Archive for ‘September, 2020’

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Sep29

Metropolis (1927) 2 x Blu-Ray + DVD9 Eureka – Masters of Cinema 90th Anniversary Limited Edition

by movieworld on September 29th, 2020 at 18:04
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Metropolis 1927
Fritz Lang' Metropolis is one of the greatest films ever made. It's amazing set design, brilliant cinematography, groundbreaking special effects and futuristic story truly makes it one of the must-sees in cinema!

It is set in the future, in a city called Metropolis where the citizens are divided into two groups: workers (who live under the ground and are working 10 hour shifts by enormous machines that keeps Metropolis working) and the royals (living in luxury in the great city on the surfice). And over them all, is the creator of Metropolis: Joh Fredersen (Alfred Abel). His son Freder (Gustav Frohlich) falls in love with a woman of the working-class called Maria (Brigitte Helm) who preaches that a mediator will come and create peace and equality for both workers and royals. Joh Fredersen sees Maria as a big threat agains his "order", so he and the inventor Rotwang (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) kidnaps her and copies her appearence onto a robot, which will destroy the workers faith in Maria. However, Rotwang secretly plans to programme the robot to make the workers destroy the city and crush Joh Fredersen, as an act of vengeance against Fredersen for a sin he committed in the past...

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Sep29

Waxworks / Das Wachsfigurenkabinett (1924) Blu-Ray, DVD5

by movieworld on September 29th, 2020 at 16:06
Posted In: .Other movies, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror

Waxworks 1924
A poet (William Dieterle) takes a job to write back-stories about three exhibits in a carnival empresario's Wax Museum. He does so, and we see three stories where the poet and the empresario's daughter Eva (Olga Belajeff) play the ingenue leads. The first and longest tale is a fanciful farce in old Baghdad, where a baker becomes a criminal to impress his fickle wife, while the Caliph (Emil Jannings) goes out of his way to seduce her. In the second tale, the evil Ivan the Terrible (Conrad Veidt) poisons supposed enemies for fun, and callously uses a nobleman as a shield against assassins. But the madman's superstitions backfire on him. The final, very short third story is not a story at all, just a series of phantom illusions where the hero is threatened by Jack the Ripper.

Despite its narrative and structural imperfections, Waxworks is a prime example of German expressionism at its most vivid, comprising fantastic stories set in crazily distorted representations of familiar settings - and it is no accident that each revolves around a murderous tyrant. Influenced by Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920) and F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922), Leni carves an unsettling dreamscape that is both freakishly absurd and subtly disturbing, the oddly proportioned sets lending a fearful manic potency to each of the villainous protagonists.
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Sep29

John Ford at Columbia, 1935-1958: The Whole Town’s Talking (1935), The Long Gray Line (1955), Gideon’s Day / Gideon of Scotland Yard (1958), The Last Hurrah (1958) 4 x Blu-Ray Powerhouse Films Indicator Series Limited Edition

by movieworld on September 29th, 2020 at 13:41
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller

John Ford at Columbia
John Ford is a filmmaker so well known for a handful of genuine classics, most of them westerns, that the fact that he made over 140 films in a wide range of genres over the course of his 60-year career as a director is too rarely acknowledged. Many were made in the silent era, some were documentaries, a few were short films, and the vast majority will probably never be seen by any but the most devoted of Ford fans (even then, many of his silent films have since been lost).

Hoping to remind us of some of these anomalies in Ford’s career, Indicator are releasing a set of largely forgotten gems from the legendary director. The set, dubbed ‘John Ford at Columbia, 1935-1958’, includes the films The Whole Town’s Talking, The Long Gray Line, Gideon’s Day and The Last Hurrah.

The four films in this collection were all directed by Ford during his time working for Columbia Studios, and none of them are westerns – The Whole Town's Talking is a mistaken identity comedy-crime movie; The Long Gray Line is a large scale life story biopic; Gideon's Day is a British character study dressed up as a police procedural; and The Last Hurrah is a drama about an old-school town mayor's final campaign. All are fascinating for varying reasons and all are absolutely worth seeing, and while some will enthusiastically embrace all four, others will find themselves preferring one or two titles over the others.

