Posts Tagged ‘Criterion Collection’

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Nov16

Do the Right Thing (1989) 2 x DVD9 Criterion Collection

by movieworld on November 16th, 2018 at 15:25
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama

Do the Right Thing 1989
Spike Lee produced, directed, wrote, and stars in Do the Right Thing, a powerful and poignant portrait of contemporary urban life.

The film looks at the hottest day in New York in one neighborhood (Bedford Stuy) and the relationships and behaviors of its residents. We have Lee himself as a pizza boy, Ossie Davis as a neighborhood drunk and Danny Aiello as the pizza store owner among many other characters. These characters have deep resentments, hatred and bigotry that, in this film, explode into violence.

Do the Right Thing is a cautionary tale that graphically depicts the racial hatred seething just beneath the surface in cities across the country. It is a scary and sad glimpse of the divisive bigotry that still remains an open wound on the soulscape of America.

2xDVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 02:00:00 | 15.5 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Director: Spike Lee
Cast: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, John Turturro, Spike Lee, Samuel L. Jackson, Martin Lawrence
Country: USA
Genre: Drama, Comedy
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Nov14

The River (1951) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on November 14th, 2018 at 16:46
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Romance

The River 1951 Criterion Collection
Director Jean Renoir's gentle, meditative The River (1951) looks at British colonial life in India through the eyes of a young girl. An idyllic portrait emerges, of life along the Ganges River, where 12-year-old Harriet (Patricia Walters) is the oldest in a brood of five siblings that includes a brother and four sisters who roam and play in their exotic family compound. Harriet's father (Esmond Knight) is the British owner of a jute factory in Bengal, her mother (Nora Swinburne) a content wife and mother, and the center of the children's lives their lively nanny Nan (Suprova Mukerjee).

Mixing the ethnographic feel of Robert Flaherty's documentaries and poignant coming-of-age drama, the film is a thoughtful examination of life's flow seen through Harriet's experiences with first love as a prelude to maturity. The River is given its lush, poetic tone by its narrator Harriet who falls in love with a handsome war veteran and visitor (Thomas E. Breen) to India. Harriet is joined in her adoration by a beautiful friend Valerie (Adrienne Corri) and her Eurasian neighbor Melanie (Radha Shri Ram). The arrival of this handsome stranger stirs passions in girls, signalling the death of childhood and the dawn of their womanhood.

Martin Scorsese once named this film the most beautiful color film ever made.
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Nov14

Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on November 14th, 2018 at 16:18
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Drama

Riot in Cell Block 11 1954 Criterion Collection
Shot on location in California's infamous Folsom Prison and using a whole lot of the actual inmate population as extras in the picture, the story begins with an introductory scene that tells us about the plague of prison riots erupting violently across the United States. The prisoners are unhappy with the conditions and treatment doled out by the state and they're angry enough to do something about it. From here, we voyage into Cell Block 11 where the situation is just starting to approach boiling point. When they don't improve, James Dunn (Neville Brand) and the other inmates trick a guard named Monroe (Paul Frees) and wind up snagging his keys. From here, they take out the other guards and quickly secure command of the block.

The warden, Reynolds (Emile Meyer), is sympathetic to the cause and believes that for the betterment of society the prison population deserves better than what they're getting. For this reason he agrees to read the list of demands to the media circus but the Governor and Commissioner Haskell (Frank Faylen) are less than sympathetic. They intend to crack down on the rioters and use this to send a message to other facilities where similar problems could easily come up. Things aren't exactly coming up roses inside Cell Block 11 though, because ‘Crazy' Mike Carnie (Leo Gordon) is just itching to lay some hurt into the captive guards. Dunn doesn't want to play things that way and he allies himself with The Colonel (Robert Osterloh) to hopefully keep Mike in check. A few of the other inmates want to just give this all up out of fear of retaliation and a power struggle amongst the men ensues while outside forces and the powers that be conspire to blow up the cell block altogether.
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Nov14

David Lean Directs Noel Coward: In Which We Serve (1942), This Happy Breed (1944), Blithe Spirit (1945), Brief Encounter (1945) 4 x DVD9 and 4 x Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on November 14th, 2018 at 15:51
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Romance, War

David Lean Directs Noel Coward
Few filmmakers in the history of cinema can rival the artistry and vision of David Lean, and few dramatists in the history of comedy can claim more cutting quips per capita than Noel Coward. Yet when the two teamed up in the early 1940s for a quartet of pictures, 'Lawrence of Arabia' was still two decades away, and the young Lean, a well-regarded editor, had yet to direct his first feature film. Coward, long established as a popular playwright and icon of sophistication and wit, gave Lean that opportunity, sharing the directorial reins with him on a rousing British wartime propaganda film, 'In Which We Serve.' The movie launched Lean's distinguished career and spawned a fruitful - albeit brief - partnership with Coward that allowed the fledgling director to hone his skills and develop his distinctive style.

