Il capo dei capi / The Boss of the Bosses / Corleone (2007) 6 x DVD9 The Complete Series

'Corleone' narrates the life of Salvatore 'Toto' Riina between 1943 and 1993. From a difficult adolescence to his rise to power within Cosa Nostra , passing via the many bloody episodes which saw his ascent.

A story which starts when, as an adolescent, the future boss powerlessly witnesses the death of his father and younger brother in the explosion of a bomb leftover from the war. From that moment on, he becomes the head of the family and will have to fight poverty. He creates a small group of extremely trusted followers with Provenzano and Bagarella, he joins up with the most powerful criminals of Corleone who climbs the ladder towards mafia power, first dominating Corleone then Palermo.

These are extremely bloody events which see the conquering of power by means of unprecedented violence and hundreds of deaths. Only a childhood friend, Biagio Schiro, chooses another destiny, that of becoming a police officer and undertaking the mission of routing his ex-companion in an extremely delicate role which will make him persecutor and pursued and will lead him to run enormous risks.

'Corleone' is also the story of Riina s great enemies, the martyrs who have fought the mafia to extreme consequences, from the head of Police Mangano, to Boris Giuliano, the general Dalla Chiesa, the judges Terranova, Costa, Falcone and Borsellino, and the group of Captain Ultimo who, on January 15, 1993, will succeed in finding and arresting Toto Riina.
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The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970) DVD5

Glenn Ford plays a man who joins a mysterious fraternity, "The Brotherhood of the Bell", while in college. Upon attaining wealth and prominence, Ford discovers that the Brotherhood has been keeping tabs on him, and expects certain favors from him in the private sector. It dawns on Ford that the Bell is a sinister, subversive organization bent on world domination. When he tries to bring this to the attention of the public on a TV program hosted by a "gonzo" talkshow star (William Conrad), he is mocked and humiliated. Realizing that the Brotherhood of the Bell is too big and powerful to be defeated by conventional methods, Ford attempts to take on the organization in his own way. The Brotherhood of the Bell was previously presented as a "live" hourlong television drama in the 1950s.

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:37:23 | 3.95 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Drama, Thriller

Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: Glenn Ford, Rosemary Forsyth, Dean Jagger, Maurice Evans, William Conrad, Robert Pine
Country: USA
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British Comedies of the 1930s Volume 6: The Black Hand Gang (1930), Old Spanish Customers (1932) DVD5

The ebullient comedy films of the 1930s brought escape and laughter to millions of British cinemagoers, enabling veteran stars of the music-hall and theatre to reach out to a wider audience making household names of performers like Leslie Fuller, Hal Gordon, Bobby Howes, Ernest Lotinga and Gene Gerrard.

Although comedy would prove to be the decade's most successful film genre, many of these classic early talkies have remained unseen since their original release.

The Black Hand Gang (1930)
Wee Georgie Wood stars with his long-term stage partner, music-hall artiste Dolly Harmer, in this very early British talkie comedy. The diminutive comic plays the leader of a gang of street urchins who have made their own "hit list" of criminals to capture. Before they do that, though, they have a party to attend...

Old Spanish Customers (1932)
Directed by Lupino Lane (The Love Parade) and featuring the ever-popular pairing of Leslie Fuller (Boys Will Be Girls) and Hal Gordon (The Amazing Adventure), this riotous comedy charts the misadventures of Bill Smithers – a henpecked husband who goes on holiday to Spain but is forced to take the bull by the horns when he's mistaken for a famous toreador!
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Shoah and 4 Films After Shoah by Claude Lanzmann: Shoah (1985), A Visitor from the Living (1999), Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001), The Karski Report (2010), The Last of the Unjust (2013) 4 x Blu-Ray and 6 x DVD9 Eureka – Masters of Cinema

To write a review of a film such as Shoah seems an impossible task: how to sum up one of the most powerful discourses on film in such a way as to make people realise that this is a documentary of immense consequence, a documentary that is not easy to watch but important to watch, a documentary that not only records the facts but bears witness. We are commanded "Never forget"; this film helps us to fulfil that mandate, reverberating with the viewer long after the movie has ended. Yes, Holocaust films are plentiful, both fictional and non-, with titles such as The Last Days, Schindler's List and Life Is Beautiful entering the mainstream. But this is not a film about the Holocaust per se; this is a film about people. It's a meandering, nine-and-a-half-hour film that never shows graphic pictures or delves into the political aspects of what happened in Europe in the 1930s and 40s but talks with survivors, with SS men, with those who witnessed the extermination of 6 million Jews.

