Posts Tagged ‘Biography’

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Feb27

Noble (2014) DVD5

by movieworld on February 27th, 2021 at 20:37
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Drama

Noble 2014
The only news you hear on TV is how our world is turning from bad to ugly, how the kindness and humanity of people disappears leaving only ashes. But how many of us ever heard of Christina Noble, who saved over 700,000 Vietnamese children including the street ones?

As a young girl in Dublin, Christina (Gloria Cramer Curtis) suffered incredible hardships, witnessing the death of her mother and the absence of her father (Liam Cunningham). Left to care for her family, Christina experienced poverty firsthand, relying on her love of singing to keep up the fight. In her teenage years, Christina (Sarah Greene) continued down a path of horror, trying to preserve her sanity through conversations with God as she endured a sexual assault and a troubling marriage. In 1989, satisfying a craving to visit Vietnam, Christina (Deirdre O’Kane) discovers a nation in need, observing local children struggle to survive in a manner familiar to her. Setting out to make a difference, Christina uses her natural moxie to bend the government and persuade oilman Gerry (Brendan Coyle) to help finance shelters, only to discover a deeper evil facing the youth of Vietnam.

Director: Stephen Bradley
Cast: Deirdre O'Kane, Sarah Greene, Gloria Cramer Curtis
Country: UK, Vietnam
Genre: Drama, Biography
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Feb21

Star 80 (1983) DVD5

by movieworld on February 21st, 2021 at 18:27
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Drama

Star 80 1983
The true story of the tragedy of Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten. She was discovered as a teenager in Vancouver by Paul Snider, who became her boyfriend. Snider mailed photos he had taken of her to Playboy, resulting in her being offered to pose as a Playmate and eventually becoming the 1980 Playmate of the Year. As Dorothy’s star started to rise and she was offered film parts, Snider’s various business ventures started to go under and he became increasingly more controlling and jealous of her, culminating in her murder and his suicide.

Star 80 is one genuinely creepy and disturbing movie. This is not a movie for everybody. If you want to see a bubble-headed bimbo bounce around the Playboy mansion, watch The Girls Next Door. If you want to see a movie about obsession and depraved madness that pulls absolutely zero punches, check out Star 80 instead.

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:43:18 | 4.04 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English closed caption

Director: Bob Fosse
Cast: Mariel Hemingway, Eric Roberts, Cliff Robertson
Country: USA, West Germany
Genre: Biography, Drama
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Dec16

Sergeant York (1941) DVD5, DVD9, Blu-Ray

by movieworld on December 16th, 2020 at 15:10
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Drama, History, War

Sergeant York 1941
This is the story of the most decorated American soldier of WWI, but it is much more than just a war picture. The first half of the movie deals with the titular character's life in the rural hills of Tennessee. He is a wild young man that loves to drink, fight and generally raise hell. His mother rules her brood with an iron fist.
Alvin's life begins to change when he meets and falls in love with a young woman named Gracie. He quits drinking and hell raising and begins attending church. When the war comes he is against it and tries to get out of serving by declaring himself a conscientious objector. He is denied C.O. status and gets drafted.
The second half of the movie deals with York's time in the military and the war itself, where he eventually captures 132 German soldiers nearly single-handed. The movie ends with him receiving many awards for bravery including the Distinguished Service Cross and the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Alvin York returns home a triumphant hero!

Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Ward Bond, Noah Beery Jr.
Country: USA
Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War
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Dec11

The Elephant Man (1980) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on December 11th, 2020 at 15:52
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Drama

The Elephant Man 1980
Lynch's Elephant Man tells of the historical figure, John Merrick (real name, Joseph Merrick, played here by John Hurt) whose physical deformities included an enlarged skull, twisted spine, and an unusable right arm. These grotesque deformities found Merrick on display in a circus freak show and mistreated. Doctor Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins) and the actress Mrs. Kendall (Anne Bancroft) would eventually champion Merrick, and the once maligned figure would become lionized in Victorian society.

Lynch’s film is a dreamlike commentary on Victorian society, filmed in beautiful black and white. He uses imagery, often surreal, to draw viewers into the quiet suffering of John Merrick and to reveal that, though Merrick may be hideous on the outside, he as gentle as a lamb on the inside.

The Elephant Man was nominated for eight Academy Awards in 1981, including Best Picture, when it lost to Robert Redford’s Ordinary People.

Director: David Lynch
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft
Country: USA, UK
Genre: Biography, Drama

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Sep29

John Ford at Columbia, 1935-1958: The Whole Town’s Talking (1935), The Long Gray Line (1955), Gideon’s Day / Gideon of Scotland Yard (1958), The Last Hurrah (1958) 4 x Blu-Ray Powerhouse Films Indicator Series Limited Edition

by movieworld on September 29th, 2020 at 13:41
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller

John Ford at Columbia
John Ford is a filmmaker so well known for a handful of genuine classics, most of them westerns, that the fact that he made over 140 films in a wide range of genres over the course of his 60-year career as a director is too rarely acknowledged. Many were made in the silent era, some were documentaries, a few were short films, and the vast majority will probably never be seen by any but the most devoted of Ford fans (even then, many of his silent films have since been lost).

Hoping to remind us of some of these anomalies in Ford’s career, Indicator are releasing a set of largely forgotten gems from the legendary director. The set, dubbed ‘John Ford at Columbia, 1935-1958’, includes the films The Whole Town’s Talking, The Long Gray Line, Gideon’s Day and The Last Hurrah.

