May20

The Birds and the Bees – 60 years of British sex education films (1917-1973) 2 x DVD9

by movieworld on May 20th, 2019 at 17:50
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary

The Birds and the Bees
From the earliest-known example, Whatsoever a Man Soweth (1917) to the comical, but ultimately serious, ‘Ave You Got a Male Assistant Please Miss? (1973), this unique anthology of 16 key titles takes in almost 60 years of the British sex education film.

Take a journey through the euphemisms, metaphors, and diagrams of yore to discover the controversial attitude-changing works of the early 1970s. All matters, unmentionable or otherwise, are dealt with here, from First World War warnings to soldiers of the potential dangers of cavorting with loose women in London’s West End, to puberty pep-talks for girls and scare stories to deter unwanted teenage pregnancies.

By turns enlightening, entertaining and surprising, the range and type of works presented here will interest film fans, social historians and anyone interested to ensure that they stay on the road to health.

2 x DVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 338 mins | 14 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Genre: Documentary

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May20

Artherapy (2010) DVD9

by movieworld on May 20th, 2019 at 16:30
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Musical

Artherapy 2010
Creative expression clashes with the law and mainstream culture in Artherapy, an examination of three young artists’ struggles in contemporary Athens.

Ilia the lead singer of the band Stiletto Scag, Andreas a young graduate trying to make it as an actor and Alexandros a street artist working on a commissioned mural, come together to represent the musical and visual arts scene of Greece. Interrogated by police, rejected by society, and struggling to make ends meet, their celebration of youthful expression crashes into a harsh reality faced by all in the arts scene.

Delving into the underground art spaces of Athens like never before, Veteran director Perakis’ creative docu-fiction captures the frenetic energy and bitter disappointments of young Greek artists today.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:32:53 | 6.84 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Greek
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Music

Director: Nicos Perakis
Cast: Manolis Anastasakos, Rosyna Baltatzi, Amalia Bennet
Country: Greece
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May20

Art & Cinema – Henri Storck – The Documentaries on Art (1944-1970) DVD9

by movieworld on May 20th, 2019 at 15:54
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Art Cinema - Henri Storck
Henri Storck is one of the pioneers of the Belgian cinema; his film career is itself a “history of cinema.” He lived through the whole history of cinema, passing from silent to sound, and from experimental to commercial films. From 1927 through the seventies he has created a vast work which includes both fictional and anthropological films. In 1927, Storck organized a “Club de cinema,” where he met Rene Clair and Eisenstein. The great cameraman Boris Kaufman, later Storck's collaborator, taught him film technique. In Paris Storck became Jean Vigo's assistant for Zero for Conduct, after which he worked with documentarist Joris Ivens. All the while, he was making experimental shorts and features of enormous originality.
In 1944, he starts making documentaries on art. He devotes two films to Paul Delvaux. Together with art critic Paul Haesaerts he makes Rubens, a long exploration - at times didactic, at times lyric - of the world of the great Baroque painter. Its inventiveness was awarded by the first prize for documentary at the Venice film festival in 1949. The Open Window plunges the spectator into the most famous landscapes of Belgian, French, English and Dutch artists. An Artists Reunion dates from 1945, and in 1953 he portrays Flemish writer, intellectual and theatre educationist Herman Teirlinck.

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May18

Night on Earth (1991) DVD9 (2007 edition) and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on May 18th, 2019 at 16:31
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama

Night on Earth 1991
Night on Earth is another thoroughly distinctive and compelling film by writer and director Jim Jarmusch. This deadpan comedy-of-the-night is a collection of five vignettes taking place in the enclosed space of a cab ride, each occurring simultaneously in five different cities and five different time zones -- Los Angeles, New York City, Paris, Rome, and Helsinki.

On one winter night, we witness the human condition via encounters between taxi drivers and their passengers in five different cities. Class differences are explored in Los Angeles where a casting agent (Gina Rowlands) pressures a cabbie (Winona Ryder). Family problems are aired in a New York segment starring Giancarlo Esposito, Armin Mueller-Stahl, and Rosie Perez. In Paris, an African driver experiences discomfort and mystery in the presence of a beautiful blind woman. A wild cab driver confesses his sins to a priest in Rome, and in Helsinki, three inebriated men share their lives with a cab driver who has problems of his own. Nights on Earth is a great concept well executed.

Director: Jim Jarmusch
Cast: Winona Ryder, Gena Rowlands, Lisanne Falk, Roberto Benigni
Country: France, UK, Germany, USA, Japan
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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May18

Carnal Knowledge (1971) DVD9, DVD5, Blu-Ray

by movieworld on May 18th, 2019 at 15:35
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama

Carnal Knowledge (1971)
The sex lives and romantic relationships of two friends during a 25-year period are shown, from their college years in the 1940s through their middle-age in the 1970s.
Made in 1971, the film begins two decades earlier - where we first meet college room-mates and frustrated virgins Jonathan (Jack Nicholson) and Sandy (Arthur Garfunkel). Sandy’s the outwardly shy and sensitive one, and soon begins courting Susan (Candice Bergen). Jonathan has a passionate affair with Susan behind Sandy’s back. Over the coming years, we hear the conversations both men have about women, and then see them put their views in action - from affairs, abuse and attempts at wife-swapping to Jonathan’s slide show featuring all the “ball-breakers” he’s ever met.

