Posts Tagged ‘Drama’

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Oct15

La venexiana / The Venetian Woman (1986) DVD5

by movieworld on October 15th, 2020 at 13:25
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Romance

La venexiana 1986
Venice, 16th century: The young, handsome Jules arrives in the city. Staying for one night only before journeying on, he is looking for an erotic adventure. There is the attractive girl Valeria, whose husband is out of town. Jules is deeply stunned by her and a "date" is arranged at midnight. But someone else has laid eyes on him – the lonely widow Angela, said to be the most beautiful woman of Venice. Tough choice for Jules...

The screenplay is adapted from a 16th century theater play by an anonymous writer, and that play is clearly in the same vein as Boccaccio's 14th century story collection "Decameron", one of the most important and popular pieces of Italian Renaissance literature.

DVD5 | PAL 16:9 | 01:23:08 | 4.06 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Italiano
Subtitles: English, Italiano
Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Mauro Bolognini
Cast: Laura Antonelli, Monica Guerritore, Jason Connery
Country: Italy
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Oct14

Bande de filles / Girlhood (2014) Blu-Ray

by movieworld on October 14th, 2020 at 17:46
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Girlhood 2014
Celine Sciamma's films are delicate and emotional examinations of, to quote Madonna, "what it feels like for a girl." Sciamma has directed three features and each one takes on a different sliver of the spectrum of adolescent or pre-adolescent girlhood.

Marieme (Karidja Toure) lives within a difficult family structure, as she primarily takes care of her two younger sisters. She fears her older brother, Djibril (Cyril Mendy), and his abusive tendencies. Their father is absent, while their mother is constantly working. After dropping out of school, she joins a group of three free-spirited girls, led by Lady (Assa Sylla). She pursues a similar lifestyle in order to find both the freedom as well as the identity that will free her from under the oppressive rule of both her brother and the expectations of society...

Sciamma's subtle and vulnerable screenplay is upstaged only by her visual style, turning a sobering coming-of-age tale into an unsettling, dreamy tapestry of what it means to be a child, a girl, and eventually an adult, all in a few short weeks.

Director: Celine Sciamma
Cast: Karidja Toure, Assa Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh
Country: France
Genre: Drama
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Oct13

The Early Works of Cheryl Dunye: Janine (1990), She Don’t Fade (1991), Vanilla Sex (1992), An Untitled Portrait (1993), The Potluck and the Passion (1993), Greetings from Africa (1996) DVD5

by movieworld on October 13th, 2020 at 12:59
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Documentary, Drama

The Early Works of Cheryl Dunye
Vilified by conservatives in Congress, defended by major newspapers, and celebrated by audiences and festivals around the world as one of the most provocative, humorous and important filmmakers of our time, Cheryl Dunye practically invented a new form of cinema – call it the ‘Dunyementary.’ Using a mixture of narrative and documentary techniques, the ‘Dunyementary’ challenges social and cultural norms through a sharply funny and reflexive lens. Never scholarly or didactic, Dunye appreciates the value in entertaining viewers.

Her acclaimed first feature THE WATERMELON WOMAN (1996) introduced Cheryl to wider audiences, who fell in love with her self-depreciating and insightful wit – not to mention the great casts she assembled (including herself). But what came before this modern-day classic?

Presented here are the films that started it all – the early works which gave birth to an extraordinary and original filmmaking talent. Made with great creativity on often miniscule budgets, they represent the first chapter of the Cheryl Dunye oeuvre.

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:11:21 | 4.37 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Documentary, Short, Comedy, Drama

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Oct12

Scorsese Shorts: What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1963), It’s Not Just You, Murray! (1964), The Big Shave (1967), Italianamerican (1974), American Boy: A Profile of – Steven Prince 1978) Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on October 12th, 2020 at 13:17
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Crime, Documentary, Drama, Horror

Scorsese Shorts
“A filmmaker shows what his career will be in his first 150 feet of film,” François Truffaut once wrote. He was talking about Jean Vigo at the time, but he might as well have been talking about Martin Scorsese, whose early short films — from the narrative works of his student years at New York University and immediately afterward to the midlength documentaries he made as his feature-filmmaking career was getting underway — reveal the energy, eclecticism, and invention that would make him one of the most exciting American directors of the seventies and, eventually, one of the great artists of our time.

Criterion’s release of five early Martin Scorsese shorts reveals that the filmmaker knew the kind of artist he was and wanted to be at a young age. All of the films included in this set contain seeds of future Scorsese classics, and they’re all formally playful and sophisticated, with lasting career reverberations: Four of the five shorts center around the rapture and mythology of storytelling, while the fifth plumbs the theme of self-annihilation that would become a Scorsese leitmotif. Collectively, the five films span two distinct periods in Scorsese’s career: as an N.Y.U. student and graduate in the early-to-mid 1960s, and as a rising filmmaker in the mid-to-late ‘70s.

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Oct09

Ring of Spies / Shadow of Treason (1964) DVD5 and Blu-Ray Network

by movieworld on October 9th, 2020 at 12:57
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Ring of Spies 1964
There have always been spies men and women who have pried for patriotism, for religion, for love... or for money. This intriguing drama is based on the true story of the Portland spy ring an unlikely Soviet operation active in southern England from the late 1950s until January 1961 when the core members were arrested.

A disgruntled Navy Clerk is transferred to a secret research establishment and is subsequently black-mailed/paid by Czech intelligence to procure secrets for them. He seduces the secretary who controls the most secret documents, and they enjoy the fruits of their treachery until the British authorities begin to close in on them.

This film rocked Britain because it showed that spies could be living in the most mundane and suburban of circumstances, literally next door to you.

