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Jun06

Les quatre soeurs / Shoah: The Four Sisters (2018) 2 x Blu-Ray Eureka – Masters of Cinema, 2 x DVD9 Arte

by movieworld on June 6th, 2019 at 12:45
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary, History

Shoah The Four Sisters 2018
If there was a Nobel Prize for conducting interviews, the late Claude Lanzmann would have surely been a laureate. Through recorded oral histories, he documented the Holocaust in directly personal terms. The ten-hour Shoah felt distinctly radical in 1985 and it remains the single most important cinematic exploration of the National Socialist genocide. Lanzmann continued to revisit the Holocaust in subsequent films, employing the same sensitive but persistent interview style. Essentially, this is a collection of outtakes from Shoah, but they are decidedly weighty and compelling outtakes. Four women tell how they witnessed and survived the horrific in Lanzmann's Shoah: Four Sisters.

Four Sisters consists of four short features taken from interviews he shot for “Shoah” in the 1970s, each showcasing the testimony of a different female Holocaust survivor. Their stories are as harrowing, complicated and rife with imponderables as any Lanzmann filmed. And together, collected in a form that is much less labyrinthine than “Shoah,” they represent an ideal introduction (and capstone) to Lanzmann’s project.

Director: Claude Lanzmann
Country: France
Genre: Documentary, History

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May31

The War Room (1993) Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on May 31st, 2019 at 17:31
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary, History

The War Room 1993
One of the most interesting relationships that formed from Bill Clinton's presidential campaign in 1992 was that of James "The Ragin' Cajun" Carville and George Stephanopoulos, campaign strategists, they were key coordinators to Clinton's successful run at the White House. The film "The War Room" from filmmakers D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus takes viewers behind-the-scenes of a political campaign from the perspective of Carville and Stephanopoulos. Capturing their challenges, the strategies, the working relationship and their friendship.

The camera follows their day-to-day activities, watching them build morale, plan political ads, answer phone calls, and grab a quick bite to eat. "The War Room" of the title is the room where the campaign team meets to hash out the strategy.

"The War Room" while never delving too deeply into the "strategy", secrets of the campaign (mainly because they weren't allowed to film those meetings) and Clinton himself aren't spotlighted, yet it offers a rarely seen glimpse into the political world.
What's truly remarkable is that far from a stodgy or boring look at boardroom machinations, the viewer is granted access to an exhilarating, come-from-behind political action story.

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May20

The Birds and the Bees – 60 years of British sex education films (1917-1973) 2 x DVD9

by movieworld on May 20th, 2019 at 17:50
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The Birds and the Bees
From the earliest-known example, Whatsoever a Man Soweth (1917) to the comical, but ultimately serious, ‘Ave You Got a Male Assistant Please Miss? (1973), this unique anthology of 16 key titles takes in almost 60 years of the British sex education film.

Take a journey through the euphemisms, metaphors, and diagrams of yore to discover the controversial attitude-changing works of the early 1970s. All matters, unmentionable or otherwise, are dealt with here, from First World War warnings to soldiers of the potential dangers of cavorting with loose women in London’s West End, to puberty pep-talks for girls and scare stories to deter unwanted teenage pregnancies.

By turns enlightening, entertaining and surprising, the range and type of works presented here will interest film fans, social historians and anyone interested to ensure that they stay on the road to health.

2 x DVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 338 mins | 14 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Genre: Documentary

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May20

Art & Cinema – Henri Storck – The Documentaries on Art (1944-1970) DVD9

by movieworld on May 20th, 2019 at 15:54
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Art Cinema - Henri Storck
Henri Storck is one of the pioneers of the Belgian cinema; his film career is itself a “history of cinema.” He lived through the whole history of cinema, passing from silent to sound, and from experimental to commercial films. From 1927 through the seventies he has created a vast work which includes both fictional and anthropological films. In 1927, Storck organized a “Club de cinema,” where he met Rene Clair and Eisenstein. The great cameraman Boris Kaufman, later Storck's collaborator, taught him film technique. In Paris Storck became Jean Vigo's assistant for Zero for Conduct, after which he worked with documentarist Joris Ivens. All the while, he was making experimental shorts and features of enormous originality.
In 1944, he starts making documentaries on art. He devotes two films to Paul Delvaux. Together with art critic Paul Haesaerts he makes Rubens, a long exploration - at times didactic, at times lyric - of the world of the great Baroque painter. Its inventiveness was awarded by the first prize for documentary at the Venice film festival in 1949. The Open Window plunges the spectator into the most famous landscapes of Belgian, French, English and Dutch artists. An Artists Reunion dates from 1945, and in 1953 he portrays Flemish writer, intellectual and theatre educationist Herman Teirlinck.

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May07

Smultronstallet / Wild Strawberries (1957), Ingmar Bergman on Life and Work (1998) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on May 7th, 2019 at 18:23
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary, Drama, Romance

Wild Strawberries 1957 Criterion CollectionWild Strawberries captures the thoughtful and compassionate side of Ingmar Bergman rarely seen in his films. It is the story of an aging man’s introspective journey on the meaning of his life, and inevitability of death.

Isak Borg is a doctor well into his autumn years and about to receive an honorary degree celebrating his fifty years in medicine. As he makes the trip to the university, he and his daughter-in-law travel across the areas where he grew up, leading Isak to reflect on his life, which ultimately makes him confront his fears and the fact that he has become a cold, inadequate man. They pick up a group of kids and a husband and wife, and even these strangers begin to meld into Isak's nightmares and reflections. Isak Borg is forced to confront his wasted emotional life, the inevitability of his death, and he struggles to make amends with who he has become.

