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Mar05

Man Push Cart (2005) Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on March 5th, 2021 at 15:47
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Man Push Cart 2005
A modest miracle of twenty-first-century neorealism, the acclaimed debut feature by Ramin Bahrani speaks quietly but profoundly to the experiences of those living on the margins of the American dream.

At 3:00 AM, Pakistani immigrant Ahmad (Ahmad Razvi) is already at work stocking his pushcart, which he then has to pull it by hand through the Manhattan streets with buses and cabs all around him. He once had a glorious future back in Lahore with a hit CD, but all that has vanished and seems like nothing more than a dream. His wife is dead and in-laws are raising his young son. They are reluctant to let Ahmad back in the boy's life. His dream is to make enough money so his son can live with him. One challenge after another knocks him down, not to mention the thousands of little humiliations and indignities which come his way from customers.

The inspiration for this riveting movie is Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus about a man whose eternal fate is to push a rock up a hill only to have it roll back down again. The philosophical insights come at the end when Camus writes: "The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart."
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Mar05

Chop Shop (2007) Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on March 5th, 2021 at 14:00
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Chop Shop 2007
For his acclaimed follow-up to Man Push Cart, Ramin Bahrani once again turned his camera on a slice of New York City rarely seen on-screen.

Willets Point is its own hermetically-sealed world of garages and body shops where twelve-year-old Alejandro busts his ass to scrape out a living among the mechanics (both legit and dubious ones) and the street hustlers. Little Ale gamely flags down drivers who havecruised into the area looking for cheap repairs, guiding them to the shop run by his boss Rob (Rob Sowulski, a real garage owner.) A perpetual motion machine, Ale skips up stairways, races across bridges, and squeezes his tiny body through windows in the relentless pursuit of an extra buck, selling bootleg DVDs, stolen hubcaps, or anything else he can scrounge.

Soon, Ale's teenage sister Isamar (Isamar Gonzalez) arrives from a safe house to live with him in a cramped room above Rob's garage. Without parents, an education, or any kind of social safety net to rely on, the siblings' life seems precarious, but Ale is confident he can surmount any obstacle. He assures Izzy there's nothing to worry about because: “I'm gonna work this shit out”...
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Mar01

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 March 1st, 2021 at 15:52
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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Feb18

Rashomon / Rashou-mon (1950) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection 2012 Edition

by movieworld on February 18th, 2021 at 19:41
Posted In: .Other movies, Asian, Crime, Drama, Mystery

Rashomon 1950
A riveting psychological thriller that investigates the nature of truth and the meaning of justice, Rashomon is widely considered one of the greatest films ever made.

A hiker (Kichijiro Ueda) seeks shelter from the rain under the roof of the "Rashomon Gate". There he meets a priest (Minoru Chiaki) and a woodcutter (Takashi Shimura) who tell him of a gruesome story. The hiker wants to know more and so he listens to the story about the bandit Tajomaru (Toshiro Mifune) who killed a samurai (Masayuki Mori) wandering through the woods of a near forest and raped his wife (Machiko Kyo), told from the perspective from four different individuals. Tajomaru's story differs greatly from the one of the samurai's raped wife, but even the story of the killed samurai himself, who depicts his version of the events leading to his death through a medium, and the one of a fourth eyewitness, the woodcutter, don't add up to a congruous picture of what happened. What really happened that day and what motives do the four different eyewitnesses have to falsify the true story?

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Kichijiro Ueda
Country: Japan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
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Feb17

Shunpu den / Story of a Prostitute (1965) DVD9 Criterion Collection

by movieworld on February 17th, 2021 at 15:25
Posted In: .Other movies, Asian, Drama, Romance, War

Story of a Prostitute 1965
Sejuin Suzuki's 1965 film “Story of a Prostitute”, based on a story by novelist Taijiro Tamura, is a love triangle. Harumi (Yumiko Nogawa), a Japanese woman volunteering as a “comfort woman” for the Imperial Army becomes the favorite of Narita (Isao Tamagawa), the drunken and abusive adjutant in charge of a garrison in far flung Manchuria, but Harumi has her heart set on another. Mikami (Tamio Kawaji) is Narita’s subservient orderly, a man set apart from the brutality around him, a man who Harumi falls desperately in love with. Their story unfolds in windswept deserts on the edge of the Japanese Empire during the Japan-Chinese War of 1937.

DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 | 01:36:13 | 7.36 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English

Director: Seijun Suzuki
Cast: Tamio Kawaji, Yumiko Nogawa, Isao Tamagawa
Country: Japan
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
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Feb16

Cristo si e fermato a Eboli / Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on February 16th, 2021 at 18:47
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Christ Stopped at Eboli 1979
An elegy of exile and an epic immersion in the world of rural Italy during the regime of Benito Mussolini, Francesco Rosi’s sublime adaptation of the memoirs of the painter, physician, and political activist Carlo Levi brings a monument of twentieth-century autobiography to the screen with quiet grace and solemn beauty.
Banished to a desolate southern town for his anti-Fascist views, Levi (Gian Maria Volontè) discovers an Italy he never knew existed, a place where ancient folkways and superstitions still hold sway, and that gradually transforms his understanding of both himself and his country.
Presented for the first time on home video in its original full-length, four-part version, Christ Stopped at Eboli ruminates profoundly on the political and philosophical rifts within Italian society — between North and South, tradition and modernity, Fascism and freedom — and the essential humanity that transcends all.

