Posts Tagged ‘Biography’

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Sep10

Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Pictures Volume 4: Marihuana (1936), Narcotic (1933), The Seventh Commandment (1932), How to Undress in Front of Your Husband (1937), How to Take a Bath (1937) Blu-Ray

by movieworld on September 10th, 2021 at 22:19
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Crime, Drama

Golden Age of the Exploitation Pictures Volume 4
Dwain Esper was not only one of the most notorious figures of the exploitation genre (due to his ruthless business practices) he was also its greatest stylist. With an utter disregard for the laws of cinematic convention, his low-budget films verge on the avant-garde as they breathlessly wallow in every conceivable moral vice—all in the name of public education, of course.

Marihuana (1936)
Did you know that the use of marihuana is steadily increasing among the youth of the country? Watch what happens as a teenage "pot party" leads to crime, pregnancy, insanity, and even murder in B-film auteur Dwain Esper's shocking expose.

Narcotic (1933)
From filmmaking team Dwain and Hildegarde Esper comes a creaky and freaky look at the dangers of drug addiction. Follow a clean-living medical student on a downward spiral of vice-filled "light-up" parties, opium dens, bordellos, carnival sideshows and, ultimately, death.
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Sep07

Trois places pour le 26 / Three Seats for the 26th (1988) Blu-Ray

by movieworld on September 7th, 2021 at 16:11
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Drama, Musical

Three Seats for the 26th 1988
The great Yves Montand plays the great Yves Montand, a legendary singer and performer, who has just arrived in Marseille where years ago he started his career in the city's night clubs. Now older and famous Montand is getting ready to stage a massive production in the city's beautiful Opera House that will tell his life story.

Montand is accompanied by the American actress Betty Miller (Catriona MacColl), who has been his mistress for years. He likes her, but the only woman he ever truly loved was Mylene Le Goff (Francoise Fabian), a beautiful barmaid he once met in Marseille. Between rehearsals he visits the club where Mylene used to work but quickly realizes that no one seems to remember her.

Meanwhile, in a nearby boutique the young and beautiful Marion (Mathilda May) and her two coworkers can't wait to see Montand singing. She fails to purchase tickets for his show but comes up with a brilliant plan.

Director: Jacques Demy
Cast: Yves Montand, Mathilda May, Patrick Fierry, Francoise Fabian, Jean-Claude Bouillaud, Antoine Bourseiller, Christophe Bourseiller, Geoffrey Carey, Sophie Castel
Country: France
Genre: Musical, Biography, Drama
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Sep01

I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982) DVD5

by movieworld on September 1st, 2021 at 22:33
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Drama

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can 1982
One of today's most gifted and brilliant actresses, Jill Clayburgh, brings her special sensitivity to the role of Barbara Gordon, a successful television documentary producer who became hopelessly dependent on tranquilizers. But this is much more than a story of addiction and withdrawal; it is an examination of the success syndrome that affects the lives of people whose career triumphs are achieved at great personal sacrifice. It is the dramatic and suspenseful story of one woman's survival in a battle for her sanity- and her life. In this urgent quest, she must discover her inner strength, independence, and ability to be truly happy.

Although she's widely forgotten today, Jill Clayburgh was one of the major American actresses of the 70s. She made an under-the-radar comeback in 2001 with the well-received Never Again, but her career as a significant leading lady ended almost two decades earlier.

DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 | 01:46:22 | 4.34 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Biography

Director: Jack Hofsiss
Cast: Jill Clayburgh, Nicol Williamson, Dianne Wiest, Joe Pesci
Country: USA
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Aug30

The Krays (1990) 2 x DVD9 Special Edition, Blu-Ray Second Sight Limited Edition

by movieworld on August 30th, 2021 at 22:14
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Crime, Documentary, Drama, Thriller

The Krays 1990
Director Peter Medak's gritty voyage into the world of organized crime in 1960s London is a disturbing character study of the two most frightening and influential gangsters to ever come out of England, Ronnie and Reggie Kray. They became celebrities of a sort. British professional criminals followed a more genteel tradition until the Krays came along in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Raised by a strong-willed but loving mother, who despite the strength of her personality managed to be completely oblivious to any faults in the little devils she'd spawned, the Kray brothers grew up in an environment always just a bit on the wrong side of the law and on the edge of violence. They evolved from childhood bullies into smalltime thugs by forming their own protection racket through fear and intimidation of the local neighborhood. This led to the ownership of a series of nightclubs that put a legitimate face on their extra-legal activities, and eventually grew into bigger, more audacious crimes and even mob ties to the big organized crime families "across the pond".

