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Sep20

Carl Theodor Dreyer Box Set: Vredens dag / Day of Wrath (1943), Ordet (1955), Gertrud (1964), Carl Th. Dreyer: Min metier / Carl Th. Dreyer: My Metier (1995) 4 x DVD9 Criterion Collection

by movieworld on September 20th, 2018 at 16:16
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Documentary, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Romance

Carl Theodor Dreyer Box Set Criterion CollectionWhen asked to describe his work, Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer said that film should present "truth filtered through an artist's mind, truth liberated from unnecessary detail." This collection of Dreyer's three major sound features demonstrates the director's rigorous commitment to that idea.

Day of Wrath -- filmed during the Nazi occupation of Denmark -- is set in a 17th-century village where the fear of witchcraft and the repression of human passions lead to tragedy. Ordet is considered by many to be Dreyer's masterpiece. This complex family drama is both moving and challenging, and the ending is one of cinema's greatest moments. Gertrud tells the story of a woman's search for fulfillment. Nina Pens Rode gives an extraordinary performance, heightened by Dreyer's peerless pacing and composition.

Accompanying the three films is a documentary by Torben Skjodt Jensen. Interviews with Dreyer's collaborators provide the backbone of My Metier, but it is Jensen's visual approach -- building layered images from photographs, manuscripts, and film clips -- that explores and responds to Dreyer's movies in subtle but powerful ways. Instead of a succession of talking heads and illustrative excerpts, Jensen offers an impressionistic portrait of Dreyer in a documentary that is often as beautiful as its subject's own work.
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Sep19

Walt Disney Treasures: Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow Of Romney Marsh (1963), Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow (1963) 2 x DVD9

by movieworld on September 19th, 2018 at 22:38
Posted In: .Other movies, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Western

Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow Of Romney Marsh 1963
Grandly produced in England, this three-part miniseries is "a story of high adventure and heart," as Walt Disney states in his folksy and avuncular episode introductions.

By day The Scarecrow (Patrick McGoohan, known at the time for his iconic role as John Drake on Danger Man) is Dr. Syn, a well respected preacher in Romney Marsh who helps his people by raising their spirits, but by night he becomes “The Scarecrow” who takes from the king to give to the poor residents of Romney Marsh, or simply helps to smuggle goods to evade the king’s taxation. In these adventures Dr. Syn helps to hide some men who would be captured and tried under sedition for trying to evade the King’s taxation, as well as an American who talks of freedom for the colonies.

This set collects all three one-hour episodes of Walt Disney’s television adventure as well as the celebrated feature-film version in one package. Both versions are a treasure to watch, and the film itself is considered one of Disney's greatest TV movie triumphs.

2 x DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 | 02:31:07 + 01:37:59 | 6.81 Gb + 4.58 Gb
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Family, Western

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Sep19

Das Madchen Johanna / Joan of Arc / Joan the Maid (1935) DVD5

by movieworld on September 19th, 2018 at 16:41
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Drama, History

Das Madchen Johanna 1935
The story of Joan of Arc has been filmed so often that it need not be repeated here. This 1935 version a very effective film which focuses much more on the intrigues of the men around Joan than on the girl herself, who gets surprisingly little screentime. Heinrich George's Duke of Burgundy is almost a buffo character in his arrogance and lecherousness. And Jeanne in her naivity admires the king and doesn't see through his Machiavellian schemes which in the end lead to her death.

"Das Madchen Johanna" was intended at least partly as a Third Reich propaganda film which shows both the French and the English as morally corrupt and conversely at least implicitly turns the Maid into a national 'leader' figure, German style.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:17:39 | 3.99 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Deutsch
Subtitles: English
Genre: Biography, Drama, History

Director: Gustav Ucicky
Cast: Angela Salloker, Gustaf Grundgens, Heinrich George
Country: Germany
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Sep19

Cromwell (1970) DVD9, Blu-Ray

by movieworld on September 19th, 2018 at 16:31
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Drama, History, War

Cromwell 1970
England has long been known for its epic films especially those involving well, English things.

"Cromwell" is an excellent historical spectacle movie, the kind of lavishly mounted picture that film observers keep saying are gone forever because of the high costs of making them.

Having grown tired of seeing the country he loves destroyed by the whims and policies of King Charles I (Alec Guinness), Oliver Cromwell (Richard Harris) is planning on leaving the country with his family for the New World. But Cromwell's mind is changed and decides to stay behind to mount a campaign against the monarchy and those who care more for their own pocket and glory than for the commoner. As Cromwell's campaign gains speed it leads to King Charles I to rise up from his security to tackle the challenge to his position...

