Jun11

Bridgend (2015) Blu-Ray

by movieworld on June 11th, 2018 at 15:42
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Bridgend 2015
Between 2009 and 2012, a rash of suicides occurred in the county of Bridgend in Wales. About 79 people killed themselves, most of them teenagers. Danish documentary filmmaker Jeppe Ronde uses this real-life event as the basis for a haunting, ethereal film that offers clues and theories but ultimately no explanations for this tragic phenomenon. Bridgend is Ronde's fiction film debut. It is entirely shot on location in Wales, with many of the local teenagers casted as actors.

Sarah (Hannah Murray) arrives in town with her detective father Dave (Steven Waddington). He has been hired to investigate these suicides, all of which seem to be staged so the parents are the first ones to discover their child. Sarah starts off protective of her widowed father, but as she meets the fellow teens of the town, she is drawn in by their closeness, their strange rituals, and their intensity. One sensitive boy in particular, Jamie (Josh O’Connor), catches her eye. Before long, Sarah joins the teens in tromping nightly through the woods, partying at a lake, drinking, skinny-dipping, play-fighting, and screaming the names of the recently dead at the top of their lungs in a sort of tribute. Hannah’s loneliness abates as she is slowly accepted by the group. Her father, however, becomes understandably concerned as the suicides have not abated and he seems powerless to stop them.
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Jun07

Midnight Cowboy (1969) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection, Blu-Ray 20th Century Fox

by movieworld on June 7th, 2018 at 17:19
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Midnight Cowboy 1969
1969 was an interesting turning point in American cinema and no film better reflects that than Midnight Cowboy. Not only was it the first X-rated film to win the Best Picture Oscar but it presented a view of New York City that was the most bleak and depressing portrait since Ray Milland hit every seedy Manhattan bar in The Lost Weekend (1945). While more traditional Hollywood films like Hello, Dolly!, Anne of the Thousand Days and True Grit were well represented at the 1969 Academy Awards ceremony, it was obvious that the counterculture movement of the sixties had finally made an impact on mainstream cinema with major nominations that year going to Midnight Cowboy, Last Summer, Alice's Restaurant, Easy Rider and Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice - films that ushered in a new permissiveness in dealing with sex on-screen.

Midnight Cowboy was easily the most provocative of the lot. It's a tale of urban alienation and human need, expressed through two social outcasts. The main character, Joe Buck, is a hopelessly naive Texan who leaves his dishwashing job and catches a bus to New York City where he plans to hustle wealthy women for sex and money. Once he arrives in Manhattan, he is quickly fleeced by Ratso Rizzo, a slightly crippled two-bit con artist. Yet, despite their initial conflagration the two men develop a supportive relationship with Ratso playing pimp to Buck's male prostitute. The irony is that Buck's macho cowboy getup mainly attracts homosexuals and not the clientele he originally envisioned.
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Jun07

Lost in America (1985) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on June 7th, 2018 at 15:32
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Lost in America 1985 Criterion Collection
The film begins in sunny Los Angeles where successful advertising executive David Howard (Brooks) and his wife Linda (Julie Hagerty) are on the verge of relocating to a much bigger and more expensive home, even though they are both secretly dreaming of living a life on the road, a lot like the main characters in one of their all-time favorite films, Easy Rider. So they are visibly tense and occasionally even openly blame each other for not being brave enough to follow their hearts. On the day when David is supposed to get the crucial promotion that would make the purchase of their new home possible, however, things go terribly wrong and he gets fired. Barely able to contain his anger, David then rushes into Linda's office and with a short but very passionate speech convinces her to quit her miserable job. A few days later the two sell all of their possessions, then combine their financial assets, buy a Winnebago and hit the road. For the first time in years David and Linda feel truly free and even blessed that they have been able to escape the corporate world. But when Linda foolishly loses all of their savings in a casino in Las Vegas, their American Dream very quickly evolves into an American Nightmare.

Director: Albert Brooks
Cast: Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty, Sylvia Farrel
Country: USA
Genre: Comedy
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Jun06

Bacalaureat / Graduation (2016) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection, DVD9, Blu-Ray

by movieworld on June 6th, 2018 at 16:40
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Bacalaureat / Graduation (2016) DVD9
Graduation tells the story of Romeo Aldea (Titieni), a physician living in a small mountain town in Transylvania, has raised his daughter Eliza (Dragus) with the idea that once she turns 18, she will leave to study and live abroad. His plan is close to succeeding - Eliza has won a scholarship to study psychology in the UK. She just has to pass her final exams – a formality for such a good student. On the day before her first written exam, Eliza is assaulted in an attack that could jeopardize her entire future.

The film follows Romeo's efforts to make sure Eliza gets the high marks she needs. His position as a chief doctor in the city's hospital gives him the power to exchange "favours", and as soon as he gets one, he owes one. These commitments start to agitate his professional prestige and an already fragile family structure.