Wild Strawberries is the most beautiful of Ingmar Bergman's pessimistic films. There are splashes of humor in it, but its effective depiction of the suffocating loneliness elderly people struggle with towards the end of their lives is indeed quite depressing.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Victor Sjostrom, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin
Country: Sweden
Genre: Drama, Romance
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May06

Tmar a jeho rod aneb Slzave udoli pyramid / Obscurantist and His Lineage or The Pyramids’ Tearful Valleys (2011) DVD9

by movieworld on May 6th, 2019 at 13:57
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary, Mystery

Obscurantist and His Lineage or The Pyramids' Tearful Valleys 2011
Karel Vachek's documentary essay deals with the fine line between an internal belief in God and institutionalized religion. At the same time it brings up the need for a healthy sense of skepticism and the benefit of not believing in anything that advertises itself as certain. The filmmaker sets out for the USA, Japan, Great Britain, Poland, and the Balkans in his sometimes amusing investigation of spiritual substitutes, such as esoteric "teachings" or various fraudulent and magical practices, to which we sometimes fall prey due to our natural religious cravings. In addition to a Czech "prefab" family, who describe the carryings-on of their poltergeist, well-known mystery buffs appear in the film: Erich von Daniken, Raymond Moody Jr., and Ivan Mackerl. Director Vachek, however, uses no irony or ridicule, and although his position of skepticism in the film is clear, he is quick to point out surprising correspondences between the newest scientific hypotheses and the most ancient religious texts.

Whilst Brno welcomes Pope Benedict XVI. and Barack Obama is promising a world without nuclear arms in Prague, the members of the Academy of Sciences are protesting by the National Theatre, and ghosts appear nearby in the basement of the Film and Photography Academy (FAMU), Egon Bondy mulls over the principle of God in the binary system, Raymond A. Moody lectures about life after life, governments use the media and the intelligence services to keep secret the existence of a UFO and a lady member of a Czech Tai-chi club is being subjected to remote astral torture by the Chinese...
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May03

He Stands in the Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986), Quartet Number One (1991) DVD9

by movieworld on May 3rd, 2019 at 20:19
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He Stands in the Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life 1986
The great achievement of American avant-garde film has been the interiorization of the cinema image: the creation of a body of films whose techniques are geared not toward using the film image for objective presentation of external events but for the exploration of the varieties of the private personas and inner visions of their makers. Jonas Mekas’s film, He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life, is one of the most intense, beautiful, and moving examples of that tradition.

While we do see Mekas himself and his family, the film’s focus is on many other, often more public figures. There are a number of “celebrities,” from John and Yoko to Andy Warhol to Jackie O. and various Kennedy children. There is also much footage of persons well known to followers of independent film: Peter Kubelka, Hollis Frampton, Ken Jacobs, P. Adams Sitney, Richard Foreman. There are also many other Mekas friends who are not well known.

For the past 25 years, Mekas has been releasing a series of diary films, each dealing with different periods of his life, which together will constitute a single, massive cinema autobiography. He Stands in a Desert is the first of three films utilizing footage shot over the last 15 years; Mekas sees this film as the one most concerned with material outside his personal life.
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May02

183 Tage – Der Auschwitz-Prozess / 183 Days – The Auschwitz Trial (2015) DVD9

by movieworld on May 2nd, 2019 at 20:42
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183 Days - The Auschwitz Trial 2015
Auschwitz remains the epitome of horror. To understand what went on in the heads of the camp guards is the matter at hand in the film "183 Days - The Auschwitz Trial”.

The 1963-1965 trial of 22 Nazi officials who ran the Auschwitz death camp marked a turning point when Germans faced up to their role in the Holocaust.

Unlike the better known 1945-1946 Nuremberg trials where judges from the Allied powers presided over the hearings of top Nazis, the Frankfurt trial was the first in which Germans prosecuted Germans.

"183 Days - The Auschwitz Trial" focuses on four defendants and their testimonies, opening decisions and verdicts.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 02:53:04 | 7.08 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Deutsch
Subtitles: English
Genre: Documentary

Director: Janusch Kozminski
Country: Germany
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Apr28

Belgrade Between the Two World Wars: Belgrade (1919), Belgrade, the Capital of Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1932), Belgrade (1932) Blu-Ray

by movieworld on April 28th, 2019 at 15:58
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Belgrade Between the Two World Wars
3 films about the Balkan megapolis during interwar period:

- "Belgrade" (1919) (5:23)
- "Belgrade, the Capital of Kingdom of Yugoslavia" (1932) (56:30)
- "Belgrade" (1932) (12:00)

BD25 | 1080i MPEG-2 | 84 min | 11.4 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Serbian Intertitles
Subtitles: English
Genre: Documentary

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Apr28

Bowling for Columbine (2002) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on April 28th, 2019 at 14:52
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Documentary, Drama

Bowling for Columbine 2002
At 6:00 a.m. on April 20, 1999, two high school outcasts, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, went bowling in their peaceful hometown of Littleton, Colorado. Only hours later, they entered into Columbine High School and opened fire on their classmates and teachers, creating a deadly bloodbath that ended with their own suicides. This tragic event shook the nation, and everyone started pointing figures and putting the blame on everything from the two teens' parents, to the continuous taunting of their peers, to their easy access to firearms, to violent movies, music, and video games. The simple fact is no one knows why Klebold and Harris did what they did, nor are we ever going to know for sure.

The intrepid filmmaker Michael Moore set out to investigate the long, often volatile love affair between Americans and their firearms, uncovering the pervasive culture of fear that keeps the nation locked and loaded.

Director: Michael Moore
Cast: Michael Moore, Charlton Heston, Marilyn Manson, Salvador Allende, George Bush, Bill Clinton
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Drama
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