Director: Ken Hughes
Cast: Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Dorothy Tutin, Frank Finlay, Timothy Dalton, Patrick Wymark, Patrick Magee, Nigel Stock, Charles Gray, Michael Jayston
Country: UK, USA
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
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Sep18

Il capo dei capi / The Boss of the Bosses / Corleone (2007) 6 x DVD9 The Complete Series

by movieworld on September 18th, 2018 at 09:42
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Crime, Drama

Corleone 2007
'Corleone' narrates the life of Salvatore 'Toto' Riina between 1943 and 1993. From a difficult adolescence to his rise to power within Cosa Nostra , passing via the many bloody episodes which saw his ascent.

A story which starts when, as an adolescent, the future boss powerlessly witnesses the death of his father and younger brother in the explosion of a bomb leftover from the war. From that moment on, he becomes the head of the family and will have to fight poverty. He creates a small group of extremely trusted followers with Provenzano and Bagarella, he joins up with the most powerful criminals of Corleone who climbs the ladder towards mafia power, first dominating Corleone then Palermo.

These are extremely bloody events which see the conquering of power by means of unprecedented violence and hundreds of deaths. Only a childhood friend, Biagio Schiro, chooses another destiny, that of becoming a police officer and undertaking the mission of routing his ex-companion in an extremely delicate role which will make him persecutor and pursued and will lead him to run enormous risks.

'Corleone' is also the story of Riina s great enemies, the martyrs who have fought the mafia to extreme consequences, from the head of Police Mangano, to Boris Giuliano, the general Dalla Chiesa, the judges Terranova, Costa, Falcone and Borsellino, and the group of Captain Ultimo who, on January 15, 1993, will succeed in finding and arresting Toto Riina.
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Sep14

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Blu-Ray Svensk Filmindustri

by movieworld on September 14th, 2018 at 14:02
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Crime, Drama, Western

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969
The plot of the film is loosely based on the real life characters of Robert Leroy Parker a.k.a. Butch Cassidy (played by Paul Newman) and Henry Longabaugh a.k.a. Sundance Kid (played by Robert Redford), two outlaws whose "Hole in the Wall" gang used to terrorise American West in late 1890s. Butch is brain and the leader of the gang, while mostly silent Sundance is good only with his guns. Two of them are nevertheless good team, but all their skills can't save them from changes in the West that would make their way of life impossible. Railroads and telegraphs are everywhere, banks and trains are better protected, and, finally, authorities can afford to have the team of the most experienced lawmen and bounty hunters, specially assembled to hunt down Butch and Sundance - bandits who just happen to be the last of their kind...

BD50 | 1080p MPEG-2 | 01:50:26 | 36.8 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English, Svenska, Suomi, Norsk, Dansk

Director: George Roy Hill
Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
Country: USA
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Western
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Sep14

Byron, i balada enos daimonismenou / Byron, Ballad for a Daemon (1992) DVD9

by movieworld on September 14th, 2018 at 13:43
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Drama

Byron Ballad for a Daemon 1992
January 1824. Lord Byron arrives in Messolonghi, a small town on the west coast of Greece to be greeted as a Messiah by the Greeks who are in rebellion against the powerful Ottoman Empire. Exiled from his own country, ostracized by society for his erotic adventures, tired of a futile life in London salons, Byron is ready to throw himself into the battle and die like a hero out of Homer. But in this devastated land he finds only... mud, mosquitoes and the anticipation of war. The Greeks make him a general of an army of peasants, wanderers, mercenaries and adventurers. The general prepares his army for a battle that never takes place. Still, driven by the beautiful ancient myths of Greece and the Greeks, Byron is determined to give his last performance. In the chaos of revolution, racked by fever, by the ghosts of his past and by his love for the young Greek Lukas, the poet descends into his hell-defying destiny as it approaches.

DVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 02:11:30 | 7.54 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: Greek
Genre: Biography, Drama

Director: Nikos Koundouros
Cast: Manos Vakousis, Vera Sotnikova, Vasilis Laggos, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Igor Yasulovich
Country: Greece, Russia
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Sep14

Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari / The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Von Caligari zu Hitler: Das deutsche Kino im Zeitalter der Massen / From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses (2014) 2 x Blu-Ray Eureka – Masters of Cinema Limited Edition

by movieworld on September 14th, 2018 at 12:13
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Documentary, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, History, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari 1920 Masters of Cinema Limited Edition
One of the most iconic masterpieces in cinema history, Robert Wiene's Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari shook filmgoers worldwide and changed the direction of the art form. Now presented in a definitive restoration, the film's chilling, radically expressionist vision is set to grip viewers again.

