Posts Tagged ‘Blu-ray’

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May02

Show Boat (1936) Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on May 2nd, 2020 at 17:50
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance

Show Boat 1936
Credited as the Broadway musical that shifted the form away from frivolous comedies to dramatic plays, Show Boat is based on Edna Ferber’s popular multi-generational novel about the fortunes of a river-going entertainment troupe.

Covering a time period from about the 1890s to the 1920s, the story follows the life of Magnolia Hawks-Ravenal (Irene Dunne), the daughter of a Show Boat captain. (A Show Boat was a paddle-wheeler that traveled the Mississippi River, putting on stage shows and advertising in each town with a parade like those of old-time circuses.) Her mother has always forbidden her from acting in the stage shows; but when the leading couple are forced out of the troupe by a local sheriff because the lady is a mixed-race person posing as white, Magnolia’s father lets her play the female lead and gives the male lead to an attractive riverboat gambler. Against mother's dictates, the new pair falls deeply in love...

Director: James Whale
Cast: Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson
Country: USA
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
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May02

Le petit soldat / The Little Soldier (1963) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on May 2nd, 2020 at 16:44
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, War

Le petit soldat 1963
The politically charged film takes place during the Algerian war for independence from France. The setting is Geneva, and introduces us to Bruno Forestier (Michel Subor), a Frenchman who has deserted the army he was in, now making a living as a newspaper photographer. He also does work for an underground organization with anti-Algerian leanings based out of Switzerland. He's also very much in love with a beautiful Russian woman named Veronica Dreyer (Anna Karina, in her debut role). When this group asks him to assassinate a radio host with Algerian sympathies, he gets caught in the middle and is captured and then tortured by his own team, men who now suspect him as working as a double agent.

It was filmed in 1960 but banned in France for three years due to the French film censorship because of its references to the Algerian War for independence from France and its scenes of torture. It was finally released slightly cut.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Anna Karina, Michel Subor, Henri-Jacques Huet, Laszlo Szabo
Country: France
Genre: War, Drama

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May02

Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Pictures Volume 1: Mom and Dad (1945) Blu-Ray Kino Lorber

by movieworld on May 2nd, 2020 at 16:19
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Mom and Dad 1945
Mom and Dad has the distinction of becoming one of the highest grossing films of the 1940’s despite being condemned by the National Legion of Decency. The story concerns Joan Blake, a pretty, young suburban teenager with a promising future ahead of her. She’s smart, but more than a little naive when it comes to the opposite sex. Her school doesn’t offer sex education classes and discussing sex at home is forbidden. She falls for pilot Jack Griffin. After being sweet talked by Griffin, she has sex with him.

A few weeks later, Jack has been killed in a plane crash and Joan is experiencing early morning sickness. While her mother insists it’s from eating too much candy, Joan comes to understand she’s pregnant. Mom wonders how her social group will react when then find out about her daughters’ pregnancy. Meanwhile, Joan must figure out what she will do next. The previously conservative school reacts to news of Joan’s pregnancy by having the health teacher show a film called The Facts of Life that explains the functions of the female body, the menstrual cycle, etc.

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May02

The Cranes are Flying / Letyat zhuravli / Летят журавли (1957) DVD9 RUSCICO, Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on May 2nd, 2020 at 14:02
Posted In: .Russian movies, Drama, Romance, War

The triumphant success of this film started with its winning the first prize at the Cannes festival in 1958, where an excellent acting by Tatiana Samoilova was also recognized. After that the picture was welcomed in numerous world’s movie theatres.

This is a story of love that could not be destroyed even by war. Boris is felled by an enemy’s bullet in action. Veronica is devastated: she has lost her lover, her parents, her home. As an act of despair, she attempts to find a new family for herself, but only loses her self-respect. She is finally redeemed by rescuing a little boy from being run down by a car. She finds strength to continue living, refusing to believe that Boris is dead. Veronica would not stop waiting for him. Life for her is love, and its loss is equivalent to death…

Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
Actors: Tatyana Samojlova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasili Merkuryev, Aleksandr Shvorin, Svetlana Kharitonova
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
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May02

House of Bamboo (1955) Blu-Ray Eureka – Masters of Cinema

by movieworld on May 2nd, 2020 at 13:19
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Drama

House of Bamboo 1955
Tokyo, 1954. A daring gang of thieves hijacks a joint U.S.-Japanese army train under Mt. Fuji, bringing Army cop Capt. Hanson (Brad Dexter) into the jurisdiction of local inspector Kito (Sessue Hayakawa). The crimes are actually being carried off by a gang of Yankees, ex-G.I.'s led by Sandy Dawson (Robert Ryan) and his "Ichiban" Griff (Cameron Mitchell). Dawson plans their raids like military actions and never leaves wounded behind. When one man is killed, he's replaced with Eddie Spanier (Robert Stack), a hothead loner from the states who tries to muscle in on Sandy's Pachinko gambling parlors. Spanier appears to be Dawson's new favorite, much to the displeasure of Griff. There's only one problem - Eddie Spanier is really Eddie Kenner, a military policeman working as a mole inside Dawson's unit.

