Posts Tagged ‘Blu-ray’

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Feb10

Charlie Chaplin: The Essanay Comedies (1915-1916) 2 x Blu-Ray BFI

by movieworld on February 10th, 2019 at 00:04
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy

Charlie Chaplin The Essanay Comedies
Across the course of just one year, Charlie Chaplin went from a popular stage actor to screen megastar and box office draw with the films he made at Mack Sennett’s Keystone Company. Keystone turned out fast-paced, broad slapstick comedy shorts which delighted audiences of their day but often look a little crude by modern standards. Nevertheless, Chaplin shone out amongst his contemporaries and when his contract came up for renewal at the end of the year, he demanded a higher wage of $1,000 a year. When Sennett refused this demand, Chaplin negotiated an even higher wage of $1,250 a year (plus a $10,000 signing bonus) with the Essanay Company. Chaplin’s move was not only financially beneficial but also crucial in allowing him the greater creative freedom to refine his art. Though the Essanay films are now seen as a transitional period for Chaplin, it is quickly apparent when watching the films chronologically that he is going from strength to strength and, to audiences who were not aware that even better was to come, the films on the BFI’s new complete overview of Chaplin’s Essanay work were considered the gold standard of screen comedy at the time.
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Feb09

Heaven Can Wait (1943) DVD9 (2005 edition) and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on February 9th, 2019 at 22:58
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Romance

Heaven Can Wait 1943
Henry Van Cleve (Don Ameche) comes from a wealthy New York family and has enjoyed a privileged life, which comes to an end the day after his 70th birthday. Henry presents himself at an antechamber to Hell, where he’s greeted by the Devil himself (Laird Cregar), whom Henry addresses as Your Excellency. Although Henry assumes he’s headed downstairs because of his many indiscretions while alive, His Excellency decides to review his case, and invites Henry to recall his life in detail. This Henry does by relating the significant incidents of his time on earth to those women who played the most important parts in his life. There then follows a series of lengthy flashbacks tracing Henry’s life from the cradle to his deathbed.

BD50, DVD9 | 1080p AVC, NTSC | 01:52:46 | 44.8 Gb + 7.59 Gb
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn
Country: USA
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
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Feb04

The Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali / Song of the Little Road (1955), Aparajito / The Unvanquished (1956), Apur Sansar / The World of Apu (1959) 3 x DVD9 and 3 x Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on February 4th, 2019 at 21:36
Posted In: .Other movies, Asian, Drama

The Apu Trilogy Criterion Collection
In 1992, Satyajit Ray received an honorary Academy Award for an extensive career of soulful, thoughtful realist dramas that included films like The Music Room, An Enemy of the People, and Devi, as well as his most celebrated contribution to the fabric of world cinema, his beloved Apu trilogy (1954 – 1959). When the Apu films (Pather Panchali, Aparajito, and Apur Sansar) were shown, in clips, at the Oscar telecast, the producers winced at their poor quality. The prints of the Apu trilogy were shipped to London shortly after the broadcast for immediate restoration. There was, in London, a nitrate fire in the film vault (older nitrate prints are notorious for how fragile and immensely combustible they are), and the only known prints of the Apu trilogy were severely damaged. At the time, the Academy deemed the prints to be unsalvageable, and we would have to content ourselves to watch Ray’s masterpieces on old VHS tapes. For decades, it seemed like the films were more or less lost.

In 2013, the venerable Criterion Collection and the Academy Archive, armed with updated technology and a fervent obsession with cinema and posterity – not to mention the cooperation of an Italian restoration house – began the epic project of meticulously restoring the Apu trilogy to its original glory. The work that was done is nothing short of miraculous. The films are clean and gorgeous and do not show a single sign that they had ever been damaged. Only an errant scratch here or there marks their age.

The three films in The Apu Trilogy are, not to put too fine a point on it, among the best films ever made. They are a biography of a young boy who grows into a man, but free of the grandiose narrative histrionics or obscene melodrama that dominated Indian cinema at the time (Bollywood is often known for overwrought romantic musicals). They are quiet and realistic. they feel intimate and personable, as if we’re spending time with a friend, or perhaps even living in this world ourselves. They ache with sadness and loss, as when the young Apu loses his elderly aunt, his sister, his father, his mother, his bride.
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Feb04

Acht Stunden sind keinTag – Eine Familienserie / Eight Hours are Not a Day: A Family Series / Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (1972) 3 x Blu-Ray Arrow Academy Limited Edition, 2 x Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on February 4th, 2019 at 19:20
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Eight Hours Don't Make a Day 1972
The interlocking stories of blue collar workers in 1970s Germany as they confront issues of the day, such as the unfairness of the work power structure, making ends meet and facing Germany's changing social mores.

