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Feb21

Edition Filmmuseum 99: Liebelei (1933), Lola Montez (1955) 2 x DVD9

by movieworld on February 21st, 2019 at 18:28
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Drama, Romance

Edition Filmmuseum 99
The 2-disc DVD presents the two most beautiful films shot in Germany by Max Ophuls in restored versions. Additionally the DVD set features Martina Muller's highly praised documentary Max Ophuls - Den schonen guten Waren.

Liebelei
The movie, made in 1932 and set in Vienna, 1910, focuses on a touching love affair between a shy singer (Magda Schneider) and a vulnerable young officer (Wolfgang Liebeneiner) whose feelings surface most sensitively despite all his strict military training. Before they met, he was involved with a married baroness. He breaks with his mistress - but although the liaison is over, her husband challenges the young officer to a duel, threatening to end the idyllic romance of Fritz and Christine before it can truly begin.

Max Ophuls' Lola Montes is a beautiful yet tragic film. It tells the story of a famous courtesan who ends up selling kisses in a giant American circus after having shared the beds of some of Europe's wealthiest and most respected men. Amongst them were Hungarian composer Franz Liszt, German composer Richard Wagner and Ludwig I, King of Bavaria.
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Feb01

La passion de Jeanne d’Arc / The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection 2018 Edition, DVD5 Criterion Collection 1999 Edition, 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Eureka (Masters of Cinema)

by movieworld on February 1st, 2019 at 01:36
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Drama, History

La passion de Jeanne d'Arc / The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Jeanne d'Arc (1412-1431), who was granted sainthood by the Roman Catholic Church in 1920, has become a mythic figure in world culture. In particular, her life and martyrdom are central to the French national idea: key elements of this myth include her humble peasant origins in Domremy; the "celestial voices" that inspired her to action; her controversial donning of men's clothes; her courageous military leadership resulting in victory against the English at Orleans in 1429 (the turning point in the Hundred Years' War); and finally her capture by the English, her trial for heresy and her execution at Rouens in 1431. She has since been made the subject of innumerable books, paintings, poems, plays and films.

Carl Theodor Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), one of the most celebrated of all silent films, focuses on the last period of her brief life. The narrative compresses the twenty-nine sessions of the trial into a single day, encompassing Jeanne's examination before the judges, the torments by the guards, her physical torture, her coercion into signing a confession that she later retracted, and finally her burning at the stake.

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cast: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, Andre Berley
Country: France
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Silent

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Nov27

Ziva istina / Real Truth / The Living Truth (1972) DVD9

by movieworld on November 27th, 2018 at 01:46
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Documentary, Drama

Ziva istina 1972
The Living Truth started the career of Bozidarka Frajt, whose performance won the Golden Arena for Best Actress at the 1972 Pula Film Festival. Bozidarka Frajt (playing herself) is an actress who is unsuccessfully looking for a job in Zagreb. The film follows her everyday life: she spends time with her friends and colleagues, shoots a television commercial, goes to a party, remembers her difficult childhood as a war orphan, and contemplates her professional and personal failures.
The film was shot in the first half of 1971, over nine working days, in ultra-low budget conditions. Framing and camera movement were not planned in advance. The Living Truth was characterized as an "unrepresentative depiction of the social scene" and received the permit for public screening only after a lengthy delay. In a 1999 poll among 44 Croatian film critics and film historians, The Living Truth placed 20th in the list of all-time best Croatian films.

DVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 01:16:38 | 4.90 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Hrvatski
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Biography

Director: Tomislav Radic
Cast: Bozidarka Frajt, Ruza Rosoci, Vesna Veselic
Country: Yugoslavia
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Nov20

Song of Love (1947) DVD5

by movieworld on November 20th, 2018 at 02:39
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Drama, Musical, Romance

Song of Love 1947
Fictionalized romance in the 19th century of musicians Clara Wieck Schumann, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms.

