Unhinged (1982) DVD5

Three college girls are on their way to a rock concert when they get lost and end up wrecking their car. They seek refuge in an old mansion inhabited by a mother and daughter who seem to have a very bizarre relationship. As per the formula, it's difficult to leave the house, as the phone doesn't work, their car is undriveable, and there isn't another neighbor for miles. In fact, it seems that Marion Penrose (Janet Penner) and her mean old mother don't want the girls to leave. What is the horrible secret the family is hiding, and will any of the friends survive long enough to figure it out?
Graphic violence and full nudity caused the English Parliament to ban "Unhinged" in 1985.

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:19:45 | 3.94 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Horror

Director: Don Gronquist
Cast: Laurel Munson, Janet Penner, Sara Ansley
Country: USA
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Scusate il ritardo (1983) DVD5

Co-writer and director Massimo Troisi also stars in this comedy about Vicenzo, a young man living at home (in Naples) with his mother and his sister and her family and having to face the prospect of assuming more responsibility if he wants to keep his relationship with Anna (Giuliana De Sio). Vicenzo met Anna at a party and the two began an affair that is threatened when Anna is offered a job in Perugia, in central Italy. Depending on Vicenzo's response, Anna will either leave or stay. Troisi is an imposing comic presence that carries this film through episodes of dense Neapolitan dialogue.

DVD5 | PAL 16:9 | 01:48:23 | 3.85 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Italiano
Subtitles: English, Italiano, Espanol
Genre: Comedy

Director: Massimo Troisi
Cast: Massimo Troisi, Giuliana de Sio, Lina Polito
Country: Italy
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Edison: The Invention of the Movies (1888 – 1918) 4 x DVD9

While the invention of motion pictures can't be totally credited solely to Thomas Edison and his team, Edison and his group were indisputably essential in the development of the movies. Bringing together a series of inventions; the camera, a viewing machine, the creation of long strands of film, the machine to punch sprocket holes in the film along with a method of developing the long reels, the Edison's company made the moving picture a commercial reality.

Movies started out as a fad where a single person could watch a short scene on a coin operated machine. When this fad died, Edison helped pioneer the projecting of films so that audiences could simultaneously watch the same show. I addition to technological achievements, Edison's company produced the first blockbuster hit movie (The Great Train Robbery, included in this set) and the first serial (What Happened to Mary? (1912) incorrectly labeled as What Happened to Jane in the notes on disc one. Unfortunately a chapter of this innovative type of film is not included with this set.) Edison's company, largely thanks to director Edwin S. Porter, also helped develop a 'language' of film and establish the way stories would be told on the screen. Yet for all of these achievements, by the end of the teens the movie world had passed Edison's company by. After losing money for three years, mainly due to low quality films and insufficient volume of product in addition to distribution difficulties, Edison sold off his motion picture company.

All told, Edison was in the motion picture business for nearly thirty years, from 1888 to 1918. This was a period that saw dramatic changes for moving pictures; method of exhibition, length, content and even the way that stories were told all underwent major evolutions during this period. Though today his studio's output is generally glossed over, the history of the Edison studio is in a large part the history of early film.

4 x DVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 910 mins | 29.1 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Silent with Music
Genre: Silent, Documentary

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Thief (1981) 2 x Blu-Ray Limited Slipcase Edition (Director’s Cut and Theatrical Cut)

Before Heat, before The Last of the Mohicans, before Manhunter, master filmmaker Michael Mann graduated from his small screen Miami Vice origins with the strong directorial debut, Thief.

Based on a 70s semi-autobiographical novel by a real-life jewel thief, the story follows the character of tough ex-con and career thief Frank, who lives his life by a series of unbreakable rules. With a bar and a car dealership operating as fronts for his criminal work, everything appears to be in place, but Frank wants something more to his life than just pulling scores; he wants a family. With that in mind, he concentrates his efforts on convincing his girlfriend Jessie to take things seriously. But when his regular fence gets into trouble with some mob-affiliated villains, Frank finds himself drawn into a job that he doesn't really want to do, for people that he doesn't really want to work with. Will he ever get out?

