Archive for ‘February, 2020’

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Feb28

The Soviet Influence: From Turksib to Night Mail (1929-1936) DVD9 and Blu-Ray BFI

by movieworld on February 28th, 2020 at 15:46
Posted In: .Other movies, .Russian movies, Documentary, Documentary

The Soviet Influence From Turksib to Night Mail
Victor Turin was educated in the States, learnt the movie business at the Vitagraph, became a western fan and returned to the Soviet Union to direct the great 78-minute documentary Turksib – about the heroic transformative building of the railway linking Turkestan to Siberia. It's propaganda, but it's also a lyrical, humane, superbly edited masterpiece that greatly influenced the British documentary movement, of which six 1930s examples are included in this excellent compilation, culminating in another railway classic, Night Mail.
Both films are early instances of cinema being used to inform and shape popular opinion about everyday life, while exploring the formal, artistic and poetic potential of the medium.

BD50, DVD9 | 1080p AVC, PAL | 170 min | 39.4 Gb + 6.47 Gb
Language: English
Subtitles: English intertitles for silent films
Genre: Documentary

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Feb28

Powder (1995) DVD5

by movieworld on February 28th, 2020 at 15:11
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Thriller

Powder 1995
Harassed by classmates who won't accept his shocking appearance, a shy young man known as "Powder" struggles to fit in. But the cruel taunts stop when Powder displays a mysterious power that allows him to do incredible things. This phenomenon changes the lives of all those around him in ways they never could have imagined.

Powder doesn’t simply represent the awkward teenager. He represents something much more than that: evolution. The idea that we are not at our peak, but more that the human race is still an awkward teenager itself, working out what it is, who it is and dreaming about what it may be. What will we be like in a thousand years, ten thousand a hundred thousand? In the end what is normal? The truth of it is that there is no normal. Powder is an underrated movie that reminds us of that by showing us what we could become.

Director: Victor Salva
Cast: Mary Steenburgen, Sean Patrick Flanery, Lance Henriksen, Jeff Goldblum, Brandon Smith, Bradford Tatum
Country: USA
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

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Feb25

Los pianos mecanicos / Les pianos mecaniques / The Player Pianos / The Uninhibited (1965) DVD9

by movieworld on February 25th, 2020 at 16:38
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Los pianos mecanicos 1965
French novelist Henri-Francois Rey adapted his novel Les Pianos Mecaniques with director Juan Antonio Bardem for this French/Italian/Spanish co-production, set in Spain.
Vincent (Hardy Kruger) is recovering from a nervous breakdown in a seaside village on the Costa Brava. He enters into an affair with nightclub owner Jenny (Melina Mercouri), but their relationship changes when she falls for alcoholic author Pascal Regnier (James Mason), who is struggling to resume his writing career.

DVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 01:34:03 | 5.70 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Francais
Subtitles: English, Francais
Genre: Drama

Director: Juan Antonio Bardem
Cast: Melina Mercouri, Hardy Kruger, James Mason
Country: Spain, France, Italy
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Feb25

Hollywood Boulevard (1976) Blu-Ray Scorpion Releasing

by movieworld on February 25th, 2020 at 14:39
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Thriller

Hollywood Boulevard 1976
Sex & Violence explodes on the screen in this sordid tale of the glitz, glamour and broken dreams within the seedy world of exploitation moviemaking!

Pretentious film director Erich von Leppe (Paul Bartel) is directing the last action scene of his latest low budget epic, which stars Mary McQueen (Mary Woronov), when tragedy strikes: the stuntwoman's parachute fails to open and she falls to her death, leaving a large hole in the ground. Meanwhile, Candy (Candice Rialson) arrives in Hollywood with dreams of making it big in the movies as an actress, but is turned down just about everywhere. The only person to offer a ray of hope is agent Walter Paisley (Dick Miller), who admits he has no work for her at the moment, but suggests she wander around Tinseltown and get better known - the streets are full of casting directors and producers, so it's only a matter of time before she is given a role. However, her first excursion into showbiz isn't what it seems...

Directors: Allan Arkush, Joe Dante
Cast: Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel, George Wagner
Country: USA
Genre: Comedy, Thriller

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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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