Posts Tagged ‘Blu-ray’

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Mar25

To Sleep with Anger (1990) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on March 25th, 2019 at 16:53
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

To Sleep with Anger 1990
Sometimes a performance is so transfixing, it overtakes a mediocre movie and elevates it, even as everyone else seems to be operating at half speed. Such is the case of Danny Glover and To Sleep with Anger. No one who sees this film will forget Glover’s performance as Harry, the charming drifter who, even when he’s putting on his best, never seems to be at rest. There is something vibrationally wrong with this man, something that can’t be trusted. As one person describes him, he’s the moon, always eager to show his light side, but never forget that the other side lies in darkness.

When Harry arrives on Gideon's (Paul Butler) front porch, he is warmly welcomed by the patriarch and his wife, Suzie (Mary Alice), a hard-working, God-fearing couple who attempt to pass on their traditions to their adult sons. Junior (Carl Lumbly) and his wife share his parents' beliefs, which are thought backward by his buppie brother, Babe (Richard Brooks), and Babe's wife (Sheryl Lee Ralph). And the longer Harry stays, the more volatile the relations between the generations, the brothers, the couples and even the neighbors...

Director: Charles Burnett
Cast: Danny Glover, Paul Butler, DeVaughn Nixon, Mary Alice
Country: USA
Genre: Drama
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Mar25

Hitler… connais pas / Hitler – Never Heard of Him (1963) DVD9, Blu-Ray

by movieworld on March 25th, 2019 at 16:42
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary

Hitler... connais pas 1963
In 1963, 22-year-old Bertrand Blier invited 11 of his peers to come to a film studio and talk about their lives. The record of what was said, Hitler? Connais pas!, is a discussion of values that remains relevant and fascinating today. The footage was shot just five years prior to May 1968, and the atmosphere of that time is clearly discernible: these young people may not yet be revolutionaries, but there is clearly a ferment in the air. One young woman describes how she dances the twist every evening; a young man relates his mother's marital infidelities; another young woman describes her own sexual escapades. A bourgeois life holds no appeal for her whatsoever: that would be "a small life," like that of her parents -- and that is certainly not the way to happiness. Another young man has a very traditional attitude: a carbon copy of his father, typical of the 1950s. All he wants is a nice family, a good job, and a nice car in the driveway. Blier focused his camera on an interesting historical gray area. The aesthetics are typically 1960s: each of the twenty-somethings is filmed in isolation, sitting on a chair, under bright lights, from different angles, and in black-and-white.

Director: Bertrand Blier
Country: France
Genre: Documentary
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Mar25

Detour (1945) Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on March 25th, 2019 at 13:45
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Drama

Detour 1945
Director Edgar G Ulmer's all-time great, flashback-driven 1945 film noir thriller is a deservedly famous cult B-movie classic. Zero-budgeted but rousingly handled, it's termite art. It holds the honour of being the first B-movie chosen by the Library of Congress for its National Film Registry (in 1992) and it is the first Hollywood film noir so honoured. The film has long enjoyed a cult reputation in Europe and among American film buffs for its existential tone.

The main character, Al Roberts (Tom Neal), is an unemployed piano player intent on hitchhiking from New York to Hollywood where his girlfriend is a singer. When he reaches Arizona, he thumbs a ride with a dissipated gambler who relates a disturbing tale about a female hitchhiker he recently encountered. From that point on, the film travels quickly into nightmare territory with border crossings into paranoia, death and despair.

Tom Neal's real life story is probably even sadder and stranger than the luckless character he plays in Detour.

Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald
Country: USA
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
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Mar25

A Dandy in Aspic (1968) Blu-Ray Powerhouse Films Indicator Series

by movieworld on March 25th, 2019 at 12:37
Posted In: .Other movies, Action, Drama, Thriller

A Dandy in Aspic 1968
A Dandy in Aspic (1968) is Mann's final film. He died during its production, and the film was completed by its star, Laurence Harvey.

