Posts Tagged ‘Biography’

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Mar27

Il vangelo secondo Matteo / The Gospel According to Matthew (1964) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Eureka! Masters of Cinema

by movieworld on March 27th, 2018 at 13:52
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Drama, History


The Gospel According to Matthew tells the story of the birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Pasolini's film skims over the Nativity and other earlier segments, focussing mainly on Jesus' life as an adult.

Pasolini tells the story of Jesus with a cast of amateurs, including Enrique Irazoqui in the pivotal role, from birth straight through to his resurrection and, in his own way, somehow distills his own atheistic views down in a manner that comes across as pure religiosity. By using only small phrases and Christ’s own parables from Matthew he turns the story into one of a radical, anti-establishment leader entreating his followers to rise up against an oppressive (read: Romans) and corrupt (read: the established Jewish leaders) regime, not for his own glory, but for that of his father, God.

BD50 + DVD9 | 1080p AVC, NTSC | 02:17:09 | 44.7 Gb + 7.49 Gb
Language: Italiano
Subtitles: English
Genre: Biography, Drama, History

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast: Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini
Country: Italy, France
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Feb13

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on February 13th, 2018 at 17:00
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Drama

Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 Criterion Collection
Henry Fonda's best-known performance as a legendary historical character in a John Ford film is, of course, as Wyatt Earp in My Darling Clementine. Yet Fonda was more aptly cast, and gives a more vivid performance, five years earlier in their lesser-known first collaboration, Young Mr. Lincoln.

John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln feels like a forgotten parable that's been rediscovered by historians, though it pulses with modern reverberations. The 1939 film chronicles 10 years in the life of Abraham Lincoln (Henry Fonda), long before he became president of the United States and led the country out of cataclysmic civil war. This Lincoln is just a “jackleg lawyer,” to use his own words, who's attempting to establish himself as an attorney in Springfield, Illinois in the 1830s. And Ford takes enormous pleasure in the notion of an authentic American legend finding his groove and collecting a variety of folkloric signifiers: If this film were to be remade for our contemporary age of prequels, it might be called Lincoln Begins.

Director: John Ford
Cast: Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver, Arleen Whelan
Country: USA
Genre: Biography, Drama
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Jan31

The Great Debaters (2007) Blu-Ray

by movieworld on January 31st, 2018 at 15:22
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Drama, Romance

The Great Debaters 2007
The movie, which is based on a true story takes place on the campus of Wiley College – a small, all-black university located in Texas – during 1935. It is a segregated community, and Negroes are in danger when traveling alone.

A professor at Wiley College, Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington) was a fiery soul who challenged his gifted students by forming a debate squad looking to take on all comers. Selecting a group of his brightest undergraduates (including Jurnee Smollett, Denzel Whitaker, and Nate Parker), Tolson takes his squad around the country, coaching the debate newcomers to frequent victory. With racial tension boiling over, Tolson's dangerous side work as a sharecropper union organizer (and alleged communist), and the students' own conflicts of the heart and home (embodied by Forest Whitaker), the squad must place their differences aside and prepare for the ultimate test: a debate with Harvard, broadcast nationwide on the radio.

Director: Denzel Washington
Cast: Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Kimberly Elise
Country: USA
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
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Jan31

The Entity (1982) Blu-Ray Eureka Classics

by movieworld on January 31st, 2018 at 12:42
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Drama, Horror

The Entity 1982
The year 1982 is widely regarded as a benchmark for sci-fi and fantasy films, with The Thing, E.T., Blade Runner and Poltergeist being some of the classics being released. While not quite in the same league as these films, The Entity is another of that year’s films that reflects well on the genre. Adapted by screenwriter Frank De Felitta from his own novel, based on a supposed true story of a Californian mother who endured repeated sexual abuse at the hands of a ghost, Barbara Hershey plays Carla Moran.

One night while in her bedroom, Carla is attacked by an unseen presence which pins her to her bed and rapes her. After the ordeal is over, neither herself nor her teenage son, Billy (David Labiosa), can find any trace of an intruder. Later that night, objects begin to fly around her room of their own accord and Carla flees the house with her three children. The next day events take a more sinister turn, as the entity takes control of Carla’s car and attempts to run her off the road. At the end of her tether, Carla seeks help from psychiatrist, Dr Scheiderman (Ron Silver), however he is sceptical thinking it could be a case of hysteria or a manifestation of childhood sexual trauma...

Director: Sidney J. Furie
Cast: Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, David Labiosa
Country: USA
Genre: Biography, Drama, Horror
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Jan07

General Idi Amin Dada: Autoportrait / General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait (1974) DVD5, Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on January 7th, 2018 at 14:45
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Documentary, War

General Idi Amin Dada 1974 Criterion Collection
A revelatory tug-of-war between subject and filmmaker, General Idi Amin Dada: A Self-Portrait is a landmark in the art of documentary and an appalling study of egotism in power.

