Une corde, un Colt… / Cimitero senza croci / Веревка и кольт (1969) DVD5

After being forced to witness her husband's execution at the hands of the evil, land owning Rogers family, Maria (Michele Mercier) seeks vengeance. Unable to rely on her husband's witless brothers, she enlists the help of Manuel (Robert Hossein), a brooding, highly skilled gunfighter who lives alone in a nearby ghost town.

Director: Robert Hossein
Cast: Michele Mercier, Robert Hossein, Guido Lollobrigida, Daniele Vargas, Serge Marquand
Country: France, Italy
Genre: Western
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The Lovers / Les Amants (1958) DVD9 Criterion Collection

Jeanne Tournier (Jeanne Moreau) has it all, thanks to her marriage to wealthy press magnate Henri (Alain Cuny). However, all the wealth in the world can't keep Jeanne from being bored, so she turns to polo player Raoul (Josй Luis de Villalonga) to fulfill her sexual needs. Disguised as visits to her friend, Maggy (Judith Magre), Jeanne's trips to Paris become more frequent, arousing the suspicions of Henri. One weekend, Henri calls Jeanne back from Paris, unexpectedly, but she has no idea that he has also invited Maggy and Raoul to the estate. On her way back, the car breaks down and Jeanne is picked up by Bernard (Jean-Marc Bory), a young archaeologist who drives her back home and is asked to stay for his troubles. While initially shocked at the presence of Maggy and Raoul, it isn't long before Jeanne realizes that true love is finally staring her in the face.

DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 | 01:30:43 | 7.33 Gb + 3% rec
Francais, Russian (Dolby AC3, 1 ch)
Subtitle: English, Russian
Genre: Drama

Director: Louis Malle
Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny, Jean-Marc Bory, Juduth Magre, Jose Luis de Villalonga, Gaston Modot
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The Land of Our Fathers / Land of the Fathers / Zemlya ottsov / Земля отцов (1966) DVD5

The Land of Our Fathers is one of the outstanding Kazakh films of the Soviet epoch. Since it was shot during the Thaw, the director was able to portray truly national characters and their resistance to the Soviet ideology. This was indeed a bold decision on the part of the director, considering the possible repercussions. Alongside with the references to Muslim customs and the typical Kazakh landscape, the film encapsulates the ethical codes reaffirming the meaning of the Kazakh worldview and values.

An old man decides to find the body of his son, a Kazakh soldier who died fighting somewhere in Russia, to bury him in the land of his ancestors. Travelling across the land with his grandson, they discover the harsh reality of war. And when they finally find the coveted grave, they realise that many brothers-in-arms are buried with the soldier. Every inch of the great homeland becomes the land of our fathers, the land of the ancestors...

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:26:01 | 3.84 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Russian (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, War

Director: Shaken Ajmanov
Cast: Yeleubai Umurzakov, Murat Akhmadiev, Viktor Shevtsov, Yuri Pomerantsev, Tamara Kokova, Yaragi Zubayrayev
Country: Soviet Union (Kazakhstan)
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Rashomon / Rashou-mon (1950) DVD9 Criterion Collection

Three weary travelers take shelter from the pouring rain under Kyoto's dilapidated Rashomon gate. Woodcutter (Takashi Shimura) recounts shocking recent events. Three days before, a man was killed and his wife attacked, and the bandit apparently responsible was captured. But during the trial, each of the participants and witnesses tells a distinctly different story. The differing accounts agree in a few basic elements, but differ widely as to the particulars. If determining simple reality is so difficult, how can justice function?

DVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:27:50 | 5.18 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Japanese (Dolby AC3, 1 ch)
Subtitles: English
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Kichijiro Ueda
Country: Japan
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Part-Time Wife (1961) DVD5

British farce in which a man needs an instant wife to impress a moneyed uncle, and an insurance salesman is only too happy to help by loaning out his wife. Unfortunately for the friends, they are not the only two deceivers in the game.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:06:47 | 3.73 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: none
Genre: Comedy

Director: Max Varnel
Cast: Anton Rodgers, Nyree Dawn Porter, Kenneth J. Warren, Henry McCarty, Mark Singleton, Susan Richards
Country: UK
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Rashomon / Rashou-mon (1950) DVD9 Criterion Collection

Three weary travelers take shelter from the pouring rain under Kyoto's dilapidated Rashomon gate. Woodcutter (Takashi Shimura) recounts shocking recent events. Three days before, a man was killed and his wife attacked, and the bandit apparently responsible was captured. But during the trial, each of the participants and witnesses tells a distinctly different story. The differing accounts agree in a few basic elements, but differ widely as to the particulars. If determining simple reality is so difficult, how can justice function?

DVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:27:50 | 5.18 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Japanese (Dolby AC3, 1 ch)
Subtitles: English
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Kichijiro Ueda
Country: Japan
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Henry Cow – Live in Vevey, Switzerland (1976) DVD5

A 75-minute video of Henry Cow performing in Vevey, Switzerland in August 1976, recorded for the Swiss TV program, Kaleidospop. This is the only known video recording of Henry Cow.

The DVD features the group live outdoors on the grass and playing a set that was representative from the time. It includes Tim Hodgkinson's two "epic" compositions, "Living in the Heart of the Beast" and "Erk Gah", and two improvisations, "Vevey 1" and "Vevey 2". Allmusic described the multi-camera work on the DVD as "pretty good" and the editing "dated", but added that "seeing the band in action, both navigating through its most complex material and engaging in collective improvisation, is quite an experience."

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:14:10 | 2.94 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English (LinearPCM, 2 ch)
Subtitles: none
Genre: Musical

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D’amour et d’eau fraiche / Living on Love Alone (2010) DVD5

Julie (Anais Demoustier) is eager to make a start in the job market. But she finds herself taking a succession of soul-destroying jobs (the film is especially brittle in its look at the ostensibly hip and 'human' PR world) and tangling with a series of wildly unsuitable men. "I'm all alone, I'm 23, I'm broke", she will later complain, "I can't even afford a tiny flat with a shower". Not that she is complaining – she desperately needs the money. Despite her university degree, her bilingualism and her youth, life is just not working out for Julie the way she had imagined, as she finds herself seemingly doomed to a succession of humiliating jobs and ill-suited lovers.
Then along comes Ben (Pio Marmai), a charming young slacker with an entirely different outlook on life, and Julie finds herself half-heartedly accepting his invitation to join him down south for the Summer on the Spanish border. The simple life there seems to represent an idyllic alternative to the bustle of the city, but paradise comes at a price, and the young lovers' romance is about to collide head-on with reality.

DVD5 | PAL 16:9 | 01:24:36 | 4.28 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Francais (Dolby AC3, 6 ch)
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

Director: Isabelle Czajka
Cast: Anais Demoustier, Pio Marmai, Laurent Poitrenaux, Jean-Louis Coullo'ch, Adelaide Leroux
Country: France
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The Complete Mr. Arkadin / Confidential Report / Мистер Аркадин (полное издание) (1955) 3 x DVD9 Criterion Collection

Guy Van Stratten (Robert Arden) is an American hustler who sticks his nose into something that doesn't concern him: a shoot-out near the Milan waterfront. Trying to help a dying man, Guy's lady Mily is whispered two names: Gregory Arkadin (Orson Welles) and Sophie. Realizing the mysterious Arkadin is the world's wealthiest man, the con man sees this as an opportunity to make some serious bread. After following Mr. Arkadin to a resort area in Spain, he makes an intro through his beloved daughter Raina (Paola Mori). Attending a costume party in his own castle, Arkadin absences himself from the party to present a confidential report he has on Guy--exposing him as an idle adventurer and small-time con man. Arkadin then makes Guy an offer he can't refuse, as he's hired to investigate the wealthy man's past. It's explained that an amnesia overcame Arkadin in 1927, which has left him without a memory of his past. Arkadin, in turn for paying well for this assignment, stipulates that this mea ns Guy will never see his daughter again. Guy agrees, and starts his travels in Eastern Europe where Arkadin began his climb to the top. It soon becomes apparent that everyone Guy comes into contact with turns up dead...