The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Claude Lanzmann's landmark documentary about the Holocaust, Shoah, alongside the four films he made through 2013 on the subject.

Director: Claude Lanzmann
Country: France, UK
Genre: Documentary, History, War
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A Matter of Life and Death / Stairway to Heaven (1946) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

David Niven (charming as ever) is Peter, a World War II fighter-pilot forced to abandon his burning aircraft sans parachute. Before bailing he recites poetry over the radio to June (Kim Hunter), a pretty American girl positioned in the R.A.F. control tower. Washed ashore, Peter awakes the next morning. Thinking he's in Heaven, he soon realises his mistake and encounters a girl cycling home; it's June, and naturally it's love at first sight. Only there's been a mix-up. Peter's time was up, he was meant to have been taken to Heaven but he got lost in the fog. A "Conductor" (a deceased French aristocrat, played with devilish glee by Marius Goring) is sent down to fetch him but Peter refuses to go; after all, he argues, his heart and soul now belong to June. A battle commences between this world and the next which can only be decided in one place: the divine court. Will love conquer? And is it really happening or is it all just in Peter's mind?

BD50, 2xDVD9 | 1080p AVC, NTSC | 01:44:27 | 44.5 Gb + 12.7 Gb
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron
Country: UK
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, War
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Bowling for Columbine (2002) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

At 6:00 a.m. on April 20, 1999, two high school outcasts, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, went bowling in their peaceful hometown of Littleton, Colorado. Only hours later, they entered into Columbine High School and opened fire on their classmates and teachers, creating a deadly bloodbath that ended with their own suicides. This tragic event shook the nation, and everyone started pointing figures and putting the blame on everything from the two teens' parents, to the continuous taunting of their peers, to their easy access to firearms, to violent movies, music, and video games. The simple fact is no one knows why Klebold and Harris did what they did, nor are we ever going to know for sure.

The intrepid filmmaker Michael Moore set out to investigate the long, often volatile love affair between Americans and their firearms, uncovering the pervasive culture of fear that keeps the nation locked and loaded.

Director: Michael Moore
Cast: Michael Moore, Charlton Heston, Marilyn Manson, Salvador Allende, George Bush, Bill Clinton
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Drama
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Children of the Stones (1977) 2 x DVD The Complete Series

The 1977 ITV series Children of the Stones is a brilliant mixture of elements that, sadly, would never find its way onto mainstream television today. It's intelligent, fantastical, scientific, sinister and eminently engrossing. Even though it was initially intended for kids, there's a lot for adults to enjoy as well. In fact, if you're a fan of Dr. Who, and who isn't, you may appreciate the similarities the 1978 "The Stones of Blood" episode has with Children of the Stones.

Especially for a show aimed at kids, there's an intriguing mix of real science and mystical belief as astrophysicist Adam Brake (Gareth Thomas) comes to the quaint village of Milbury with his gifted son, Matthew (Peter Demin) in order to study the ring of megalithic stones that frames the countryside. Before they can even settle in, it becomes clear that things are not what they seem...

DVD9 + DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 175 mins | 11.1 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Director: Peter Graham Scott
Cast: Gareth Thomas, Veronica Strong, Peter Demin
Country: UK
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5 Films Culte De Frederic Lansac: Echanges de partenaires / A Change of Partners (1976), La derniere nuit / Shocking! (1976), Extases extra-conjugales / Blue Ecstasy (1976), La grande baise / The Big Fuck (1977), Le sexe qui parle 2 / Pussy Talk 2 (1978) 2 x DVD9

Claude Mulot aka Frederic Lansac (1942–1986) was a French screenwriter and film director who mainly specialized in adult films but also made various attempts in other genres like horror films (The Blood Rose), comedies (Le jour se leve et les conneries commencent) or thrillers (Le Couteau sous la gorge). He accidentally drowned at the early age of 44 while his screenplay On se calme et on boit frais a Saint-Tropez was being shot by Max Pecas in Saint-Tropez in 1986.

