Posts Tagged ‘Criterion Collection’

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Sep21

George Washington (2000) DVD9 (2002), DVD9 and Blu-Ray (2014 reissue) Criterion Collection

by movieworld on September 21st, 2018 at 23:35
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

George Washington (2000) DVD9 The Criterion Collection
The story takes place in an dilapidated, industrial North Carolina town where whites and African-Americans live together in poverty. However, this film is not a depressing exploration into the failed American dream or the problems of surviving on little money. Green optimistically focuses his attention on the lives of five young people who each possess their own goals and thoughts about the world. They easily interact with the adults of the community and discuss the dreadful ghosts of both the past and the present. Still, the exuberance of youth pervades the tale even when tragedy strikes a central character. Everything may not work out perfectly, but hope still exists within the minds of the town's residents.
Although the narrator is a girl, the film ends up focusing mostly on the boys. Nasia, her older sister, and her other friends, share humorous talk about boys, and a sense of togetherness. But the boys talk and act in ways that betray disconnection and emptiness. The first part of the film moves in the same wandering, seemingly aimless way as the characters. Then a sudden tragedy confronts the kids with a reality that they have trouble knowing how to deal with.

Director: David Gordon Green
Actors: Candace Evanofski, Donald Holden, Damien Jewan Lee, Curtis Cotton III, Rachael Handy, Paul Schneider, Eddie Rouse
Genre: Drama
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Sep21

Fish Tank (2009) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on September 21st, 2018 at 23:17
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Fish Tank 2009 Criterion Collection
15-year-old Mia (Katie Jarvis) is a lost girl struggling with her negligent mother Joanne (Kierston Wareing), a filthy home, and the images of hip-hop dancing salvation force fed to her through television. Into the family comes Connor (Michael Fassbender), Joanne's latest fling, who takes a shine to Mia and her prickly disposition. Mia, curious about the attention, becomes infatuated with Connor, unsure how to process her newfound sexual response. Though she stumbles upon a friend in age-appropriate Billy (Harry Treadaway), Mia finds Connor's advances more persuasive, putting her in yet another precarious situation while the rest of her life continues to slip out of control...

BD50 + DVD9 | 1080p AVC, NTSC | 02:03:01 | 42.1 Gb + 7.75 Gb
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

Director: Andrea Arnold
Cast: Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender, Kierston Wareing
Country: UK, Netherlands
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Sep21

El verdugo / The Executioner (1963) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on September 21st, 2018 at 18:51
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama

The Executioner 1963 Criterion Collection
Sometimes considered the pinnacle of Luis Garcia Berlanga's work, The Executioner is a black comedy, a ‘farce’ and now an intriguing document recording aspects of Franco’s Spain in the early 1960s – a period when Spain was beginning to slowly emerge from isolation and grapple with the modernising world of the rest of Western Europe as well as North America.

Carmen is the daughter of Amadeo, the Court of Madrid’s executioner. She cannot find a boyfriend because they all run away when they find about her father’s profession. Jose Luis is an employee in a funeral parlour who has similar problems with women. One day, their respective professions bring the two men together and Jose Luis end up marrying Carmen. Amadeo’s profession entitles him to a subsidised flat, but as he is about to retire he will lose it. In order to avoid this, he convinces his son-in-law to accept the vacant post of executioner. But the boy has a problem: he wouldn’t kill a fly...

Through a savagely black humorous tone, The Executioner is a vehement condemnation of the death penalty, which caused the Spanish government to try (unsuccessfully) to stop it being screened at the Venice Festival and later to make numerous cuts (most of them are now reinstated).

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Sep21

Eclipse Series 24: The Actuality Dramas of Allan King: Warrendale (1967), A Married Couple (1969), Come on Children (1973), Dying at Grace (2003), Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company (2005) 5 x DVD Criterion Collection

by movieworld on September 21st, 2018 at 17:46
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary

Eclipse Series 24 The Actuality Dramas of Allan King
Canadian filmmaker Allan King died in the summer of 2009 at the age of 79. Fortunately, he left behind over 50 years worth of films that will remain with anyone who sees them for the rest of their lives. While he directed his share of fictional movies and television, King is best known as a documentarian. He even pioneered a vйritй documentary film movement that is now known as Direct Cinema, despite King, himself, consistently referring to these films as “actuality dramas.” Unfortunately, most of these films have been virtually unattainable from anywhere other than from King personally, until now, as The Criterion Collection brings us five of them in a nice box set titled The Actuality Dramas of Allan King (Eclipse Series 24).

