Apr22

Lee Tracy RKO 4 Film Collection: Criminal Lawyer (1937), Behind the Headlines (1937), Crashing Hollywood (1938), Fixer Dugan (1939) 2 x DVD9

by movieworld on April 22nd, 2017 at 17:08
Posted In: .Other movies, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance

Lee Tracy RKO 4 Film Collection
Patter master Lee Tracy commands the spiel in this collection, culled from his post-Code career, that sees him playing a slippery shyster (o' course), a newshound (natch), a screen hack (ditto) and a circus promoter (he's got the gift of gab).

Margot Grahame costars in Criminal Lawyer, in which Tracy plays a defense attorney-turned-DA caught between his methods and a murder.

Behind the Headlines finds Tracy playing a wireless reporter competing with his news-hen girlfriend (Diana Gibson) while trying to gum up the plans of a group of gangsters.

Crashing Hollywood sees Tracy collaborating on a studio score with an ex-con (Paul Guilfoyle).

Finally, in Fixer Dugan, Tracy plays a circus pro scrambling to keep his shows afloat while caring for a young orphan (Virginia Weidler).

2 x DVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 259 minutes | 6.45 Gb + 7.51 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance

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Apr22

Lullaby / Kolybelnaya / Колыбельная (1937) DVD5

by movieworld on April 22nd, 2017 at 16:20
Posted In: .Russian movies, Documentary

Kolybelnaya 1937
Lullaby, aka A Song of the Liberated Soviet Woman, was Vertov’s last major film, made to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the October revolution.

It focuses on the women and the role of motherhood, featuring images from across the Soviet Union, in particular the Far East. In that way, it resembles his earlier films thematically, especially A Sixth Part of the World (1926). The film features a toned down version of his famous montage style, and is structured around the lullabies that are sung to children by their mothers across the country. The songs are ostensibly representative of the local culture and folklore, although all of the melodies and lyrics were in fact written specifically for the production of this film.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 00:57:42 | 3.32 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English
Genre: Documentary

Director: Dziga Vertov
Country: Soviet Union
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Apr22

Hopscotch (1980) DVD9 Criterion Collection, Blu-Ray Pidax Films

by movieworld on April 22nd, 2017 at 15:13
Posted In: .Other movies, Adventure, Comedy

Hopscotch 1980
Veteran CIA spy Miles Kendig (Walter Matthau) still operates the old way, succeeding in his missions while observing such polite rules of espionage as refusing to arrest or liquidate without cause opposite numbers like Russian agent Yaskov (Herbert Lom). This infuriates petty bureaucrat-turned spy manager Myerson (Ned Beatty), who demotes Kendig to desk duty. Miles' response is instantaneous: with the help of Viennese girlfriend Isobel von Shonenberg (Glenda Jackson), he hides his agency file, takes a typewriter and goes on the lam, serializing a proposed book on the CIA's most shameful episodes of the last 30 years, and gleefully naming names as he does it. He sends his expose' chapter by chapter to interested parties in spy agencies across the globe. A furious and flabbergasted Myerson pits Cutter (Sam Waterston), Kendig's best student, against him, but to no avail - Kendig outmaneuvers them all with sportsmanlike ease.

Director: Ronald Neame
Actors: Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston, Ned Beatty, Herbert Lom
Country: USA
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
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Apr22

Homo sapiens (2016) DVD9

by movieworld on April 22nd, 2017 at 14:41
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary

Homo sapiens 2016
If the spirit of Stanley Kubrick lives in any current film-maker, it is surely the Austrian director Nikolaus Geyrhalter, whose 2008 documentary Our Daily Bread was a chilling study of mechanised food production and animal slaughter. Now he has created a visually extraordinary film composed simply of long, static shots of abandoned human constructions that have been left to rot after natural disasters, human neglect or time itself have taken their toll.

Filming in places ranging from Fukushima to Bulgaria, with stops in the U.S., South America and parts of Europe, Geyrhalter – who shot all the material himself – presents us with an array of homes, offices, shopping malls, hospitals, schools, churches, movie theaters and military installations in various states of decay. Where they are located and why they have been abandoned is never explained, nor does the filmmaker attempt to appease us with scenes of people rebuilding or moving on: there are simply no people to speak of, and at best one can see a few birds or frogs enjoying their new habitats.

This simple, eerie succession of images is as gripping as any of the sci-fi thrillers or post-apocalyptic dramas that would normally use scenes like these as establishing shots.
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Apr22

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) Blu-Ray 30th Anniversary Edition

by movieworld on April 22nd, 2017 at 13:17
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller

Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer 1986
"He's not Freddy. He's not Jason. He's real." Henry could be the chap walking on the other side of the road from you. He could be your neighbour or a work colleague. This guy isn't a rampaging zombie or haunter of nightmares, he's an everyday Joe with an especially anti-social hobby, and he could well be in your neighbourhood - right now...

