Oct14

1789 (1974) 2 x DVD

by movieworld on October 14th, 2020 at 12:38
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary

1789 1974
The cooperative production of "1789" brought Theatre du Soleil worldwide attention when it was performed at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan in 1970-71, the first time the company had ventured out of France.

In "1789", the French Revolution is conceived as an extravagant performance piece, a spectacle that is part Brecht, part commedia dell'arte, part puppet show and largely carnival. The revolution that included more street drama than any other is shrewdly reconceived in the terms most accessible and sympathetic to ordinary citizens.

Ariane Mnouchkine's film is not a true work of cinema, though; it is a filmed version of actual performances by the Theatre du Soleil, shot in 1973 at the end of the play's three-year run. As the movie begins, we see actors putting on elaborate stage makeup, and through the next two and a half hours we rarely lose sight of the audience, standing spectators who look as if they are gathered at a sideshow. The film insists on remaining a self-consciously theatrical experience.

Director: Ariane Mnouchkine
Cast: Roland Amstutz, Lucia Bensasson, Jean-Claude Bourbault
Country: France
Genre: Documentary
↓ Download movie...

└ Tags:
Oct14

V: The Final Battle (1984) 2 x Blu-Ray

by movieworld on October 14th, 2020 at 11:37
Posted In: .Other movies, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

V The Final Battle 1984
V: The Final Battle begins several months after the first miniseries ended.

After winning its first victories against the alien Visitors, the Resistance is growing ever stronger. But the Visitors are adapting too, strengthening their armor and security measures as they harvest Earth’s water and Humanity itself for food. The good news is that there’s an alien Fifth Column that’s willing to help stop them… and the Resistance has discovered a bacteria that can kill the Visitors. Weaponized as a “red dust,” it provides the perfect means to fight back. But the Visitors have a contingency plan—they’ll use one of their “motherships” as a doomsday device to destroy the Earth if their efforts are defeated.

BD50 + BD25 | 1080p AVC | 267 min | 64 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Director: Richard T. Heffron
Cast: Jane Badler, Michael Durrell, Robert Englund
Country: USA
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
↓ Download movie...

└ Tags: , , , ,
Oct13

El esqueleto de la señora Morales / Skeleton of Mrs. Morales (1960) Blu-Ray VCI

by movieworld on October 13th, 2020 at 14:36
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Crime, Horror

El esqueleto de la senora Morales 1960
Taxidermist Dr. Pablo Morales (Arturo de Córdova) is making the best of a domestic hell. His frigid, church obsessed wife Gloria (Amparo Rivelles) is revolted by his profession, won't sleep with him and tells her neighbors and the local priest that he drinks to excess and mistreats her. Gloria also falsely accuses Pablo of sleeping with the maid Meche (Rosenda Monteros of The Magnificent Seven). Pablo tries to reason with the spiteful woman but decides that enough is enough when Gloria bruises herself and claims that he has beaten her. What's needed is a perfect crime, and Pablo has the perfect tools in his taxidermy shop -- where he also prepares skeletons for medical purposes.

Written by Luis Alcoriza — who collaborated with Buñuel on several of his Mexican masterpieces, including Él and The Exterminating Angel — González's film ruthlessly excoriates the hypocrisies of both the church and its followers, and with a similarly acerbic wit and caustic humor as one would expect from Buñuel.

Director: Rogelio A. González
Cast: Arturo de Córdova, Amparo Rivelles, Elda Peralta
Country: Mexico
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
↓ Download movie...

└ Tags: , , ,
Oct13

The Early Works of Cheryl Dunye: Janine (1990), She Don’t Fade (1991), Vanilla Sex (1992), An Untitled Portrait (1993), The Potluck and the Passion (1993), Greetings from Africa (1996) DVD5

by movieworld on October 13th, 2020 at 12:59
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Documentary, Drama

The Early Works of Cheryl Dunye
Vilified by conservatives in Congress, defended by major newspapers, and celebrated by audiences and festivals around the world as one of the most provocative, humorous and important filmmakers of our time, Cheryl Dunye practically invented a new form of cinema – call it the ‘Dunyementary.’ Using a mixture of narrative and documentary techniques, the ‘Dunyementary’ challenges social and cultural norms through a sharply funny and reflexive lens. Never scholarly or didactic, Dunye appreciates the value in entertaining viewers.

