Posts Tagged ‘Blu-ray’

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Jun13

La leggenda del santo bevitore / The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988) Blu-Ray, DVD9

by movieworld on June 13th, 2018 at 14:14
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

The Legend of the Holy Drinker 1988
Rutger Hauer portrays a downtrodden alcoholic who gets a chance for redemption in this 1988 drama, one of Italian director Ermanno Olmi's few studio ventures, adapted from the last novella by Austrian-Jewish writer Joseph Roth.

Andreas (Hauer), a bum who sleeps under the bridges of the Seine, is given 200 francs one day by a mysterious old man (Anthony Quayle) who asks only that he put the same amount in the poor box of a local chapel as soon as he can afford to. Andreas finds temporary work, then sets out to return the money, only to be sidetracked by assorted temptations and memories of his tormented past as a miner in Poland. Yet his wallet is always miraculously replenished. Andreas can't believe his luck, but his determination to follow through on his promise to pay back Therese proves more challenging than he expected.

Director: Ermanno Olmi
Cast: Rutger Hauer, Anthony Quayle, Sandrine Dumas, Dominique Pinon
Country: Italy, France
Genre: Drama
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Jun12

Sommarlek / Summer Interlude (1951) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on June 12th, 2018 at 15:38
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Romance

Summer Interlude 1951
Touching on many of the themes that would define the rest of his legendary career — isolation, performance, the inescapability of the past — Ingmar Bergman’s tenth film was a gentle drift toward true mastery.

While sitting in her dressing room before a big final rehearsal for a production of Swan Lake, troubled prima ballerina Marie (Nilsson, star of Bergman's earlier To Joy) receives a diary in the mail. It was written by her first lover from a few years before, Henrik (Masculin Feminin's Malmsten), and she decides to retreat to the countryside away from her current boyfriend (Kjellin) after a technical glitch puts the rehearsal on hold. There she remembers the events and experiences them through her beloved's eyes in flashbacks, showing how she went from an optimistic young lover to a more jaded, wounded soul in the present.

This early film by the legendary Swedish master focuses on the nostalgia that grips the heart after a loved one is lost and the pain that inevitably comes with it. Bergman completed the film in 1951, after he apparently spent a couple of years working on adapting a short story he wrote about a girl he once fell in love with.
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Jun11

L’argent / Money (1983) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection, DVD9 Artificial Eye

by movieworld on June 11th, 2018 at 21:51
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Drama

L'argent 1983
Based on the novella The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy, L’Argent (Money) is the story of a counterfeit bill that would shape the lives of the various individuals it would encounter. Written for the screen and directed by Robert Bresson, the film is an exploration of money and the ills that it can bring into humanity all through a forged bill made as a prank that goes horribly wrong.

The tale Bresson spins is relatively faithful to Tolstoy's (though updated to contemporary France). A forged bill is passed on to a hapless soul who is powerless to fight the punishment he receives after unwittingly passing on the fake money. Losing his job and any reasonable prospect of employment to support his wife and child, he takes on the job of a getaway driver during a heist. He is caught, sentenced to prison and loses his child to a fatal illness and his wife who decides to move on and begin a new life. Upon his eventual release from prison, he has nothing. His soul seems drained and his actions become increasingly violent.

Director: Robert Bresson
Actors: Christian Patey, Sylvie Van den Elsen, Michel Briguet, Vincent Risterucci, Caroline Lang
Country: France, Switzerland
Genre: Crime, Drama
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Jun11

Krakatoa: East of Java (1968) Blu-Ray Kino Lorber, DVD5 Anchor Bay

by movieworld on June 11th, 2018 at 19:41
Posted In: .Other movies, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance

Krakatoa East of Java 1968
For some critics and audiences, the trivial geographical error in the title of Krakatoa: East of Java (1968) was enough to invalidate the entire movie (Krakatoa is actually west of Java), a complaint that seems especially silly considering how many Americans can't find the United States on a world map.