Although "The Krays" is based on the notorious London gangsters, the movie does serve as much more than this, with it not just focussing on their criminal and violent dealings, but also their relationship with each other and the important part that their mother played in their life.
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Aug29

Screaming in High Heels: The Rise & Fall of the Scream Queen Era (2011) DVD9

by movieworld on August 29th, 2021 at 19:42
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Documentary, Horror

Screaming in High Heels 2011
When someone thinks of the phrase "Scream Queen", they usually think of people like Jamie Lee Curtis or Janet Lee. Most don't know that the phrase actually refers to three actresses who starred in tons of b-movies throughout the 80s: Linnea Quigley, Michelle Bauer, and Brinke Stevens.

"Screaming in High Heels" covers the era in which these three wonderful actresses were most prominent. Linnea was of course Trash in "The Return of the Living Dead". Brinke was in "The Slumber Party Massacre" as well as being the first cover girl for Femme Fatale magazine back in the day. Michelle Bauer was the female lead in "The Tomb". All three have become friends and appeared in a bunch of films together. Titles included classics like Creepozoids (1987), Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity (1987), Sorority Babes at the Slimeball Bowl-a-Rama (1987), Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988), Nightmare Sisters (1988), Beverly Hills Vamp (1989), Bad Girls from Mars (1990) and Teenage Exorcist (1991), to name but a handful of the more notorious titles.

This doc is a love letter to these three ladies. We see their rise in the business as well as their fall due to video becoming a much different beast in the 90’s than it was in the 80’s. It's sad because these ladies are really good at what they do but were never given the chance to shine in bigger films.
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Aug25

The Complete Films of Agnès Varda: Varda by Agnes (2019), La Pointe Courte (1955), Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), Daguerréotypes (1976), Le Bonheur (Happiness) (1965), Les Créatures (1966), Uncle Yanco (1967), Black Panthers (1968), Mur Murs (1980), Documenteur (1981), One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977), Vagabond (1985), Jane B. par Agnès V. (1988), Kung-Fu Master! (1988), Jacquot de Nantes (1991), One Hundred and One Nights (Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma) (1995), The Gleaners and I (2000), Faces Places (Visages Villages) (2017), Agnès de ci de là Varda (Agnès Varda: From Here to There) (2011), The Beaches of Agnès (Les plages d’Agnès) (2008) 15 x Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on August 25th, 2021 at 20:52
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, History, Romance

The Complete Films of Agnes Varda
Though often overshadowed by her male counterparts, the Belgian-born Greek-French filmmaker was a New Wave innovator who left a vibrant body of work, all of it restored and available in a new collection. All thirty-nine films from the French cinema icon including essential classics, shorts, documentaries, and multimedia works, together for the first time.

A founder of the French New Wave who became an international art-house icon, Agnes Varda was a fiercely independent, restlessly curious visionary whose work was at once personal and passionately committed to the world around her. In an abundant career in which she never stopped expanding the notion of what a movie can be, Varda forged a unique cinematic vocabulary that frequently blurs the boundaries between narrative and documentary, and entwines loving portraits of her friends, her family, and her own inner world with a social consciousness that was closely attuned to the 1960s counterculture, the women's liberation movement, the plight of the poor and socially marginalized, and the ecology of our planet.

As Criterion did with their 2018 box set, Ingmar Bergman's Cinema, they have chosen not to present these films in strict chronological order. Instead, each of the set's 15 discs has a theme. As one progresses through all these discs, the connections between the films -- and not only those that have been included together -- become clearer. This makes Agnes Varda's output feel like one large, multi-part artwork.

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Mar01

Aglaja / Aglaya (2012) DVD9

by movieworld on March 1st, 2021 at 17:50
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Drama

Aglaja 2012
This film is about the relationship of a mother and her daughter, the split-up of their family, the blessing and curse of belonging together and about coming of age - all this from the perspective of the young girl Aglaja. The story is based on real-life events, an Eastern European circus artist family that fled to the West. If they want to stay in the circus business they have to make up an exotic act. The mother spends all their money to buy a very dangerous act: hanging by her hair high up in the dome of the circus while juggling with burning torches. Every night Aglaja is terrified by the fear of losing her mother. As she grows, she observes the members of her refugee family that shatter like glass as they try to make a new life abroad, their interdependence, the joys and tribulations of holding onto one another and their eventual break-up.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:51:55 | 7.93 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Magyar
Subtitles: English

Director: Krisztina Deak
Cast: Eszter Onodi, Babett Javor, Piroska Moga
Country: Hungary, Romania, Poland
Genre: Biography, Drama
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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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