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Sep29

Disputed Passage (1939) Blu-Ray Kino Lorber, DVD5

by movieworld on September 29th, 2020 at 11:54
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Romance, War

Disputed Passage 1939
From Frank Borzage, the acclaimed director of 7th Heaven, Street Angel, Bad Girl, A Farewell to Arms, Desire, The Mortal Storm and Moonrise, comes this gripping story about the powerful healing ability of the human spirit.

John Wesley Beaven (John Howard, The Undying Monster), an understudy of Dr. ‘Tubby’ Forster (Akim Tamiroff, For Whom the Bell Tolls), esteemed professor of medicine and surgery, struggles to fully surrender to his teacher’s philosophy of keeping the sterility of science separate from the warmth of the human spirit. His views are challenged after he falls in love with Lan Ying (Dorothy Lamour, Road to Morocco), a Chinese woman of American descent raised in Shanghai. Upon completion of paying a personal debt to her Chinese father, she promptly returns to John to accept his marriage proposal but is interjected by Forster claiming that she would ruin his life. When John becomes aware that Forster has interfered, he sets out to find his love in China.

Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Dorothy Lamour, Akim Tamiroff, John Howard, Judith Barrett
Country: USA
Genre: Drama, War
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Sep28

Brute Force (1947) Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on September 28th, 2020 at 16:27
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Brute Force 1947
Jules Dassin's Brute Force (1947) is unrelenting drama that doesn't believe in justice or redemption for its characters, who seem to exist in a horrible purgatory. The 'system' criticized in this protest film is a state prison, but the script by Richard Brooks takes the attitude that it's really a microcosm of existence itself: Life is Hell, and "nobody really escapes".

At Westgate Penitentiary, the inmates live a harsh existence made even harsher by Captain Munsey, the sadistic head of the guard staff who runs the prison under the cowardly warden. In cell R17 reside a group of men, led by Joe Collins, who all committed crimes motivated by love and share a brotherly bond. When Munsey drives one of them to commit suicide, they decide it is time to follow through with their often talked about escape plans...

BD50 | 1080p AVC | 01:40:49 | 37.5 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Director: Jules Dassin
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Yvonne De Carlo
Country: USA
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
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Sep28

Beau travail / Good Work (1999) Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on September 28th, 2020 at 15:34
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, War

Beau travail 1999
The imaginative French director Claire Denis proved her ability to beautifully choreograph a movie with her first effort Chocolat, released in 1989. This drama, also set in Africa, is inspired by Herman Melville's Billy Budd. Sergeant Galoup (Denis Lavant) is in charge of the men in a small French Foreign Legion outpost. These muscular soldiers spend their days in training, doing guard duty, and playing war games. For rest and relaxation, they swim in the ocean and dance in an open-air disco. The Africans in the town view them as strange outsiders from another world.

Bored with the routine of his life, Galoup finds himself upset by the interest of his commander (Michel Subor) in Sentain (Gregoire Colin), a new recruit who seems to impress everyone with his selflessness and generosity. Envy is a vicious emotion, bitter and vindictive. In this meticulously staged drama, Galoup comes up with a scheme to do away with Sentain.

Director: Claire Denis
Cast: Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Gregoire Colin
Country: France
Genre: Drama, War

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Sep28

Angele (1934) Blu-Ray

by movieworld on September 28th, 2020 at 14:15
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Angele 1934
Angele is one of Pagnol's rare adaptations of others' work, loosely based on Un de Baumugnes, a novel by Provencal writer Jean Giono.

Angele is the daughter of a respectable farmer, Clarius, and lives with her parents and their valet Saturnin on their farm in the South of France. Her life is turned up-side-down when she meets an attractive young town man, Louis, who is taking a holiday in the countryside. Angele knows nothing of Louis' reputation as a gigolo and allows him to seduce her. Infatuated with Louis, Angele secretly leaves her home and follows him to Marseilles. A year later, the faithful Saturnin travels to the town to try to find Angele and persuade her to return home. To his surprise, he finds that Angele has been rejected by her precious Louis and she has been forced to make a living as a prostitute. To make matters worse, she has given birth to an illegitimate child. Saturnin persuades her to return to the farm but how will the villagers and her family react to her return?