Krakatoa: East of Java is often considered one of the earliest disaster movies. The story loosely revolves around the cataclysmic 1883 eruption of the volcanic Krakatoa island, a disaster that unleashed hot ash and 100-foot tsunami that killed more than 36,000 people, and whose explosions could be heard and felt 3,000 miles away.

A group of treasure hunters led by Captain Chris Hanson search the waters of Indonesia to find a sunken ship that could possibly hold some of the best pearls ever found. Trouble ensues when the crew have to transport 30 criminals to a nearby prison island. In doing so, they come across the pearl ship near the erupting Krakatoa. It’s a race against time to get out of there with their lives intact and maybe a little more.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Cast: Maximilian Schell, Diane Baker, Brian Keith, Barbara Werle
Country: USA
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
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Jun11

Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) DVD9, Blu-Ray

by movieworld on June 11th, 2018 at 16:46
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, History, Romance

Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) DVD9
In the farm country of South West England a spirited beauty must deal with the amorous attentions of three very different suitors. Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie) is not a wealthy woman, but she's determined to choose a man for love instead of simple security. Shepherd and farmer Gabriel Oak (Alan Bates) is disappointed when Bathsheba turns down his proposal. Suddenly made penniless by a cruel trick of fate, Gabriel wanders for several months before taking a job as shepherd on a large farm. His master turns out to be none other than Bathsheba, who has just inherited the farm from an uncle. Now just an employee, Gabriel must swallow his pride when the rich William Boldwood (Peter Finch) visits and falls deeply in love with his new neighbor. Bathsheba does her polite best to discourage him as well. As Boldwood's obsession grows, she meets the man of her dreams, the handsome soldier Frank Troy (Terence Stamp). Unaware that Troy has refused to marry young Fanny Robin, a maidservant pregnant with his child, because she embarrassed him by going to the wrong church on their wedding day, Bathsheba foolishly becomes his wife.

Director: John Schlesinger
Cast: Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Alan Bates, Terence Stamp
Country: UK
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
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Jun11

Bridgend (2015) Blu-Ray

by movieworld on June 11th, 2018 at 15:42
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Mystery

Bridgend 2015
Between 2009 and 2012, a rash of suicides occurred in the county of Bridgend in Wales. About 79 people killed themselves, most of them teenagers. Danish documentary filmmaker Jeppe Ronde uses this real-life event as the basis for a haunting, ethereal film that offers clues and theories but ultimately no explanations for this tragic phenomenon. Bridgend is Ronde's fiction film debut. It is entirely shot on location in Wales, with many of the local teenagers casted as actors.

Sarah (Hannah Murray) arrives in town with her detective father Dave (Steven Waddington). He has been hired to investigate these suicides, all of which seem to be staged so the parents are the first ones to discover their child. Sarah starts off protective of her widowed father, but as she meets the fellow teens of the town, she is drawn in by their closeness, their strange rituals, and their intensity. One sensitive boy in particular, Jamie (Josh O’Connor), catches her eye. Before long, Sarah joins the teens in tromping nightly through the woods, partying at a lake, drinking, skinny-dipping, play-fighting, and screaming the names of the recently dead at the top of their lungs in a sort of tribute. Hannah’s loneliness abates as she is slowly accepted by the group. Her father, however, becomes understandably concerned as the suicides have not abated and he seems powerless to stop them.
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Jun07

Midnight Cowboy (1969) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection, Blu-Ray 20th Century Fox

by movieworld on June 7th, 2018 at 17:19
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Midnight Cowboy 1969
1969 was an interesting turning point in American cinema and no film better reflects that than Midnight Cowboy. Not only was it the first X-rated film to win the Best Picture Oscar but it presented a view of New York City that was the most bleak and depressing portrait since Ray Milland hit every seedy Manhattan bar in The Lost Weekend (1945). While more traditional Hollywood films like Hello, Dolly!, Anne of the Thousand Days and True Grit were well represented at the 1969 Academy Awards ceremony, it was obvious that the counterculture movement of the sixties had finally made an impact on mainstream cinema with major nominations that year going to Midnight Cowboy, Last Summer, Alice's Restaurant, Easy Rider and Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice - films that ushered in a new permissiveness in dealing with sex on-screen.