The Criterion collection has brought together his first four films, and they were all adaptations of Noel Coward’s work. The included films - 'In Which We Serve' (1942), 'This Happy Breed' (1944), 'Blithe Spirit' (1945), and 'Brief Encounter' (1945) - run the gamut of genre and emotion, encompassing war, devotion, family, romance, comedy, and tragedy. Yet the common thread they share is a vital sense of humanity, thanks to vivid, dimensional characters who express universal feelings in a literate, forthright manner.
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Nov14

Rififi / Du rififi chez les hommes (1955) DVD9 (2001 edition), DVD9 (reissue) and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on November 14th, 2018 at 15:32
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Rififi 1955 Criterion CollectionDirector Jules Dassin may have been driven out of Hollywood in the 1950s during the House “Un-American” Activities Committee blacklist era, but that didn’t stop him from going to Europe and creating one of the greatest crime capers of all time.

Tony le Stephanois has just been released from prison after serving five years for jewel robbery. After initial reservations, he agrees to participate in another jewel heist along with two past compatriots Jo le Suedois and Mario Farrati. The three also enlist a reliable safecracker Cesar le Milanais. Tony, however, is thinking big and rather than the somewhat minor job his friends had contemplated, insists that they go for the big heist — cracking a Paris jewelry store's safe. The four men plan the job meticulously — timing, equipment, testing how to neutralize the alarm, etc—and then proceed to carry out the job one night. They are successful and manage to get away with 250 million francs worth of jewelry.
Unfortunately for Tony and his friends, however, the Grutter brothers who run a popular Paris nightspot, L'Age d'Or, become aware that Tony and his gang were responsible for the heist...

Director: Jules Dassin
Cast: Jean Servais, Carl Mohner, Robert Manuel
Country: France
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Nov13

Punch-Drunk Love (2002) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on November 13th, 2018 at 20:11
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller

Punch-Drunk Love 2002 Criterion Collection
Barry Egan (Adam Sandler) is a businessman with certain personal issues that make him very unhappy. He is socially inept and doesn't get out much by choice, and his ability to control his mood is tenuous at best, frequently resulting in an outburst of insults, destructive vandalism, or uncontrollable sobbing. He wants to express himself, but years of ridicule and teasing from his seven sisters has resulted in long-term psychological problems, which Barry has recognized and now he seeks professional help. Having no real desire to take the initiative and get a shrink, Barry has a notion to call a phone sex company because they offer confidentiality and anonymity. However, this was a mistake, as the woman he chats with attempts to extort money from him, claiming that his life will be hell if he doesn't send her more.

Meanwhile, Barry meets Lena (Emily Watson), a friend of his sister and the two make an odd couple, but oddly they work well together because, unlike his sisters who taunt him about everything, Lena is willing to accept him for all of his flaws. She likes to travel, which seems fortuitous because Barry has been saving up Healthy Choice pudding proofs-of-purchase to rack up frequent flyer miles due to a loophole in their rules that makes them scandalously cheap.

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Nov13

Pickpocket (1959) DVD9 (Reissue) and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on November 13th, 2018 at 19:24
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Drama

Pickpocket 1959 Criterion Collection
Michel (Martin Lassalle) is unable to keep a job and feels that all the positions that his friend Jacques (Pierre Leymarie) manages to set up for him are beneath a man of his intelligence. He needs to live however and, believing that society owes him, and resorts to stealing people’s wallets. Initially he is not very good but, falling in with a group of thieves and getting lessons from an experienced pickpocket, Michel moves from the random pickings of the Paris underground to elaborate operations on banks and train stations. More than just making money however, Michel feels an elation at asserting his superiority over other people and being beyond the law. But the thrill of evading the police is not enough – Michel needs to actively challenge the police to catch him, meeting a police detective (Jean Pelegri) in a bar and expounding his theories that certain gifted and intelligent people should be free to disobey laws that are restrictive on their freedom of expression and their abilities.