Director: Marcel Pagnol
Cast: Orane Demazis, Fernandel, Henri Poupon, Jean Servais
Country: France
Genre: Drama

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Sep28

An Unmarried Woman (1978) Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on September 28th, 2020 at 13:27
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama, Romance

An Unmarried Woman 1978
When writer-director Paul Mazursky's An Unmarried Woman opened in 1978, it had the slogan, “She laughs, she cries, she feels angry, she feels lonely, she feels guilty, she makes breakfast, she makes love, she makes do, she is strong, she is weak, she is brave, she is scared, she is… an unmarried woman.” This makes the film sound hokey, but it’s actually an unpretentious look at a woman’s life turned upside down.

Jill Clayburgh is terrific as Erica, a Manhattan gallery worker who has to forge a new life after her husband (a deliciously self-absorbed Michael Murphy) leaves her for a younger woman. Clayburgh delineates each stage of Erica’s transformation into an independent woman – from abandonment and grief to anger, reconciliation, and empowerment – with delicacy and wit, and Mazursky captures the performance with a visual style that alternates elegant, formal compositions and freewheeling handheld camerawork to perfectly accentuate his title character’s rollercoaster journey.

Director: Paul Mazursky
Cast: Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy
Country: USA
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

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Sep25

Trailer Trauma V: 70s Action Attack (2020) Blu-Ray

by movieworld on September 25th, 2020 at 16:08
Posted In: .Other movies, Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Western

Trailer Trauma V
Garagehouse Pictures unleashes Trailer Trauma V – 70’s Action Attack! which is, if you couldn’t guess from the title, a collection of seventies action movie trailers – some ‘pure’ action titles, others more tenuously connected to the genre, but the end result is a whole lot of fun and a welcome fix for all the trailer junkies out there in home video land.

They've invaded the movie theater, infested the drive-in, and even infiltrated your own home... now the madness unleashed with TRAILER TRAUMA is loose in the streets! Nothing is safe. There is no place to hide. They are everywhere!
Now is the time to stand up and fight. Now is the time for revenge. Now is the time for TRAILER TRAUMA V: 70s ACTION ATTACK!See Tough Guys and Private Eyes, Cops and Criminals, Pimps, Pushers and Rednecks, Wild Women, Vigilantes, Truckers and Bikers take to the streets in an all-out final assault. Over three hours of movie mayhem - served at point blank range - is about to burst into flames and blazing hot shrapnel before your scorched eyeballs!TRAILER TRAUMA V is an unparalleled assortment of trailers for some of our favorite films from the 70s that you do not want to miss! Get ready... It's time for the big payback.

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Sep25

Trailer Trauma 4: Television Trauma (2017) Blu-Ray

by movieworld on September 25th, 2020 at 15:43
Posted In: .Other movies, Action, Adventure, Asian, Crime, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Trailer Trauma 4
The fourth volume in Garagehouse Pictures’ excellent Trailer Trauma series is Television Trauma, a collection of vintage TV spots advertising a completely bizarre mix of horror, sci-fi, action, blaxploitation, sexploitation and martial arts pictures, some considerably more obscure than others.

They've wreaked havoc at the drive-in... they've attacked the all-night horror-thon... now the terror that began with Trailer Trauma will invade homes everywhere! A family settles in for a quiet evening of entertainment when suddenly, flashing across the television screen: scenes of utter cinematic insanity shock, disturb and forever scar! The fourth volume in the Trailer Trauma series is a marathon of madness featuring 268 of the best and rarest TV spots for some of the greatest and most obscure 70s theatrical horror and exploitation films and beyond! Over three hours of demented delirium that will leave you traumatized!

BD25 | 1080p AVC | 03:01:32 | 22.6 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Horror

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