Mar27

The Dictator (2012) Blu-Ray (theatrical and extended versions)

by movieworld on March 27th, 2018 at 12:54
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy

The Dictator 2012
The Dictator tells the story of Admiral General Shabazz Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen), leader of the great North African Republic of Wadiya. After learning that he may be developing nuclear weapons, the United Nations Security Council demands that Aladeen travel to New York City to appear in front of the Council in order to plead his case. Shortly after arriving, Aladeen is kidnapped by Clayton (John C. Reilly), a hitman hired by his uncle Tamir (Ben Kingsley). Tamir’s goal in all of this is to replace Aladeen with a double, get the fake Aladeen to sign a treaty allowing Aladeen’s lands to dig for oil, thus making Tamir a very, very wealthy man. Unfortunately for Aladeen, his one recognizable trait (his beard) has been shaved off, this making him a complete ghost to everyone around him. Now it’s up to Aladeen to figure out how to get his great country back, with the help of local organic farmer Zoey (Anna Faris).

BD50 | 1080p AVC | 01:23:17 + 01:38:47 | 39.1 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish (Extended version has only English)
Subtitles: English, English SDH, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Genre: Comedy

Director: Larry Charles
Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris, John C. Reilly
Country: USA
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Mar27

The Last House on Dead End Street (1977) DVD9 + DVD5

by movieworld on March 27th, 2018 at 12:01
Posted In: .Other movies, Horror

The Last House on Dead End Street (1977) DVD9 + DVD5
Terry Hawkins, a scumbag recently released from prison on drug charges returns to his hustling ways saying that in the past he has made stag films that he could never sell. Wild-eyed and pissed off, his new plan to make a mint is to film real murders as a way to cash in and also strike back at Уthe manФ that has been, as they say, keeping him down. With the blessing of his decadent financiers, Hawkins gathers together a couple of his deviant friends and lures the very same people who are paying for his movies to be made, to be the stars of his murderfest.
Acts of torture and mutilation are shown in graphic detail.

DVD9 + DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:17:36 | 7.13 Gb + 3.61 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: none
Genre: Horror

Director: Roger Watkins
Cast: Roger Watkins, Ken Fisher, Bill Schlageter, Pat Canestro, Kathy Curtin
Country: USA
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Mar26

Fritz Lang’s M (1931) 2xDVD and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection, Eureka! Masters of Cinema

by movieworld on March 26th, 2018 at 20:57
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Fritz Lang's M (1931)
A killer of children, living and hiding undetected in the community, puts the nerves of the populace on edge. The law-abiding citizens demand action, fearing for the lives of any young girls who have the misfortune to be left unattended awaiting the exploitation of their naive trust of friendly strangers. The police, befuddled by their inability to catch the murderer, adopt harsh measures, conducting indiscriminate raids, hauling all the usual suspects into the station and disrupting the shady enterprises of petty criminals and street hustlers across the city. The killer himself, dissatisfied with the quality of attention that his crimes have generated from the official powers, engages in a letter-writing campaign to the local press, bent on both humiliating his pursuers and further terrorizing the victims of his irrational violence and inexplicable hatred. Exasperated by the futile efforts of law enforcement, the criminals themselves decide that it's time to rid the streets of this vile miscreant. Meanwhile, the sociopath's rage, temporarily subsided by his most recent atrocity, begins to build again as he walks the streets looking for his next opportunity to relieve the pressure that compels him to kill again.

Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut
Country: Germany
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Mar26

Cielo negro / Black Sky (1951) DVD5

by movieworld on March 26th, 2018 at 18:56
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Cielo negro 1951
One of Manuel Mur Oti’s best films tells the story of the love of a poor employee of a Madrid fashion house (who looks after her sick mother) for her bohemian partner. In expensive, secretly-borrowed dresses she invents another life, but her misappropriation is revealed, she loses her job, and finds herself with still more ill fortune. Her mother is dying and her troubles culminate with the discovery that she is probably going blind. In her despair she thinks of suicide by jumping off a bridge. Melodrama, influenced by neo-realism, records the eternal conflict between reality and wanting, poverty and money, sickness and death. The closing travelling shot is especially uplifting, following the heroine along the Madrid street Bailen, from the viaduct to the church of St Francis.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:33:09 | 3.13 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Espanol
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

Director: Manuel Mur Oti
Cast: Susana Canales, Fernando Rey, Luis Prendes
Country: Spain
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Mar26

Richard Wagner – Rienzi, der letzte der Tribunen / Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes (2010) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray

by movieworld on March 26th, 2018 at 14:20
Posted In: .Other movies, Musical

Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes 2010
Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen (Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes) is an early opera by Richard Wagner in five acts, with the libretto written by the composer after Bulwer-Lytton's novel of the same name (1835). The title is commonly shortened to Rienzi. Written between July 1838 and November 1840, it was first performed at the Hofoper, Dresden on October 20, 1842, and was the composer's first success.

