Posts Tagged ‘Criterion Collection’

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Mar22

Videodrome (1983) 2 x DVD and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection, 2 x DVD Arrow Video

by movieworld on March 22nd, 2019 at 11:49
Posted In: .Other movies, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Videodrome 1983
Jaded Max Renn (James Woods) heads up a tiny, independent cable TV station that specializes in edgy softcore erotica and disturbing violence. Max is always on the lookout for the next piece of provocative sleaze, hunting the airwaves with his technical assistant Harlan (Peter Dvorsky) and searching the globe with the help of video freelancers like Masha (Lynne Gorman). When, with the help of Harlan, he stumbles on a fuzzy broadcast of something called Videodrome, which seems to feature graphic depictions of torture and murder, Max believes he's found something significant, the type of aggressively offensive video that's perfect for his station. As he pitches forward into his investigation of Videodrome's origin, he becomes involved with self-help maven Nicki Brand (Deborah Harry), and we find, as their relationship develops, that both share sadomasochistic desires that feed directly into Videodrome's allure. After Nicki disappears on her own quest to find Videodrome, Max finds himself experiencing increasingly bizarre hallucinations involving his stomach and his TV. By the time he meets Videodrome's Barry Convex (Les Carlson) and the elusive Brian O'Blivion (Jack Creely), Max is at the epicenter of a horrifying dreamscape, under the sway of some kind of video-borne mind control...

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Mar19

A Raisin in the Sun (1961) 2 x DVD and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on March 19th, 2019 at 22:02
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

A Raisin in the Sun 1961
The first filmed adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's landmark Broadway play, Daniel Petrie's A Raisin in the Sun (1961) still rings true for all the right and wrong reasons. It stars Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, and Claudia McNeil as three divided members of a Chicago family who'd love nothing more than to escape their cramped apartment...but they all have different ideas on how to do it. Their plans all come from the same source: a $10,000 life insurance check issued to matriarch Lena Younger (McNeil) after the recent death of her husband. Lena plans to put a down payment on a roomy house in the suburbs and send her daughter Beneatha (Diana Sands) to medical school. But her brash son Walter Lee (Poitier) has bigger ambitions: to invest all $10,000 in a liquor store with two friends and, hopefully, make a lot more money in the long run. Walter's wife Ruth (Dee), meanwhile, is trapped in the middle; she wants to support her husband, but his short temper and impatience have been straining their marriage in recent years. Their son Travis (Stephen Perry), who sleeps on the living room couch, rarely sees them fight but it's practically unavoidable.

Director: Daniel Petrie
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee
Country: USA
Genre: Drama
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Mar19

Andrei Rublev / Andrey Roublev / The Passion According to Andrey / Андрей Рублев (1966) 2 x DVD9 RUSCICO, 2 x Blu-Ray Curzon Artificial Eye, 3 x DVD9 and 2 x Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on March 19th, 2019 at 21:52
Posted In: .Russian movies, Biography, Drama, History

Andrei Rublev 1966
Andrei Rublev was considered to be one of the greatest Russian medieval painters of Orthodox frescos and icons. His authenticated work was all carried out in the 15th century and he was canonised as a saint by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1988. Andrei Tarkovsky took up the challenge of documenting his life on film, spending two years writing the script with Andrei Konchalovsky and researching medieval history.

Divided into eight chapters, with a prologue and epilogue, Andrei Rublev is epic in many ways. The film begins with Andrei (Anatoly Solonitsyn) leaving Andronikov Monastery, roaming the countryside searching for work with fellow monks and painters Daniil (Nikolai Grinko) and Kirill (Ivan Lapikov). Over the next three hours Tarkovsky charts their separate paths in the lives of three very different characters, through famines, wars, poverty, fame and crises of faith.

Andrei Rublev is a staggering feet of cinema. It’s undoubtedly Tarkovsky’s masterpiece and most meditative and strikingly beautiful film.
By opinion poll of the members of the European Academy of Film and Television (1995), this motion picture was recognized one of the world’s ten best films (8th place). Its original title – "The Andrei Passion".