The five feature-length episodes that aired each had millions of viewers, and their subject matter was fashioned with a wide audience in mind. They take place in Cologne. At the center of the series is the romantic union of a young, skilled factory technician named Jochen (Gottfried John) and a newspaper assistant named Marion (Hanna Schygulla).

Rarely screened since its popular but controversial initial broadcast, Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day rates as a true discovery, one of Fassbinder’s earliest and most tender experiments with the possibilities of melodrama.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Gottfried John, Hanna Schygulla, Luise Ullrich
Country: West Germany
Genre: Drama
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Feb04

Some Like It Hot (1959) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on February 4th, 2019 at 16:21
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Romance

Some Like It Hot 1959
Of all the genres motion pictures have to offer, comedies tend to age the worst. What was once so gut-bustingly hilarious in 1931 or in some cases just a few years ago, now falls completely flat. Thankfully though, some comedies avoid these pitfalls and somehow find a certain level of timelessness. Billy Wilder's 1959 classic 'Some Like It Hot' is a perfect example of such a film.

The recipe behind this delicious classic comedy is pretty simple -- it is one dose top-quality acting presented with an equal dose of top-quality directing.

The film begins in Chicago, and only a few hours before the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, where band musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) are desperate to secure a new gig. A local agency offers them one in Urbana, but while trying to borrow a car to get there they accidentally witness how mafia boss Spats Colombo (George Raft) and his boys execute a snitch and his accomplices. Realizing that now they absolutely have to get out of Chicago if they are to stay alive, Joe and Jerry join an all-girl troupe heading to Florida. At Union Station, they emerge as Josephine and Daphne and after a warm welcome board the train.

Soon after, the new "girls" engage Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe), a sexy ukulele player, and by the time the train reaches Florida earn her trust and friendship. Under the scorching sun, Joe then proceeds to earn her heart while pretending to be a filthy rich bachelor and Jerry captivates the mind of a real millionaire with a taste for the exotic. But the impostors' romantic escapades are put on hold when Spats Colombo and his goons reappear for a high-profile mafia gathering and someone realizes that the two "girls" look awfully familiar.

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Feb03

Trilogia: To livadi pou dakryzei / Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow (2004) DVD9, Blu-Ray

by movieworld on February 3rd, 2019 at 01:24
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, History, Romance

Trilogia: To livadi pou dakryzei / Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow (2004) DVD9
With Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow (2004), the first installment of an ambitious trilogy which is meant to cover the history of contemporary Greece, Theo Angelopoulos sends us back to early 1919 Thessaloniki where hundreds of Greek refugees arrive from Odessa.

Amongst those forced away from their homes is Eleni (Alexandra Aidini), a young orphan, who has been traveling together with Spyros (Vassilis Kolovos),his wife Danae (Thalia Argiriou), and son Alexis.
Fast-forward almost twenty years later and Spyros's wife has passed away leaving the old man unsure about his future. Unwilling to spend the rest of his days alone Spyros has arranged to marry the beautiful Eleni. On the day of the wedding, however, Eleni runs away with Spyros' son Alexis (Nikos Poursadinis) leaving the old man behind. Following up a group of street musicians Eleni and Alexis will try to rebuild their lives in a country overshadowed by a newly established Fascist regime and a world on the brink of WW2.

Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos
Cast: Alexandra Aidini, Nikos Poursanidis, Giorgos Armenis
Country: Greece, France, Italy, Germany
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
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Feb03

A Boy and His Dog (1975) Blu-Ray Shout! Factory

by movieworld on February 3rd, 2019 at 01:13
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A Boy and His Dog 1975
The plot of this film is set in Arizona in the year 2024 A.D. The world had been devastated by nuclear war seventeen years ago, and the surface of the Earth is turned into desert, roamed by various drifters in search of food, drink and shelter. One of them is Vic (played by a very young and rosy-cheeked Don Johnson), eighteen-year-old boy whose only companion is Blood (voice by Tim McIntire), dog with whom he has telepathic connection. Blood's instincts, wisdom, knowledge experience help Vic in his everyday search for food, but so far Vic can't find the only thing on his mind - a girl. Finally, two of them stumble on a girl in the form of young Quilla June Holmes (played by Susan Benton) and rescue her from homicidal rapists and mutants. After a night of passionate love Quilla disappears and Vic, against Blood's better judgement, goes looking for her in the underground, where some remnants of civilisation survived and turned into grotesque version of ultraconservative America...

