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Mar19

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) DVD9 and Blu-Ray BFI

by movieworld on March 19th, 2019 at 16:38
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1962
Colin Smith, an aimless working class youth, is sent to borstal (British reform school) after his impulsive robbery of a local bakery. While incarcerated, the rebellious and surly young man discovers a talent for long distance running, and in his long cross-country runs, he thinks back to his life in the poor districts of industrial Nottingham and the circumstances that brought him to a reformatory. The school's governor, seeing an opportunity to best a respectable boys school in a track competition, encourages Colin to train and perfect his abilities, suggesting the boy might find a new life and way out of his miserable circumstances by competing all the way to the Olympics. But will Colin's pride in his skills outweigh his strong views about cooperating with an established authority he despises?

Raw and charged with socio-political innuendo, Tony Richardson's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner reveals plenty of similarities with Karel Reisz's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - the two films are based on stories by Alan Sillitoe, take place on the streets of post-war Nottingham and have main protagonists that are the product of a system that has turned its back on them. Both films are also considered amongst the most influential from the British New Wave.

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Mar19

Brian De Palma Les Annees 60: Dionysus in ’69 (1970), The Responsive Eye (1966), Woton’s Wake (1962) DVD9

by movieworld on March 19th, 2019 at 15:44
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary, Drama, Horror

Brian De Palma Les Annee 60
William Finley who stars in Woton’s Wake and Dionysus in ’69 would work with De Palma on a total of eight films including his most recognizable role as Winslow Leach in Phantom of the Paradise. Early on in his career Brian De Palma’s fixation with voyeurism would become a central theme that he would explore time and again.

Brian De Palma Annees 60 gives his fans a chance to see some of his rarely seen early works in their best home video presentations to date. This collection of films is not representative of his later works which fans now associate him with.

Overall the films contained Brian De Palma Annees 60 may not be some of his best films to date, still they show that even early on De Palma had already developed his cinematic style.
De Palma’s willingness to take on controversial subjects and his desire to satisfy himself as filmmaker is one the main reasons he has been able to make films for nearly forty five years and this set of films showcases an artist finding his muse.

DVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 163 min | 6.97 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: Francais
Genre: Drama, Documentary, Short, Horror

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Mar18

Mae West – The Glamour Collection: Night After Night (1932), I’m No Angel (1933), Goin’ to Town (1935), Go West Young Man (1936), My Little Chickadee (1940) 3 x DVD

by movieworld on March 18th, 2019 at 23:22
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, Western

Mae West - The Glamour Collection
The sound movies were made for Mae West, a performer credited with pulling Paramount Pictures out of almost a hundred million dollars of debt in 1933.

She was a performer and playwright famous for notorious Broadway plays like Sex, for which she served ten days in jail, and The Drag, a play about homosexuality that was allowed in New Jersey but not New York. Audiences loved West and West loved audiences, even through the movie screen. Her characters broke all the rules for conventional female behavior by being sexually aggressive and verbally suggestive; it's obvious that West and/or the women she played loved sex and wasn't ashamed of it. Women were as delighted as men because Mae was in charge. In contrast to the typical siren or vamp, she used not her body but her brains, outsmarting men rather than bewitching them.

Miss West made nine classic-era pictures at Paramount and Universal, and Uni's Glamour Collection corrals five of them, including her first supporting role and her final effort, a pairing with W. C. Fields.
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Mar18

Collection Daniel Kamwa: Pousse-pousse / Tricycle Man (1976), Notre fille / Our Daughter (1980), Boubou cravate (1972), Totor (1994), Le cercle des pouvoirs / Circle of Powers (1998) 4 x DVD

by movieworld on March 18th, 2019 at 23:20
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama

Collection Daniel Kamwa
Daniel Kamwa was born in Nkongsamba, Cameroon in 1943 and later moved to Paris where he also studied cinema. He joined Peter Brook’s comedy troupe as an actor in 1968 before leaving to work in theater, film and television. He directed his first short film, Boubou Cravate, in 1972, and his first feature in 1976: Pousse-Pousse, one of the most popular and successful films shown in francophone Africa at that time.

In 1981 he directed "Notre Fille", which won the prize for the best actor in Carthage in 1982, "Totor" (1994), which won the UNICEF Prize at Fespaco in 1995 and was selected for the Cannes junior section in 1995. He has also directed many documentaries as well as programs on black writers, "Videolire" (1990-91). He directed "Le Cercle des Pouvoirs" (1997).

