Posts Tagged ‘Documentary’

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Oct14

Giorni di gloria / Days of Glory (1945) DVD5

by movieworld on October 14th, 2020 at 15:40
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Giorni di gloria 1945
The first documentary on the German occupation of Rome and Italian resistance in the waning years of World War II.
It focuses on a notorious massacre of over 300 Italian prisoners in reprisal for a partisan attack on the SS in March 1944, and the post-war trial of some of the Italian fascists responsible. Several sequences (the removal of bodies from the Ardeatine caves and the executions by firing squad of the fascists in particular) are gruesome in the extreme, but the film is an essential complement to the picture given in works such as Rossellini's "Paisa" and "Rome, Open City".
Commissioned by the Allies’ Psychological Warfare Branch, the film was shot over two years by four soon-to-be major figures in postwar Italian cinema.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:10:27 | 4.12 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Italiano
Subtitles: English, Italiano
Genre: Documentary

Directors: Giuseppe De Santis, Mario Serandrei, Marcello Pagliero, Luchino Visconti
Country: Italy, Switzerland
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Oct14

1789 (1974) 2 x DVD

by movieworld on October 14th, 2020 at 12:38
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1789 1974
The cooperative production of "1789" brought Theatre du Soleil worldwide attention when it was performed at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan in 1970-71, the first time the company had ventured out of France.

In "1789", the French Revolution is conceived as an extravagant performance piece, a spectacle that is part Brecht, part commedia dell'arte, part puppet show and largely carnival. The revolution that included more street drama than any other is shrewdly reconceived in the terms most accessible and sympathetic to ordinary citizens.

Ariane Mnouchkine's film is not a true work of cinema, though; it is a filmed version of actual performances by the Theatre du Soleil, shot in 1973 at the end of the play's three-year run. As the movie begins, we see actors putting on elaborate stage makeup, and through the next two and a half hours we rarely lose sight of the audience, standing spectators who look as if they are gathered at a sideshow. The film insists on remaining a self-consciously theatrical experience.

Director: Ariane Mnouchkine
Cast: Roland Amstutz, Lucia Bensasson, Jean-Claude Bourbault
Country: France
Genre: Documentary
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Oct13

The Early Works of Cheryl Dunye: Janine (1990), She Don’t Fade (1991), Vanilla Sex (1992), An Untitled Portrait (1993), The Potluck and the Passion (1993), Greetings from Africa (1996) DVD5

by movieworld on October 13th, 2020 at 12:59
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Documentary, Drama

The Early Works of Cheryl Dunye
Vilified by conservatives in Congress, defended by major newspapers, and celebrated by audiences and festivals around the world as one of the most provocative, humorous and important filmmakers of our time, Cheryl Dunye practically invented a new form of cinema – call it the ‘Dunyementary.’ Using a mixture of narrative and documentary techniques, the ‘Dunyementary’ challenges social and cultural norms through a sharply funny and reflexive lens. Never scholarly or didactic, Dunye appreciates the value in entertaining viewers.

Her acclaimed first feature THE WATERMELON WOMAN (1996) introduced Cheryl to wider audiences, who fell in love with her self-depreciating and insightful wit – not to mention the great casts she assembled (including herself). But what came before this modern-day classic?

Presented here are the films that started it all – the early works which gave birth to an extraordinary and original filmmaking talent. Made with great creativity on often miniscule budgets, they represent the first chapter of the Cheryl Dunye oeuvre.

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:11:21 | 4.37 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Documentary, Short, Comedy, Drama

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Oct13

The Occult History of the Third Reich (1992) 2 x DVD5

by movieworld on October 13th, 2020 at 11:55
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary, History

The Occult History of the Third Reich 1992
The murderous deeds of Hitler's Third Reich are still widely recalled today, but what is less well-known is the strange concoction of beliefs that underpinned the Nazi regime.

In the early 20th Century, the young Adolf Hitler was just one of many German-speaking people attracted by a new Germanic mythology that combined ancient legends and esoteric cosmologies with cutting-edge theories of genetic science. In the hands of the Nazis, the result was a new ideology that saw racial purity as the key to human destiny.

By the time of the Third Reich, Hitler and the Nazis had evolved an entirely new faith, complete with holy book, venerated relics and a priestly elite in the form of Himmler's SS. It was a religion based on obedience, power, and the cult of the leader, with Hitler himself conceived in Messianic terms.

With archival footage and narration explaining the influences of the occult on the Third Reich, this four-part documentary further unveils the twisted mind of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime.

2xDVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 210 min | 8.37 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Documentary, History

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Oct12

Scorsese Shorts: What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1963), It’s Not Just You, Murray! (1964), The Big Shave (1967), Italianamerican (1974), American Boy: A Profile of – Steven Prince 1978) Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on October 12th, 2020 at 13:17
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Crime, Documentary, Drama, Horror

Scorsese Shorts
“A filmmaker shows what his career will be in his first 150 feet of film,” François Truffaut once wrote. He was talking about Jean Vigo at the time, but he might as well have been talking about Martin Scorsese, whose early short films — from the narrative works of his student years at New York University and immediately afterward to the midlength documentaries he made as his feature-filmmaking career was getting underway — reveal the energy, eclecticism, and invention that would make him one of the most exciting American directors of the seventies and, eventually, one of the great artists of our time.

