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Jan20

Trilogia II: I skoni tou hronou / The Dust of Time (2008) DVD9, Blu-Ray

by movieworld on January 20th, 2019 at 01:38
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

I skoni tou hronou / The Dust of Time (2008) DVD9
An epic art-house drama spanning more than half of the 20th century, The Dust of Time is an intriguing attempt to weave the life of one family into the wider socio-political context of the modern era.

The complex plot revolves around a film director named A (Willem Dafoe) who is in Rome shooting a film about his parents, when his adolescent daughter mysteriously goes missing in Berlin. Angelopoulos weaves together an intricate (and often confusing) narrative, which fuses past and present, fiction and reality, reliving the epic journey of A’s parents alongside the present day narrative of his missing daughter. We travel across three continents, incorporating an impressive array of locations, from Rome to Berlin, Taskhkent, Siberia and even the United States.

The Dust of Time is the second part of Angelopoulos' Trilogy of which the first was the impressive Weeping Meadow.

Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Bruno Ganz, Michel Piccoli, Irene Jacob
Country: Greece, Italy, Germany, Russia
Genre: Drama
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Jan17

Dekalog / The Decalogue (1988–1990) 5 x DVD9 and 4 x Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on January 17th, 2019 at 15:27
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Drama, Romance

Dekalog Criterion Collection
Ten commandments, 10 films. Krzysztof Kieslowski sat for months in his small, smoke-filled room in Warsaw writing the scripts with a lawyer he’d met in the early 1980s, during the Solidarity trials. Krzysztof Piesiewicz didn’t know how to write, the director remembered, but he could talk. For hours they talked about Poland in turmoil, and together they wrote the screenplay for “No End” (1985), which told three stories of life under martial law. The government found it unsympathetic, the opposition found it compromised, and the Catholic church found it immoral. During the controversy, the collaborators ran into each other in the rain, and Piesiewicz, maybe looking for more trouble, shouted, “Someone should make a film about the Ten Commandments”.

They made 10 films, each an hour long, for Polish television. The series ran in the late 1980s, played at Venice and other film festivals, and gathered extraordinary praise. In the same year of Dekalog, Kieslowski expanded Dekalog V and VI into feature films. A Short Film about Killing and A Short Film about Love were produced directly from these two Dekalog films respectively. Both films won wide international acclaim, with A Short Film about Killing winning two awards at Cannes.

The ten episodes are linked by a common setting, a Warsaw high-rise apartment complex where all the characters live (an early establishing shot perhaps suggests the Tower of Babel), and also by the occasional overlapping of characters from one episode into another. There is also an enigmatic, silent observer whose presence in nearly all the episodes suggests some symbolic role. Resisting the temptation to moralise or preach, in their totality the films examine the capacity of humans to deal with great challenges and contain a wealth of knowledge, thoughts, ideas, and emotions as well as being a marvellous and rare demonstration of ultimate craftsmanship in cinema.

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Jan14

Il gattopardo / The Leopard (1963) 3 x DVD9 and 2 x Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on January 14th, 2019 at 23:46
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, History

Il gattopardo / The Leopard (1963) Criterion Collection
To best appreciate The Leopard, it is important to understand the political undercurrents of the film. Italy, circa 1859, was a fragmented collection of independent states, each controlled by different ruling interests. The Papal states resided in central Italy. Towards the south, King Ferdinand II ruled over the Bourbon states of Naples and Sicily. The Savoy States were ruled by Victor Emmanuel. Austria, after the Napoleonic Wars, had seized control of Northern Italy.

The film takes place during the heart of the Italian Risorgimento, a time of nineteenth-century social upheaval in which the Italian states rebelled against the existing aristocratic order to form a unified and democratic Italy. Burt Lancaster plays Don Fabrizio, the proud yet aging Prince of Salina, emblematic of the old society and yet fully aware that his way-of-life is slowly fading into oblivion. Garibaldi, who is attempting to unite all of Italy into one nation, has landed in Sicily, and even his adored nephew, Tancredi (Alain Delon), who he has fancied to be his successor, has joined his army. The film follows events in the lives of the Prince of Salina and his family.

Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale, Terence Hill
Country: Italy, France
Genre: Drama, History

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Dec07

Landmarks of Early Soviet Film: Old and New (1929), The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924), The House on Trubnaya (1928), By the Law (1926), Stride, Soviet! (1926), The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1927), Turksib (1930), Salt for Svanetia (1930) 4 x DVD

by movieworld on December 7th, 2018 at 16:19
Posted In: .Russian movies, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, History

Landmarks of Early Soviet Film
The 1920s was a miraculous golden age for Soviet cinema, both for features and documentary. The eight films included in this meticulously curated and handsomely presented collection convey the incredible excitement filmmakers felt at the opportunity to participate in the construction of the world’s first socialist state. Freed from the need to make money that drove the Hollywood industry, they could focus on “educating” the new Soviet population. Even Vladimir Ilych Lenin, the father of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and the first leader of the country that would become the U.S.S.R., understood that cinema, an art based on technology and machines, was the most suitable one for a country founded on the transformation of humanity through industry and technology. Cinema was nothing less than “the most important art,” Lenin famously declared. Experimentation was the order of the decade.

The set consists of eight movies, four fiction and four documentaries from the very best Soviet filmmakers. Each has a nifty new musical score, using both previously composed and original material.
All the films have original Russian intertitles with English subtitles (which are removable on four of the films), except Turksib and The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty, which have full-screen English intertitles.

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Dec05

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on December 5th, 2018 at 15:52
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Musical

Inside Llewyn Davis 2013
With Inside Llewyn Davis, Joel and Ethan Coen return to the world of humanistic dark comedy they are so good at, as evidenced by their films Fargo and Barton Fink. Focusing in on the early ’60s folk music scene in New York City’s Greenwich Village, they duo give us a fascinating, if clearly downbeat, story of a struggling folk singer negotiating his way through the burgeoning scene while simultaneously isolating himself from all of his friends along the way.

The irascible Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) has been struggling to make it in the folk music scene as a solo act ever since his partner committed suicide, but he hasn’t found much success. Living from paying gig to paying gig, sleeping on one friend’s couch to the next, and dealing with the fact that he’s gotten his friend Jim’s (Justin Timberlake) girlfriend Jean (Carey Mulligan) pregnant he finds himself increasingly isolated from his friends due to his attitude. Llewyn decides he is better off leaving town for Chicago to try to audition for a big time producer after he does a studio session for a song he feels is beneath his talents. The road trip to Chicago will be an eyeopener, bringing Llewyn face to face with the reality that, perhaps his lack of success has less to do with everyone else, and more to do with himself.

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Dec05

Flowers in the Attic (1987) Blu-Ray

by movieworld on December 5th, 2018 at 13:57
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Flowers in the Attic 1987
The Dollanganger family is shattered when the father of the house dies, leaving them destitute. The only hope lies in their mother Corinne returning and winning favour with her dying father who disinherited her after she left home. Once there, the cruel and autocratic grandmother takes the four children and locks them in a room in the attic. Their mother goes along with this, telling them to wait until she is successful in her entreaty. However, as days draw into months, their mother’s visits become scarcer and they are sometimes forced to go without food for a long time. Managing to find a way to sneak in and out of the attic, they find that their mother is planning to marry another man and is now sprinkling arsenic on their food to kill them off.

Author Virginia C. Andrews had a best-seller with her first novel, the Gothic horror story Flowers in the Attic (1979), which was purportedly based on a true story.

This story had a great deal of potential, perhaps not in the horror genre as current define but certainly as a psychological thriller. Sadly, the movie shies away from what made Flowers in the Attic such a hugely popular book - namely, the incestuous sex that began between the two older children.