Midnight Cowboy was easily the most provocative of the lot. It's a tale of urban alienation and human need, expressed through two social outcasts. The main character, Joe Buck, is a hopelessly naive Texan who leaves his dishwashing job and catches a bus to New York City where he plans to hustle wealthy women for sex and money. Once he arrives in Manhattan, he is quickly fleeced by Ratso Rizzo, a slightly crippled two-bit con artist. Yet, despite their initial conflagration the two men develop a supportive relationship with Ratso playing pimp to Buck's male prostitute. The irony is that Buck's macho cowboy getup mainly attracts homosexuals and not the clientele he originally envisioned.
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Jun07

Lost in America (1985) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on June 7th, 2018 at 15:32
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy

Lost in America 1985 Criterion Collection
The film begins in sunny Los Angeles where successful advertising executive David Howard (Brooks) and his wife Linda (Julie Hagerty) are on the verge of relocating to a much bigger and more expensive home, even though they are both secretly dreaming of living a life on the road, a lot like the main characters in one of their all-time favorite films, Easy Rider. So they are visibly tense and occasionally even openly blame each other for not being brave enough to follow their hearts. On the day when David is supposed to get the crucial promotion that would make the purchase of their new home possible, however, things go terribly wrong and he gets fired. Barely able to contain his anger, David then rushes into Linda's office and with a short but very passionate speech convinces her to quit her miserable job. A few days later the two sell all of their possessions, then combine their financial assets, buy a Winnebago and hit the road. For the first time in years David and Linda feel truly free and even blessed that they have been able to escape the corporate world. But when Linda foolishly loses all of their savings in a casino in Las Vegas, their American Dream very quickly evolves into an American Nightmare.

Director: Albert Brooks
Cast: Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty, Sylvia Farrel
Country: USA
Genre: Comedy
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Jun06

Bacalaureat / Graduation (2016) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection, DVD9, Blu-Ray

by movieworld on June 6th, 2018 at 16:40
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Bacalaureat / Graduation (2016) DVD9
Graduation tells the story of Romeo Aldea (Titieni), a physician living in a small mountain town in Transylvania, has raised his daughter Eliza (Dragus) with the idea that once she turns 18, she will leave to study and live abroad. His plan is close to succeeding - Eliza has won a scholarship to study psychology in the UK. She just has to pass her final exams – a formality for such a good student. On the day before her first written exam, Eliza is assaulted in an attack that could jeopardize her entire future.

The film follows Romeo's efforts to make sure Eliza gets the high marks she needs. His position as a chief doctor in the city's hospital gives him the power to exchange "favours", and as soon as he gets one, he owes one. These commitments start to agitate his professional prestige and an already fragile family structure.

Director: Cristian Mungiu
Cast: Adrian Titieni, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Rares Andrici, Malina Manovici, Vlad Ivanov, Ioachim Ciobanu
Country: Romania, France, Belgium
Genre: Drama
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Jun06

Election (1999) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on June 6th, 2018 at 16:34
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Election 1999 Criterion Collection
This snappy and fast-paced film is set in Omaha, Nebraska, where Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) is running for the presidency of the student council at George Washington Carver High. This overachiever feels superior to everyone else and firmly believes she is entitled to success because she works so hard at being a winner. She strives to be every teacher's pet, but one of them, history and civics teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick), is not at all charmed. He watched Tracy walk away unscathed after she had an affair with his best friend and colleague, who subsequently lost his job and his wife.
McAllister decides to stop Tracy now. He recruits Paul (Chris Klein), a dim-witted but good-hearted football star, to run against her in the election. A wild card in the race is the entry of Tammy (Jessica Campbell), Paul's lesbian sister. She is miffed because her former lover has become Paul's girlfriend. A rebel at heart, Tammy runs on a platform of abolishing student government altogether, a position that wins amazing support from the other students.

Director: Alexander Payne
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein, Jessica Campbell
Country: USA
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
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