2 x DVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 7.59 Gb + 7.57 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Francais, English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Adult, Romance, Comedy

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Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (1926-1939) 6 x DVD5

In 1925 Warner Brothers bought the system, dubbed Vitaphone, and started to experiment with adding synchronized sound to their films. Though the sound-on-disc system would be abandoned within a few years, Vitaphone was part of the Warner Brothers studio for decades and was responsible for their short subject releases. At first they mainly released vaudeville acts and musical numbers. It was easy to get a group or act to come in and record a bit for some quick cash, but Vitaphone shorts started evolving quickly and soon become mini-movies.

This set collects a wide variety of Vitaphone shorts, from vaudevillians at the height of their popularity, to big bands, to singers, to dramas and comedies there's something for everyone here. There are a lot of surprising films here, with just about every one offering something special.

6 x DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 614 minutes | 24.1 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Comedy, Musical

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Toni Erdmann (2016) Blu-Ray

Winfried (Peter Simonischek) is divorced and on the verge of retiring as an eccentric but appreciated music teacher. When his dog suddenly dies, he takes the opportunity to visit his increasingly distant daughter Ines (Sandra Huller), who currently lives in Bucharest working for an important consulting firm in the oil industry. Surprising her with an unexpected weekend visit, father and daughter share a strained, awkward visit which sees Winfried potentially compromise an important contract she's been attempting to secure for quite some time. Sending her father off, she reminisces about the grueling weekend only to discover her father hasn't left. Instead, he drops in on her social life in a garish disguise as someone named Toni Erdmann, an alter ego with a fright wig and false set of snaggleteeth who professes to be her CEO's life coach (as well as the German Ambassador to another set of folks). Ines decides to play along with her father's game, initially to avoid embarrassment with her colleagues. But the strange game begins to have a profound effect on them both.

Director: Maren Ade
Cast: Sandra Huller, Peter Simonischek, Michael Wittenborn, Thomas Loibl, Trystan Putter, Ingrid Bisu
Country: Germany, Austria, Romania
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Sui Pian / Snippets (2005) DVD5

"If you could really film an entire life in one long shot, is there meaning? Is there even a meaning that can be spoken?" Film student Yan Junjie from the Chinese province of Yunnan records everything that happens in his life between 2001 and 2005: rehearsals with his band, gossiping with friends, scenes at college, at home, in bed with his girlfriend, even the quirky behaviour of his little dog. He films drunken parties, bathing in the lake and over and over again the Chinese New Year. His experiment was about "using film to search for the self". But over the years, he begins to realise that every film is an illusion.

Snippets is a video about the sweet reluctance to become an adult in a country where everyone seems to be seeking only status symbols and advancement. Yan Junjie and his friends belong to a new Chinese generation, uncompromising and free, standing apart from mainstream Chinese society. Yan Junije attempts to capture the irrecoverable moments of youth, a time that is destined to be lost. But all he finds are snippets, fragments and pieces of a unique period of being, of the lust for life.

Director: Yan Junjie
Country: China
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Puss / Trust Me (2010) DVD9

The youngish members of a theater company led by writer-director Katja (Susanne Thorson) are rehearsing her latest play, but she seems the only person truly invested in the effort. Everyone else is bored, lazy, predatory, pathetic and/or a liar, with nearly all those terms applicable to Katja's boyfriend Alex (Skarsgard), who's about to find out he's impregnated another company member (Philomene Grandin). Other types involved in less-than-hilarious hijinks include the resident Don Juan (Lars Bringas), the lone plus-sized female (Lotti Tornros) and the peeping-tom landlord (Michael Segerstrom) anxious to evict them all for murky reasons.
A 48 hour-long series of intrigues and complications is started when the landlord sneaks around the theatre one night with a camera. Soon a forbidden love affair is revealed and at the same time a mysterious smell is spreading in the house.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:49:04 | 5.33 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Svenska
Subtitles: English, Dansk, Svenska, Norsk, Suomi
Genre: Comedy, Drama

