Mar24

Being John Malkovich (1999) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on March 24th, 2019 at 17:51
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Being John Malkovich 1999
Story revolves around Craig Schwartz (John Cusack), a puppeteer struggling in a wintry economic climate. His wife Lotte (Cameron Diaz) works as a pet store clerk and brings in most of the household income...as well as a ridiculous number of animals. Their relationship has completely lost its spark, but change comes after Craig gets a job as a file clerk at Lestercorp. Everything about this new job just seems a little off, though: the ceilings are five feet high, co-workers communicate on a different wavelength and his new boss claims to be over 100 years old. More change comes when Craig discovers a small door in his office which leads to the mind of John Horatio Malkovich (John Malkovich). Amazed, he shares his discovery with his wife and his devious coworker, Maxine (Catherine Keener). Maxine hatches the plan to sell admission into John Malkovich's head...and the whole story rushes headlong into absurdity from there.
What are the potential consequences of using Malkovich's mind as an amusement park ride?

Director: Spike Jonze
Cast: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, Ned Bellamy, Eric Weinstein, John Malkovich
Country: USA
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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Mar24

La verite / The Truth (1960) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on March 24th, 2019 at 16:30
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La verite 1960
Beautiful, troubled Dominique Marceau (Brigitte Bardot) came to bohemian Paris to escape the suffocation of provincial life, only to wind up in a courtroom, accused of a terrible crime: the murder of her lover (Sami Frey).

The counsels duel relentlessly, elaborating explanations for why the pretty, idle and fickle girl killed the talented and ambitious conductor freshly graduated from the conservatory. Was it passion, vengeance, desperation, an accident? The acquaintances of Gilbert testify, as well as Dominique's former lovers, and her sister, Annie, the studious violin player engaged to Gilbert. The evidence they give progressively paints a more finely-shaded picture of the personalities of Dominique and Gilbert, and of their relationship, than the eloquent and convincing justifications of the counsels.

The timeline bounces from the witness box to flashbacks of the real events and back again, creating two narratives: the trial activity and the interpersonal drama that led to the homicide.

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel
Country: France, Italy
Genre: Drama

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Mar24

Welt am Draht / World on a Wire (1973) 2 x DVD Second Sight, 2 x Blu-Ray Second Sight Limited Edition

by movieworld on March 24th, 2019 at 16:06
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Welt am Draht / World on a Wire (1973) DVD5 + DVD9
Science fiction loves to predict the future of technology...and occasionally, it hits a bullseye. Daniel F. Galouye's 1964 novel Simulacron-3 presented the the possibility of a virtual world where the inhabitants had no idea they were part of a simulation. The lead scientist behind this virtual world dies under questionable circumstances and another employee vanishes, leading one eyewitness through a spiraling mystery that makes him question the "reality" of the world around him. Less than 10 years later, prolific German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder adapted Galouye's novel into World on a Wire (Welt am Draht, 1973), originally a two-part television feature that added plenty of its own touches. Our man of action is Fred Stiller (Klaus Lowitsch), who witnesses the aforementioned disappearance of a co-worker and quickly becomes lost in a complex, layered hall of mirrors (literally and figuratively). As he inches ever closer to the truth, however, large chunks of World on a Wire begin to show their seams.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Klaus Lowitsch, Barbara Valentin, Mascha Rabben, Karl Heinz Vosgerau
Country: West Germany
Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi
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Mar22

Khane-ye doust kodjast? / Where is the Friend’s Home? (1987) DVD9, Blu-Ray

by movieworld on March 22nd, 2019 at 12:56
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Khane-ye doust kodjast? / Where is the Friend's Home? (1987) DVD9
A young northern Iranian schoolboy, Ahmed, wishes to return a school notebook to his rural classmate who is threatened with expulsion if he does not bring to school a lost notebook. The problem is that the student lives in the next village and Ahmed does not know his address. How he gets the notebook to his friend's house, turns out to be an odyssey of great human endeavor for this 8-year-old. He must get help from the adults he meets on his way. Ahmed has to overcome his mother's harsh outlook on life, his grand-father's caustic perception of how to raise a child, his strict school teacher, and the strangers he meets who are unconcerned with his problem...

