Archive for ‘March, 2022’

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Mar22

Edition Filmmuseum 118: Die Reise nach Lyon / Le voyage a Lyon / Blind Spot (1981) DVD9

by movieworld on March 22nd, 2022 at 11:22
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Blind Spot 1981
The young historian Elisabeth abruptly leaves her partner and young daughter in Germany to travel by train to the French city of Lyon. In the summer heat, she wanders near-empty streets in pursuit of Flora Tristan, the socialist feminist activist and writer who spent time in Lyon in 1844, just months before her death at age 41. Tristan roamed the country with the aim of organizing workers, calling on them to form a single trade union, while also campaigning for recognition of the fact that “woman is the proletariat of the proletariat.” Carrying with her a tape recorder, a notebook, and Tristan’s posthumously published diary, Le Tour de France, Elisabethdrifts across the cobblestones, unfettered by the demands of family life, subject to no will but her own. She runs into dead ends, kisses a stranger, sleeps in the daytime. Elisabeth tries to put together the clues she can find in Lyon wanting to reconstruct Tristan's life in the most sensual way.

DVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 01:47:43 | 5.95 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Deutsch, Francais
Subtitles: English, Deutsch, Francais

Director: Claudia von Alemann
Cast: Rebecca Pauly, Denise Peron, Jean Badin
Country: West Germany
Genre: Drama
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Mar18

In nome della legge / In the Name of the Law (1949) Blu-Ray

by movieworld on March 18th, 2022 at 18:43
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Drama

In the Name of the Law 1949
Massimo Girotti has just been appointed the judge of a small town in Sicily. It's controlled by the local baron, Camillo Mastrocinque, and Mafia, headed by Charles Vanel. Girotti tries to govern by the law, but everyone in the town is used to the corruption and the murders. He has only a few allies: a youngster, one of the police, and Jones Salinas, the baroness.

Pietro Germi, who wrote and directed this, seems to have seen a lot of westerns and been influenced by them for this movie; the way the Mafia ride into town, shotguns at their backs, Carlo Rustichelli's English-horn-dominated music raising the blood, feels like an A western, with the hero about to stand off the gang of bandits. This is the first Italian film to speak explicitly about the Mafia after WW2.

BD50 | 1080p AVC | 01:40:58 | 34.3 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English, French

Director: Pietro Germi
Cast: Massimo Girotti, Jone Salinas, Camillo Mastrocinque, Charles Vanel, Saro Urzi, Turi Pandolfini, Peppino Spadaro
Country: Italy
Genre: Crime, Drama
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Mar18

Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster (1992) DVD5

by movieworld on March 18th, 2022 at 13:04
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Dead Ahead 1992
True story of events leading up to and following the 1989 environmental disaster in Alaska.

Shortly after midnight on March 24, 1989, the 987-foot oil tanker Exxon Valdez, piloted by the ship's third mate, ran aground on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling nearly 11 million gallons of tar-like crude oil and creating America's biggest environmental disaster.

While the oil spread along Alaska's pristine coastline, citizens both there and farther south waited for something to be done. But days went by while corporate and government officials bickered. Meanwhile, the spill, 25 miles from Valdez, polluted more than 1,000 miles of beaches. More than 36,000 migratory birds and thousands of sea mammals and bald eagles were found dead.

Director: Paul Seed
Cast: John Heard, Bob Gunton, Mark Metcalf, Bruce Gray, Jo Bates, Walter Marsh, John Maclaren, Marek Czuma, Susan Astley, Lochlyn Munro, Wally Dalton
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Genre: Drama

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Mar18

Tau ban no hoi / Boat People (1982) Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on March 18th, 2022 at 11:41
Posted In: .Other movies, Asian, Drama

Boat People 1982
Ann Hui’s Boat People was a controversial watershed for the Hong Kong New Wave. Shot in mainland China not long after the Sino-Vietnamese War, the 1982 film was accused of being everything from pro-China to anti-communist. The French even removed it from competition at Cannes as a gesture of goodwill toward Vietnam.

Hui's impressive film sets out to explain why so many Vietnamese (mostly of Chinese descent) took to the South China Sea as refugees in the late 1970s. A Japanese photo-journalist covers the 'liberation' of Danang in 1975 and returns to report on 'New Vietnam' three years later. Initially a pawn of the propaganda bureau, he gradually starts to see cracks in the facade...

The title in Chinese literally means “Run Towards the Angry Sea”.

BD50 | 1080p AVC | 01:49:36 | 45.4 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Chinese
Subtitles: English

Director: Ann Hui
Cast: George Lam, Season Ma, Andy Lau, Meiying Jia, Mung-Sek Kei, Junyi Guo, Shujing Lin, Cora Miao, Jianzhou Cai
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama
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Mar18

Szalency / Madmen / Daredevils (1928) Blu-Ray

by movieworld on March 18th, 2022 at 10:11
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, War

Daredevils 1928
The year is 1914. Filipek loses his job as a sommelier and joins the Polish Legions. At the recruitment center, he meets former university student Jerzy. Some time later, they are joined by landowner kazik. But these young "daredevils" buoyed by patriotism are going to face some challanges.

Leonard Buczkowski's feature debut in 1928 is the first Polish film super-production - made with the participation of many military formations, with innovative battle scenes, epoch-making weapons and the latest technical achievements.

BD25 | 1080p AVC | 02:12:59 | 21.9 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English / Polish Intertitles
Subtitles: English

Director: Leonard Buczkowski
Cast: Boleslaw Szczurkiewicz, Irena Gawecka, Aleksander Starza, Marian Czauski, Jerzy Kobusz, Marek Ozog
Country: Poland
Genre: Drama, War
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Mar16

The Victim / Out of Contention (1972) Blu-Ray Kino Lorber

by movieworld on March 16th, 2022 at 17:39
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

The Victim 1972
Elizabeth Montgomery (TV’s Bewitched, The Legend of Lizzie Borden) gives a brilliant dramatic performance in the nerve-jangling made-for-TV thriller The Victim.