BD50 | 1080p AVC | 01:42:33 | 39.7 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Director: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi
Country: USA
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
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Apr26

Faa yeung nin wa / In the Mood for Love (2000) Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on April 26th, 2020 at 17:13
Posted In: .Other movies, Asian, Drama, Romance

In the Mood for Love 2000
The two highly photogenic leading actors, Tony Leung Chiu-wai (Chow Mo-wan) and Maggie Cheung Man-yuk (Su Li-zhen), play two unsuspecting people who move into neighboring apartments in a tiny Shanghainese enclave of Hong Kong in 1962. It isn’t long before they each realize that both of their spouses are often away on business trips a lot at the same time and come to the realization that they are having an affair. Searching for the reasons why and how it happened, Chow and Su begin a relationship of their own, acting out possible scenarios of the beginnings of their adulterous spouses’ clandestine affair, but never taking it to the next level. “We’ll never be like them,” they promise each other. Even when they get a hotel room together it isn’t for prurient reasons, but to work on a martial arts serial that Chow has begun writing for his newspaper, to continue their fleshing out of the affair and to work through their own guilt and shame. Perhaps, inevitably, all of this closeness brings them to the brink of doing the very thing they have been condemning their spouses for, however, and their flirtation with adultery and the gossip that it brings begins to become too much for the pair to bear.

Director: Kar-Wai Wong
Cast: Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Maggie Cheung, Ping Lam Siu
Country: Hong Kong, China
Genre: Drama, Romance

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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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Apr26

Welcome, or No Trespassing / Dobro pozhalovat, ili Postoronnim vkhod vospreshchen / Добро пожаловать, или Посторонним вход воспрещен (1964) Blu-Ray, DVD5

by movieworld on April 26th, 2020 at 12:25
Posted In: .Russian movies, Comedy, Family

Dobro pozhalovat, ili Postoronnim vkhod vospreshchen 1964
In a Soviet Young Pioneer camp, Dynin, the administrator is afraid that the children may succumb to harmful accidents and that he will be deemed responsible. He believes that accidents happen when formal rules are violated. Hence, he believes, everything must be done strictly according to formal instructions and regulations. One boy, Kostya Inochkin, (Viktor Kosykh) breaks one of the cardinal rules by swimming out alone to an island instead of swimming in the specially designated swimming area, supervised by staff. As a result, Inochkin is expelled from camp and is sent home. Inochkin is afraid that if his grandmother, with whom he lives, discovers that he has been expelled, she will die from sorrow, so instead of going home he returns to camp illegally. He hides but is discovered by some of the other children, who start helping him to stay, outsmarting the adults...

The first full-length feature by Elem Klimov

Director: Elem Klimov
Cast: Evgeniy Evstigneev, Arina Aleynikova, Ilya Rutberg
Country: Soviet Union
Genre: Comedy, Family
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Apr26

Beau-pere / Stepfather (1981) Blu-Ray

by movieworld on April 26th, 2020 at 11:33
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Stepfather 1981
Bertrand Blier's Beau Pere nicely conveys the director's thematic interest in the hold women have over men. When 14-year-old Marion's (Ariel Besse) mother dies in an automobile accident, she makes a concerted effort to continue living with and to seduce Remi (Patrick Dewaere), her mother's 30-year-old boyfriend. If this story line sounds at first like an exotic soap opera, be advised that it turns into something quite different.

Blier does a remarkable job presenting the ways in which men prove to be pawns in the chess game of love. Ariel Besse's multileveled performance as the child nymph is especially intriguing when placed alongside Dewaere's vulnerability as Remi. Similar to The Woman Next Door, this film contains a surprise ending.

BD50 | 1080p AVC | 02:04:27 | 30.7 Gb + 3% rec
Language: French
Subtitles: English, French

Director: Bertrand Blier
Cast: Patrick Dewaere, Ariel Besse, Maurice Ronet
Country: France
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Apr25

Best of Viktor Kubal: Brigand Jurko (1976), The Bloody Lady (1980), Selection of short films by Viktor Kubal (1943-1987) 3 x Blu-Ray

by movieworld on April 25th, 2020 at 16:42
Posted In: .Other movies

Best of Viktor Kubal
The Slovak Film Institute has issued a selection of the works of the most significant Slovak animated filmmaker Viktor Kubal (1923-1997).

The selection entitled Best of Viktor Kubal contains digitally restored films on three Blu-ray discs. Two of the discs contain the first two Slovak feature-length animated films, Brigand Jurko (1976) and The Bloody Lady (1980). The third disc contains a selection of short animated films made by Kubal: a cross-section of the director’s works from his beginnings in the 1940s the start of Slovak animated film, to his last works in the 1980s.

3xBD25 | 1080p AVC | 275 min | 55 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Slovak
Subtitles: Slovak, English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian
Genre: Animation

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