We know that thousands of Ugandans have been executed under his reign. We know that the nation's entire Asian community was stripped of its possessions and deported. We remember Entebbe. And yet here he is playing a concertina at a hotel dance, and lecturing the nation's doctors against drunkenness, and there's a sort of charismatic charm. The film was directed by a French citizen, Barbet Schroeder (whose credits as a producer include all six of Eric Rohmer's "moral tales" which consider human personalities radically removed from Amin's). Schroeder and his crew, including the great European cameraman Nestor Alamendros, went to Uganda in 1974 with a simple offer: Would Amin like to "direct" himself in a documentary? He would, and he does, and the result is revealing and chilling.

Director: Barbet Schroeder
Cast: Idi Amin, Fidel Castro, Golda Meir
Country: Switzerland, France
Genre: Documentary, Biography, War

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Dec25

Bill Douglas Trilogy: My Childhood (1972), My Ain Folk (1973), My Way Home (1978) 2 x DVD and Blu-Ray

by movieworld on December 25th, 2017 at 15:36
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Drama

Bill Douglas Trilogy: My Childhood (1972), My Ain Folk (1973), My Way Home (1978) DVD9 + DVD5
Bill Douglas was a Scottish filmmaker of high regard and low output; his brief career produced a trilogy of short films and one feature release. Facets' The Bill Douglas Trilogy contains his critically celebrated autobiographical films My Childhood, My Ain Folk and My Way Home.

The narrative is largely autobiographical, following Jamie (played with heart-breaking conviction by Stephen Archibald) as he grows up in a poverty-stricken mining village in post-war Scotland. In these brutal surroundings, and subject to hardship and rejection, Jamie learns to fend for himself. We see him grow from child to adolescent - angry and bewildered, but playful, creative and affectionate.

BD50 + 2xDVD | 1080p AVC, PAL | 00:44:34 + 00:52:56 + 01:08:46
44.9 Gb + 7.47 Gb + 4.11 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Director: Bill Douglas
Actors: Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Paul Kermack, Gerald James
Country: UK
Genre: Biography, Drama
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Dec14

In Search of Shakespeare (2004) 2 x DVD

by movieworld on December 14th, 2017 at 21:19
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Documentary, History

In Search of Shakespeare 2004
In Search of Shakespeare is a four part series exploring the life of the world's greatest and most famous writer. It takes the form of a detective story, a documentary search, and a journey not the style of historical TV shows that use re-enactments and tableaux. There is no one dressed up as Will Shakespeare or Queen Elizabeth! Instead the Royal Shakespeare Company gives a group of Britain's best young actors and actresses the chance to go on tje road and play in the places where his company played. Shot documentary style, on and off stage, the successors of Shakespeare's company give us a magical glimpse into how it was done playing scenes from all Shakespeare's great shows in Tudor Guildhalls, Royal Palaces like Hampton Court, and even in broad daylight. But the core of the series is a biography. The story of one Elizabethan, his life, family and friendships, his triumphs and disasters, his loves and his losses.

DVD9 + DVD5 | NTSC 16:9 | 240 min | 6.77 Gb + 4.26 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English (closed captions)
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History

Director: David Wallace
Cast: Michael Wood, Gregory Doran, Ray Fearon
Country: UK
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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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Apr18

Ludwig (1973) 2 x Blu-Ray Arrow Academy Limited Edition

by movieworld on April 18th, 2017 at 11:37
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Drama, History

Ludwig 1973
Luchino Visconti's film Ludwig is an example of a biopic done as an epic, a grand and opulent study of the life of the 19th-century "mad kind of Bavaria," Ludwig II.

The story behind Ludwig is a rather tragic one. A young man becomes king of Bavaria, providing him with the freedom to explore his love of art, music and young men in a decadent lifestyle that ultimately leads to his downfall.

The director was able to withstand the urge to convey Ludwig as a simple crazy regent, and instead delve deep within the mystique and draw out the complex historical character. He is never portrayed in the film as being crazy, but overly passionate regarding architecture and music.

2 x BD50 | 1080p AVC | 238 min | 87.4 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Italian
Subtitles: English
Genre: Biography, Drama, History

Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Helmut Berger, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard, Silvana Mangano, John Moulder-Brown, Gert Frobe
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
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Apr17

Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015) DVD9, Blu-Ray

by movieworld on April 17th, 2017 at 21:45
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Comedy, Romance

Eisenstein in Guanajuato 2015
Director Peter Greenaway - a lifelong admirer of Sergei Eisenstein - mischievously opts to depict the revolutionary Russian film-maker at the most vulnerable point in his meteoric career, in this challenging treatise on art, faith, sexual identity and mortality.

In Mexico in 1931 after a frustrating spell in Hollywood, Eisenstein (played by Finnish actor Elmer Back) is struggling to make Que Viva Mexico!, a film about the local cult of the dead. However, the 33-year-old gets a new burst of creative energy after he loses his virginity to academic-cum-guide Palomino Canedo.

Peter Greenaway's film explores the mind of a creative genius facing the desires and fears of love, sex and death through ten passionate days that helped shape the rest of the career of one of the greatest masters of Cinema.

Director: Peter Greenaway
Cast: Elmer Back, Luis Alberti, Maya Zapata
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Mexico, France
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Romance
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