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Cast: Babek Ahmed Poor, Ahmed Ahmed Poor, Kheda Barech Defai
Country: Iran
Genre: Drama, Family
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Mar22

Zire darakhatan zeyton / Under the Olive Trees / Through the Olive Trees (1994) DVD9, Blu-Ray

by movieworld on March 22nd, 2019 at 12:28
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary, Drama

Zire darakhatan zeyton / Under the Olive Trees / Through the Olive Trees (1994) DVD9
The third part in Abbas Kiarostami's masterful Koker trilogy (sometimes called the "earthquake trilogy"), Through the Olive Trees tells a fictionalized story of the shooting of the previous film, "Life and Nothing More..."

A film director is making a movie in the Iranian countryside. He recruits local actors, but when shooting begins, a problem comes to light. His male lead, a young man named Hossein (playing himself), is madly in love with his fifteen-year old female co-star, Tahereh (playing herself). Because of Hossein’s illiteracy and homelessness, a marriage is impossible, at least from the perspective of Tahereh’s grandmother (who is also her guardian). Mohamad Ali Keshavarz plays the Kiarostami-like film director who tries to sort it all out.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Cast: Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Farhad Kheradmand, Zarifeh Shiva
Country: France, Iran
Genre: Drama
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Mar22

Videodrome (1983) 2 x DVD and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection, 2 x DVD Arrow Video

by movieworld on March 22nd, 2019 at 11:49
Posted In: .Other movies, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Videodrome 1983
Jaded Max Renn (James Woods) heads up a tiny, independent cable TV station that specializes in edgy softcore erotica and disturbing violence. Max is always on the lookout for the next piece of provocative sleaze, hunting the airwaves with his technical assistant Harlan (Peter Dvorsky) and searching the globe with the help of video freelancers like Masha (Lynne Gorman). When, with the help of Harlan, he stumbles on a fuzzy broadcast of something called Videodrome, which seems to feature graphic depictions of torture and murder, Max believes he's found something significant, the type of aggressively offensive video that's perfect for his station. As he pitches forward into his investigation of Videodrome's origin, he becomes involved with self-help maven Nicki Brand (Deborah Harry), and we find, as their relationship develops, that both share sadomasochistic desires that feed directly into Videodrome's allure. After Nicki disappears on her own quest to find Videodrome, Max finds himself experiencing increasingly bizarre hallucinations involving his stomach and his TV. By the time he meets Videodrome's Barry Convex (Les Carlson) and the elusive Brian O'Blivion (Jack Creely), Max is at the epicenter of a horrifying dreamscape, under the sway of some kind of video-borne mind control...

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Mar20

John Carpenter’s Village of the Damned (1995) Blu-Ray Shout! Factory Collector’s Edition

by movieworld on March 20th, 2019 at 17:09
Posted In: .Other movies, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller

Village of the Damned 1995
The small coastal town of Midwich, California gets a shocking surprise when at approximately 10 a.m. on an otherwise benign morning all of the town’s residents are suddenly rendered unconscious. The source of this outbreak is unclear, though the affected area appears to have clear, defined borders. Soon the townsfolk begin to wake, with some discovering loved ones perished during the blackout period. Strangely, ten of the town’s women learn they are pregnant and every conception coincides with the unexplained epidemic.
Fast forward nine months and a slew of platinum blonde babies are born. The only problem is, these babies aren’t normal, and they’re not remotely near friendly. As the years pass, and the children grow, the adults begin to witness first hand that these little bastards are flat out evil....

Village of the Damned was adapted from The Midwich Cuckoos, one of John Wyndham's best books. It was almost as popular as his groundbreaking The Day of the Triffids, the story about deadly walking plants that now seems a progenitor of the post-apocalyptic subgenre. Wyndham's narrative logic is impeccable. Weird scientific mysteries are followed by further impossibilities that overturn everything dear to the English heart: Order, propriety, civilization itself.