BD50, DVD9 | 1080p AVC, NTSC | 03:41:49 | 44.8 Gb + 11.4 Gb
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English

Director: Francesco Rosi
Cast: Gian Maria Volonte, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny
Country: Italy, France
Genre: Drama
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Feb16

Essential Fellini: Variety Lights (1950), The White Sheik (1952), I vitelloni (1953), La strada (1954), Il bidone (1955), Nights of Cabiria (1957), La dolce vita (1960), 8 1/2 (1963), Juliet of the Spirits (1965), Fellini Satyricon (1969), Roma (1972), Amarcord (1973), And the Ship Sails On (1983), Intervista (1987), Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember (1997) 15 x Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on February 16th, 2021 at 15:58
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Essential Fellini Criterion Collection
Federico Fellini remains one of the greatest filmmakers in the history of film. He was an artist who crafted a cinematic spectacle all his own, creating an unique but sometimes bleak world full of dreamers, whose desires, fears, nightmares, and hopes all take center stage.

Not only is this monumental Criterion Collection release “essential” Federico Fellini (1920-1993), it also represents the large majority of films in the Italian maestro’s oeuvre, missing only I Clowns, Fellini’s Casanova, Orchestra Rehearsal, City of Women, Ginger and Fred, The Voice of the Moon, and a couple of segments from anthology films.

The fact that this set is far from complete in terms of Fellini’s films does not mean that it is not comprehensive. Titles span from the start of Fellini’s career to quite nearly the end, covering all of his major thematic shifts and often wild creative phases. Included are all of the Fellini titles that Criterion has ever released, many of which have not been previously made available on Blu-ray due to having been forced out of print for many years. Not only is it about time, it’s the perfect time- the 100th birthday of the director. (Fellini was born January 20, 1920, in Rimini, Italy).
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Feb09

Three Films by Luis Buñuel: Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie / The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), Le fantôme de la liberté / The Phantom of Liberty (1974), Cet obscur objet du désir / That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) 3 x Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on February 9th, 2021 at 14:25
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Three Films by Luis Buñuel
Throughout his life, Luis Buñuel disdained reductionist interpretations of the “meaning” of his work, asserting more often than not that there was no meaning, that he included in his films only what amused him. Yet it seems difficult not to see much of what he did as rooted in a lifelong reaction to his early experiences as a child in Aragon, a region of Spain which he stated had remained Medieval until World War One, and to his education by Jesuits. A deeply embedded social order and the formalized rituals and meanings of the Catholic Church remained major elements of his work throughout five decades of filmmaking, always expressed through his resistance to being contained by those social and religious restrictions.

Driven from Spain by Fascists and from New York by commie hunters, he escaped to university in Madrid, befriending the painter Salvador Dali and the poet Federico Garcia Lorca, that ingrained resistance came to include the Modernism which itself was a reaction rigid social and religious rules. With his friends, Buñuel embraced Surrealism, itself a revolt against the constraints of rationalism. Already drawn towards cinema, a viewing of Fritz Lang’s Der müde Tod (1921) convinced him that movies were the way to express himself.

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Feb03

Toni (1935) Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on February 3rd, 2021 at 17:53
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Drama, Romance

Toni 1935
Fans of Jean Renoir will rush to see something ‘new’ from the great director; this very different Renoir picture sees him filming in the South of France, among regional laborers that bring their Italian and Spanish customs with them. It’s a tragedy about a crime of passion, all shot outside of a film studio, without big stars or glamorous trappings.

Shot on location and using mostly untrained actors, the movie begins as Toni (Charles Blavette) arrives in the South of France from Italy, looking for work. He finds lodging with Marie (Jenny Helia) and lands a job in a quarry. Some time later, he has become Marie's lover, more out of convenience than passion. But when he meets the Spanish Josefa (Celia Montalvan), he falls deeply for her; they share an incredibly sensuous scene in which he plucks a wasp stinger from her back and sucks out the poison. Unfortunately, Toni's monstrous boss Albert (Max Dalban) rapes Josefa, and she winds up marrying him instead. The melodramatic story culminates with money, a murder, and a tragedy.

Director: Jean Renoir
Cast: Charles Blavette, Celia Montalvan, Jenny Helia
Country: France
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
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Feb03

Wildlife (2018) Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on February 3rd, 2021 at 15:19
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Wildlife 2018
"I feel like I need to wake up. But I don't know what from, or to," mother tells her bewildered son in this drama about family, masculinity and female agency in 1960s America topped by a trio of towering performances.. This strikingly styled film marks the directorial debut of actor Paul Dano, who also co-writes the script with his partner Zoe Kazan.

Based on the novel by Richard Ford "Wildlife" stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan as Jerry and Jeanette Brinson, who’ve recently moved to small-town Montana with their teen son Joe (Ed Oxenbould). The American Dream is proving elusive for the middle-class family, in fact they’re flirting with poverty. Tough times fracture the bond between man and wife, and the chasm widens when Jerry suddenly announces he’ll be away for months because he’s taking a low-paying, dangerous job fighting fires.

BD50 | 1080p AVC | 01:45:03 | 45.2 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Director: Paul Dano
Cast: Ed Oxenbould, Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan
Country: USA
Genre: Drama
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