Nov27

Lo sceicco bianco / The White Sheik (1952) DVD9 Criterion Collection, Blu-Ray Studiocanal

by movieworld on November 27th, 2020 at 15:02
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama

The White Sheik 1952
This early Federico Fellini 1952 movie, his first as writer and sole director (after jointly filming 1951’s Lights of Variety), is an extremely eye-catching and highly diverting triumph.

Newlyweds Wanda (Brunella Bova) and Ivan (Leopoldo Trieste) Cavalli have just arrived for their honeymoon in Rome from their village in the countryside. The thoroughly middle-class Ivan has every minute of their stay in Rome planned out. Most of it is to be spent with his uncle, who is an employee of the Vatican, and his family. The highlight will be an audience with the Pope.

Wanda heads upstairs while Ivan is on the phone and gets a dreamy look in her eyes when she looks over the city. Before we know it, she asks to take a hot bath then sneaks out of the hotel. She is headed to the studio where her idol Fernando Rivoli (Alberto Sordi), better known as the “white sheik”, works. She has written Rivoli several fan letters signed “Passionate Dolly” and he wrote back asking her to visit if she ever happened to be in Rome.

Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina, Brunella Bovo, Leopoldo Trieste
Country: Italy
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Nov26

J’accuse / An Officer and a Spy (2019) Blu-Ray

by movieworld on November 26th, 2020 at 17:04
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, History, Thriller

J'accuse 2019
Roman Polanski's J'accuse (I Accuse — English title: An Officer and a Spy) is a powerful film recounting of the Drefyus Affair—the historic, 12-year struggle to clear a French Jewish officer, Captain Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), unjustly convicted of spying for Germany in 1894.

In the center of attention is Georges Picquart (played by Jean Dujardin), the officer who brought to public notice the anti-Semitic conspiracy and the judicial framing that led to Dreyfus's first conviction. His actions and his fight against public opinion, his superiors and a good part of the French political class saved the honor of France and of the army to which he and Dreyfus had dedicated their lives and careers.

The resulting exposure of criminal behavior implicating virtually the entire French general staff, backed by most of the political establishment, shook the French state to its foundations.

Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Louis Garrel, Christophe Maratier, Pierre Poirot
Country: France, Italy
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
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Nov26

Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse / The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) 2 x DVD9 Criterion Collection, Blu-Ray Eureka – Masters of Cinema

by movieworld on November 26th, 2020 at 14:48
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 1933
A sequel to his enormously successful silent film Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler, Fritz Lang’s The Testament of Dr. Mabuse reunites the director with the character that had effectively launched his career. Lang put slogans and ideas expounded by the Nazis into the mouth of a madman, warning his audience of an imminent menace, which was soon to become a reality.

With the titular character, crime lord Dr. Mabuse now locked away in an asylum, taken by madness, under the watchful eye of Professor Baum, mysterious violent crimes begin to occur around the city. The only clues left behind lead to the impossible scenario that the nefarious crime lord has been directing the crimes from his cell in the asylum.

Using the same stunning visuals that defined his silent films, like Metropolis and the earlier Mabuse film, Lang creates an astonishing vision of the morose, high tech, and eerie impending doom that would find itself banned by the Reich. Shadowy docks, empty warehouses, foggy nights, explosions, and a fantastic climax verging on the supernatural all make The Testament of Dr. Mabuse one of Lang’s classics on par with his most memorable title, the Metropolis.

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Nov25

Copie conforme / Certified Copy (2010) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Artificial Eye, 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on November 25th, 2020 at 18:37
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Romance

Certified Copy 2010
From acclaimed director Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us) comes the story of a couple’s apparent chance meeting in beautiful Tuscany.

James Miller (William Shimel) is a British author who is in Italy to promote his controversial art book. He contends that copies are often as good as the original and challenge us to see creativity in a fresh way. As he speaks, an unnamed woman (Juliette Binoche) arrives late with her bored son (Adrian Moore). She is a gallery owner eager to talk about art. The woman leaves her number.

They meet the next day and drive to Lucignano where original art and copies abound. He autographs several copies of his book and then she takes him for a coffee. When Miller exits to talk on his cell phone, the coffee shop proprietor assumes that he is her husband and begins a lecture on the mysteries of love and the challenges of marriage. When Miller returns, the woman speaks of him as her husband of 15 years. He does the same and soon we are wondering, Are they really husband and wife? Has their meeting as strangers been a concocted drama to bring some adventure to their marriage ?

Captivating and hugely entertaining, this romantic tale playfully and provocatively blurs the lines between reality and imagination.
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Nov25

Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse / The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960) Blu-Ray Eureka – Masters of Cinema

by movieworld on November 25th, 2020 at 14:15
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Mystery, Thriller

The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse 1960
Fritz Lang's final feature brings his career full circle to the core thriller concepts he pioneered back in 1922: superstitious human nature and sinister technological advances combine to make the 20th century an Age of Terror. Lang reboots his highly cinematic Weimar-era narrative tricks for a film that heralds the beginning of a brave new world where total surveillance and mind control are at the service of paranoid conspiracies.

Police inspector Kras receives a phone call from the psychic Peter Cornelius who predicts the murder of journalist Peter Barter at the traffic lights moments before it happens. In investigating the murder, Kras discovers there have been an alarming number of suspicious deaths of high-profile people where the common factor is that all have stayed at the Luxor Hotel. Kras finds links to the late criminal mastermind Dr Mabuse and comes to believe that Mabuse is still alive...

Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Dawn Addams, Peter van Eyck, Gert Frobe, Wolfgang Preiss
Country: West Germany, France, Italy
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
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Oct19

New Rose Hotel (1998) DVD9, DVD5

by movieworld on October 19th, 2020 at 13:39
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Mystery

New Rose Hotel (1998) DVD5
The New Rose Hotel was based on one of the short stories in "Burning Chrome", an anthology of the short fiction of William Ford Gibson. He also wrote the short story and the screenplay for "Johnny Mnemonic", and is the guy who coined the term "cyberspace" in his 1982 novel "Neuromancer", which was soon elevated to cult status as one of the first novels in a new science fiction sub-genre called Cyberpunk.

The basic premise of this film is that corporate espionage has changed. It makes no sense to steal patents and technologies in this near future, because they are all obsolete in six months. The only true value is the minds of the men who create the valuable replacement technologies. Christopher Walken and Willem Dafoe play a couple of corporate raiders/spies who specialize in getting the top minds to defect from one company to another. Asia Argento is the hooker they recruit to assist them in their biggest score. Things go wrong. Really, really wrong.

Director: Abel Ferrara
Cast: Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, Asia Argento, Annabella Sciorra, John Lurie, Yoshitaka Amano, Gretchen Mol
Country: USA
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
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Oct19

It Happened Here (1965) DVD9 and Blu-Ray BFI

by movieworld on October 19th, 2020 at 11:24
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, War

It Happened Here 1965
A chilling vision of what might have been had Germany conquered England during World War II, Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo's It Happened Here (1966) is also a remarkable accomplishment in independent filmmaking.

The occupation of England is seen through the eyes of Pauline (Pauline Murray), a country nurse fleeing the fighting that has broken out between German troops and resistance partisans. Using Ireland as a base, the Americans and 'loyalist' English guerillas are attempting to re-invade from the West. Pauline witnesses a massacre of civilians. Believeing that the partisans were responsible, she decides like the majority of her countrymen that getting things back to normal is more important than patriotism. "After all," she sighs, "We did lose the war."

BD50, DVD9 | 1080p AVC, PAL 4:3 | 01:40:31 | 45.2 Gb + 7.73 Gb
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Directors: Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo
Cast: Pauline Murray, Sebastian Shaw, Bart Allison
Country: UK
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, War
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Oct19

Queen Bee (1955) DVD5

by movieworld on October 19th, 2020 at 11:12
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Queen Bee (1955) DVD5
An Academy Award nominee for Best Cinematography and Best Costume Design, QUEEN BEE (1955) is the story of a manipulative socialite in Georgia who tries to control the lives of those around her to disastrous effect. In the tradition of a Southern Gothic melodrama by Tennessee Williams, this movie provides a showcase for Crawford's most aggressive, scheming seductress since her role in The Women.

Jennifer Stewart (Lucy Marlow) travels from the Midwest to the South, to stay at the home of her cousin Eva Phillips (Joan Crawford), who has been her benefactress. She finds the inhabitants of the Phillips home bitter. Eva’s husband Avery (Barry Sullivan) is a beaten-down alcoholic, scarred by a mysterious car accident. Jud Prentiss (John Ireland) is Eva’s former lover and now manages the family mill. Avery’s sister Carol (Betsy Palmer) is in love with Jud but doesn’t know about his past with Eva, nor the fact that she keeps attempting to seduce him. Over this brooding household rules Eva... the manipulative, possessive, passive-aggressive queen bee.

Director: Ranald MacDougall
Cast: Joan Crawford, Betsy Palmer, John Ireland, Fay Wray
Country: USA
Genre: Drama
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Oct16

The Camomile Lawn (1992) 2 x DVD

by movieworld on October 16th, 2020 at 15:07
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Romance, War

The Camomile Lawn 1992
Classic adaptation of Mary Wesley's much-acclaimed novel.
Behind the large house, the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs. Here, in the dizzying heat of August 1939, five cousins have gathered at their aunt's house for their annual ritual of a holiday. For most of them it is the last summer of their youth, with the heady exhilarations and freedoms of lost innocence, as well as the fears of the coming war.
The Camomile Lawn moves from Cornwall to London and back again, over the years, telling the stories of the cousins, their family and their friends, united by shared losses and lovers, by family ties and the absurd conditions imposed by war as their paths cross and recross over the years. And through it all, the cousins and their friends try to hold on to the part of themselves that laughed and played dangerous games on that camomile lawn.

DVD9+DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 244 min | 10.7 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none

Director: Peter Hall
Cast: Felicity Kendal, Claire Bloom, Jennifer Ehle
Country: UK, Australia
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
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Oct16

Lo straniero / The Stranger (1967) DVD9, DVD5

by movieworld on October 16th, 2020 at 12:52
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Lo straniero 1967
The Stranger is a literal (but still very cinematic) adaptation of the novel by Albert Camus.

Camus's central character, Meursault (Mastroianni) is a Frenchman living in occupied Algiers, profoundly alienated from the world around him. Unable to feel anything, he goes through the motions of his life. He feels nothing at his mother’s funeral, he feels nothing at the sight of a man viciously abusing his girlfriend, and, most notably, he feels nothing as he kills an Arab on a sandy beach, in the blistering heat and blinding glare of the North African sun. In the trial that ensues, he is condemned not so much for his crime but for his cool, seemingly uncaring demeanor. Which makes him about as un-Viscontiesque a character as one can imagine.

It is a low-key but magnificent performance, played out against the arid scenery of northern Africa, capturing the blank alienation of Camus's existential anti-hero perfectly.

This is an intelligent and honest film but, while Visconti’s and writing are admirable, even he is not quite able to reconcile Meursault's meandering motivelessness with the moral depths alluded to in the novel. Unsurprisingly, Camus’s book proves a hard nut to crack as a movie, though this is a commendable attempt.
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