The plot revolves around a Russian assassin named Krasnevin who pretends loyalty to British intelligence under the pseudonym Alexander Eberlin while periodically killing off its best operatives. However, Eberlin has been in the game too long and can feel his luck running out. He wants nothing more than to come in out of the English cold and return to Russia. Even as his Soviet bosses tell him nyet, his British superiors, aware of a Russian threat in their midst, order Eberlin to find and assassinate Krasnevin. He soon finds himself in Berlin, where he makes a pretense of searching for his alter ego while attempting unsuccessfully to cross into East Germany. Meanwhile, Eberlin is pursued romantically by a London photographer named Caroline (played by Mia Farrow), who may or may not be allied with his antagonists. And he’s accompanied by a British agent named Gatiss, who becomes increasingly suspicious of Eberlin’s loyalty to king and queen. The narrative takes many sudden twists and turns before arriving at the film’s jolting climactic revelation.

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Mar25

Marcel Pagnol’s “Marseilles Trilogy” (The Fanny Trilogy): Marius (1931), Fanny (1932), Cesar (1936) 4 x DVD KINO Video, 3 x Blu-Ray Compagnie Mediterraneenne de Film, 3 x Blu-Ray and 4 x DVD9 Criterion Collection

by movieworld on March 25th, 2019 at 11:23
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama, Romance

The Fanny Trilogy
When Marcel Pagnol adapted his play Marius for the cinema in 1931, he was a relatively well-known young playwright who had recently left behind his modest Marseillais beginnings and a teaching career. By the time Cesar , the third part of the trilogy, came out in 1936 (and was the no. 1 box-office hit for that year), he had become one of the most popular filmmakers in France, was running parallel careers as novelist, journalist, and publisher, and had founded his own film production company. His "empire" was completed by the opening of his own cinema in Marseilles for the release of Cesar. For although Pagnol had to move to Paris to "make it", his roots remained in the south, and the trilogy is first of all a tribute to Marseilles and its people.

Critics at the time may have preferred the cinematically innovative work of Renoir or Gremillon, or the committed manifestos of the Popular Front, but audiences flocked to see Pagnol's films and in particular the trilogy. Constant repeats on French television show that time has done nothing to erode this tremendous popularity, and some of the trilogy's phrases have entered the national vocabulary ("tu me fends le coeur!"). Apart from a first-class cast, Pagnol's joky claim that "I only write about cliches" may give a clue to this lasting appeal and relevance: like all Pagnol's films, Marius, Fanny, and Cesar share a direct concern with simple but basic psychological and social relations, and primarily the family.
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Mar24

In God We Trust / Sa verom u Boga / Са вером у бога (1932) Blu-Ray

by movieworld on March 24th, 2019 at 19:43
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, War

Sa verom u Boga 1932
Tragic destiny of a Serbian rural family in World War I, during the Austrian occupation. Husband leaves for war where he is wounded and his wife is raped and killed by the occupying forces. Grandfather saves the newly born grandson and when the son comes back from the war as an invalid, his grown-up son and the neighbour woman, who brought him up, awaits him. The best Yugoslav feature film between two World Wars; the most honest apology of suffering and salvation of the Serbian people in World War I. It was restored in 1988 and screened on the Festival in Pordenone with great success.

BD25 | 1080i MPEG-2 | 00:40:38 | 7.43 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Serbian intertitles
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, War, Silent

Director: Mihajlo Popovic
Cast: Djovani Bertoto, Dimitrije Dimitrijevic, Jelisaveta Dimitrijevic
Country: Yugoslavia
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Mar24

Chikamatsu monogatari / The Tale of the Crucified Lovers / A Story from Chikamatsu (1954) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on March 24th, 2019 at 18:45
Posted In: .Other movies, Asian, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller

A Story from Chikamatsu 1954
A Story of Chikamatsu centers on talented and kind-hearted apprentice scroll-maker Mohei (Kazuo Hasegawa) and Osan (Kyoko Kagawa), his wealthy but miserly boss's wife. After she turns to him rather than her husband (Eitaro Shindo) to help her get some money to repay her brother's loan, a series of unfortunate developments results in their being falsely accused of having an affair -- a crime whose proscribed punishment is humiliating and painful death by crucifixion.

