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Apr05

Wege im Zwielicht / Paths in Twilight / Way in the twilight (1948) DVD9

by movieworld on April 5th, 2020 at 14:30
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Wege im Zwielicht / Paths in Twilight / Way in the twilight (1948) DVD9
Three young war veterans get involved in a murder on the black market in Hanover and fled to the countryside. Only in the village of Mayor Luke they find refuge. Luke takes care of the young men and offers them the opportunity to prove themselves useful by letting them build the much needed bridge for the village.

Way in the twilight is a German drama from 1948. It's about the controversial topic of homelessness and rootlessness in the hard times of postwar Germany. Not only the economic hardship is identified, and the personal stories - the mental deficits of the people, the question of guilt - can be accommodated. This begs the question: How far is how far it can be ordered by the morality in a country shortly after the defeat at the end of a long war?

DVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 01:21:54 | 6.84 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Deutsch
Subtitles: English, Deutsch
Genre: Drama

Director: Gustav Frohlich
Actors: Gustav Frohlich, Johanna Lepski, Sonja Ziemann, Benno Sterzenbach, Gerd E. Schafer, Alfred Laufhutte
Country: Germany
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Apr04

Salvatore Giuliano (1962) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Arrow Academy

by movieworld on April 4th, 2020 at 17:11
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama, History, Mystery

Salvatore Giuliano 1962
5 July 1950. Salvatore Giuliano, Italy's most wanted criminal, is found shot dead in a dusty courtyard. Who killed him, and why? And who was he?

Filming in the exact locations and enlisting a cast of native Sicilians once impacted by the real Giuliano, director Francesco Rosi harnessed the facts and myths surrounding the true story of the bandit's death to create a startling expose of Sicily and the tangled relations between its citizens, the Mafia, and government officials.

The film that made Francesco Rosi's international reputation, this Citizen Kane-style investigative portrait was originally called Sicily 1943-60, as Rosi sought not so much to depict Giuliano himself as the society from which he sprang, in which the police, the carabinieri and the Mafia all have strong vested interests.

BD50, DVD9 | 1080p AVC, PAL | 02:03:56 | 43.5 Gb + 7.85 Gb
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English

Director: Francesco Rosi
Cast: Frank Wolff, Salvo Randone, Frederico Zardi
Country: Italy
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery

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Apr04

Der Untertan / The Kaiser’s Lackey (1951) DVD5

by movieworld on April 4th, 2020 at 17:01
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama

The Kaiser's Lackey 1951
The Kaiser's Lackey (Der Untertan) is the 1951 film of East German filmmaker Wolfgang Staudte (The Muderers are Among Us). It is a broad social satire based on a novel by Heinrich Mann, who also wrote the source material that became The Blue Angel.

From a young age Diedrich was afraid of all those around him, he was taught and beaten (figuratively and literally) to respect and obey those superior to him. As Diedrich grows to adulthood he becomes more cunning and learns if you want to get ahead in life there are two ways, one is to grovel before others, or step on top of others. As he advances from his beer drinking military cadet days to a factory owner and finally the Kaiser's lackey, Diedrich show how a small fearful man can rise to power with little effort by having the 'right' connections.

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:43:54 | 3.63 Gb + 3% rec
Language: German
Subtitles: English hardcoded
Genre: Comedy, Drama

Director: Wolfgang Staudte
Cast: Werner Peters, Paul Esser, Renate Fischer
Country: East Germany
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Apr03

Chantal Akerman Collection les Annees 70: Hotel Monterey (1973), Je tu il elle / I, You, He, She (1974), Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), News from Home (1977), Les rendez-vous d’Anna / Anna’s Meetings (1978) 5 x DVD

by movieworld on April 3rd, 2020 at 16:05
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary, Drama

Chantal Akerman Collection
For almost 50 years, until her suicide on 5 October 2015, Chantal Akerman was one of the cinema’s most original postwar auteurs – a documentarian, anecdotist, comedian, chanteuse, and restless innovator. She was Jewish, born in 1950 to Auschwitz survivor Natalia Akerman, and over the course of her many shorts, features, and installations, Chantal obsessively chronicled the legacy of her ancestors.

The Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur, speaking at Akerman’s funeral, recited a Jewish phrase which seizes upon the power of her films, and the influence Natalia exerted over them: “Nishmata Tzroura Bitzror Hachayim.” “Her life is woven into our own.” Reflecting on her work, it’s clear that no other film artist bequeathed to her audience such intimate proof of having been here as Chantal Akerman. And this is what she leaves us – a cinema of unmade beds.

The range of her work is astounding, from largely experimental 'difficult' works represented by the three shorter films on in this set ('Hotel Monterey', 'News From Home' and 'La Chambre' ), to frothy musical-comedy, to introspective dramas represented here by the great 'Jeanne Dielman', 'Je Tu Il Elle' and 'Les Rendz-vous D'Anna'.

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Apr03

The Agnes Varda Collection: La Pointe-Courte / La Pointe Courte (1955), Cleo de 5 a 7 / Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962), Le bonheur / Happiness (1965), L’une chante l’autre pas / One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977), Sans toit ni loi / Vagabond (1985), Jacquot de Nantes (1991), Les glaneurs et la glaneuse / The Gleaners & I (2000), Les plages d’Agnes / The Beaches of Agnes (2008) 8 x Blu-Ray Artificial Eye

by movieworld on April 3rd, 2020 at 13:34
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, History, Romance

The Agnes Varda Collection
Revered for her bold political and autobiographically inspired work, Agnes Varda is a seminal feminist filmmaker and matriarch of the French New Wave.

Her influential career began in the 1950s with La Pointe Courte - often considered the unofficial first film of the New Wave - and continues seven decades later, as in 2017 she became the first female director to be awarded an honorary Oscar.

Revered for her bold political and autobiographically inspired work The Agnes Varda Collection is a selection of her most illuminating narrative features. The Blu-ray box set contains eight discs spanning six decades of Varda’s feature films, over six hours of special features including interviews, featurettes and short films.

8xBD | 1080p AVC | 790 min | 251 + 3% rec
Language: French
Subtitles: English
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Biography, History, Documentary

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Mar31

Teorema / Theorem (1968) Blu-Ray Criterion Collection, DVD9 and Blu-Ray BFI

by movieworld on March 31st, 2020 at 15:37
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Mystery

Teorema 1968
Throughout his career, novelist, essayist, and auteur Pier Paolo Pasolini (Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom; Oedipus Rex; The Gospel According to St. Matthew) always seemed concerned with a seamless combination of the sexual and the religious. In his 1968 film Theorem (Teorema), adapted from his own novel, he occupies this same thematic space in an almost enigmatic and surreal story about a rich family, their maid, and a man simply known as “The Visitor” (Terence Stamp).

Arriving at the wealthy family’s home, the stranger quickly inserts himself into their lives and possesses a strange, almost supernatural seductiveness over all of them, male and female alike. He seduces each member of the household, not the least of which, the family’s maid, Emilia. After he works his will on them all and makes his way through each member, he leaves just as quickly as he came, leaving them all feeling empty. The seduction of their maid, in particular, seems to leave a peculiar, unsettled feeling with the rich family, as if they have been even more debased knowing this. They are left pondering what has occurred, and how The Visitor could have held such sway over them all. Was he an angel of sensuality, or, Lucifer, the bringer of light?

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Mar31

Roma (2018) Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on March 31st, 2020 at 13:33
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Roma 2018
Writer-director Alfonso Cuaron's Mexican masterpiece Roma (2018) is a magnificent movie, brilliantly staged, and gloriously realised in gorgeous black and white scope images, with a warm and winning saga, highlighted by a couple of heart-stopping moments. Cuaron is also his own cinematographer.