On The Complete Mr. Arkadin, you'll find five versions of the story of the mysterious billionaire — the episode of The Lives of Harry Lime radio series which first told his story, the Corinth version of the movie, an alternate European version retitled Confidential Report, a new cut believed to be closest to Orson Welles's vision, and a novel based on the story.

Director: Orson Welles
Cast: Orson Welles, Peter van Eyck, Michael Redgrave, Patricia Medina, Akim Tamiroff, Mischa Auer
Country: France, Spain, Switzerland
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Drama

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Keaton Plus (1921-1962) 2001 Kino on Video DVD edition

In this exclusive collection of cinematic treasures, Kino on Video pays homage to the lesser-known works of the screen's most inventive comedian. Highlights include home movie footage of Keaton in Paris and on the set of The General, scenes from the never-completed Cinemascope musical Ten Girls Ago, excerpts from the rare TV series Life with Buster Keaton, his first dramatic role (Gogol's The Awakening), two 1930s shorts (Allez-Oop! and Jail Bait), commercials, excerpts from his appearance on TV's This Is Your Life and the newly-restored 1921 short Hard Luck.

Film historian John Bengtson (the author of Silent Echoes) has prepared an interactive tour of locations where Keaton's films were shot. An extensive photo gallery reveals family snapshots, images from Keaton's vaudeville years, fascinating behind-the-scenes stills and more.

DVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 200 minutes | 6.55 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: English intertitles
Genre: Comedy, Documentary, Silent

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Amaya / Hong Kong Confidential (2010) DVD9

Hong Kong: one week in one of the most exotic and picturesque cities of the world. The movie follows six characters whose lives are all connected in one way or another. The day of changes comes when Amaya (played by the world famous, multiple award winning Kaori Momoi) meets a charming Englishman, Paul. Their encounter dramatically changes Amaya's perception of her cultural and personal identity. Their lives change forever. But one thing remains universal... love.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:27:32 | 5.96 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English (Dolby AC3, 6 ch)
Subtitles: English, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Maris Martinsons
Cast: Kaori Momoi, Andrius Mamontovas, Shiu Hung Hui, Dexter Fletcher
Country: Lithuania, Hong Kong
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Parsifal (1983) 2 x DVD5

Syberberg's film may be the most elaborately executed filmed opera in cinematic history. The sinuous plot of Wagner's source focuses on King Amfortas, leader of the Knights of the Grail, who has been wounded in battle by the very spear that had pierced Christ's side. No medicine can heal the wound. Amfortas sends a young man, Parsifal, who had thoughtlessly killed a swan, to retrieve the spear from Klingsor, a dark magician banned from the kingdom, who uses his garden of pleasures to seduce anyone trying to retrieve the spear.

2 x DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 03:01:18 + 01:13:43
4.37 Gb + 4.21 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Deutsch (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: English hardcoded
Genre: Drama, Music

Director: Hans-Jurgen Syberberg
Cast: Armin Jordan, Martin Sperr, Robert Lloyd, Michael Kutter, Karin Krick, Aage Haugland
Country: France, West Germany
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Sunday Morning Sublime: Sandcastles (2004) DVD5

Traveling from morning to night, SANDCASTLES chronicles a day in the life of a construction worker named Getz. Getz wakes up alongside a highway. His wallet and cell-phone are missing. With no recollection of the previous night, he returns home. On his answering machine he finds a message from himself...to himself: "I called you out of work today". For a laborer who's devoted his entire, lonely life to his job and has, for years, worked seven-day weeks, this is a first. And with his routine disrupted, Getz can't help but puzzle over the riddle of his self-excused absence. All he knows is that it has something to do with Karina, whom he met at a bookstore months earlier, and Virgil, whom he's never heard of, but whose name now appears on his cell-phone's greeting.
SANDCASTLES and its companion film DUSTCLOUDS travel in a ceaseless loop, forming a diptych titled SUNDAY MORNING SUBLIME. Each film starts where the other leaves off and can be seen independently or together. Different stories emerge depending on the order in which they're viewed.