Director: Michael Mann
Cast: James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson, James Belushi, Robert Prosky, Dennis Farina
Country: USA
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

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Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) 2 x DVD9 Special Edition (B&W and Color Versions)

EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS features Hugh Marlowe as Dr. Russell Marvin, the scientist in charge of Skyhook Project, which is placing a series of artificial satellites in orbit around the Earth. One by one, each of the satellites falls back to Earth shortly after its launch- leaving Dr. Marvin puzzled as to the cause. However, after an encounter with an unidentified flying object, Dr. Martin discovers that an extraterrestrial invasion force is behind the failure of the satellites. When the military tries to destroy one of the flying saucers, the aliens use their superior weaponry and defenses to demonstrate that conventional weapons are useless against them. Of course, it falls to Dr. Marvin to develop some form of unconventional means to defeat the alien invaders.

2 x DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 | 01:23:39 | 7.03 Gb + 7.80 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Francais, Espanol, Portugues
Subtitles: English, Francais, Espanol, Portugues
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Fred F. Sears
Cast: Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald Curtis
Country: USA
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Buyusenki Battle Chronicles (2008) DVD9

Mix motorcycles, drugs and yakuza under pressure and the result is bosozoku, the brutal motorized street gangs that terrorize Japan armed with swords and baseball bats. Kyosuke Jinnai was the leader of the "Buyusenki," the largest group of its kind in the Kanto region, but sick of the violence, he had planned to give it all up to make a family with his pregnant girlfriend. Instead, all of that was stolen from him in a moment of savage betrayal, and the man who dreamed of a life of peace has instead been transformed into an angel of death! The streets of Japan will be paved with blood in Buyusenki Battle Chronicle!

DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 | 01:49:25 | 5.06 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime

Director: Masayuki Toyama
Cast: Tadanobu Asano, Daizo Miyata, Masatoshi Nagase
Country: Japan
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Alibaba Aur 40 Chor / Adventures of Ali-Baba and the Forty Thieves / Приключения Али-Бабы и сорока разбойников (1979) DVD9

In this adventure, humble woodcutter Alibaba overhears a secret password that gains him entry to the fabled treasure cave of Abu Hasan and his 40 thieves. Alibaba shares his stroke of luck with his greedy brother, who promptly heads to the cavern to pilfer its booty. But he gets locked inside when he forgets the password -- and is killed by the gang of bandits, who set a trap for Alibaba. Can he outwit the thieves and avenge his brother's death?

DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 | 02:33:14 | 7.54 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Hindi
Subtitles: English
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Romance

Directors: Latif Faiziyev, Umesh Mehra
Cast: Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Zeenat Aman, Sofiko Chiaureli, Rolan Bykov, Elena Sanaeva
Country: Soviet Union, India
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Rockers (1978) DVD9 25th Anniversary Edition

Perry Henzell's 1972 film "The Harder They Come" will always be the quintessential reggae movie, forever tied to the music and culture of Jamaica. But if "The Harder They Come" introduced reggae on the big screen, giving it a cinematic identity, then Ted Bafaloukos' "Rockers" gave it heart and soul.

The film, featuring reggae drummer Leroy "Horsemouth" Taylor, doesn't quite tell a linear story, but rather follows the exploits of Horsemouth as he attains a motorcycle, has it stolen, then enlists a number of his friends to get his bike back. There's also a sort of Robin Hood plot interwoven into the story, where Horsemouth and his friends fight back against a crime organization and take back what belongs to the people.

DVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:39:12 | 7.59 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English/Jamaican Patois
Subtitles: English hardcoded (The songs and some dialogue in standard English are not subtitled.)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music

Director: Ted Bafaloukos
Cast: Leroy 'Horsemouth' Wallace, Richard 'Dirty Harry' Hall, Monica Craig
Country: Jamaica
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Davitelj protiv davitelja / Strangler vs. Strangler (1984) DVD5

In the mid-1980s Belgrade finally gets its first serial killer. Pera Mitic is a big, fat, shy and mother-fixated man, played to deadpan perfection by one of Serbia's greatest comedians, Tasko Nacic. He lives with his cruel mother in a gothic apartment resembling those from Mario Bava's films. He sells flowers and lives by the motto, 'Those who don't like carnations don't deserve to live!' His victims are the young women who refuse to buy his flowers and humiliate him in public. After the first murder, mostly incompetent inspector Ognjen Strahinjic (Nikola Simic) starts the investigation. His attempt to catch the strangler by employing an undercover agent, Rodoljub Jovanovic (Branislav Zeremski), ends up tragically. The plot gets even more complicated when a rock star Spiridon Kopicl (Srdan Saper) obsessed with the strangler records the song "Baby, Baby", dedicated to the strangler which immediately became nationwide hit.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:31:34 | 3.59 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Serbian
Subtitles: English
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller

Director: Slobodan Sijan
Cast: Tasko Nacic, Nikola Simic, Srdjan Saper
Country: Yugoslavia
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Futures vedettes / Joy of Loving / School for Love (1955) DVD9

At a prestigious music academy in Vienna, Sophie and Elisa are both in love with their teacher, the tenor Eric Walter. But Eric has only one true love, his wife Marie. A famous opera singer, Marie is more preoccupied with her career than her marriage and spends most of her time apart from her husband. Eric tries to console himself with the sensual charms of Sophie and the more romantic Elisa until Marie's return...

DVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 01:32:39 | 7.63 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Francais
Subtitles: English, Francais
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Marc Allegret
Cast: Jean Marais, Brigitte Bardot, Isabelle Pia
Country: France
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The Marcel Perez Collection (1911-1921) DVD5

Following a 10-year career in movies in France, Marcel Perez directed and starred as the character "Robinet" in approximately 160 short comedies in Italy before coming to the US in 1915, where he made another 60 comedy shorts as the character Tweedledum or "Tweedy" for a number of independent studios in Florida, New York and New Jersey. Perez is the only silent screen comedian besides Max Linder to have had this kind of long-reaching career on both continents. More than just another slapstick comedian, Perez had a unique character and a directorial persona, which he developed throughout his career and adapted seamlessly to American slapstick filmmaking. Sadly, only a fraction of Perez' output, which spanned 1900-1928, survives.

The DVD features new digital transfers of the films (five made in Italy and five from America), which were preserved by the Library of Congress and by EYE Filmmuseum (Netherlands), with new musical scores by Ben Model.

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 02:04:12 | 4.33 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English intertitles
Subtitles: none
Genre: Short, Comedy, Silent

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Olympia: The Complete Original Version (The Leni Riefenstahl Archival Collection): Olympia 1. Teil – Fest der Volker / Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938), Olympia 2. Teil – Fest der Schonheit / Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938) 2 x DVD

OLYMPIA is a 1938 German documentary film written, directed and produced by Leni Riefenstahl, documenting the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany. The film was released in two parts: Olympia 1. Teil — Fest der Volker (Festival of Nations) and Olympia 2. Teil — Fest der Schonheit (Festival of Beauty).

It was the first documentary feature film of the Olympic Games ever made. Many advanced motion picture techniques, which later became industry standards but which were groundbreaking at the time, were employed —including unusual camera angles, smash cuts, extreme close-ups, placing tracking shot rails within the bleachers, and the like. The techniques employed are almost universally admired, but the film is controversial due to its political context. Nevertheless, the film appears on many lists of the greatest films of all-time, including Time magazine's "All-Time 100 Movies."

Olympia set the precedent for future films documenting and glorifying the Olympic Games, particularly the Summer Games. The 1936 Summer Olympics torch relay was devised by the German sports official Dr. Carl Diem for these Olympic Games in Berlin. Riefenstahl later staged the torch relay for this film, as with competitive events of the Games.

This limited edition 2-disc set features the complete original version of OLYMPIA, presented for the first time on DVD.

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