Henry is an ex-con who served time for savagely slaughtering his abusive mother. He shares a run-down Chicago apartment with a fellow ex-con, Ottis, and his sister Becky. Henry was released from jail a few months before Ottis and filled his spare time by killing people. No real motive for this, it's just what he does - prowling the city, selecting his victims at random and killing without remorse. Ottis soon falls under Henry's spell and begins to assist Henry in his acts of destruction. If Henry is cold and calculating as a killer, then Otis is the opposite – deranged, messy and unorganised, a closet necrophiliac and homosexual who harbours incestuous feelings for his sister. Becky, oblivious to the pair's criminal activities, falls in love with Henry. As soon as these three characters are thrown together you know that it's all going to end badly and, sure enough, the violence comes closer to home before the film reaches an especially downbeat finale.
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Apr22

British Comedies Of The 1930s Volume 7: Lost in the Legion (1934), The Dominant Sex (1937) DVD9

by movieworld on April 22nd, 2017 at 11:54
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Romance

British Comedies Of The 1930s Volume 7If you like you vintage classics, you’ll find it hard to go past this little piece of movie history. The British Film Collection from Network is reissuing classics, many of which have not been seen since they were released in cinemas. Part of a five-year plan to release more than 450 old films, this series showcases significant comedies from the 1930s, an era when comedy was so important to an audience who needed the release and escapism from the Great Depression. Volume 7 contains two great films, The Dominant Sex and Lost in the Legion.

The Dominant Sex, stars Phillip Holmes and Diana Churchill as a young married couple who constantly argue. The husband has invented a machine that could change their financial circumstances, but he’s hoping to return to his roots as a gentleman farmer rather than sell it. Directed by Herbert Brenon who won best director at the first ever Oscars, the film is quite startling in it’s modernity and sexual politics.

The second comedy, Lost In the Legion, is more traditional, with Leslie Fuller co-starring with his regular sidekick Hal Gordon as two ship’s cooks who fall for a couple of dancers. When the cute dancing girls get kidnapped and sold into a harem, they’re determined to rescue them, but during their exploits, they are rescued by the French Foreign Legion and accidentally enrol for service.
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Apr21

Fright Night (1985), You’re So Cool, Brewster! The Story of Fright Night (2016) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Eureka Classics

by movieworld on April 21st, 2017 at 18:22
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Documentary, Horror, Thriller

Fright Night 1985After years the seminal 1985 classic Fright Night finally gets not only a UK release on Blu-ray, but one which makes the rest look anaemic by comparison. Loaded with more enticing goodies than the Child-Catcher’s van, it also boasts the definitive transfer in both picture and sound.
Fright Night introduces us to Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale), a very normal teenaged boy. He enjoys spending time with his girlfriend, Amy (Amanda Bearse), and his odd friend, Ed (Stephen Geoffreys). One day, Charley's mom (Dorothy Fielding) tells him that someone has bought the house next door and that night, Charley is convinced that he sees two men moving a coffin into the basement. The next day, Charley sees an attractive women going into the house and he then sees her on the news, as she was found murdered. Charley becomes convinced that his neighbor is a vampire and he calls the police. However, the homeowner, Jerry Dandrige (Chris Sarandon), laughs off this notion, and convinces the police that he and his roommate, Billy (Jonathan Stark), have done nothing wrong, making Charley look like a fool. In desperation, Charley approaches former horror movie actor and current TV horror host Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall) for help, who rebuffs Charley. However, Amy and Ed convince Vincent that he can help Charley get over this fantasy. When Vincent confronts Dandrige, he learns that the man is indeed a monster and it's now up to Charley and Vincent to stop this creature of the night.
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Apr21

Daughters of the Dust (1991) DVD9 Kino Lorber, 2 x Blu-Ray Cohen Media Group

by movieworld on April 21st, 2017 at 16:32
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Romance

Daughters of the Dust 1991"Daughters of the Dust", Julie Dash's magical debut feature, captures a sad, thrilling moment of transformation for a community of Gullahs, who are the descendants of African slaves who lived on the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia. On an August day in 1902, several generations of the Peazant family are preparing to move to the U.S. mainland, bidding farewell to their island home and the vibrant, uniquely African-influenced culture they've succeeded in keeping alive. As the entire family gathers together for potentially the last time, the seemingly joyous occasion is filled with numerous emotions as the pending unknown evokes feelings of doubt, sadness and pride within the clan.

Dash's landmark film Daughters of the Dust was in 1991 the first feature length film helmed by an African American woman to gain a wide theatrical release. It's notable that Dash didn't just direct this elegiac depiction of Gullah Islanders, she also wrote and co-produced it, offering an impeccably rich and nuanced view of a culture that few "outsiders" have ever even known about, let alone experienced.

Director: Julie Dash
Cast: Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers, Barbarao
Country: USA, UK
Genre: Drama, Romance
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