Posts Tagged ‘Documentary’

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Jan17

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

by movieworld on January 17th, 2022 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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Jan17

Hitler… connais pas / Hitler – Never Heard of Him (1963) DVD9, Blu-Ray

by movieworld on January 17th, 2022 at 09:42
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary

Hitler... connais pas 1963
In 1963, 22-year-old Bertrand Blier invited 11 of his peers to come to a film studio and talk about their lives. The record of what was said, Hitler? Connais pas!, is a discussion of values that remains relevant and fascinating today. The footage was shot just five years prior to May 1968, and the atmosphere of that time is clearly discernible: these young people may not yet be revolutionaries, but there is clearly a ferment in the air. One young woman describes how she dances the twist every evening; a young man relates his mother's marital infidelities; another young woman describes her own sexual escapades. A bourgeois life holds no appeal for her whatsoever: that would be "a small life," like that of her parents -- and that is certainly not the way to happiness. Another young man has a very traditional attitude: a carbon copy of his father, typical of the 1950s. All he wants is a nice family, a good job, and a nice car in the driveway. Blier focused his camera on an interesting historical gray area. The aesthetics are typically 1960s: each of the twenty-somethings is filmed in isolation, sitting on a chair, under bright lights, from different angles, and in black-and-white.

Director: Bertrand Blier
Country: France
Genre: Documentary
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Jan17

El hombre cuando es hombre / A Man, When He Is a Man (1982) DVD5

by movieworld on January 17th, 2022 at 05:08
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El hombre cuando es hombre 1982
Valeria Sarmiento's cinema work – unique and difficult to define – is key to understanding many different fields of the film world, from experimental and feminist documentary, the films made by Chileans in exile, melodrama as the clue to accessing Latin American culture, irony and humour as reactions to different types of authoritarianism, monumental constructions throughout history, and the tyranny of manufactured consensus.

Images and the men speak for themselves in this lively, deceptive and devastating exploration of machismo in Costa Rican society, written and directed by Valeria Sarmiento.

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:06:39 | 4.05 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English hardcoded
Genre: Documentary

Director: Valeria Sarmiento
Country: France, West Germany, Costa Rica
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Jan17

Miscellanea I-VII – Sieben Filme von Heinz Emigholz (1986-2010) DVD9

by movieworld on January 17th, 2022 at 04:32
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Miscellanea I-VII
Seven Films by Heinz Emigholz

“Miscellanea" is the name I gave to films that have forced themselves upon me wanting to be made during the course of my work on other films – without a commission or funding debates. They are studies on 35mm film and HDV. The films are vessels for collections of film shots, footnotes, remarks and references, to be regarded as vanguard and memory.

For example, the films EL GRECO IN TOLEDO and ON BOARD THE USS TICONDEROGA emerged from two scenes of the film THE HOLY BUNCH from 1991, in which the images appeared only marginally as a component of the story. Yet the necessity to examine them more closely lived on beyond the limited time of a feature film. (Heinz Emigholz)

DVD9 | NTSC | 152 min | 7.42 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Deutsch
Subtitles: none
Genre: Documentary

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Jan17

Llorenc Llobet Gracia: Vida en sombras / Life in Shadows (1949) + 22 curts restaurats / cortos restaurados / restored shorts (1928-1954) 3 x DVD9

by movieworld on January 17th, 2022 at 03:33
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary, Drama

Vida en sombras 1949
Llorenc Llobet Gracia (1911 - 1976) has always bonded intimately with the world of cinema since his father gave him, in his young age, a Pathe-Baby camera. This childhood experience is re-enacted at the beginning of Vida en sombras, the only commercial film he made, in 1948, after having developed an intense activity in amateur cinema circles.

The plot, with autobiographical tinges, is about the life of a man born literally in a stall during one of the first cinema showings in Barcelona. His fascination for Chaplin’s short-films and the Pearl White series forge his childhood and, in his yough, he devotes his time to write for cinema magazines and film everything he sees. However, the 1936 coup d’etat, ruins everything. While the protagonist, performed by Fernando Fernan Gomez, is shooting war images on the street, his pregnant wife, Maria Dolores Pradera, dies at home, fatally wounded by a burst of ammunition.
Traumatized by guilt, the protagonist decides to give up any contact with the cinema...

Director: Lorenzo Llobet Gracia (as Llobet Gracia)
Cast: Fernando Fernan Gomez, Maria Dolores Pradera, Isabel de Pomes
Country: Spain
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Jan17

El cine exprimental de Narcisa Hirsch / Narcisa Hirsch’s Experimental Films (1971-2011) 2 x DVD

by movieworld on January 17th, 2022 at 03:20
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El cine exprimental de Narcisa Hirsch
Narcisa Hirsch's experimental films form an important chapter in the history of the Argentine avant-garde. Exploring female identity, mortality, eroticism, and violence, her work took on the political issues of her day, connecting personal narratives to larger social histories.

Moving into filmmaking in the late sixties following her earlier work in painting, performances and happenings, Hirsch focuses on the body and corporeal experience in her work, and combines her musings on spiritual and existential questions with lyrical imagery derived largely from the interior spaces of her domestic life, the rural landscapes of Patagonia and the urban environments of Buenos Aires.

DVD9 + DVD5 | PAL | 210 min | 11.2 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Silent, Spanish
Subtitles: English
Genre: Experimental

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Jan16

India Song (1975), La couleur des mots / The Colour of Words (1984) DVD9

by movieworld on January 16th, 2022 at 13:45
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Romance

India Song 1975
Poetical tale of Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in India in the 1930s. At 18 she had married a French colonial administrator and went with him on posting to Savannakhet, Laos.

A film experience quite unlike any other, since the story is entirely told through the spoken word soundtrack and the images on screen are extended static tableaux that work as moving illustrations; the effect is dazzling, poignant and hypnotic, but certainly not for the average viewer.

DVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 01:53:53 | 6.92 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Francais
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Director: Marguerite Duras
Cast: Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Mathieu Carriere
Country: France
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Jan15

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

by movieworld on January 15th, 2022 at 17:52
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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Jan15

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

by movieworld on January 15th, 2022 at 08:58
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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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Jan13

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

by movieworld on January 13th, 2022 at 21:42
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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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