These startlingly intimate studies of lives in flux — emotionally troubled children, warring spouses, and the terminally ill — are riveting, at times emotionally overwhelming, and always depicted without narration or interviews. Humane, cathartic, and important, Allan King’s spontaneous portraits of the everyday demand to be seen.

5 x DVD | NTSC | 547 minutes | 31 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Genre: Documentary

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Sep21

F for Fake (1973) 2 x DVD9, Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on September 21st, 2018 at 17:45
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary

F for Fake 1973 Criterion Collection
This incredible film directed by the great Orson Welles tells not one but three different stories. They mix facts and fiction with such authority that one never feels the need to question its observations.

F for Fake is an autobiographical "essay film" masquerading as a documentary. On the surface, it's a study of notorious art forger Elmyr de Hory and biographer Clifford Irving (shot by cinematographer Francois Reichenbach), and was originally planned as such...but the discovery of Irving's fabricated Howard Hughes biography turned it into a layered examination of fraud and forgery.

With these three stories, Welles' constructs layers of lies while revealing a great many truths. A self-confessed bender of the truth, he's a faker, telling the story of a faker, who told the story of a faker. There are rules about double negatives, but how about triple? Does that negate everything? Not at all, as by delving into the falsehoods, the basest of human realities are put under Welles' microscope and revealed in the truest of lights.

Director: Orson Welles
Cast: Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Francois Reichenbach
Country: France, Iran, West Germany
Genre: Documentary
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Sep21

The Essential Jacques Demy: Lola (1961), La baie des anges / Bay of Angels (1963), Les parapluies de Cherbourg / The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), Les demoiselles de Rochefort / The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), Peau d’ane / Donkey Skin (1970), Une chambre en ville / A Room in Town (1982) 7 x DVD9 and 6 x Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on September 21st, 2018 at 16:37
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Musical, Romance

The Essential Jacques Demy Criterion Collection
For many years, when people would think about the French New Wave film movement that revolutionized the world of cinema in the late 1950s, their thoughts would drift to the most famous names — Godard, Truffaut, Rivette, Chabrol, Resnais and others. One name that rarely came up in the conversation, however, was that of Jacques Demy. Even though he was making films during that time and achieved some degree of international success, many observers considered his contributions to be either too tangential or too dependent on Hollywood traditions and his own self-created cinematic universe to fully embrace the formal radicalism of the movement. In fact, when he was discussed as part of the New Wave, it was often because of his marriage to Agnes Varda, a filmmaker whose work was more firmly entrenched as part of the approach, and that semi-snubbing continued until he passed away in 1990 at the age of 59.

In the years since his passing, however, there has been a gradual reappraisal of Demy's cinematic legacy, spurred on in no small part by the efforts of Varda, who has helped to keep the flame alive by supervising restorations and reissues of his films as well as directing both "Jacquot de Nantes," a 1991 biopic focused on his early years, and the 1995 documentary "The World of Jacques Demy." Now The Criterion Collection has gotten into the act with "The Essential Jacques Demy," a mammoth box set that includes restored versions of six of his best-known features — "Lola" (1961), "Bay of Angels" (1963), "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" (1964), "The Young Girls of Rochefort" (1967), "Donkey Skin" (1970) and "Une Chambre En Ville" (1982) — a slew of extras spanning the length of his career, including shorts, documentaries and archival interviews with Demy and many of his key collaborators. The end result is one of the major home video releases of the year and a project that should finally restore Demy's place as one of the leading lights of the New Wave.
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Sep21

Eraserhead (1977) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on September 21st, 2018 at 14:10
Posted In: .Other movies, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror

Eraserhead 1977 Criterion Collection
The Greatest Student Film Ever Made returns to screens in a brand new print personally remastered by the director. The film is a bizarre and darkly surreal mix of drama, body horror, grotesquery, black comedy, and mystery, all shot in a stark black and white over an unsettling industrial noise soundtrack.

Nominally it's about a factory worker called Henry Spencer (John Nance) who lives in a drab apartment somewhere in an industrial hell-hole. When his girfriend, Mary X (Charlotte Stewart), falls pregnant , Henry is forced to marry her and move in with her bizarre family. The incessant crying of their hideously deformed child drives Mary away, leaving Henry alone before he descends into the dream world that has hovered around him since the film's beginning.