The four films in this collection were all directed by Ford during his time working for Columbia Studios, and none of them are westerns – The Whole Town's Talking is a mistaken identity comedy-crime movie; The Long Gray Line is a large scale life story biopic; Gideon's Day is a British character study dressed up as a police procedural; and The Last Hurrah is a drama about an old-school town mayor's final campaign. All are fascinating for varying reasons and all are absolutely worth seeing, and while some will enthusiastically embrace all four, others will find themselves preferring one or two titles over the others.

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Aug31

Pere Portabella – Complete Works (Obra completa) (1967 – 2010) 7 x DVD

by movieworld on August 31st, 2020 at 22:05
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, History

Pere Portabella Complete Works
Pere Portabella's work as producer and director has largely taken place on the margins of the film industry. Although he will not accept the label "underground," he takes pride in the fact that his films have never been "commercial," a word he despises. Following the lead of Jean-Luc Godard and the more radical artists from the nouvelle vague, he experimented with film language, always questioning the classical, linear, straightforward notion of narration and representation. In his own words: "I have always thought that the main political dimension of my films lies in attacking linguistic codes. Ideology impregnates society through the dominant languages. I have never seen myself as working on a film that is 'transparent' of supposedly more 'comprehensible' codes. I understand their tactical function in certain political situations. But what I think has maintained the interest in my films beyond their juncture, is the way in which they are all related, within their contexts, through the complexity, rather than the complication, of language, and a subversion of the dominant codes."

7 x DVD | PAL | 869 min.
Language: Spanish, Catalonian
Subtitles: English, Espanol, Francais

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Jun24

Topsy-Turvy (1999) 2 x DVD and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on June 24th, 2020 at 14:19
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Musical

Topsy-Turvy 1999
Mike Leigh's "Topsy-Turvy" is the work of a man helplessly in love with the theater. In a gloriously entertaining period piece, he tells the story of the genesis, preparation and presentation of a comic opera -- Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado" -- celebrating all the dreaming and hard work, personality conflict and team spirit, inspiration and mundane detail, of every theatrical presentation, however inspired or inept. Every production is completely different, and they are all exactly like this.

Topsy-turvy is not a strictly biographical film. In it facts and fantasy continuously overlap and it is next to impossible to tell where the former end and the latter begin. But it does not matter because Leigh's objective was to reconstruct the atmosphere that preceded the staging of The Mikado, not chronicle the exact events that inspired it. The film succeeds in doing precisely that - it gives one the opportunity to experience the ruthless, chaotic and often bizarre world Gilbert and Sullivan shared.

Director: Mike Leigh
Cast: Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Dexter Fletcher
Country: UK, USA
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Music, Musical

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Apr26

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

by movieworld on April 26th, 2020 at 16:15
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.

Director: James Neilson
Cast: Patrick McGoohan, George Cole, Tony Britton
Country: UK, USA
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Family, Western

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Apr25

Comedian Harmonists / The Harmonists (1997) Blu-Ray

by movieworld on April 25th, 2020 at 12:55
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Drama, Musical, Romance

Comedian Harmonists 1997
"The Harmonists" tells the story of the rise and fall of a vocal group that was wildly popular in Germany before it was disbanded in 1934 as part of the mounting persecution of Jews. The Comedian Harmonists, who did comic and romantic songs in intricate harmony, were popular and beloved. Even members of the Nazi hierarchy were among their fans. But eventually they were forbidden to sing songs by Jewish composers--and finally, because three of their members were Jewish, they were banned from performing in public.

This German film, based on the true story of this legendary vocal ensemble, shows how politics colors everything: no creative soul can ever be apolitical. Joseph Vilsmaier, director of the excellent 'Stalingrad', has crafted a very entertaining film in this at times funny, joyous and very moving picture.
All the songs performed in the film are digitally remastered original recordings of the Comedian Harmonists.

Director: Joseph Vilsmaier
Cast: Ben Becker, Heino Ferch, Ulrich Noethen, Max Tidof
Country: Germany, Austria
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music

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Apr03

The Agnes Varda Collection: La Pointe-Courte / La Pointe Courte (1955), Cleo de 5 a 7 / Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962), Le bonheur / Happiness (1965), L’une chante l’autre pas / One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977), Sans toit ni loi / Vagabond (1985), Jacquot de Nantes (1991), Les glaneurs et la glaneuse / The Gleaners & I (2000), Les plages d’Agnes / The Beaches of Agnes (2008) 8 x Blu-Ray Artificial Eye

by movieworld on April 3rd, 2020 at 13:34
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, History, Romance

The Agnes Varda Collection
Revered for her bold political and autobiographically inspired work, Agnes Varda is a seminal feminist filmmaker and matriarch of the French New Wave.

Her influential career began in the 1950s with La Pointe Courte - often considered the unofficial first film of the New Wave - and continues seven decades later, as in 2017 she became the first female director to be awarded an honorary Oscar.

Revered for her bold political and autobiographically inspired work The Agnes Varda Collection is a selection of her most illuminating narrative features. The Blu-ray box set contains eight discs spanning six decades of Varda’s feature films, over six hours of special features including interviews, featurettes and short films.

8xBD | 1080p AVC | 790 min | 251 + 3% rec
Language: French
Subtitles: English
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Biography, History, Documentary

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