It is a director's film, but real acting is required too, and the two main roles are female, and Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira are superb as the maid Cleo and the house mother Sofia, both facing difficult, life-changing personal problems, with men, as it happens.

Cuaron’s story chronicles a tumultuous year in the life of a comfortable middle-class family in Mexico City in the early Seventies, a year and a life that he conjures up lavishly and magically. It is heartfelt, personal cinema, and real and relevant feeling, but the scale of some of the reconstructions is breathtaking.

Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Cast: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey
Country: USA, Mexico
Genre: Drama
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Mar31

Who’s That Knocking at My Door / I Call First (1967) DVD9 BFI

by movieworld on March 31st, 2020 at 11:30
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Romance

Who's That Knocking at My Door 1967
J.R. (played by Harvey Keitel) is a young adult New Yorker who spends most of his time with his wisecracking rambunctious friends Joey (played by Lennard Kuras) and Sally Gaga (played by Michael Scala), rather than working or making an honest living. One day at the ferry he meets a girl (played by Zina Bethune) who he is smitten by but has no idea how to engage in conversation. Commenting on her French magazine having a photo of John Wayne, he tries to converse about “The Searchers” which she can’t remember quite as well as he could. The two have a long talk where he seemingly dominates the conversation, but she does eventually find charm in him. The girl is a liberal modern girl with very different values and interests compared to the Catholic Italian-American J.R. but through a series of dates together they come closer to the point that J.R. confesses that he is completely in love with her. But when she discloses an incident from her past that devastates J.R., it severely puts a toll on their future together...

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:26:06 | 7.80 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Deutsch, Russian
Subtitles: English, Deutsch, Espanol, Portugues, Suomi, Svenska, Norsk, Polish, Czech(Ceske), English SDH, Hrvatski, Greek, Slovenian, Magyar, Islenska, Turkish

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Mar31

Ba wang bie ji / Farewell My Concubine (1993) DVD9 and Blu-Ray BFI

by movieworld on March 31st, 2020 at 10:18
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Romance

Farewell My Concubine 1993
Farewell My Concubine is a film directed by Chen Kaige, adapted from a novel by Lilian Lee. The title is based on a traditional Chinese tale about a loyal concubine and her defeated king.

The film follows the lives of two members of the Beijing Opera, starting from the grueling training regimen they had to endure as children in the mid 1920s, until shortly after the end of the Cultural Revolution some 50 years later. The delicate Douzi (Leslie Cheung), son of a prostitute who abandons him to the opera when he grows too old to stay at her brothel, and the tough Shitou (Zhang Fengyi), who immediately bonds with and looks out for the younger boy. The film also stars Gong Li as the woman who comes between them.

It's a beautifully crafted picture that makes use of its large budget for some impressive set pieces, elegant costumes, and outstanding cinematography. There are also two layers at work in this ambitious epic. The personal story of the two men, their lifelong friendship and their complicated relationship as it evolves throughout the years; and also a sweeping retelling of the tumultuous history of China from 1924 to 1976.

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Mar30

Old Joy (2006) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on March 30th, 2020 at 16:30
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Old Joy 2006
Old Joy is about an impromptu reunion between two friends residing in Portland, Oregon. Both are in their early thirties and living lives that seem to be heading in different directions -- Mark (Daniel London) has started a family and is soon going to be a father, while Kurt (Will Oldham) is still single but enjoying a strong bond with his favorite pipe. Both are at the very bottom of the social ladder, barely making ends meets.

They decide to go on a camping roadtrip in the Oregon mountains in an effort to respark a friendship which seems to have gone in two separate directions. Their destination is a derelict natural hot springs spa somewhere off the map, a place literally and metaphorical Mark needs to go in order take the next steps in his life.

BD50, DVD9 | 1080p AVC, NTSC | 01:13:44 | 36.1 Gb + 7.21 Gb
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Director: Kelly Reichardt
Cast: Daniel London, Will Oldham, Tanya Smith
Country: USA
Genre: Drama
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