Director: Cristian Mungiu
Cast: Adrian Titieni, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Rares Andrici, Malina Manovici, Vlad Ivanov, Ioachim Ciobanu
Country: Romania, France, Belgium
Genre: Drama
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Jun06

Election (1999) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on June 6th, 2018 at 16:34
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Election 1999 Criterion Collection
This snappy and fast-paced film is set in Omaha, Nebraska, where Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) is running for the presidency of the student council at George Washington Carver High. This overachiever feels superior to everyone else and firmly believes she is entitled to success because she works so hard at being a winner. She strives to be every teacher's pet, but one of them, history and civics teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick), is not at all charmed. He watched Tracy walk away unscathed after she had an affair with his best friend and colleague, who subsequently lost his job and his wife.
McAllister decides to stop Tracy now. He recruits Paul (Chris Klein), a dim-witted but good-hearted football star, to run against her in the election. A wild card in the race is the entry of Tammy (Jessica Campbell), Paul's lesbian sister. She is miffed because her former lover has become Paul's girlfriend. A rebel at heart, Tammy runs on a platform of abolishing student government altogether, a position that wins amazing support from the other students.

Director: Alexander Payne
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein, Jessica Campbell
Country: USA
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Jun06

Dead Man (1995) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on June 6th, 2018 at 16:04
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Western

Dead Man 1995 Criterion Collection
The films of Jim Jarmusch are generally multi-layered reflections of differing aspects of humanity. His films have a subtle and gentle humour that seem to ride well with his philosophical tales and poetic visions. The deliberate pacing and ambiguity of his films are generally not embraced by mainstream audiences, but are devoured by lovers of arthouse cinema.

The fact that Jarmusch had ventured into the western genre surprised many in 1995, with the release of Dead Man, although upon viewing the film, you realise quickly that Dead Man is much more than a simple stereotypical western. This tragic tale of a young man's decent into personal oblivion is rich in black humour, visually stunning and is highly intelligent filmmaking.

Johnny Depp plays William Blake, a Cleveland accountant who arrives in a frontier town ready to start a new life only to find out that the job he was promised has been given to another man.

While he is spending the night with a woman, her lover shows up and kills her. In self defense, Blake shoots the man and flees with a bullet in his chest. Nobody (Gary Farmer), an outcast Native American who was educated in England, looks after Blake and dispenses his spiritual vision of life. They have to elude various lawmen and bounty hunters who are on his trail.

Nobody is convinced that Blake is the reincarnation of the famous English poet and sees it as his mission to usher him back to the spirit world.

Neil Young's electric guitar score punctuates this imaginative Western which includes interesting meditations upon the myth of the frontier, violence, artistic outlaws, and the plight of mistreated Native Americans. Blake's arduous journey toward death is a wonder to behold.
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Jun06

Sanma no aji / An Autumn Afternoon (1962), Kaze no naka no mendori / A Hen in the Wind (1948) DVD9 and Blu-Ray British Film Institute

by movieworld on June 6th, 2018 at 15:42
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An Autumn Afternoon 1962
Yasujiro Ozu's last film, An Autumn Afternoon, tells the story of a middle-class Japanese family facing a difficult dilemma.
It is a mature film populated by mature characters; children, so often the source of cuteness and comedy in Ozu's filmography, are nowhere to be seen. Meanwhile the plotting revolves around and arguably collates many of the director's familiar themes and devices: the relationships between family members, particularly parents and their children; the unmarried daughter as cause for the father's concern; the fear of loneliness inherent in the life of singleton or single parent.

A Hen in the Wind (1948) - this early Yasujiro Ozu's film tells the story of a soldier who returns home after the end of WW2 and discovers that his wife, a dressmaker, has had to sleep with another man for money to make ends meet.

BD25 + DVD9 | 1080p AVC, PAL | 01:52:44 | 21.9 Gb + 7.59 Gb
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English

Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Country: Japan
Genre: Drama
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Jun06

Sanma no aji / An Autumn Afternoon (1962) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on June 6th, 2018 at 15:33
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An Autumn Afternoon 1962 Criterion Collection
Yasujiro Ozu died of cancer in December 1963, leaving behind one of the most extraordinary bodies of work any filmmaker has ever produced. Beginning with his silent films of the late '20s, Ozu produced a film virtually every single year until his death with the understandable exception of the mid-'40s.

An Autumn Afternoon is primarily about the Hirayama family, but Ozu also takes the time to look at some of the lives in their extended circle.

The father Shuhei (Chishu Ryu) is a widower living with his son Kazuo (Shinichiro Mikami) and his daughter Michiko (Shima Iwashita). Michiko is 24 years old, an age where, according to Hirayama’s old school friends, she ought to be looking for a husband. Michiko however has not considered leaving her father so soon, concerned about how he and her brother will manage for themselves. Hirayama’s other son, Koichi (Keiji Sada), is married to Akiko (Mariko Okada). Like the other males in his family, he seems to be untroubled by the realities of the world, looking to buy a set of expensive second-hand golf clubs that he cannot afford, while his wife is crying out for a new fridge.

When the old school friends gather for a reunion, they are reacquainted with an old schoolteacher of theirs known as the Gourd (Eijiro Tono). A man they once respected, the elderly gentleman now works in a noodle shop, drinks heavily and is largely dependent on his unmarried daughter who lives with him. The situation strikes Hirayama with fear for his own daughter being placed in a similar position – he is seen throughout the film increasingly turning to drink himself - and he is determined to see that Michiko should be married as soon as possible...

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