Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days (1989) 2 x DVD9 + DVD5

The intrepid and utterly charming Michael Palin races the imaginary Phileas Fogg in a quest to circumnavigate the world in 80 days without the use of airlines. Why? To see if it could be done!

Created in 1988, this was the beginning of a peripatetic odyssey for Palin, who later regaled us with such delights as Pole To Pole and Sahara, among others. Inspired by Jules Verne's literary creation, he set off from London on the romantic Orient Express, although even in that secure beginning in the lap of luxury, things did not go as planned. From a start point of train delays and premature terminations, Palin endured heat, culture shock, language barriers, impossible bureaucracies and stomach bugs; and continued to the end tackling logistics nightmares of missed ships and unrealistic time schedules.

In spite of every trial and horror suffered, Palin managed to maintain a gentle and self-deprecating humour that expressed a genuine sense of curiosity about the people and places he encountered. From that perspective, he is the exemplary traveller - interested, involved and with a spirit of wonder and fun.

2 x DVD9 + DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 343 minutes | 7.78 Gb + 7.65 Gb + 3.99 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Genre: Documentary

Directors: Roger Mills, Clem Vallance
Cast: Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Basil Pao
Country: UK
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Forced Entry (1973) DVD5 Uncut version

FORCED ENTRY opened in theaters in America in 1972. Released at the peak of the Vietnam War, it was the first motion picture to use that war as central to its theme.

Porn-legend Harry Reems stars as the deranged vietnam-veteran who hunts down young women brutally torturing, raping and eventually killing them.

FORCED ENTRY is a bizarre combination of horror and sado-masochistic hardcore pornography combined in the best Grindhouse tradition. Shocking, disturbing and brutal!

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:23:26 | 4.35 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: Dansk, Norsk, Suomi, Svenska, Deutsch, Francais, Nederlands
Genre: Adult, Horror

Director: Shaun Costello (as Helmuth Richler)
Cast: Laura Cannon, Harry Reems, Jutta David
Country: USA
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Fanfare Ciocarlia – Gypsy Brass Legends: The Story of the Band / Iag Bari – Brass on Fire (2002) DVD9

World music's most intriguing expressions occur at the crossroads between cultures. In the case of Fanfare Ciocarlia, it's a small village straddling the border between Romania and the former Soviet Republic of Moldova. Fanfare's trumpet player, Costica Trifan confesses, "When I tell people where I'm from, they think I come from the end of the earth. But, here at the end of the earth, it's the right place to make music." The gypsy brass bands of the region can trace their roots to the Turkish military brass bands of the early nineteenth century during the Ottoman occupation of the Balkans. Today, the tradition is embraced, and continues to evolve with modern influences from Bollywood to Hollywood. This is the inspiring story of the Uzari gypsies who inhabit the Balkan borderlands. Gypsy Brass Legends is a fascinating new documentary look at how these resilient people have brought joy into their hard, agricultural lifestyle through music. And, not just any music; but high-speed dance tunes pumped out by big brass bands. You get a rare glimpse back through history to explore the origins of these groups and some great video clip extras that capture the gritty essence of their lives.

Get ready for more than 150 minutes face to face with the Speed Demons of Gypsy Brass. The DVD "Fanfare Ciocarlia - The Story Of The Band" covers an entire live concert, the acclaimed movie "Iag Bari - Brass on Fire" as well as two video clips and aplenty extras.

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Arriva Durango, paga o muori / Durango Is Coming, Pay or Die (1971) DVD9

Durango, a debt collector, arrives in the town of Tucson, where he is hired by a bank director called Ferguson, who refuses to pay him his fee afterwards. Durango is thrown in jail on a false accusation but manages to escape and teams up with a Mexican bandit to get even with Ferguson, who has concocted a complicated plan to rob a shipment of gold belonging to the people of Tucson.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:27:44 | 6.49 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Italiano, Francais
Subtitles: English, Francais
Genre: Western

Director: Roberto Bianchi Montero
Cast: Brad Harris, Jose Torres, Gisela Hahn
Country: Italy
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The Cliff Richard Movie Collection: The Young Ones (1961), Wonderful Life (1964), Summer Holiday (1963) DVD9 + DVD5

The three nostalgic British musicals in the Cliff Richard Collection are a good reminder that, thanks to a few short years in the 1960s, Sir Cliff can legitimately include "film star" on his already exceptional show business resume.
The Young Ones, Summer Holiday, and Wonderful Life would make tame fare for a teen audience today, but they retain a polished and honest charm that might surprise the sharpest of cynics.