Criterion’s release of five early Martin Scorsese shorts reveals that the filmmaker knew the kind of artist he was and wanted to be at a young age. All of the films included in this set contain seeds of future Scorsese classics, and they’re all formally playful and sophisticated, with lasting career reverberations: Four of the five shorts center around the rapture and mythology of storytelling, while the fifth plumbs the theme of self-annihilation that would become a Scorsese leitmotif. Collectively, the five films span two distinct periods in Scorsese’s career: as an N.Y.U. student and graduate in the early-to-mid 1960s, and as a rising filmmaker in the mid-to-late ‘70s.

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Sep23

Peter Nestler: 9 Films 1962-2009 2 x DVD9

by movieworld on September 23rd, 2020 at 16:54
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Peter Nestler 9 Films
Admired by the likes of Jean-Marie Straub and Harun Farocki, Peter Nestler was one of the most important filmmakers to emerge from postwar Germany. From his early films about the changing realities of rural and industrial areas in Germany and the UK, to his work for Swedish television, Nestler has remained a precise observer of the poetry and politics of labor, crafting meticulous portraits of industrial processes, working conditions, and workers themselves, as well as the background of struggle and oppression against which the era’s proletariat toiled. A vigorous yet nuanced opponent of fascism, an excavator of lost histories and a masterful formalist whose works are rich with a materiality all their own, Nestler has spent five decades chronicling how things get made, whether in a factory or at the level of ideology.

Nestler’s films are beyond documentaries. He is not engaging in mere journalism. Nor are these films essays, whereby Nestler expounds on working class life or the ravishing changes of industry.

Rather, Nestler is a kind of poet connecting the dots between environmental shifts and the resilience of human beings. Whether it is the innocence of schoolchildren, or the contemplative suffering of community elders, Nestler presents us with the enduring joy of the human heart.

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Sep11

Breve Antologia Della Pittura Italiana (2006) 8 x DVD

by movieworld on September 11th, 2020 at 11:59
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Breve Antologia Della Pittura Italiana 2006
Italian Art from 1200 to 1900. The life and works of 94 Italian famous painters from the 13th to the 20th century in a unique multimedia work of its kind.

22 hours of movies and documentaries from the Archive of the Istituto Luce, 1200 photographies, artists' biographies and interactive menus which create a great work.

8xDVD | PAL 4:3 | 1320 minutes | 51.6 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Italiano
Subtitles: English, Italiano
Genre: Documentary

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Sep10

Reflets de Cannes & Cinépanorama, le cinéma selon François Chalais (1956-1967) (2012) 3 x DVD9

by movieworld on September 10th, 2020 at 14:10
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Reflets de Cannes & Cinépanorama
Figure et voix légendaire, François Chalais a livré pendant près de 15 ans la chronique du monde du cinéma en filmant et interviewant le tout-cinéma des années 50 et 60. À travers les séquences les plus emblématiques de Reflets de Cannes et de Cinépanorama, ce coffret ravive la lumière des grandes années du cinéma.

On y retrouve John Wayne, cow-boy à la ville comme à l’écran, Billy Wilder dans une irrésistible interview, Bourvil hilare et hilarant en cure à Contrexéville, Sophia Loren, sex-symbol mais non moins comédienne studieuse, Jane Fonda plus vraie que nature, Catherine Deneuve entre les mains de Roger Vadim et de nombreux autres monuments de cinéma ! La plus glamour des histoires du cinéma.

3xDVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 460 min | 22.7 Gb + 3% rec
Language: French / English with French voice-over
Subtitles: none
Genre: Documentary

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Aug31

Pere Portabella – Complete Works (Obra completa) (1967 – 2010) 7 x DVD

by movieworld on August 31st, 2020 at 22:05
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, History

Pere Portabella Complete Works
Pere Portabella's work as producer and director has largely taken place on the margins of the film industry. Although he will not accept the label "underground," he takes pride in the fact that his films have never been "commercial," a word he despises. Following the lead of Jean-Luc Godard and the more radical artists from the nouvelle vague, he experimented with film language, always questioning the classical, linear, straightforward notion of narration and representation. In his own words: "I have always thought that the main political dimension of my films lies in attacking linguistic codes. Ideology impregnates society through the dominant languages. I have never seen myself as working on a film that is 'transparent' of supposedly more 'comprehensible' codes. I understand their tactical function in certain political situations. But what I think has maintained the interest in my films beyond their juncture, is the way in which they are all related, within their contexts, through the complexity, rather than the complication, of language, and a subversion of the dominant codes."

7 x DVD | PAL | 869 min.
Language: Spanish, Catalonian
Subtitles: English, Espanol, Francais

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May30

After Porn Ends (2012), After Porn Ends 2 (2017) 2 x DVD9

by movieworld on May 30th, 2020 at 16:40
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary

After Porn Ends
Like it or not pornography is a billion dollar industry, forms the seedy backbone to the internet, and was the deciding factor in the war between Betamax and VHS and between Blu-ray and HD DVD. Sex sells, sex streams, and in order for pornography to exist people have to have sex on camera. Beyond the simple appeal of watching naked people touch one another porn is fascinating from a psychological point of view; what makes people get into porn and what do they do with their lives afterwards?

After Porn Ends is a documentary that not only examines the lives and careers of some of the biggest names in the history of the adult entertainment industry but what happens to them after they leave the business and try and live the "normal" lives.

After Porn Ends 2 picks up where its predecessor left off, and not only turns back the clock to meet the oldest living stars in adult film's history, but goes in depth with some of its most current retirees, and juxtaposes their experiences in a life after porn.

Director: Bryce Wagoner
Cast: Amber Lynn, Asia Carrera, Bobby Slayton, Lisa Ann, Georgina Spelvin, Darren James
Country: USA
Genre: Documentary

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