed in 1960 but banned in France for three years due to the French film censorship because of its references to the Algerian War for independence from France and its scenes of torture. It was finally released slightly cut.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Anna Karina, Michel Subor, Henri-Jacques Huet, Laszlo Szabo
Country: France
Genre: War, Drama

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Feb11

Italian’s War – 1940-1945 / La Guerra Degli Italiani 1940 – 1945 (2003) 3 x DVD9

by movieworld on February 11th, 2020 at 16:16
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary, War

La Guerra Degli Italiani
The World War II and the years' monthly events narrated by Istituto Luce's renowned newsreels. The ruins, the physical and moral injuries of a country devastated by bombings, hardship, foreign occupation and Civil War.

The documentary is divided into three parts:
-- September 1939 - April 1941: from non-belligerence to the war in Africa and Greece.
-- May 1941 - October 1942: from the invasion of Russia to the battle of El Alamein
-- November 1942 - April 1945: from the collapse in Russia to the end of the war.

3xDVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 368 minutes | 21.5 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Italiano
Subtitles: English, Italiano
Genre: Documentary

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Feb11

Fail-Safe (1964) Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on February 11th, 2020 at 15:09
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Thriller

Fail-Safe 1964
After the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the Cold War was threatening to get hot. World War III didn't just seem possible, it seemed inevitable. 1964 saw the release of two movies related to that concept, both from Columbia and each helmed by a famous director near the beginning of his career. Stanley Kubrick directed the darkly comic masterpiece Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, and was able to convince the studio to release his movie first. Sydney Lumet's grimly toned Fail Safe wouldn't be released until months later, leaving it in the shadow of its more famous predecessor.

Lumet’s bold and chilling classic boasts a great central performance from Henry Fonda as the US President who must try to avert a world holocaust when human errors and computer malfunctions mistakenly send a squadron of American ‘Vindicator’ bombers off to drop American nuclear bombs on Moscow. To try to convince the Soviets this is in fact a mistake, the President orders the American Strategic Air Command to help the Soviets stop them.

Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver
Country: USA
Genre: Drama, Thriller

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Feb11

Meghe Dhaka Tara / The Cloud-Capped Star (1960) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on February 11th, 2020 at 14:11
Posted In: .Other movies, Asian, Drama, Musical

The Cloud-Capped Star 1960
Bengali writer-director Ritwik Ghatak (“Nagarik”/”A River Called Titas“/”Reason, Debate and a Story“) is recognized widely as India’s second most acclaimed filmmaker, with only the great Satyajit Ray considered his better. The Cloud-Capped Star is the first leg of a trilogy that includesE FlatandSubarnarekha. This film classic from India is set in the late 1950’s in the outskirts of an impoverished Calcutta. The tragic melodrama involves a refugee middle-class family, victims of the 1947 Partition of East Bengal, who are struggling to survive their poverty and loss of cultural values.It’s based on a story by Shaktipada Rajguru.

A family, uprooted from East Pakistan by the Partition of India, are now refugees living on the outskirts of Calcutta. Nita (Supriya Choudhury), a beautiful young girl, has taken on the responsibility for the family as her older brother, Shankar (Anil Chatterjee) has abandoned the family for the life of a singer. He spends his days singing rather than working. The father is a teacher, but makes only a pittance. Nita is trying to go to school while also teaching local children, but when her father is injured she becomes the sole support of the family.

Director: Ritwik Ghatak (as Shri Ritwik Kumar Ghatak)
Cast: Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee, Gyanesh Mukherjee
Country: India
Genre: Drama, Musical

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Feb10

Todo sobre mi madre / All About My Mother (1999) Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on February 10th, 2020 at 15:07
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

All About My Mother 1999
Pedro Almodovar's challenging films shouldn't be only for his dedicated fans: nobody mixes genuine human compassion with world-class filmmaking as well as he ... while maintaining a marvelous sense of humor, of human proportion. This 1999 effort is perhaps Pedro’s strongest drama, and yet another heartfelt endorsement of womankind.

The film opens in Madrid, where Esteban (Eloy Azorin) is about to celebrate his 17th birthday. On the cusp of adulthood, Esteban is blossoming into an accomplished writer, and he jots down in his journal that he wishes his mother, Manuela (Cecilia Roth), would tell him the story of his father, whom he has never met. After Esteban makes his feelings known to her, Manuela promises to tell him, but tragedy strikes before she has an opportunity. While running after a taxi to get the autograph of a star he admires, Esteban is struck and killed by a car. A grieving Manuela then decides to travel from Madrid to Barcelona, where Esteban was conceived, to find her ex-husband and inform him that the son he never knew about is dead.

Director: Pedro Almodovar
Cast: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Pena, Penelope Cruz
Country: Spain, France
Genre: Drama

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