Clara Wieck (Katharine Hepburn) is a budding concert pianist, but when she meets composer Robert Schumann (Paul Henreid), she forgets her dreams to marry him. Years later, after the birth of their seven children, Robert dies of illness in a mental institution. While Clara deals with her loss and her newly inherited debts, Johannes Brahms (Robert Walker) reveals that he loves her and offers her a new life as his wife. But Clara still has some unfinished business...

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:58:08 | 4.19 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance

Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Robert Walker
Country: USA
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Nov19

Spartacus: The Complete Series – Season 1: Blood and Sand (2010), Gods of the Arena (2011), Season 2: Vengeance (2012), Season 3: War of the Damned (2013) 12 x DVD

by movieworld on November 19th, 2018 at 22:06
Posted In: .Other movies, Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Spartacus The Complete Series
Betrayed by his country. Beaten into slavery. Reborn as a warrior. "Spartacus" is a graphic and visceral account of Rome's most famous gladiator. When he's separated from the love of his life, Spartacus is forced into the gruesome and bloodthirsty arena, where a grisly death is primetime entertainment. Spartacus must fight for survival, befriend his enemies and play politics in this new world of corruption, violence, sex and fame. He ll be seduced by power and tormented by vengeance. But his passion will give him the strength to prevail over every obstacle, in this modern and uninhibited tale of death, honour and endurance.

The classic tale of Spartacus, the Republic's most infamous rebel comes alive in "Spartacus: Blood and Sand". Then, "Spartacus: Gods of the Arena" will explore its deadly history before the arrival of Spartacus, and the death he carried with him. "Spartacus: Vengeance" continues to follow Spartacus as he is faced with a choice to either satisfy his personal need for vengeance, or make the sacrifices necessary to keep his growing army from breaking apart at the seams. Finally, in "Spartacus: War of the Damned", Spartacus will carve his name into history as he plots to avenge his wife's death and leads Batiatus' slaves in a bloody uprising.
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Nov13

Room and a Half / Poltory komnaty ili Sentimentalnoe puteshestvie na Rodinu / Полторы комнаты, или Сентиментальное путешествие на Родину (2008) DVD9

by movieworld on November 13th, 2018 at 21:47
Posted In: .Russian movies, Biography, Drama

Poltory komnaty 2008
For those who can’t abide conventional biopics, here’s a viable alternative: A Room And A Half, a fantastical, imaginative depiction of the life of Nobel-winning Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, assembled over the better part of a decade by animator Andrey Khrzhanovsky.

Russian-Jewish-American poet, and Nobel Prize Laureate, Joseph Brodsky was expelled from the USSR in 1972. He often fantasized about returning to Mother Russia, specifically his home town of St. Petersburg, the cultural capital. Director and co-writer, Andrey Khrzhanovsky has set off an imagined what-if journey where Brodsky actually made the trek back. By combining fantasy, newsreels (both real and fake), and truly whimsical animation, he almost succeeds in his quest.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 02:04:11 | 5.87 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Biography

Director: Andrey Khrzhanovskiy
Cast: Alisa Freyndlikh, Sergey Yurskiy, Grigoriy Dityatkovskiy
Country: Russia
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Nov13

Pirosmani / Пиросмани (1969) DVD9 RUSCICO, Blu-Ray

by movieworld on November 13th, 2018 at 20:09
Posted In: .Russian movies, Biography, Drama

Pirosmani 1969The film about naive painter Pirosmani was one of Shengelaia’s earlier movies but is nevertheless widely considered among his most important works.
Nikoloz ‘Niko’ Pirosmanishvili was a Georgian painter active around the turn of the 20th century and is considered an important representant of naive art. However, like many artists growing up on the countryside, he was discovered very late and lived a big part of his life in poverty. In Pirosmani, Shengelaia shows the audience the tragic tale of a man who does not find his place in society. At the same time, it is also a movie told through images. In short episodes that are introduced by paintings of Pirosmani, we follow the protagonist walking down from one end of the frame to the other, searching for a place where he is welcome. The protagonist manifests his talent by painting out walls, letterings or paintings that ornament the many restaurants of Tbilissi, Georgia’s capital.