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Mar19

Eclipse Series 46: Ingrid Bergman’s Swedish Years: The Count of the Old Town (1935), Walpurgis Night (1935), Intermezzo (1936), Dollar (1938), A Woman’s Face (1938), June Night (1940) 6 x DVD5 Criterion Collection

by movieworld on March 19th, 2019 at 19:55
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Eclipse Series 46
Ingrid Bergman is a genuine Hollywood icon thanks to her co-starring role in Casablanca and her collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock. While many are aware of her later films, including the challenging Italian pictures directed by her husband Robert Rossellini, as well as her eventual pairing with the other famous Swedish Bergman, Ingmar, not as much attention is paid to her pre-Hollywood career. For a short period, Ingrid Bergman made her name as an actress in Sweden, and six of her m films from her home country are now collected in the Ingrid Bergman's Swedish Years boxed set from Eclipse--giving many of us our first chance to see a screen legend developing her craft in the earliest stages of her endeavors.

The set starts out with smaller roles where she is a big supporting player before developing into lead roles where it's clear she was becoming a leading star. It isn't difficult to see why Bergman went on to carry entire productions with her presence: she shines through as a star in the making at each turn.

6 x DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 520 minutes | 23.6 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Svenska
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance

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Mar19

My Man Godfrey (1936) DVD9, Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on March 19th, 2019 at 19:36
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama, Romance

My Man Godfrey 1936
In the midst of the Great Depression, New York City's elitists are trying to outdo each other in a lavish scavenger hunt. The wealthy sisters Cornelia (Gail Patrick) and Irene (Carole Lombard) arrive at a popular dump by the river to pick up a winning "item" -- a "forgotten man" (William Powell). However, after a rather unpleasant exchange with Cornelia the precious "item" rejects her generous offer to participate in the event, and instead agrees to accompany Irene. The two then head back to the committee at the Ritz where he instantly becomes the main attraction, overshadowing even a visibly overwhelmed goat on a leash.

Irene is so drawn to Godfrey that she offers him a job as their family butler, which he accepts, much to the scorn of Cornelia who promises to make his life hell. However, he makes an exceptionally good butler and the rest of the family warm to him and keep him on. Irene falls madly in love with him too, although Godfrey keeps her at arms length as best he can. As the film moves on, we realise there’s more to Godfrey than meets the eye and it seems he has something planned for the Bullock family.

Director: Gregory La Cava
Cast: William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady
Country: USA
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Mar18

Memorias del subdesarrollo / Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) 2 x DVD and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on March 18th, 2019 at 22:23
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, History

Memories of Underdevelopment 1968
A very dry title for an absolutely tremendous film from 1968 by the Cuban director Tomas Gutierrez Alea. This transfixing movie, with its mix of freewheeling dialogue scenes, still photo images and documentary footage, conjures up the uncertain mood of Havana just after the revolution. It is something to put alongside the Soviet classic Soy Cuba from 1964, and in fact stars a Cuban actor from that film, Sergio Corrieri gives an outstanding performance as a wealthy idler who long ago allowed his artistic aspirations to wilt. When the Batista regime falls, his family, friends and pampered wife all flee to Miami but for reasons that he cannot quite explain, Sergio stays in the new Cuba, drifting, yet weirdly exhilarated and liberated. He becomes entangled in an messy affair with a 17-year-old, and ponders the fact that he has become like a decadent plant, with huge leaves and no fruit. Cuba, he now sees, has been "underdeveloped" according to the Marxist analysis, and his tragedy is that he can only dimly understand what part he has played in this, and has no clue as to how his own personal and spiritual underdevelopment might be remedied. And yet it is his viewpoint - alienated, yet shrewd and somehow also innocent - that allows us to see the reality of Cuban life, without dogmatism or wishful thinking. The effect is fascinating. This is a must-see.
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Mar18

The Naked Prey (1965) DVD9 (2007 edition) and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on March 18th, 2019 at 21:52
Posted In: .Other movies, Adventure, Drama, Thriller

The Naked Prey 1965
Although he directed and produced eight feature films during his career, Cornel Wilde was better known to movie audiences as an actor who excelled in swashbucklers (At Sword's Point, 1952) and athletic action roles (The Greatest Show on Earth, 1952). Only now, almost thirty years after his death, is his work as a director being reappraised as some of the most original and compelling work in the American cinema with his fifth feature, The Naked Prey, regarded as possibly his finest achievement.