It’s interesting to see how ‘real’ espionage actually works, with a lot of screen time devoted to the details of how the spy ring actually operated. Both traitors were eventually caught and the film ends revealing what happened to them once the authorities got a hold of them.
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Oct08

Coffret Jean Epstein 2 films: Finis terrae / End of the Earth (1929), La femme du bout du monde / The Woman from the End of the World (1938) Blu-Ray

by movieworld on October 8th, 2020 at 15:04
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Coffret Jean Epstein 2 films
Finis Terrae: The story centres on a small group of men harvesting seaweed off the coast of Brittany, and the problems which arise when one of them gets an infected thumb. The film's title is the old Latin name of the region Finistère, where the story is set, and means 'End of the Earth'. The film is shot in a documentary-like style, with local non-actors in all roles, and frequent handheld camerawork. Also, Epstein often inserts slow motion footage.

The Woman From the End of the World: A criminal ship-owner claims to find radium ore in a lost island in Antarctic Ocean. The ship approaches and the crew find a white woman who lives with her husband with half-insane and his child. She sings Breton songs. All the crew falls in love with her, from where a series of brawls, madness and murders happen. The captain weighs anchor to return peace to his men, however, a young sailor commits suicide of despair.

BD50 | 1080p AVC | 01:21:38 + 01:08:06 | 43.6 Gb + 3% rec
Language: French
Subtitles: English, French
Genre: Drama

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Oct07

Hasta el viento tiene miedo / Even the Wind Is Afraid (1968) Blu-Ray VCI

by movieworld on October 7th, 2020 at 16:02
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Even the Wind Is Afraid 1968
In "Hasta el viento tiene miedo", a group of boarding school girls suffer from the torments of a authoritarian and conniving headmistress called Bernarda, who seems to unload of all her anger on the girls. Student Claudia (Alicia Bonet) has been having repeated nightmares where she hears her name being called out in the dead of night. Her dream takes her to an old tower in the grounds of the school, where she sees the body of a girl hanging from the rafters. Along with classmates, Kitty, Yvette, Marina and Flavia, they begin to investigate the tower and the mysterious events of its past. They are suspended from the school for the antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before, and that the school principal knows the situation more than she's willing to admit. It seems the tormented and restless spirit is hell-bent on enacting her revenge.

BD25 | 1080p AVC | 01:29:59 | 21.4 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada
Cast: Marga Lopez, Maricruz Olivier, Alicia Bonet
Country: Mexico
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Oct07

Drzava mrtvih / The State of the Dead (2002) DVD5

by movieworld on October 7th, 2020 at 14:39
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Drama

Drzava mrtvih 2002
The story is set in the 1990s during the breakup of the SFRY. The film follows the Slovenian, officer Janez, who after Slovenia leaving from Yugoslavia leaves the place where he was born. Despite the fact that the Slovenes offered him a higher rank in their army, he remains faithful to the oath he gave to the Yugoslav Army and goes to Belgrade. With a Macedonian woman, a 10-year-old twins, and a 20-year-old son, he gets a room at a small hotel. He goes through what many of the officers who came from Croatia and Bosnia went through, they lived as refugees in cheap hotels... His wife, becoming ill of nostalgia for the past when they were happy, the son becoming a criminal, and the twins retreating to their world. This is a movie about relationships within the family of a former Yugoslav Army officer, about a time that has stopped, and where only human emotions live. Politics is irrelevant here, while the emphasis is on the inner pain and real situations that are convincingly portrayed by the spiritual states of the main characters. "The State of the Dead" is a film that leaves many people sad, visibly affected by its weight and truthfulness.

Directors: Zivojin Pavlovic, Dinko Tucakovic
Cast: Radko Polic, Nebojsa Glogovac, Katina Ivanova
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Genre: Crime, Drama
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Oct07

Destination Moon (1950) DVD5

by movieworld on October 7th, 2020 at 13:44
Posted In: .Other movies, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Destination Moon 1950
Under the ever-present menace of the Enemies of America getting there first, a group of industrialists band together to design and build a rocketship capable of traveling to the Moon and back. When legal pressures are brought to bear on the project, the lead industrialist defiantly launches without permission; the three heads of the project and one wisecracking guy from Brooklyn make it to the Moon, but then discover that they don't have enough fuel to make it back...

Destination Moon was the first film of the so-called Golden Age of Science-Fiction Cinema that lasted from around 1950 to 1957. It has an immense optimism that paved the way for every other science-fiction film of the 1950s to follow and its success was something that made producer George Pal into science-fiction cinema’s leading voice of the era.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:31:22 | 3.61 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Italiano
Subtitles: none

Directors: Irving Pichel, Walter Lantz
Cast: John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson
Country: USA
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Oct07

Cristo si e fermato a Eboli / Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979) Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on October 7th, 2020 at 12:47
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Christ Stopped at Eboli 1979
An elegy of exile and an epic immersion in the world of rural Italy during the regime of Benito Mussolini, Francesco Rosi’s sublime adaptation of the memoirs of the painter, physician, and political activist Carlo Levi brings a monument of twentieth-century autobiography to the screen with quiet grace and solemn beauty.
Banished to a desolate southern town for his anti-Fascist views, Levi (Gian Maria Volontè) discovers an Italy he never knew existed, a place where ancient folkways and superstitions still hold sway, and that gradually transforms his understanding of both himself and his country.
Presented for the first time on home video in its original full-length, four-part version, Christ Stopped at Eboli ruminates profoundly on the political and philosophical rifts within Italian society — between North and South, tradition and modernity, Fascism and freedom — and the essential humanity that transcends all.

BD50 | 1080p AVC | 03:41:49 | 44.8 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English

Director: Francesco Rosi
Cast: Gian Maria Volonte, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny
Country: Italy, France
Genre: Drama
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