DVD5 | NTSC 16:9 | 01:19:52 | 4.26 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: none
Genre: Drama, Arthouse

Director: Filip Jan Rymsza
Cast: Wesley Walker, Jennifer Ohlinger, John Lordan, Paul Sass, Chris Agos
Country: USA
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I Was Happy Here / Passage of Love / Time Lost and Time Remembered (1966) DVD5

Cass is a wistful young Irish girl who has been living in London for five years. During this time she has acquired an English husband. One Christmas she decides it is time to return to Limerick. When she does, she seeks out Colin Foley, her first love, only to learn that he is now engaged to a new love. Her husband follows her to Foley's cottage and it is here the matter reaches a head.

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:27:18 | 3.57 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English (2 ch), English (6 ch)
Subtitles: none
Genre: Drama

Director: Desmond Davis
Cast: Sarah Miles, Cyril Cusack, Julian Glover, Sean Caffrey, Maire Keane
Country: UK
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Twilight Portrait / Portret v sumerkakh / Портрет в сумерках (2011) DVD9

Marina is an upper class Russian woman, working as a child psychologist. One night, in the shady neighborhoods of Moscow, she raped by a group the police officers. Marina decides to seek vengeance, but her behavior is altered after the attack.
Instead of reporting the abuse of her rape (and having to deal with denying police officers?), Marina starts to return to the place of her rape until she recognizes one of the officers in a restaurant not far from the crime scene. She begins to follow the officer and stalks him, picks up a beer bottle and obviously thinks about revenge. But instead of breaking the glass on his head, she gets on her knees to perform oral sex on him...

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:45:30 | 7.00 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Russian (6 ch), Russian (2 ch)
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

Director: Angelina Nikonova
Cast: Sergei Borisov, Olga Dykhovichnaya, Sergei Golyudov, Roman Merinov, Vsevolod Voronov
Country: Russia
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Nessuno torna indietro / Responsibility Comes Back (1945) DVD9

In 1939, having completed their studies in a boarding house of Roman nuns, seven girls live out their first impact with reality.
Many disappointments.

Started in 1943, the film suffered hard times because of the wartime and political events. It came out only in 1945, after the war, without arousing great interest, despite the fame of the director and the parade of feminine stars.

DVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 01:59:17 | 6.75 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Italiano (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: English, Italiano
Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Alessandro Blasetti
Cast: Elisa Cegani, Valentina Cortese, Maria Denis, Doris Duranti, Mariella Lotti
Country: Italy
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Quem Matou Pixote? / Who Killed Pixote? (1996) DVD9

Fernando Ramos da Silva was a poor boy who lived with his mother and brothers on the outskirts of Sao Paulo. At the age of 11, he could barely read and write, and would help his mother selling lottery tickets in the streets. Then an event changed his life: Hector Babenco chose him, among 1,300 other candidates, to play the lead in his film Pixote. The film went around the world winning prizes and honors, and Fernando became an overnight star. Now he had enough money to support his entire family. Offers rained on him for films and soap operas. It was a Cinderella story.
With such an auspicious debut, a great career for Ramos da Silva seemed inevitable. Unfortunately, fate and the rigidity of Brazil's social stratus had other, more tragic plans. This biopic tells his sorrowful tale and follows the grim sequence of events that led to his brutal, controversial murder by the police.

DVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 01:51:16 | 4.96 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Portugues (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Biography

Director: Jose Joffily
Cast: Cassiano Carneiro, Luciana Rigueira, Joana Fomm, Tuca Andrada, Roberto Bomtempo, Maria Luisa Mendonca
Country: Brazil
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La anam / Sleepless / No Tomorrow / Sans lendemain (1958) DVD9

Faten Hamama plays Nadia Lutfi, a young woman who belongs to an aristocratic, upper-class family. After her parents divorce each other, her father wins custody of her. She lives with her father (Yehia Chahine) and over the years develops a very close and strong relationship with him to the extent of being sexually attracted towards him, an obsessive behavior known as Electra complex.
At the age of 16, she plunges into a premature relationship with Mustafah (Imad Hamdi), a writer and journalist who is quite older a bit than she is. Meanwhile, her father meets and falls in love with another woman, Safia (Myriam Fakhr Eddine). He decides to marry her, which Nadia is forced to accept. However, her father gradually starts spending more time with his new wife, which galls and displeases Nadia who does not receive an equal amount of love and attention anymore. This compels and drives her to step in and ruin their relationship.

DVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 02:01:18 | 5.41 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Arabic (Dolby AC3, 1 ch)
Subtitles: English, Francais
Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Salah Abouseif (Salah Abu Said, Salah Abou Seif)
Cast: Faten Hamama, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Omar Sharif
Country: Egypt
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Denti / Teeth (2000) DVD9

A complete change of style for the director of Mediterraneo. Antonio (Rubini) has Bugs Bunny teeth, so large that as a kid he tries chomping on rocks to whittle them down, which only makes things worse. When he's middle-aged, divorced, but to all intents and purposes settled with a nice girl, his teeth start bothering him again. Dentists all over Rome are awed by the scale of his problem - but as Salvatores makes clear, hysterical fear of vagina dentata may be the root of Antonio's unhappiness. Luridly styled as a comic nightmare, this tests the patience more than the magazines in a dentist's waiting room.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:31:11 | 6.92 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Italiano (DTS, 6 ch), Italiano (Dolby AC3, 6 ch)
Subtitles: English, Italiano
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Surrealism

Director: Gabriele Salvatores
Cast: Sergio Rubini, Anouk Grinberg, Tom Novembre, Anita Caprioli, Fabrizio Bentivoglio
Country: Italy
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The Blue Max / Der blaue Max / Le crepuscule des aigles (1966) DVD9

Bruno Stachel (George Peppard) is a new, young pilot in the German Air Force in 1918. He comes from a working class family and finds himself at odds with the other flyers in his squadron, all of whom are of an aristocratic background. The ace of the unit is Willi von Klugermann (Jeremy Kemp), a jovial but sardonic sort with whom Stachel engages in a friendly rivalry. Willi's uncle, General von Klugermann (James Mason) takes an interest in Stachel and promotes him as a national hero since, unlike other fliers, he is from the working class. But things are undone when Stachel becomes obsessed with winning the medal known as the Blue Max—signifying 20 confirmed kills in the air—to the point that he will betray Willi and claim several of Willi's kills as his own. Complicating matters is the affair that Stachel is having with the general's wife, Kaeti (Ursula Andress).

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 02:29:53 | 6.91 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Francais, Deutsch, Italiano, Espanol
Subtitles: English, Nederlands, Francais, Deutsch, Italiano, Espanol
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War, Action

Director: John Guillermin
Cast: George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress, Jeremy Kemp, Karl Michael Vogler, Anton Diffring
Country: UK
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust (2001) 4 x DVD9

It took Peter Stein more than ten years to realize his life-long dream of staging both parts of Goethe's tragedy in an unabridged version. He finally succeeded in raising sufficient funds to hire an ensemble and, most importantly, to engage Bruno Ganz for the part of Faust. They had worked together before; early in both their careers Ganz played Tasso in Stein's famous production at the Bremen Municipal Theatre in 1969 and Peer Gynt and the Prince of Homburg at the Berliner Schaubuhne in 1971 and 1974 respectively. However, even though casting was settled, a series of disasters still seemed to haunt the production. A few weeks before the premiere, Bruno Ganz had an accident that prevented him from performing. Stein was confronted with either delaying the project (a difficulty because of certain financial commitments) or handing over the part of Faust to the young and relatively inexperienced actor Christian Nickel. He decided on the latter, and the production opened as planned in the summer of 2000 at the World Exposition in Hanover.

4 x DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 28.7 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Deutsch (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: none
Genre: Drama, Performance

Director (stage): Peter Stein
Director (for TV): Peter Schonhofer (Faust I); Thomas Grimm (Faust II)
Cast: Rolf Boysen, Bruno Ganz, Dorothee Hartinger
Country: Germany
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