BD50 | 1080p AVC | 01:30:36 | 32.3 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Director: L.Q. Jones
Cast: Don Johnson, Jason Robards, Susanne Benton
Country: USA
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Feb01

Slacker (1990), It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on February 1st, 2019 at 07:33
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama

Slacker 1990
In 1991, a young filmmaker named Richard Linklater took his low-budget feature film “Slacker” to the Sundance Film Festival. It wasn’t technically his first film (that distinction belongs to 1988’s “It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow By Reading Books”), but it was the first of his films that anybody had seen, and it became a sleeper hit at the festival. As more and more people saw the film, it began to gather a cult following, due to its unorthodox structure and cast of bizarre, yet somehow relatable, characters. Over the next two decades, “Slacker” would influence countless independent filmmakers (most notably Kevin Smith, who has credited the film as a direct inspiration for 1994’s “Clerks”), help define a generation that was in need of a voice, and launch the career of one of the most unique and innovative auteurs in modern American cinema.

Depicting an ordinary day in the life of several seemingly random citizens of Austin, Texas, “Slacker” lacks any sort of coherent plot or narrative structure. Instead, the film takes a “fly on the wall” approach: Linklater pulls away from people in the middle of one conversation and drops in on people in the middle of another. Nobody really seems to be doing much of anything, or at least not anything productive; two crimes are committed, guys are working on their cars, a girl is looking through the volumes in a used book shop, a woman tries to sell a Madonna pap smear. But mostly people are just talking: about politics, personal growth, menstrual cycles, art. Linklater himself offers an intriguing monologue on the nature of dreams, and the mind-boggling possibilities of alternate realities. A JFK assassination enthusiast and UFO conspiracy theorist wax poetic on their chosen obsessions. An anarchist bemoans the fact that he never blew up the Texas State Capitol building. Themes of oppression and restlessness dominate their otherwise unrelated conversations, and yet none of the varied cast of characters seems interested in actually taking action to accomplish anything, thus giving “Slacker” its appropriate title.

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Feb01

Two Films by Lino Brocka: Manila in the Claws of Light (1975), Insiang (1976) 2 x DVD9 and 2 x Blu-Ray BFI

by movieworld on February 1st, 2019 at 06:55
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Mystery

Two Films by Lino Brocka
Powerful human dramas, jaw-dropping visions of Manila’s shanty towns, vibrant colour photography, tight shorts, big hair and loud shirts – why have Lino Brocka’s melodramas been unseen for so long?

Filipino director Lino Brocka, who died in a car crash in 1991 aged 52, used elemental stories to highlight the harsh social realities of life in his home country.

In Manila in the Claws of Light, Julio (Bembol Roco), a young provincial fisherman, comes to the metropolis in search of his girlfriend Ligaya (Hilda Koronel). He drifts through a series of jobs, making the friends who can help him in his epic quest, which you know from the get go is bound to end badly.

In Insiang, a young woman (Hilda Koronel) is living with her mother. When the mother moves in her younger lover, tensions escalate, leading to rape and murder.

Both films feel fatalistic in that they are concerned with the limited options for action that present themselves to the protagonists. The brutal slaughterhouse opening to Insiang does not bode well for a happy ending. The limiting factor is of course the milieu, the crushing poverty of the shanty towns in Manila.
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Feb01

Maynila sa mga kuko ng liwanag / Manila in the Claws of Light (1975) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on February 1st, 2019 at 06:50
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Mystery

Manila in the Claws of Light 1975 Criterion Collection
Lino Brocka is the best Filipino filmmaker ever; his masterpiece, Maynila sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag (Manila in the Claws of Neon) the greatest Filipino film ever made.

Many films about people moving from the country to the big city detail the loss of innocence as the dream of a shining land of opportunity yields to a grim reality. Julio Madiaga (Rafael Roco Jr.) arrives in Manila with no such delusions. His eyes are already wide open to potential horror as he has come to search for his girlfriend Ligaya (Hilda Koronel), who he suspects has been lured into a sex trafficking ring. Already expecting to find a nightmare, what Julio discovers in Manila turns out to be even worse.

Lino Brocka achieved international acclaim with this candid portrait of 1970s Manila, a breakout example of the more serious-minded filmmaking the director had turned to after building a career on mainstream movies he described as “soaps.”

Mixing visceral, documentary-like realism with the narrative focus of Hollywood noir and melodrama, Manila in the Claws of Light is a howl of anguish from one of the most celebrated figures in Philippine cinema.
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