Eraserhead was described by David Lynch (and billed in advertising) as "A Dream of Dark and Troubling Things". David Lynch's first film is considered by many to be the weirdest and most nightmarish movie ever made.

Director: David Lynch
Cast: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates, Judith Roberts, Laurel Near, Jennifer Lynch
Country: USA
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
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Sep20

Eclipse Series 32: Pearls of the Czech New Wave: Perlicky na dne / Pearls of the Deep (1965), Sedmikrasky / Daisies (1966), O slavnosti a hostech / A Report on the Party and the Guests (1966), Navrat ztraceneho syna / The Return of the Prodigal Son (1967), Rozmarne leto / Capricious Summer (1968), Zert / The Joke (1969) 4 x DVD9 Criterion Collection

by movieworld on September 20th, 2018 at 21:32
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama

Eclipse Series 32 Pearls of the Czech New Wave
The political situation in the Czechoslovakia in the ’60s was to some extent a boon to local filmmakers, since they had ready access to resources (with no producers to woo), and an endless source of inspiration in the pervasive bureaucratic madness. The Czech films in the years leading up to the late-’60s’ “Prague spring” are at once satirical and celebratory, embracing the nation’s Bohemian roots and dark sense of humor, while also acknowledging the hellishness of the system. But these films didn’t escape censorship entirely; many were banned almost as soon as they were made. The movement toward a more expressive, low-to-the-ground cinema came later to Czechoslovakia than it did to other European countries, but it’s a miracle that artists facing such scrutiny were ever able to produce work as varied and innovative as the six features in Eclipse’s remarkable, essential Pearls Of The Czech New Wave box set.

4 x DVD9 | NTSC | 513 minutes | 28.2 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Czech(Ceske)
Subtitles: English
Genre: Comedy, Drama

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Sep20

Carl Theodor Dreyer Box Set: Vredens dag / Day of Wrath (1943), Ordet (1955), Gertrud (1964), Carl Th. Dreyer: Min metier / Carl Th. Dreyer: My Metier (1995) 4 x DVD9 Criterion Collection

by movieworld on September 20th, 2018 at 16:16
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Documentary, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Romance

Carl Theodor Dreyer Box Set Criterion CollectionWhen asked to describe his work, Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer said that film should present "truth filtered through an artist's mind, truth liberated from unnecessary detail." This collection of Dreyer's three major sound features demonstrates the director's rigorous commitment to that idea.

Day of Wrath -- filmed during the Nazi occupation of Denmark -- is set in a 17th-century village where the fear of witchcraft and the repression of human passions lead to tragedy. Ordet is considered by many to be Dreyer's masterpiece. This complex family drama is both moving and challenging, and the ending is one of cinema's greatest moments. Gertrud tells the story of a woman's search for fulfillment. Nina Pens Rode gives an extraordinary performance, heightened by Dreyer's peerless pacing and composition.

Accompanying the three films is a documentary by Torben Skjodt Jensen. Interviews with Dreyer's collaborators provide the backbone of My Metier, but it is Jensen's visual approach -- building layered images from photographs, manuscripts, and film clips -- that explores and responds to Dreyer's movies in subtle but powerful ways. Instead of a succession of talking heads and illustrative excerpts, Jensen offers an impressionistic portrait of Dreyer in a documentary that is often as beautiful as its subject's own work.
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Sep20

Easy Rider (1969) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on September 20th, 2018 at 15:34
Posted In: .Other movies, Adventure, Drama

Easy Rider 1969 Criterion Collection
Easy Rider tells the story of two drug smuggling motorcyclists that ply their way across the country in search of their own personal redemption and find along the way a series of archetypal characters including redneck racists, burnt out idealists and disenfranchised individualists. The film's message and conclusion are open ended and thought provoking making this a story that can be visited over and over again with ever changing reactions.

Easy Rider was one of the most important of the New Hollywood films, being the first independent film ever to be distributed by a major studio and possibly the first film to truly document America as it was in the 60s. The tale of two bikers crossing America was simple enough, but the real breakthrough was in the unusual style of the film, which initially had the studio utterly confused. Mostly shot freeform, many scenes were improvised and the footage was so shambolic that director Dennis Hopper took a year to edit it.

Director: Dennis Hopper
Cast: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson
Country: USA
Genre: Adventure, Drama
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