Director: Mike Nichols
Actors: Jack Nicholson, Candice Bergen, Ann-Margret, Art Garfunkel, Rita Moreno, Carol Kane
Country: USA
Genre: Drama, Comedy
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May17

In the Heat of the Night (1967) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on May 17th, 2019 at 14:41
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

In the Heat of the Night 1967
In the small, sleepy town of Sparta, Mississippi, where they roll up the sidewalks at night, a police officer on a routine, boring nighttime patrol through the downtown stumbles across a dead body, a murdered man. The victim is a rich, white Chicago industrialist who was building a controversial factory in the town. The primary suspect, at least to this cop’s black-and-white eye, is a lone black man, well dressed and carrying a wad of cash, whom the cop discovers waiting at the deserted train station.

The “suspect” out to be Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier), a Philadelphia cop who just happens to be an expert on homicide. Police Chief Gillespie (Rod Steiger), at the urging of the victim’s widow, grudgingly asks for Tibbs’s help in solving the crime. Poitier’s performance in In the Heat of the Night is brilliant as his calm, competent Tibbs gets to work, dazzling his new colleagues with his ingeniousness and simultaneously enraging them with his “uppityness” — Tibbs always retains his dignity even as his rage and impotence in dealing with these racist yahoos bubbles just below the surface. Likewise, Steiger is fabulous as a man gradually overcoming his prejudices in spite of himself.

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May17

Morte a Venezia / Death in Venice (1971) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on May 17th, 2019 at 14:15
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Death in Venice 1971
Based on Thomas Mann's 1912 novella, the film tells the story of the last few weeks in the life of Gustav Von Aschenbach (Bogarde), a composer who has come to Venice in an attempt to find some peace from the complications of his personal life in Germany. A musical purist and rigorous seeker after perfection, Aschenbach has seen his career decline and his relationships decay. Intending to stay for only a short period, he becomes entranced by the beauty of a young boy, Tadzio (Andreson) and finds excuses to stay just a while longer. He lingers, despite possessing privileged knowledge about a cholera epidemic sweeping the city, and meets his own doom in his quest to understand the meaning of perfection, as embodied in the form of Tadzio.

Setting Mann's story of queer desire and bodily decay against the sublime music of Gustav Mahler, Death in Venice is one of cinema’s most exalted literary adaptations, as sensually rich as it is allegorically resonant.

Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns, Bjorn Andresen
Country: Italy, France, USA
Genre: Drama
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May17

Heimat – Eine deutsche Chronik / Homeland: A German Chronicle / Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany (1984) 6 x DVD9 Tartan, 5 x Blu-Ray Lumiere

by movieworld on May 17th, 2019 at 13:55
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Heimat - Eine deutsche Chronik / Homeland: A German Chronicle / Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany (1984) 6 x DVD9
Heimat, roughly translated as "Homeland", takes place in the small village of Schabbach and tells the story of the Simon family, from 1919 to 1982. From the Third Reich, to the economic boom in the 1950s and the resolution of the Cold War in the 1980s, three generations of the Simon clan live through the most decisive moments in modern German history. Rather than focus on well-known national leaders, the series looks at a modest family trying to cope with rapidly changing circumstances.

Central person is Maria, who we see growing from a 17 year old girl to an old woman, and her family. The family, like the rest of the German people live through the crises after WW-I, the rise and fall of Nazism and WW-II, and the rebuilding and the following prosperity of the village (as a symbol for the whole country) after WW II.

Director: Edgar Reitz
Cast: Marita Breuer, Kurt Wagner, Rudiger Weigang, Eva Maria Bayerswaltes, Michael Lesch, Dieter Schaad
Country: West Germany
Genre: Drama
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May17

Following (1998) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on May 17th, 2019 at 12:31
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Following 1998
A black-and-white noir story of trust and betrayal, this film establishes many of the themes that would become hallmarks of Christopher Nolan's films.

Set in London, Following is the story of Bill, a lonely unemployed author experiencing writer's block. Short on cash and ideas and fueled by his voyeuristic fetish, he devises a game: pick a random pedestrian and follow them around town observing their daily routine. There are some rules though... he never follows the same person more than once and he never gets involved in their lives. He tells himself this is strictly research for potential characters in his writing, but it soon goes beyond research when he follows and ultimately develops a relationship with a mysterious well-dressed man named Cobb. Unfortunately for Bill, Cobb has a few secrets and an agenda of his own and nothing is as it seems...

The first half hour seems to be a simple story of a guy with way too much free time on his hands, but as we soon discover, there's a lot more going on than is initially revealed. Nolan takes his time peeling back the layers (and plays around with our notions of what's in the present and what isn't in a big way), but when everything is laid out, it's a stunner. And it makes sense, too. Unlike some other flicks that have had this sort of labyrinthine structure, Nolan's made sure that everything works (same as he did with Memento). It's the sort of film (again, like Memento) that demands a second viewing, just so you can see what sort of hints Nolan has dropped along the way.

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May17

Detour (1945) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on May 17th, 2019 at 11:35
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Drama

Detour 1945
Director Edgar G Ulmer's all-time great, flashback-driven 1945 film noir thriller is a deservedly famous cult B-movie classic. Zero-budgeted but rousingly handled, it's termite art. It holds the honour of being the first B-movie chosen by the Library of Congress for its National Film Registry (in 1992) and it is the first Hollywood film noir so honoured. The film has long enjoyed a cult reputation in Europe and among American film buffs for its existential tone.

The main character, Al Roberts (Tom Neal), is an unemployed piano player intent on hitchhiking from New York to Hollywood where his girlfriend is a singer. When he reaches Arizona, he thumbs a ride with a dissipated gambler who relates a disturbing tale about a female hitchhiker he recently encountered. From that point on, the film travels quickly into nightmare territory with border crossings into paranoia, death and despair.

Tom Neal's real life story is probably even sadder and stranger than the luckless character he plays in Detour.

Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald
Country: USA
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
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