DVD9 + DVD5 | PAL 16:9 | 329 minutes | 6.84 Gb + 3.71 Gb
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance

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Castle Keep (1969) DVD9

In the winter of 1944 as World War II nears its end, one-eyed Infantry Major Abraham Falconer leads a group of seven battle-weary soldiers to a medieval castle on the Belgian side of the French border. The owner of the castle, the Comte de Maldorais, permits the men to be billeted in one of the castle turrets, but he urges the major not to make a stand against an expected German attack because the castle is filled with priceless art treasures.
The major's men humorously find their own pleasures and distractions in Castle Keep: one moves in with the wife of an absent baker, another zealously guards the castle's art treasures, and one falls in love with the prototype of the Volkswagen Beetle. Sense of peace is disturbed when the Germans attack and the soldiers vainly try to save the Old World treasures inside...

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:42:54 | 6.18 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Francais, Deutsch, Italiano, Espanol
Subtitles: English, Francais, Deutsch, Italiano, Espanol, Nederlands, Arabic, Hindi, Portugues, Turkish
Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Director: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Patrick O'Neal, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Peter Falk
Country: USA
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Roger Corman’s Cult Classics: The Nurses Collection: Private Duty Nurses (1971), The Young Nurses (1973), Candy Stripe Nurses (1974), Night Call Nurses (1972) 2 x DVD9

One of the three big staples of American sexploitation cliches (the other two being cheerleaders and stewardesses), the nurse movies of the 1970s proved popular enough that exploitation king Roger Corman did big box office with four of his entries all made in the first half of the decade (for some reason the first one, 1970's drive-in hit Student Nurses, has not been included). Shout! Factory, in their ongoing efforts to release the finest of Corman's films in excellent special edition DVD releases, wrangles up those four films for this new two-disc set, aptly titled Roger Corman's Cult Classics - The Nurses Collection.

2 x DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 | 334 minutes | 6.92 Gb + 6.97 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller

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Conte d’automne / Autumn Tale (1998) Blu-Ray

The final chapter of Eric Rohmer's 'Tales of the Four Seasons' is as sublimely warming an experience as the autumn sun that shines benevolently on the Rhone Valley vineyard owned by the central character, Magali (Beatrice Romand). The movie follows the adventures of this wiry and vital but lonely widowed mother of two after she allows two friends to play matchmaker.
This is a very ordinary love story between middle-aged lonely people who are unable to make a connection with someone else, even though they are people who have a lot to give and are far from being losers.

BD50 | 1080p AVC | 01:51:28 | 30 Gb + 3% rec
Language: French
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Eric Rohmer
Cast: Marie Riviere, Beatrice Romand, Alain Libolt
Country: France
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The Sound of Insects: Record of a Mummy (2009) DVD9

In a remote wintry forest, a hunter discovers the mummified corpse of a 40-year-old man. A diary is found near the body, detailing the man's everyday thoughts as he commits suicide through self-imposed starvation. Based on an incredible true story, and adapted from the novella "Until I am a Mummy" by Shimada Masahiko, Peter Liecthi's THE SOUND OF INSECTS is a stunning investigation into the mystery of the man's enigmatic self-destructive motivations. Taking on his point-of-view, the film presents the notebook entries as stream-of-consciousness musings on the world around him as his body dissipates, an attempt to piece together the causes of his disillusionment. With luminous cinematography of the vaulting trees that surround his tented tomb, and of hallucinated memories of the cities and people he left behind, THE SOUND OF INSECTS is a hypnotic and transcendent meditation on how the renunciation of life paradoxically reveals its beauty.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:26:49 | 5.29 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Deutsch
Subtitles: English, Francais
Genre: Documentary

Director: Peter Liechti
Cast: Peter Mettler, Alexander Tschernek
Country: Switzerland
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Sib / The Apple (1998) DVD5

Based on a true story.
In the poor section of south Tehran, 12-year-old twin daughters, Massoumeh and Zahra, are locked in their one-room house, kept from going outside, from attending school, from any contact with the outside world, left unwashed, barely able to speak except in gurgles, and are without friends. The father is a 65-year-old impoverished, poorly educated, unemployed religious fundamentalist, who gets handouts from people who ask him to pray for them.
The story caught the eye of 17-year-old Samira Makhmalbaf, the daughter of the famous director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. She co-wrote a loose scenario with her father, and then, in just eleven days, directed The Apple. What makes this dramatization especially remarkable is that she asked the actual people to play themselves in the movie - and they agreed.

DVD5 | PAL 16:9 | 01:21:37 | 3.34 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Farsi
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

Director: Samira Makhmalbaf
Cast: Massoumeh Naderi, Zahra Naderi, Ghorban Ali Naderi
Country: Iran, France
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