Her acclaimed first feature THE WATERMELON WOMAN (1996) introduced Cheryl to wider audiences, who fell in love with her self-depreciating and insightful wit – not to mention the great casts she assembled (including herself). But what came before this modern-day classic?

Presented here are the films that started it all – the early works which gave birth to an extraordinary and original filmmaking talent. Made with great creativity on often miniscule budgets, they represent the first chapter of the Cheryl Dunye oeuvre.

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:11:21 | 4.37 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Documentary, Short, Comedy, Drama

↓ Download movie...

└ Tags: , , , ,
Oct13

The Occult History of the Third Reich (1992) 2 x DVD5

by movieworld on October 13th, 2020 at 11:55
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary, History

The Occult History of the Third Reich 1992
The murderous deeds of Hitler's Third Reich are still widely recalled today, but what is less well-known is the strange concoction of beliefs that underpinned the Nazi regime.

In the early 20th Century, the young Adolf Hitler was just one of many German-speaking people attracted by a new Germanic mythology that combined ancient legends and esoteric cosmologies with cutting-edge theories of genetic science. In the hands of the Nazis, the result was a new ideology that saw racial purity as the key to human destiny.

By the time of the Third Reich, Hitler and the Nazis had evolved an entirely new faith, complete with holy book, venerated relics and a priestly elite in the form of Himmler's SS. It was a religion based on obedience, power, and the cult of the leader, with Hitler himself conceived in Messianic terms.

With archival footage and narration explaining the influences of the occult on the Third Reich, this four-part documentary further unveils the twisted mind of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime.

2xDVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 210 min | 8.37 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Documentary, History

↓ Download movie...

└ Tags: ,
Oct13

V: The Original Miniseries (1983) Blu-Ray Warner Archive Collection

by movieworld on October 13th, 2020 at 10:36
Posted In: .Other movies, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

V The Original Miniseries 1983
Our world changes forever with the arrival of the Visitors in mother ships. They seem friendly and human, but this familiar form hides a nasty enemy. The reptilian aliens have nefarious plans and will do anything to keep the populace from discovering them. Scientists are the primary target and are rounded up for “conversion” on the ships. Meanwhile, the Visitors mount a propaganda campaign to keep everyone subservient to their will. It’s a brilliant strategy, but individuals like investigative reporter Mike Donovan (Marc Singer) and Dr. Julie Parrish (Faye Grant) mount a resistance. Their odds of survival are slim, but the determined group has a chance if they stick together. As the casualties rise, they enact a daring mission to strike at the Visitors and discover their true plans.

The Original V Mini Series was one of the most popular Sci-fi Television events of all time. An estimated 65 million people in the US alone tuned in to watch it.

Director: Kenneth Johnson
Cast: Jane Badler, Michael Durrell, Faye Grant
Country: USA
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
↓ Download movie...

└ Tags: , , , ,
Oct12

The Cat and the Canary (1939) Blu-Ray Kino Lorber

by movieworld on October 12th, 2020 at 14:38
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

The Cat and the Canary 1939
Comedy legend Bob Hope (My Favorite Brunette Road to Morocco) is at his very best in the hilarious comedy-thriller The Cat and the Canary. A decade after the death of an eccentric millionaire, his remaining relatives gather for the reading of the will at his abandoned mansion set deep in the Louisiana bayous. Tension builds after his niece Joyce (Paulette Goddard, The Ghost Breakers) is named the sole inheritor and it is revealed that one of the other relatives will get everything if the heiress goes insane within the next 30 days. The timid Wally (Hope) vows to protect Joyce who must spend the night in the haunted mansion along with her jealous relatives, a creepy maid and a homicidal maniac who has just escaped from a nearby sanitarium. An equal mix of both frights and fun, this unforgettable classic has become the gold standard for the horror-comedy genre.