The opera is set in Rome and is based on the life of Cola di Rienzi (1313–1354), a medieval Italian populist figure who succeeds in outwitting and then defeating the nobles and their followers and in raising the power of the people. Magnanimous at first, he is forced by events to crush the nobles' rebellion against the people's power, but popular opinion changes and even the Church, which had urged him to assert himself, turns against him. In the end the populace burns the Capitol, in which Rienzi and a few adherents have made a last stand.

These discs presents a bold re-interpretation of this early opera by Richard Wagner.

Directed by film-music video-opera helmer Philipp Stolzl, the medieval-Italian Rienzi plot has been reconceived as a 1930s' fascist parable, with its hero looking like Mussolini but behaving like Hynkel in Chaplin's 1940 film, The Great Dictator. The production uses what appear to be grainy newsreels to tremendous effect, conveying a charitable public picture of a dictator and his entourage, with banners waving, and much patriotic propaganda. (Ironically, the manuscript score of Rienzi was in Hitler's possession until the end of the war.)

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Mar26

Acht Stunden sind keinTag – Eine Familienserie / Eight Hours are Not a Day: A Family Series / Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (1972) 3 x Blu-Ray Arrow Academy Limited Edition

by movieworld on March 26th, 2018 at 13:41
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Eight Hours Don't Make a Day 1972
The interlocking stories of blue collar workers in 1970s Germany as they confront issues of the day, such as the unfairness of the work power structure, making ends meet and facing Germany's changing social mores.

The five feature-length episodes that aired each had millions of viewers, and their subject matter was fashioned with a wide audience in mind. They take place in Cologne. At the center of the series is the romantic union of a young, skilled factory technician named Jochen (Gottfried John) and a newspaper assistant named Marion (Hanna Schygulla).

3xBD50 | 1080i AVC | 478 minutes | 129 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Deutsch
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Gottfried John, Hanna Schygulla, Luise Ullrich
Country: West Germany
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Mar23

Eclipse Series 43: Agnes Varda in California: Uncle Janco (1967), Black Panthers (1968), Lions Love (… and Lies) (1969), Mur murs (1981), Documenteur (1981) 3 x DVD Criterion Collection

by movieworld on March 23rd, 2018 at 14:44
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Documentary, Drama

Eclipse Series 43: Agnes Varda in California
Agnes Varda is one of the underappreciated voices of the French New Wave. Although arguably Wes Anderson must be a fan because he frequently rips off the flat graphic style she utilized in the opening scene of "Cleo from 5 to 7", she is rarely spoken of in the same breath with the bigger "names" of the movement. Not even in discussions of the work of her husband Jacques Demy. But then again, while both of them value a certain amount of playfulness, they are dramatically different filmmakers. Demy concocted elaborate fantasias and musicals, and Varda sticks largely to realistic storytelling, sometimes making documentaries and even frequently shattering the "reality" of her fictions by letting the fact that she is standing on the other side of the lens with a crew inform how a scene is played.

The new Eclipse collection from Criterion highlights two periods when Varda was away from home, living in California. The first period is the late '60s, which began when Demy went to Hollywood to make Model Shop and the family just stayed in Los Angeles for a few years afterward. The second period was around a decade later, after a documentary project fell through and Varda was separated from Demy.
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Mar23

Buena Vista Social Club (1999) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on March 23rd, 2018 at 13:36
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary, Musical

Buena Vista Social Club 1999 Criterion Collection
Long before current heartthrob Ricky Martin or even Latino star Selena were making waves, a group of talented musicians were creating wonderful music along the shores and in the capital of pre-Castro Cuba. All but since forgotten, many of them, including the likes of singers Ibrahim Ferrer and Omara Portuondo, guitarist Compay Segundo, pianist Ruben Gonzalez and several others were brought together in 1997 by acclaimed producer and musician Ry Cooder to record an album, "The Buena Vista Social Club". Some of the long-lived performers on the recording hadn't played their instruments for more than ten years.

In this relaxed and entertaining documentary directed by Wim Wenders, the same group gathers to record a solo album featuring vocalist Ibrahim Ferrer whom Cooder has lionized as "the Cuban Nat King Cole." Among the colorful musicians profiled are 90-year-old guitarist Compay Segundo gifted pianist Ruben Gonzalez, and versatile singer Manuel Licea. They talk about their childhood and how they came to become musicians.

The high points in the documentary are the highlights of the Buena Vista Social Club performing shows in Amsterdam and at New York's Carnegie Hall in 1998. This delightful film is a tribute to cross-cultural cooperation and the variety of Cuban music.
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