BD50 + DVD9 | 1080p AVC, NTSC | 01:16:19 | 44.1 Gb + 7.60 Gb
Language: Francais
Subtitles: English
Genre: Crime, Drama

Director: Robert Bresson
Cast: Martin LaSalle, Marika Green, Jean Pelegri
Country: France
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Nov12

El laberinto del fauno / The Labyrinth of the Faun / Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on November 12th, 2018 at 09:04
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, War

El laberinto del fauno / The Labyrinth of the Faun / Pan's Labyrinth (2006) Criterion Collection
Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) is an 11-year old girl who, as the movie begins, is reluctantly moving to the mountains of Spain with her pregnant mother to be with her new step-father, Captain Vidal (Sergi Lopez). The time is 1944, and the fascists have won the Spanish Civil War, but there are still some Communists rebels holding up in the mountains. It's Vidal's job to capture them, but he'd rather just slaughter them all.

Thrust into a violent and unfamiliar world, Ofelia spends much of her time reading fairy tales, and when she sees a strange bug fly into her room and land on her leg, she's not terribly surprised to discover that it's really a fairy that has been sent to bring her into the forest. Following the small flying creature, Ofelia is lead through an ancient labyrinth and down into a deep well. At the bottom she meets a faun who reveals that she's not just an ordinary girl, but the daughter of a king. In order to be able to return to her kingdom however, the faun must be sure that Ofelia is pure and hasn't been tainted with the curse of mortality. In order to prove herself she has to accomplish three tasks before the next full moon, only days away. Each one is more dangerous than the last.

All the while Captain Vidal searches for the rebels, cutting the locals rations so they won't have any food to share and torturing or killing anyone he suspects of helping them. With Ofelia knowing that one of the maids is helping the resistance, and her mother's pregnancy taking a turn for the worse, the girl is left with no one to turn to and no one to help her.

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Nov12

Paris nous appartient / Paris Belongs to Us (1961) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on November 12th, 2018 at 05:43
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Mystery

Paris Belongs to Us 1961 Criterion Collection
Though more amateurish than the other celebrated first features of the French New Wave, Jacques Rivette's troubled and troubling 1960 account of Parisians in the late 50s remains the most intellectually and philosophically mature, and one of the most beautiful. The specter of world-wide conspiracy and impending apocalypse haunts the characters — a student, an expatriate American, members of a low-budget theater company rehearsing Pericles — as the student tries to recover a tape of guitar music by a deceased Spanish emigre who may have committed suicide. Few films have more effectively captured a period and milieu; Rivette evokes bohemian paranoia and sleepless nights in tiny one-room flats, along with the fragrant, youthful idealism conveyed by the film's title (which is countered by the opening epigraph from Charles Peguy: “Paris belongs to no one”).

BD50 + DVD9 | 1080p AVC, NTSC | 02:22:09 | 45.2 Gb + 7.56 Gb
Language: Francais
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Mystery

Director: Jacques Rivette
Cast: Betty Schneider, Giani Esposito, Francoise Prevost
Country: France
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Nov12

Le notti di Cabiria / The Nights of Cabiria (1957) DVD9 Criterion Collection

by movieworld on November 12th, 2018 at 02:34
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

The Nights of Cabiria 1957 Criterion Collection
Cabiria is an aging prostitute in Rome, and she uses her toughness to ward off police raids, talk down to some of the other more aggressive prostitutes, and make sure that her clients don't jerk her around.
But at the same time, Cabiria is weak, and she's not just looking for some quick cash. She wants to be loved, and her job leads her to many potential clients or lovers. In fact, the film finds her in a month-long relationship as the film begins, only to lose it all suddenly and have to go back to her profession.
The rest of the film recounts her adventures in Rome, looking for true love and a new life.

Nights of Cabiria is a beautiful and heartbreaking film. It works mostly on the strength of Giulietta Masina, who is a combination of Lucille Ball, Charlie Chaplin, and Al Pacino.

DVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:57:53 | 7.83 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Italiano, English
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Giulietta Masina, Francois Perier, Franca Marzi
Country: Italy, France
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