BD25 | 1080p AVC | 01:14:40 | 20 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Director: Elliott Nugent
Cast: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, John Beal
Country: USA
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
↓ Download movie...

└ Tags: , , , ,
Oct12

Scorsese Shorts: What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1963), It’s Not Just You, Murray! (1964), The Big Shave (1967), Italianamerican (1974), American Boy: A Profile of – Steven Prince 1978) Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on October 12th, 2020 at 13:17
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Crime, Documentary, Drama, Horror

Scorsese Shorts
“A filmmaker shows what his career will be in his first 150 feet of film,” François Truffaut once wrote. He was talking about Jean Vigo at the time, but he might as well have been talking about Martin Scorsese, whose early short films — from the narrative works of his student years at New York University and immediately afterward to the midlength documentaries he made as his feature-filmmaking career was getting underway — reveal the energy, eclecticism, and invention that would make him one of the most exciting American directors of the seventies and, eventually, one of the great artists of our time.

Criterion’s release of five early Martin Scorsese shorts reveals that the filmmaker knew the kind of artist he was and wanted to be at a young age. All of the films included in this set contain seeds of future Scorsese classics, and they’re all formally playful and sophisticated, with lasting career reverberations: Four of the five shorts center around the rapture and mythology of storytelling, while the fifth plumbs the theme of self-annihilation that would become a Scorsese leitmotif. Collectively, the five films span two distinct periods in Scorsese’s career: as an N.Y.U. student and graduate in the early-to-mid 1960s, and as a rising filmmaker in the mid-to-late ‘70s.

↓ Download movie...

└ Tags: , , , , , , ,
Oct09

Short films by Witold Leszczynski: Portret mezczyzny z medalem / Portrait of A Man With A Medalion (1959), Zabawa / Game (1961) DVD5

by movieworld on October 9th, 2020 at 14:08
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Short films by Witold Leszczynski
Witold Leszczyński was born on 16 August 1933. He graduated from the Faculty of Electronics of Warsaw University of Technology and from the Cinematography and Directing Departments of the National Film, Television & Theatre School in Łódź, where he worked as a lecturer after 1997. Before starting his directorial career he was a cinematographer for Polish productions. In his artistic work he was especially careful about the form. He supported the motto of C. Th. Dreyer: I'm not interested in the image of action, I'm interested in the action of image. During his time at film school, he made a student film Portret mężczyzny z medalem/Portrait of A Man With A Medal (1959) which won several awards abroad. His greatest achievements include: Matthew's Days, Konopielka and Siekierezada. He died on 1 September 2007.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 00:12:33 + 00:09:16 | 1.47 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Polish
Subtitles: English
Genre: Short

↓ Download movie...

└ Tags:
Oct09

Ring of Spies / Shadow of Treason (1964) DVD5 and Blu-Ray Network

by movieworld on October 9th, 2020 at 12:57
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Ring of Spies 1964
There have always been spies men and women who have pried for patriotism, for religion, for love... or for money. This intriguing drama is based on the true story of the Portland spy ring an unlikely Soviet operation active in southern England from the late 1950s until January 1961 when the core members were arrested.

A disgruntled Navy Clerk is transferred to a secret research establishment and is subsequently black-mailed/paid by Czech intelligence to procure secrets for them. He seduces the secretary who controls the most secret documents, and they enjoy the fruits of their treachery until the British authorities begin to close in on them.

This film rocked Britain because it showed that spies could be living in the most mundane and suburban of circumstances, literally next door to you.

It’s interesting to see how ‘real’ espionage actually works, with a lot of screen time devoted to the details of how the spy ring actually operated. Both traitors were eventually caught and the film ends revealing what happened to them once the authorities got a hold of them.
↓ Download movie...

└ Tags: , , ,