The world that Shengelaia depicts in his movie is over-shadowed by a strong feeling of melancholy. In spite of the fact that most scenes are set in restaurants, wine celllars and at feasts, the audience is exposed to a sad and desolate world that lacks true communication. The protagonist is not following a clear goal; he is searching for understanding that in the end remains uncommunicable. Accepting his fate, we see Pirosmani crouched down in the end of the movie, rejecting the world he was rejected by.
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Nov13

Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict (2015) DVD9

by movieworld on November 13th, 2018 at 15:14
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Documentary, History

Peggy Guggenheim Art Addict 2015
Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) led one of the great uncategorizable 20th-century lives. Poor little rich girl? Sexual libertine? Scandalous memoirist? Parisian emigre? Venetian doyenne? Influential art collector? Even more influential gallery owner? All of the above.
If that weren't enough, her second husband was the painter Max Ernst, and her lovers included Samuel Beckett, Paul Bowles, Constantin Brancusi, and, if only for one night, Jackson Pollock.

Lisa Vreeland's documentary about Peggy Guggenheim not only presents her in (mostly) her own words, but shows that she was an incredibly prescient personality whose life mirrored the same untamable and tortured artists whose work she later fervently championed.

Fashioned from black and white photos and firsthand accounts of her life and work, the real impetus for Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict is the ability to hear Peggy from a series of recordings — taken for a magazine interview conducted shortly before her death in 1979 and originally thought to be lost — in which she drolly muses about her sordid love affairs, personal sadness and love for the modern art she amassed. All of this is weaved together to create a documentary that informs and entertains.
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Nov11

Nick Broomfield – Documenting Icons: Soldier Girls (1981), Chicken Ranch (1983), The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver’s Wife (1991), Tracking Down Maggie: The Unofficial Biography of Margaret Thatcher (1994), Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam (1995), Fetishes (1996) 6 x DVD

by movieworld on November 11th, 2018 at 05:44
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Documentary

Nick Broomfield Documenting Icons
Nick Broomfield is Britain's most acclaimed documentary filmmaker, attracting huge cinema and TV audiences for his work. His investigations into the US sex trade and his hounding of such formidable characters as Maggie Thatcher and the Afrikaner neo-Nazi leader Eugene Terre Blanche have earned international praise and a peerless reputation for investigative filmmaking.

This collection comprises of Broomfield's three classic sex documentaries: Chicken Ranch, Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam, and Fetishes. Plus Soldier Girls (following US Army recruits as they go through basic training), The Leader His Driver And The Driver's Wife, and the infamous Tracking Down Maggie.

6 x DVD | PAL | 524 minutes | 25 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Documentary, Biography

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Nov11

The New World (2005) 4 x DVD9 and 3 x Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on November 11th, 2018 at 02:01
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Drama, History, Romance

The New World 2005 Criterion Collection
Having chiseled his teeth with Badlands, Days of Heaven, and The Thin Red Line -- three divisive films spread over twenty-five years -- Malick turned his attention to the intertwined 17th century stories of English soldier and new world explorer Captain John Smith (Colin Farrell), Powhatan princess and emissary Pocahontas (Q'Orianka Kilcher), and settler and tobacco farmer John Rolfe (Christian Bale). The writer/director's fifth film opens in 1607 as three colonial ships arrive on the shores of a region destined to become Virginia. With a script cobbled together from historical accounts and accepted folklore, Malick introduces a rather unorthodox incarnation of Smith, follows him into the heart of Powhatan territory, details his initial encounters with Pocahontas and her father (August Schellenberg), and documents the period of time Smith spent living with the natives. Sadly, as the European presence stirs up hostility amongst the Powhatan people, violence erupts, pinning Smith and Pocahontas, now lovers, between two enemies...

Criterion's release of The New World contains three very different versions of the film: a newly remastered Extended Cut which is approximately 172 minutes long, First Cut which is approximately 150 minutes long, and Theatrical Cut which is approximately 136 minutes long. There are substantial differences between the three, with the Extended Cut expanding various sequences with brand new footage. The Extended Cut was supervised by director Malick and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki.

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