One of a string of late-career masterworks made by Kenji Mizoguchi in the first half of the 1950s, A Story from Chikamatsu is an exquisitely moving tale of forbidden love struggling to survive in the face of persecution.

Shot in gorgeous, painterly style by master cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa, this delicately delivered indictment of societal oppression was heralded by Akira Kurosawa as a "great masterpiece that could only have been made by Mizoguchi".

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyoko Kagawa, Eitaro Shindo
Country: Japan
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
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Mar24

Being John Malkovich (1999) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on March 24th, 2019 at 17:51
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Being John Malkovich 1999
Story revolves around Craig Schwartz (John Cusack), a puppeteer struggling in a wintry economic climate. His wife Lotte (Cameron Diaz) works as a pet store clerk and brings in most of the household income...as well as a ridiculous number of animals. Their relationship has completely lost its spark, but change comes after Craig gets a job as a file clerk at Lestercorp. Everything about this new job just seems a little off, though: the ceilings are five feet high, co-workers communicate on a different wavelength and his new boss claims to be over 100 years old. More change comes when Craig discovers a small door in his office which leads to the mind of John Horatio Malkovich (John Malkovich). Amazed, he shares his discovery with his wife and his devious coworker, Maxine (Catherine Keener). Maxine hatches the plan to sell admission into John Malkovich's head...and the whole story rushes headlong into absurdity from there.
What are the potential consequences of using Malkovich's mind as an amusement park ride?

Director: Spike Jonze
Cast: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, Ned Bellamy, Eric Weinstein, John Malkovich
Country: USA
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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Mar24

La verite / The Truth (1960) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on March 24th, 2019 at 16:30
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

La verite 1960
Beautiful, troubled Dominique Marceau (Brigitte Bardot) came to bohemian Paris to escape the suffocation of provincial life, only to wind up in a courtroom, accused of a terrible crime: the murder of her lover (Sami Frey).

The counsels duel relentlessly, elaborating explanations for why the pretty, idle and fickle girl killed the talented and ambitious conductor freshly graduated from the conservatory. Was it passion, vengeance, desperation, an accident? The acquaintances of Gilbert testify, as well as Dominique's former lovers, and her sister, Annie, the studious violin player engaged to Gilbert. The evidence they give progressively paints a more finely-shaded picture of the personalities of Dominique and Gilbert, and of their relationship, than the eloquent and convincing justifications of the counsels.

The timeline bounces from the witness box to flashbacks of the real events and back again, creating two narratives: the trial activity and the interpersonal drama that led to the homicide.

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel
Country: France, Italy
Genre: Drama

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Mar24

Welt am Draht / World on a Wire (1973) 2 x DVD Second Sight, 2 x Blu-Ray Second Sight Limited Edition

by movieworld on March 24th, 2019 at 16:06
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Welt am Draht / World on a Wire (1973) DVD5 + DVD9
Science fiction loves to predict the future of technology...and occasionally, it hits a bullseye. Daniel F. Galouye's 1964 novel Simulacron-3 presented the the possibility of a virtual world where the inhabitants had no idea they were part of a simulation. The lead scientist behind this virtual world dies under questionable circumstances and another employee vanishes, leading one eyewitness through a spiraling mystery that makes him question the "reality" of the world around him. Less than 10 years later, prolific German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder adapted Galouye's novel into World on a Wire (Welt am Draht, 1973), originally a two-part television feature that added plenty of its own touches. Our man of action is Fred Stiller (Klaus Lowitsch), who witnesses the aforementioned disappearance of a co-worker and quickly becomes lost in a complex, layered hall of mirrors (literally and figuratively). As he inches ever closer to the truth, however, large chunks of World on a Wire begin to show their seams.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Klaus Lowitsch, Barbara Valentin, Mascha Rabben, Karl Heinz Vosgerau
Country: West Germany
Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi
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