Wealthy San Franciscan woman Kate is concerned about her sister Susan after their last conversation: Susan has just requested a divorce from her husband Ben and things aren’t going well. Kate gets in her car and drives close to 30 miles in treacherous stormy weather and is warned by police on the road that mudslides and flooding have closed most of the roads and that it would be best to turn back, but she forges ahead anyway. When she gets to Susan’s home – a big house on at least an acre of woodland – she’s perplexed that Susan appears not to be home, but it’s made clear to the audience that Susan is dead in a box in the basement. As a storm rages outside, Kate tries to figure out where her sister could have gone and places her own life in great danger...the killer is still on the premises!

Director: Herschel Daugherty
Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery, Eileen Heckart, Sue Ane Langdon, George Maharis, Jess Walton, Richard Derr, Ross Elliott
Country: United States
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

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Mar16

Thieves Like Us (1974) DVD9, Blu-Ray

by movieworld on March 16th, 2022 at 15:47
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Drama, Romance

Thieves Like Us 1974
Director Robert Altman has directed a remake of Nicholas Ray's thriller In the Shadow of the Night, based on the 1949 novel by Raymond Chandler. "Thieves like us" is an authentic drama, gangster film and love story at the same time - a sincere story of actually quite ordinary people who cannot free themselves from the crime trap because crime is the only thing they can control. Into this crook plot, Altman incorporated a "Romeo & Juliet" radio show as an ironic and humorous contrast to what was happening on screen.

Thieves Like Us opens with T-Dub, Chicamaw and Bowie, meeting up on a rural Mississippi backroad after breaking out of jail. Faced with no employment options under the circumstances, the trio take up bank robbing again and stay on the move constantly. While the threesome are not particularly skillful in their robberies and often wound or kill people in their raids (most of which occur off-screen), they seem to enjoy reading about their own exploits in the newspapers as much as they enjoy the freedom of their routine. When Bowie is seriously wounded in a car accident and forced to recuperate while his partners fend for themselves, he falls in love with Keechie, the niece of Chicamaw, who nurses him back to health. Their romance is short-lived, however, once Bowie teams up with his former partners for one last bank job...

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Mar15

Das indische Grabmal / Mysteries of India / The Indian Tomb (1921) 2 x Blu-Ray Eureka – Masters of Cinema

by movieworld on March 15th, 2022 at 16:14
Posted In: .Other movies, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

The Indian Tomb 1921
Among the great filmmakers of the German silent era, Joe May ranks near the top of the list. But today the mention of his name brings shrugs from all but the most knowledgeable film lovers. That's disappointing for May created several astonishing films that deserve wider recognition -- such as The Indian Tomb, which is now available on Blu-Ray. This three-and-a-half-hour-long epic is one of the all-time great adventure stories.

The Maharajah of Bengal is not a man to be denied. When he sees his chance, he awakens a mystic yogi from his holy sleep. Knowing that Ramigani must grant his greatest wish, no matter what it is. He’s sent to fetch a famous architect, Herbert Rowland, from Europe to build a magnificent tomb for his love. The only problem is that the Princess is still alive and he can’t tell his fiance he’s leaving.

Based on a book by Thea von Harbou and with a screenplay co-written by Harbou and Fritz Lang (her then husband), The Indian Tomb is an action-packed thriller that takes us from European drawing rooms to Indian temples. Along the way, you'll encounter mystical yogis, hungry crocodiles, hissing cobras, majestic tombs, and man-eating tigers. The Indian Tomb is a rediscovered classic of German silent cinema.

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Mar15

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema V: Because of You (1952), Outside the Law (1956), The Midnight Story (1957) 3 x Blu-Ray Kino Lorber

by movieworld on March 15th, 2022 at 13:54
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Film Noir The Dark Side of Cinema V
Kino Lorber dives back into the Universal vaults for three more noirs making their Blu-ray debut in Volume V of their Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema series. This set has three stories of people hiding their true identities: one to get away from her past life with her gangster ex-fiancee (Because of You), one to break up an international counterfeiting ring (Outside the Law) and one to learn the truth behind a beloved priest’s murder (The Midnight Story).

Though the labeling of some of these titles "noir" is highly debatable, and the majority of films in this series are mostly just average, it's still enormous fun to catch up with these largely forgotten, generally lesser films.

3xBD25 | 1080p AVC | 266 min | 62.6 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller, Romance

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Mar14

Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) DVD9 Warner, DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on March 14th, 2022 at 16:32
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama, Musical

Dance, Girl, Dance 1940
Dorothy Arzner, the sole woman to work as a director in the Hollywood studio system of the 1930s and early ’40s, brings a subversive feminist sensibility to this juicily entertaining backstage melodrama.

Dance, Girl, Dance tells the story of Judy O’Brien, an aspiring ballerina whose dreams of stardom are cut short by the death of her mentor, her own self-doubt and the interference of her shrewdly opportunistic friend Bubbles. Running away from an audition when she is intimidated by the quality of the other dancers, Judy is recruited by Bubbles to dance ballet in the burlesque club at which Bubbles, under her new pseudonym Tiger Lily, is now the star attraction. But what seems like a kind offer turns out to be a poisoned chalice when Judy discovers she is there as the stooge, intended to be heckled, jeered and booed by a crowd of boozy men hungry for something raunchier...

Director: Dorothy Arzner
Cast: Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Virginia Field, Ralph Bellamy, Maria Ouspenskaya, Mary Carlisle
Country: USA
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
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