Bearing similarities to the 1932 film version of Richard Edward Connell's short story, The Most Dangerous Game, a movie that had a profound effect on Wilde as a young boy, The Naked Prey follows a safari guide as he leads his party through the South African jungle. When the arrogant ivory hunter, who is financing the safari, refuses to pay homage to a group of tribesmen for entering their territory, there is bloody retribution. Only the safari guide is allowed to live...if he can outrun a group of armed warriors in pursuit. He is given a brief head start and then the chase begins, one which will test his strength, endurance and cunning repeatedly as he attempts to reach safety...

Director: Cornel Wilde
Cast: Cornel Wilde, Gert van den Bergh, Ken Gampu
Country: South Africa, USA
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
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Mar14

Le journal d’une femme de chambre / Diary of a Chambermaid (1964) DVD9 Criterion Collection, Blu-Ray

by movieworld on March 14th, 2019 at 20:11
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Drama

Diary of a Chambermaid 1964
The Bunuel Diary of a Chambermaid updates the setting of Octave Mirbeau’s turn-of-the-century novel, placing it in France post-World War I, amidst racial turmoil and the nascent fascist movement.

At a provincial high society home in 1930s France, wide-eyed domestic Celestine (French New Wave icon Jeanne Moreau) arrives to serve for the seemingly normal Monteil family. Naturally things are not even remotely what they seem, as each man from the foot fetishist aging patriarch to the gun-toting husband (Michel Piccoli), whose frigid wife (Francoise Lugagne) is Celestine's only real challenge. The estate is rocked when a young girl is found raped and murdered in the woods, and persecuted, fascist handyman, Joseph (Georges Geret), is accused of the crime. Celestine does a little private investigation to uncover the truth... though in typical Bunuel fashion, her motives may not be all that they seem.

Director: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Georges Geret, Michel Piccoli
Country: France, Italy
Genre: Crime, Drama
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Mar14

True Stories (1986) 2 x DVD9, Blu-Ray, CD Criterion Collection

by movieworld on March 14th, 2019 at 16:31
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Musical

True Stories 1986
David Byrne's True Stories (1986) is unequal parts travelogue, musical, comedy, and satire that pays tribute to the fictional town of Virgil, Texas and its upcoming 150th anniversary. Along the way, our unnamed guide (Byrne) meets a variety of Virgil's more colorful characters -- some of which are directly tied to the celebration -- including a country singer looking for love (John Goodman), the world's laziest woman (Swoosie Kurtz), a compulsive liar (Jo Harvey Allen), a Tejano singer with unique hearing abilities (Tito Larriva), a civic leader whose family conversations play out like the telephone game (Spalding Gray), and others. Their perspectives, interactions, and performances give the film a patchwork quality knit together by theatrical monologues and musical performances, many of which were written by Byrne for the Talking Heads studio album of the same name.

True Stories is one of the quirkiest and most original movies of the 1980s. That is not altogether surprising, since the Talking Heads were perhaps the most authentic and original rock band since Velvet Underground. Their concert film Stop Making Sense (1984, dir. Jonathan Demme) is justifiably considered to be the most perfectly filmed musical performance to date. That film, like the Talking Heads themselves, was birthed from the New York New Wave underground scene, with true-blue eccentric David Byrne as the front man, driving force, and genius of the group.

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Mar14

To Sleep with Anger (1990) Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on March 14th, 2019 at 14:49
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

To Sleep with Anger 1990
Sometimes a performance is so transfixing, it overtakes a mediocre movie and elevates it, even as everyone else seems to be operating at half speed. Such is the case of Danny Glover and To Sleep with Anger. No one who sees this film will forget Glover’s performance as Harry, the charming drifter who, even when he’s putting on his best, never seems to be at rest. There is something vibrationally wrong with this man, something that can’t be trusted. As one person describes him, he’s the moon, always eager to show his light side, but never forget that the other side lies in darkness.

When Harry arrives on Gideon's (Paul Butler) front porch, he is warmly welcomed by the patriarch and his wife, Suzie (Mary Alice), a hard-working, God-fearing couple who attempt to pass on their traditions to their adult sons. Junior (Carl Lumbly) and his wife share his parents' beliefs, which are thought backward by his buppie brother, Babe (Richard Brooks), and Babe's wife (Sheryl Lee Ralph). And the longer Harry stays, the more volatile the relations between the generations, the brothers, the couples and even the neighbors...

Director: Charles Burnett
Cast: Danny Glover, Paul Butler, DeVaughn Nixon, Mary Alice
Country: USA
Genre: Drama
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