Director: Johan Kling
Cast: Alexander Skarsgard, Gustaf Skarsgard, Richard Ulfsater
Country: Sweden, Norway
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The Quiet Earth (1985) Blu-Ray Arrow Video

Scientist Zac Hobson (Bruno Lawrence) wakes up one morning and heads to the research station where he works. However, he quickly discovers that all of the people who would normally be around him seem to have disappeared into thin air. A gas station he stops at to fill his car is left unattended. Vehicles are left abandoned on the road. A house which he knocks at the door of is revealed to be completely empty. He also discovers the smoldering wreckage of an airliner which has fallen out of the sky. When he eventually enters the lab, he finds that there is nobody there either. When he sends signals out to other labs across the world, he receives no responses from any of them. It appears that a scientific experiment which he has been involved with, known as Project Flashlight, has wiped out most of humanity...

As Zac wanders the deserted city of Hamilton, New Zealand, hoping to find some remnant of life besides himself, his mind begins to disintegrate until fantasy and reality blur together in a heady, terrifying cocktail.

Director: Geoff Murphy
Cast: Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge, Pete Smith
Country: New Zealand
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
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O fovos / The Fear (1966) DVD5

Set in a rural area of Greece where religious obsession and illiteracy (therefore, immorality) reign, this is the story of a violent young man coping with sexual frustration and seeing the house servant, a deaf and mute girl, as a possibility of solving his problem. His parents are barely in speaking terms with each other and his sister has an affair with a mechanic in the village, the son of a family enemy. Hostility and violence kept inside soon explode and the crimes committed won't stay covered for long.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:40:02 | 4.26 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Greek
Subtitles: English
Genre: Crime, Drama

Director: Kostas Manoussakis
Cast: Elli Fotiou, Anestis Vlahos, Spiros Focas, Alexis Damianos
Country: Greece
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Les belles de nuit / Beauties of the Night (1952) DVD9, Blu-Ray

Claude, an obscure music teacher in a small provincial town, is unhappy with his lot. His students mock him, pretty women ignore him, and his piano improvisations are drowned out by noises from the street. One day, Claude falls into a dream...

It's 1900. He's celebrated and admired and Edmee, mother of his young student, invites him to dance and to love. Back in his sad reality, the young musician keeps taking refuge in his dreams. The most beautiful women compete for his heart: Edmee, Leila, a bistro cashier who becomes an odalisque in an imaginary conquest of Algeria, and Suzanne, daughter of a garage mechanic, turned into an 18th century aristocrat won over to revolutionary ideas.

No wonder that Claude begins to prefer his dream life to his real life. Unfortunately, the dreams soon begin to transform into a nightmare...

Director: Rene Clair
Cast: Gerard Philipe, Martine Carol, Gina Lollobrigida
Country: France, Italy
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music, Romance
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Sam Benedict (1962–1963) 6 x DVD9 The Complete Series

Edmond O'Brien stars as defense attorney Sam Benedict in this riveting legal drama based on the true-life experiences of renowned San Francisco trial lawyer Jacob W. Ehrlich (who served as the series' legal consultant). Richard Rust and Joan Tompkins costar as legal associate Hank Tabor and office manager Trudy Wagner who, in tandem with Sam's keen legal mind, create a refuge from the ungentle mercies of the justice system. With Sam's cases running to the cutting edge and Hank's cases often showcasing the lighter side of the law, Sam Benedict serves up a full legal suite of clients and causes from socialite slayers, messianic millionaires, and killer cops to put-upon pianists, fur coat scofflaws (and dogs!), and false faith healers. Notable clients found in the courts of Sam Benedict include Claude Rains, Gloria Grahame, Burgess Meredith, Geraldine Brooks, Kurt Russell, Katherine Ross, Howard Duff and Ida Lupino.

6 x DVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 1410 minutes | 45.6 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Drama

Creator: E. Jack Neuman
Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Richard Rust, Joan Tompkins
Country: USA
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