4xDVD | NTSC | 420 mins | 19.6 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Francais
Subtitles: English
Genre: Comedy, Drama

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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

Sleeping Dogs (1977) Blu-Ray Arrow Academy

by movieworld on March 18th, 2019 at 21:59
Posted In: .Other movies, Action, Drama, Thriller

Sleeping Dogs 1977
Having been dumped by his wife for another man, Smith drives off into the countryside, seeking to escape both his own heartbreak and the political upheaval that has turned New Zealand into a quasi fascist state, with leftist rebels battling a far right government. Smith wants no part of such violence, and when he finds a secluded small island with a reasonably priced rent, he thinks he's got it made.

One night, Smith observes a fire in the distance on the mainland, and the following morning a squad of cops arrive to arrest him, accusing him of being a terrorist and of killing a man in a bombing the previous night. Smith is thrown into a cell and left to rot for several days before being informed he is to be tried for treason, a charge which carries the death sentence, but he will be allowed to leave the country if he confesses to his role in the revolution. Smith refuses to offer a false confession and manages to escape on the way to the courthouse, becoming a wanted fugitive...

Director: Roger Donaldson
Cast: Sam Neill, Nevan Rowe, Ian Mune, Warren Oates
Country: New Zealand
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
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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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Mar15

La mort de Louis XIV / The Death of Louis XIV (2016) DVD9, Blu-Ray

by movieworld on March 15th, 2019 at 14:41
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Drama, History

La mort de Louis XIV 2016
A monarch's devotion to duty and service endures until the last breath in The Death Of Louis XIV, a painstakingly realised portrait of the agonising final days of the Sun King. Based on extensive medical records and the memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon and other courtiers, Catalan director Albert Serra's film has a documentary-like authenticity, matching the unblinking instincts of a modern reality television series with the visual allure of the old masters.

Crowned King in 1643, Louis's reign is the longest of any European monarch. The film begins in 1715 as the aged King suffers horrible pains in his left leg and is confined to bed. Royal obligations continue, but gangrene sets in and the leg turns black. It becomes apparent that the situation is hopeless and that the King must prepare for death...

Director: Albert Serra
Cast: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Patrick d'Assumcao, Marc Susini
Country: Portugal, France, Spain
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
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Mar15

Beroringen / The Touch (1971), Ingmar Bergman (1971) DVD9 and Blu-Ray BFI

by movieworld on March 15th, 2019 at 13:06
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

The Touch 1971
Karin (played by Bibi Andersson) and her husband Andreas (played by Max von Sydow befriend David (played by Elliott Gould), an American archaeologist temporarily working in their town in Sweden to excavate by a local church. David makes a bold gesture by confessing that he has fallen in love with Karin ever since he first saw her. Karin is basically flattered but does not see it as an offer as she is a married mother of two and happily so. Or is she? Her sex life has become stagnant after fifteen years of marriage and every day has become routine. Plus with the death of her mother from not too long ago she has never fully recovered emotionally from the tragedy.

David and Karin begin a romantic relationship in secret but it is not only Karin who is emotionally stricken. David is also a broken soul. He was born in Germany and was able to escape from the wartime atrocities but most of his Jewish relatives were wiped out in the Holocaust, and even as an adult still unable to get over the anger and trauma of war. Will the two find their way together towards happiness or will their secret romance fueled by trauma lead to more broken hearts?
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Mar15

Eternal Homecoming / Vechnoe vozvrashchenie / Вечное возвращение (2012) DVD5

by movieworld on March 15th, 2019 at 12:53
Posted In: .Russian movies, Crime, Drama, Romance

Vechnoe vozvrashchenie 2012
Muratova has declared that this film, her 17th full-length feature, will be her last. Inspired, she has said, by her frustration with overly neat narrative structure, the film’s minimalist plot consists of ‘eternal returns’ to the same situation: a man visits an old school friend, a woman whom he knew a long time ago in school, to ask for advice.

Variations on this visit and the ensuing conversation are repeated throughout the film: each time with a different set of actors and inflections. Shot almost entirely in brilliant black and white, the film features a pantheon of Muratova’s favourite actors as well as many of the non-professional actors whom she has used to great effect in her previous work.

DVD5 | PAL 16:9 | 01:51:27 | 4.35 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English, Ukrainian
Genre: Drama

Director: Kira Muratova
Cast: Oleg Tabakov, Alla Demidova, Renata Litvinova, Sergey Makovetskiy, Georgiy Deliev, Natalya Buzko
Country: Ukraine
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