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Dec03

Old Ironsides (1926) Blu-Ray Kino Lorber

by movieworld on December 3rd, 2018 at 16:12
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, History

Old Ironsides 1926
Old Ironsides is a grand adventure on the high seas directed with flair by James Cruze (The Covered Wagon). It is 1798, and the young U.S. government is desperate to drive the Barbary pirates out of the Mediterranean, so they build and launch the USS Constitution into the fight. A farm boy (Charles Farrell) wants to join the battle, but a hard-living and fast-talking boatswain (Wallace Beery) liquors the boy up until he boards the merchant ship Esther. It doesn’t hurt that the ship owner’s pretty daughter (Esther Ralston) will also be on board. This ragtag group embarks on a thrillingly unexpected journey that lands them in the middle of the pirate war, with little hope of escape.

BD50 | 1080p AVC | 01:54:54 | 33.7 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English (intertitles)
Subtitles: none
Genre: Drama, History

Director: James Cruze
Cast: Charles Farrell, Esther Ralston, Wallace Beery
Country: USA
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Dec03

Ossessione / Obsession (1943) Blu-Ray

by movieworld on December 3rd, 2018 at 15:27
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Drama, Romance

Obsession 1943
Acknowledged as the first film of the Italian neo-realist movement, "Obsession" was also the remarkably assured directorial debut of Luchino Visconti. Loosely based on James M. Cain's 1934 novel The Postman Always Rings Twice, with the setting moved from California to Italy's Po Valley, "Obsession" is a dark melodrama of adultery, murder and betrayal. Gino, an unemployed mechanic, arrives at a shabby inn owned by Giovanna and her much-older husband, Bragana. Gino and Giovanna become lovers, setting in motion an inevitable series of tragic events.

As a result of the wartime production, Visconti failed to obtain rights to the novel and because of the copyright issues, the film was not distributed outside Italy until 1976. The story has been made twice in America, with big budgets and big stars, but "Ossessione" is easily the best of the three. Lust, frustration, murder and guilt follow one another like road signs in a tale that's far too naturalistic to glamorize its subject, and too compassionate to be sordid.

Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani, Vittorio Duse, Juan de Landa
Country: Italy
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
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Dec03

Mohsen Makhmalbaf: The Poetic Trilogy: Gabbeh (1996), Sokout / The Silence (1998), The Gardener (2012) 2 x Blu-Ray Arrow Academy

by movieworld on December 3rd, 2018 at 14:21
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary, Drama, Mystery, Romance

Mohsen Makhmalbaf The Poetic Trilogy
Mohsen Makhmalbaf is a revolutionary filmmaker in every sense. Iranian by birth but, becoming a persona non grata in his homeland, he made more than 30 films in 11 different countries, and is now recognised as Iran’s most important filmmaker. Except in Iran, where all his work is now banned, and it’s forbidden to mention his name or even refer to his work in the media.

The pain that lingers beneath the surface of Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s “Poetic Trilogy” emanates from a careful melding of the cinematic image and the sociopolitical realities of daily life in Iran. These films often convey a political perspective without dipping into explicit rhetoric that indicates them as speaking to, or about, a current state of affairs in Iran.

Nor does the “poetic” mean precisely the same thing in each film. The striking colors and compositions of Gabbeh stand in stark contrast to the low-grade digital images of 2012’s The Gardener, which explores religious devotion through the framework of a DIY, reflexive documentary. And 1998’s The Silence finds its own poetry in music and sound.

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Nov30

Don’t Bother to Knock (1952) DVD9, Blu-Ray Twilight Time

by movieworld on November 30th, 2018 at 17:28
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Don't Bother to Knock 1952
The elevator operator (Elisa Cook, Jr.) for a fancy hotel enlists his niece (Marilyn Monroe) to babysit for the daughter (Donna Corcoran) of a couple (Jim Backus and Lurene Tuttle) attending an awards event at the hotel. Soon Monroe begins flirting with an embittered guest (Richard Widmark) who is reeling from a recent breakup with his girlfriend (Anne Bancroft) — but their flirtation quickly turns dangerous as disturbed Monroe begins to believe Widmark is actually her deceased fiance.

Don't Bother to Knock is Marilyn Monroe's first starring role. If you have never seen this movie you may be surprised because it is a very un-Marilyn like role. Part psychological drama and part thriller, the film remains one of Marilyn Monroe's best dramatic performances.

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Cast: Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft
Country: USA
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
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