The Stone / Kamen / Камень (1992) DVD9

Stone is set inside the isolated Chekhov Museum, where a young guard and an old man who may or may not be the ghost of the famed writer pass the night in obscure conversation.

Stone is virtually plotless; its journey is a metaphysical one, fading back through the blurred lines of time. Its few events are, in their entirety: The young man's meeting of this ghost; the dawning of awareness of their situation; their opaquely significance-laden, silence-riven verbal interactions; and their funereal stroll to survey the desolate village and its surroundings...

DVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:18:30 | 5.93 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Fantasy

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Cast: Pyotr Aleksandrov, Leonid Mozgovoy
Country: Russia
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Korowod / Twists of Fate (2007) DVD5

Young student Bartek (Amil Mackowiak) has the makings of first-class sleazoid businessman, a natural product (suggests Stuhr's script) of Poland's new, anything-for-a-zloty economy. Getting people to sit exams and write theses for others is just one of Bartek's several dodgy but lucrative dealings.
On a train, he sees middle-aged academic Mezczyzna (Jan Frycz) staging what looks like his own disappearance, leaving his briefcase and coat inside the train and a door open so it looks like he fell out en route. But Bartek then spots Mezczyzna at a provincial station and follows him.

DVD5 | PAL 16:9 | 01:52:10 | 4.18 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Polish
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Jerzy Stuhr
Cast: Kamil Mackowiak, Karolina Gorczyca, Katarzyna Maciag, Jan Frycz, Maciej Stuhr
Country: Poland
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The History of Pornography (1970) DVD5

Perhaps the boldest of the early sex documentaries, The History of Pornography is a comprehensive view of graphic depictions of sex in art and literature from ancient times onward.
That most of the film's running time is dedicated to hardcore film loops provides our first clue that The History Of Pornography was not intended for collegiate-level classes in art appreciation.

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:57:42 | 3.92 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Documentary, Adult, History

Director: Bob Chinn
Cast: Bob Chinn, Suzanne Fields, Terri Johnson
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Brahms and the Little Singing Girls (1996) DVD5

Tony Palmer directs this controversial film which re-imagines the personal life of the great composer Johannes Brahms.
Brahms' first musical experience had been playing an upright piano in the brothels of Hamburg; at the end he lived a bachelor in Vienna having his every need satisfied by the prostitutes of the city whom he always affectionately described as his 'little singing girls'.
This film is a celebration of unabashed, life-enhancing, sexually explosive music.

DVD5 | NTSC 16:9 | 01:28:33 | 4.20 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Drama, Music, Biography

Director: Tony Palmer
Cast: Warren Mitchell, Lori Piitz
Country: Germany, UK
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The Singing Detective (1986) 2 x DVD9 + DVD5

The late Dennis Potter was a master at mining the popular songs of the 1930s and '40s for dramatic effect, but he never did it better than in this British miniseries starring the inestimable Michael Gambon. Gambon plays a mystery writer named Philip E. Marlow, who is suffering a torturous bout of psoriatic arthritis in a British hospital, where he is a victim of both his disease and the national health plan. Unable to move without pain, he escapes into his imagination, plotting out a murder tale in which he is both a big-band singer and a private eye. But Potter and director Jon Amiel also mix in flashbacks of Marlow's youth and his unhappy marriage to explain how the real Marlow reached this sorry pass. Flawlessly, intricately, kaleidoscopically assembled, the six one-hour episodes of this British miniseries fly by like some fantastic fever dream.

2 x DVD9 + DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 03:20:43 + 03:22:14
7.57 Gb + 7.73 Gb + 3.77 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Musical, Mystery, Thriller

Director: Jon Amiel
Writer: Dennis Potter
Cast: Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide, Joanne Whalley, David Ryall, Janet Suzman, Ron Cook
Country: Australia, UK
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Blue Murder at St. Trinian’s (1957) DVD5

To further the aims of the St Trinian's Marriage Bureau run by Flash Harry, the school contrives to win a competition with a European "Goodwill" trip as prize, to the horror of the Ministry of Education. Joe Mangan, father of a sixth former and hiding out at the school after a Hatton Garden diamond robbery, is persuaded to travel with the girls as their new headmistress, leaving the real one trussed up in the belfry. At least her arrival had allowed the remains of the Army unit sent in to keep order to evacuate.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:23:13 | 3.67 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Comedy

Director: Frank Launder
Cast: Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell, Alastair Sim, Lionel Jeffries
Country: UK
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Around the World Under the Sea (1966) DVD9

Dr. Doug Standish, his assistant Dr. Craig Mosby, Dr. Phil Volker, Dr. Maggie Hanford, Hank Stahl, and Dr. Orin Hillyard make up a team of specialists in undersea life assembled for an expedition aboard the Hydronaut , an atomic-powered submarine. Their mission is to place electronic sensors at strategic places on ocean beds throughout the world to provide an early-warning system for the volcanic eruptions which have caused a worldwide series of earthquake disasters. Volker has consented to join the mission on the condition that a sidetrip be made to locate a sunken treasure containing a cache of valuable crystals.
But once underway the mission is thwarted from within – frayed tempers between two men wanting the same woman – and from without – by giant eels and a necessary dive on a live volcano.

DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 | 01:50:45 | 7.22 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Action, Adventure

Director: Andrew Marton
Cast: Lloyd Bridges, Brian Kelly, Shirley Eaton, David McCallum, Keenan Wynn, Marshall Thompson, Gary Merrill
Country: USA
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Faratyev’s Fantasies / Fantazii Faryateva / Фантазии Фарятьева (1979) DVD9

Averbakh's adaptation of a play by Alla Sokolova, Faratyev's Fantasies is the story of a man surrounded by four woman, Faratyev, he is madly in love with on, Aleksandra, compassionately take care of another, her aunt, and is indifferent to the other two, Aleksandra's mother, and her sister, Lyuba. The world of these characters are that of dreams, each one's dream in interconnected to that of other, and each respond differently to it.
Faratyev is a man who dreams, he live in the world of fantasies. Aleksandra and her mother listen to him, but do not take him seriously, his aunt listen to him, believe him, but do not encourage him, only Lyuba understand him, but to him, she is a mere child, he is madly in love with her sister, Aleksandra, she is a realist, she does not love him, but for sake of her own prosperity and that of her mother and sister, she agree to marry him, only to run away with the mysterious Bedhudov...

DVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 02:23:53 | 7.46 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Russian (DTS5.1, DD5.1, DD1.0)
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance

Director: Ilya Averbakh
Cast: Marina Neyolova, Andrey Mironov, Zinaida Sharko, Liliya Gritsenko
Country: Soviet Union
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Gli occhi, la bocca / The Eyes, the Mouth / Those Eyes, That Mouth (1982) DVD9

Aging actor Giovanni (Lou Castel) returns home for the funeral of his twin brother Pippo. The family tells him that Pippo has committed suicide leaving behind a short note explaining his motives. Yet, Pippo's mother (Emmanuelle Riva) is kept in the dark-she is told that it was an accident. Why? To make things even more complicated Pippo's on-and-off-again fiancee Wanda (Angela Molina) refuses to grieve with the rest of the family. Giovanni is puzzled, angered, and curious to find out what really happened.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:34:28 | 6.25 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Italiano
Subtitles: English, Italiano
Genre: Drama

Director: Marco Bellocchio
Cast: Lou Castel, Angela Molina, Emmanuelle Riva, Michel Piccoli
Country: Italy, France
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Red Dust (1932) DVD5

The second of six films Jean Harlow and Clark Gable appeared in together, Red Dust (1932) demonstrated once and for all the potent sexual chemistry these two MGM stars generated when they were teamed on the screen. Gable plays Dennis Carson, a rough-and-tumble rubber plantation overseer in Indochina and Harlow is cast as Vantine, a prostitute on the run who is offered shelter by Gable until the next boat to civilization. At first Carson is indifferent to Vantine's charms but eventually a mutual attraction develops between them which is soon complicated by the arrival of engineer Gary Willis (Gene Raymond) and his attractive wife, Barbara (Mary Astor).

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:22:43 | 4.25 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Victor Fleming
Cast: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond, Mary Astor, Donald Crisp
Country: USA
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Tractor Drivers / Traktoristy / Трактористы (1939) DVD5

The mid 30s. Klim Yarko, a demobilized tank driver from the Far East returns to the Ukraine collective farm where Maryana Bazhan, his long-standing love, lives. But Maryana is a famous tractor-driver of the vicinity and her admirers are legion. In attempt to get rid of them she invents a story of her love to Nazar, a butch and bummer. Klim, a simple soul, finds himself in a complicated situation but finally due to his sincerity and industry he wins sympathies of the whole farm and the famous Maryana's love.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:22:55 | 3.26 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English
Genre: musical comedy

Director: Ivan Pyryev
Cast: Marina Ladynina, Nikolay Kryuchkov, Boris Andreyev, Stepan Kayukov, Pyotr Aleynikov, Vladimir Kolchin
Country: Soviet Union
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