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Mar20

Jonas Mekas – The Sixties Quartet: Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections (1990), Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus) (2002), Happy Birthday to John (1997), This Side of Paradise (1999) DVD5

by movieworld on March 20th, 2019 at 16:13
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Jonas Mekas - The Sixties Quartet
Four films that shed light on the life, art and atmosphere of the sixties.

Jonas Mekas is a pioneer of the avant-garde and has often been called the “godfather of American avant-garde cinema.”

Mekas was born in Lithuania in 1929. In 1944 he fled his home country because of the war and went on a long and dangerous journey through Europe before settling in the US. In 1949 he bought his first 16mm Bolex camera and started filming moments of his life. In his long and eventful carrier he has made countless films, both long and short, and received awards for his work all over the world. His films are varied in form but he is perhaps most known for his “diary films”, which are made up of snapshots of his daily life. Mekas has collaborated with some of the the world’s most celebrated artists, such as Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, Salvador Dali, Yoko Ono and John Lennon.

Mekas is man of many talents. Through the years he has done a lot of writing on cinema and he founded the magazine Film Culture with his brother Adolfas Mekas, which was to devoted to writings about the art of cinema. Mekas is also a prolific writer of poetry and is considered one of Lithuania’s greatest contemporary poets.

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Mar20

Light Years: The Film Diaries of Tim Cawkwell (1968-87 / 2015-18) (2018) DVD9

by movieworld on March 20th, 2019 at 15:42
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Light Years The Film Diaries of Tim Cawkwell
Tim Cawkwell was born in Oxford in 1948, and completed his studies in Latin, Greek and Ancient History at the University there in 1970. He received another education - parallel, unofficial - in the cinema, and has been watching films ever since. Between 1968 and 1987, he made films, first in 8mm then in 16mm, specializing in working directly on the film frame. He has had a career first in publishing, then in the voluntary sector, ending up as chief administrative officer (a lay position) at Norwich Cathedral. He was involved in the publication of 'The World Encyclopaedia of Film' in 1972, and published 'The Filmgoer's Guide to God' in 2004.

Drawing inspiration from the American Underground films reaching Britain at the time, The Light Years seeks to emulate the qualities of the diary, thus making the personal public. The work brings together a series of short films made on 8mm between 1968 and 1987 to create a single diary film in 25 sections with its own narrative arc as a story of self-education. The material was digitized, re-edited, and voice-over and sound added between 2015 and 2018.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 193 minutes | 7.04 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Experimental

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Mar20

Fast Company (1979), Stereo (1969), Crimes of the Future (1970) Blu-Ray and 2 x DVD9 Blue Underground

by movieworld on March 20th, 2019 at 14:53
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Fast Company 1979
Years before he melded his body grotesqueries with car collisions in the controversial Crash, director David Cronenberg helmed this more straightforward ode to one of his more obscure passions, competitive auto racing.

William Smith stars as Lonnie "Lucky Man" Johnson, an ex-champion drag racer who survives a harrowing explosion while testing a newly-designed, supercharged engine. His racing team's sponsor, the crooked FastCo Oil rep Phil Adamson (John Saxon), thinks this is the final nail in Lonnie's long careerhe's over the hill, and Adamson wants to throw the FastCo name behind up-and-coming funny car driver Gary Black (Cedric Smith). Ignoring the protests of his girlfriend Sammy (Claudia Jennings), Lonnie is determined to show up Black, and even takes a funny car out from under fellow team member Billy "The Kid" Brocker (Nicholas Campbell) to show Adamson he can still compete. But Adamson intends to use any means to stop Loonie...

Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: William Smith, Claudia Jennings, John Saxon, Nicholas Campbell, Don Francks, Cedric Smith
Country: Canada
Genre: Drama, Sport
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