The deceptively straightforward story is set in the hamlet of Holstenwall. A sinister mountebank called Dr. Caligari obtains permission to exhibit his somnambulist Cesare (Conrad Veidt) at a fun fair. Artists and poets Francis and Alan (Friedrich Feher & Hans Heinrich von Twardowski) attend, and watch Caligari exhibit the zombie-like sleeping Cesare in an upright box resembling a coffin. Cesare tells Alan that he won't live until dawn. Sure enough, Alan is stabbed to death in his bed, as others have been recently...

The Masters of Cinema Limited Edition Steelbook also includes the 2014 documentary "From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses", exploring the social and cultural impact of German Cinema during the Weimar Republic (1918-1933).

2 x BD50 | 1080p AVC | 01:17:17 + 01:58:23 | 66.6 Gb
Language: Deutsch intertitles
Subtitles: English

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Sep13

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974), Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron (1993) 2 x Blu-Ray Arrow Video Limited Edition

by movieworld on September 13th, 2018 at 02:50
Posted In: .Other movies, Action, Biography, Crime, Documentary, Drama, Thriller, Western

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 1974 Arrow Video Limited Edition
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia concluded a remarkable period for filmmaker Sam Peckinpah. It brought to an end a seven-year and seven-film run of masterpieces that included the taboo-breaking ultra-violence of The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs, and the more elegiac tones of The Ballad of Cable Hogue and Junior Bonner. A love story that plays out in a brutal environment, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia sits somewhere between these moods and may just be Bloody Sam’s greatest work, as well as his most autobiographical.

The film centers on Bennie (Warren Oates, The Wild Bunch), a retired U.S. Army Officer who now works as a piano player and saloon manager in Mexico City. One day, Bennie encounters a pair of well-dressed Americans who are looking for a man named Alfredo Garcia. It seems this Garcia impregnated the daughter of a wealthy Mexican crime lord, and now has a large bounty on his head. Bennie pays a visit to Garcia's girlfriend – a prostitute named Elita (Isela Vega, The Yellow Rose) – and learns that Garcia died in a car accident a few days earlier. Recognizing an opportunity to make a little money and improve his status in life, Bennie strikes a deal with the Americans: $10,000 in exchange for Alfredo Garcia’s head.

The task seems easy enough: join Elita on a road trip to visit Garcia’s grave, dig up the body, retrieve the head and collect the money. Alas, this is a Peckinpah movie, so it won't be quite that simple. The journey is filled with betrayals, violent encounters and unexpected moments of emotional conflict, slowly evolving from a simple mission into a fight for survival into a bizarre journey of soul-searching.

Limited Edition also includes:
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron – The Director's Cut, A brand-new, extended version of Paul Joyce’s documentary, containing more than TEN HOURS of previously unseen interview footage, featuring actors RG Armstrong, James Coburn, LQ Jones, Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw and Jason Robards, director Monte Hellman, producers Michael Deeley and Daniel Melnick, writers Alan Sharp and Jim Silke, writer-producer Gordon Dawson, assistant Katherine Haber, editor Garth Craven, satirist Mort Sahl, property master Bob Visciglia, bar owner Tom Runyon and cousin Bob Peckinpah, plus newly-shot interviews with Joyce, Haber and actor David Warner.
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Sep12

Der Baader Meinhof Komplex / The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) DVD9

by movieworld on September 12th, 2018 at 11:28
Posted In: .Other movies, Action, Biography, Crime, Drama

The Baader Meinhof Complex 2008
De-romanticize Bonnie and Clyde, add Che's radical philosophizing, toss in the verite docudrama of Battle of Algiers, and then, for good measure, mix it all with the prison ward bleakness of Steve McQueen's Hunger, and you have The Baader Meinhof Complex, a terrific socio-political thriller that reenacts the rise and fall of the Red Army Faction, an extreme left wing "urban guerilla" group that terrorized West Germany in the 1970s.

This is an gripping but dispassionate account of the violent left-wing militant group led by Andreas Baader (Moritz Bleibtreu), Ulrike Meinhof (Martina Gedeck) and Gudrun Ensslin (Johanna Wokalek). Painstakingly accurate, down to the number of bullets fired in the gang’s raids (it’s based on the authoritative book by Stefan Aust), the movie perfectly captures the mood of the era – and provides ample food for thought for today’s War on Terror.

DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 | 02:29:33 | 7.52 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Deutsch
Subtitles: English
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama

Director: Uli Edel
Cast: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek
Country: Germany, France, Czech Republic
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