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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Sep25

Poppoya / Railroad Man (1999) DVD9

by movieworld on September 25th, 2020 at 14:43
Posted In: .Other movies, Asian, Drama

Poppoya 1999
Otomatsu Sato has spent his life in service to the railway. Like his father before him who believed the key to the modernisation of Japan after its defeat in the second world war was in its transportation network, Sato started as an engineer before being promoted to station master. Morning and evening in the freezing cold he bid in and sent out each passenger and freight train travelling through his one track station. However, though he clearly loves his job Sato has experienced a great deal of personal tragedy in pursuit of his career. He wasn’t there when his baby daughter died, nor was he there when his wife lay dying in hospital. He was where he always is, on the platform until the last train goes out. Now, however, the mine has closed, the town is full of old people and there are no passengers on the train so the line will be closing. Having given his life to something which will be so unceremoniously erased, what is a man like Sato to do now?

DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 | 01:52:01 | 6.30 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English, Korean, Japanese
Genre: Drama

Director: Yasuo Furuhata
Cast: Ken Takakura, Shinobu Otake, Ryoko Hirosue
Country: Japan
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Sep25

Perfect Friday (1970) Blu-Ray Kino Lorber

by movieworld on September 25th, 2020 at 13:16
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Perfect Friday 1970
Mr. Graham (Stanley Baker, Accident, Lizard in a Woman's Skin) is a manager in a bank somewhere in London who is convinced that he has devised the perfect plan to get rich and retire in a foreign country with beautiful beaches. But to steal the money from the bank Mr. Graham needs two accomplices. This is where the stunningly beautiful Lady Britt Dorset (Ursula Andress, The 10th Victim, Red Sun) and her extravagant husband Lord Nicholas Dorset enter the picture. Both desperately need money to continue living beyond their means, but only Lady Dorset is brave enough to state the obvious. Graham seizes on their difficulties and suggests a bank robbery.

None of the three are to be trusted and a love triangle develops. A sum of 300,000 pounds is to be stolen from the vault under the bank's nose. The plan is clever and intricate, requiring Nick to impersonate a bank inspector on just the right day - the perfect Friday and exchange a box. All three have their own ideas and both men think they're going away with Britt at the end. A flat is rented and costumes purchased. The robbery eventually goes ahead without incident, but who goes away with Britt at Heathrow?

Director: Peter Hall
Cast: Ursula Andress, Stanley Baker, David Warner
Country: UK
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller

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Sep23

Contre-Oeil: peripheries de la cinetique / Cross-Eye: Peripheries of the Kinetic (1960-2011) 3 x DVD5

by movieworld on September 23rd, 2020 at 20:08
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Contre-Oeil
Canadian Institute for Exploratory Cinemas presents Cross-Eye, an anthology of Quebec and Canadian experimental film and video art (1960-2011) . From surrealist refractions to punk and dissident factions, the anthology brings together a unique collection of avant-garde movie works. Tearing apart the barriers betweens eras, borders and mediums, the viewing experience encompass a total experience of the brain unstrapped of subtle luminosity and high voltage experimentations. This anthology aims to act as a catalyst for the establishment of an oblique view of the Quebec and Canadian cinema.

This anthology aims to act as a catalyst in the formation of a transversal vision of Quebecker and Canadian cinema. The organization of the three discs presents the program on the basis of valuing chronological interlacing and permutations. This baroque fragmentation allows angles and reliefs that emphasize the presence of archetypes in the discontinuous narrative. Coteries associated with the chapels of experimental films and video art, through the purists defenses of celluloid and digital visions, have deliberately been addressed to be distilled, transmuted and sublimated. This optic contamination will act as visual immunotherapy for the visionary viewers.
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