4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile / 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

In just his second feature film, Romanian director Cristian Mungiu wasn't shy about tackling a challenge.
While the idea and process of the abortion itself is the driving force of the movie, as cliche as it may sound, it's not what the movie is really 'about'.

Set in 1987 at the tail end of the Ceausescu dictatorship in Romania, "4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days" concerns a young woman seeking an abortion in an authoritarian state that has all but outlawed the procedure. As if the basic subject wasn't thorny enough, writer/director Mungiu also chose to make the young woman rather difficult to like, or at least difficult to fully sympathize with. Gabita (Laura Vasiliu) is passive, forgetful, flighty, and relies almost entirely on her friend Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) to negotiate all of the details of a complex (and illegal) deal. Safe in the security of being the "unreliable one" in the relationship, Gabi exploits Otilia's courage and conscientiousness, with harrowing repercussions for both of them.

Director: Cristian Mungiu
Cast: Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, Alexandru Potocean, Luminita Gheorghiu
Country: Romania, Belgium
Genre: Drama

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Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood: Morocco (1930), Dishonored (1931), Shanghai Express (1932), Blonde Venus (1932), The Scarlet Empress (1934), The Devil is a Woman (1935) 6 x Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

She would be revered as one of the most famous sex symbols of the twentieth century. He would become renowned as one of early sound cinema's most accomplished visionaries—and then reviled for his grueling techniques and disparagement of actors. She was Marlene Dietrich and he was Josef von Sternberg, a German actress and a New York raised, Austrian born emigre who would, with seven features create one of the most impressive cinematic collaborations ever accomplished in their medium. The esteemed Criterion Collection brings together, for the first time in one stellar box-set, the six Hollywood features they made together from 1930-1935 which brought them together and tore them apart by the end of their working relationship.

Throughout the six films in the set -- Morocco (1930), Dishonored (1931), Shanghai Express (1932), Blonde Venus (1932), The Scarlet Empress (1934) and The Devil is a Woman (1935) -- von Sternberg and Dietrich show off their range, covering melodrama, tragedy, thrills, a touch of comedy, and plenty of romance (almost every one finds Dietrich with multiple suitors). Crediting von Sternberg alone with the "creation" of Dietrich's image arguably undermines her talents, but it's safe to say that their works leave both of them looking good, as Dietrich gamely meets each one of von Sternberg's new challenges, and von Sternberg's vision becomes increasingly elaborate.

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Charlie Chaplin: The Essanay Comedies (1915-1916) 2 x Blu-Ray BFI

Across the course of just one year, Charlie Chaplin went from a popular stage actor to screen megastar and box office draw with the films he made at Mack Sennett's Keystone Company. Keystone turned out fast-paced, broad slapstick comedy shorts which delighted audiences of their day but often look a little crude by modern standards. Nevertheless, Chaplin shone out amongst his contemporaries and when his contract came up for renewal at the end of the year, he demanded a higher wage of $1,000 a year. When Sennett refused this demand, Chaplin negotiated an even higher wage of $1,250 a year (plus a $10,000 signing bonus) with the Essanay Company. Chaplin's move was not only financially beneficial but also crucial in allowing him the greater creative freedom to refine his art. Though the Essanay films are now seen as a transitional period for Chaplin, it is quickly apparent when watching the films chronologically that he is going from strength to strength and, to audiences who were not aware that even better was to come, the films on the BFI's new complete overview of Chaplin's Essanay work were considered the gold standard of screen comedy at the time.
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Heaven Can Wait (1943) DVD9 (2005 edition) and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

Henry Van Cleve (Don Ameche) comes from a wealthy New York family and has enjoyed a privileged life, which comes to an end the day after his 70th birthday. Henry presents himself at an antechamber to Hell, where he's greeted by the Devil himself (Laird Cregar), whom Henry addresses as Your Excellency. Although Henry assumes he's headed downstairs because of his many indiscretions while alive, His Excellency decides to review his case, and invites Henry to recall his life in detail. This Henry does by relating the significant incidents of his time on earth to those women who played the most important parts in his life. There then follows a series of lengthy flashbacks tracing Henry's life from the cradle to his deathbed.

BD50, DVD9 | 1080p AVC, NTSC | 01:52:46 | 44.8 Gb + 7.59 Gb
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn
Country: USA
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
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A Boy and His Dog (1975) Blu-Ray Shout! Factory

The plot of this film is set in Arizona in the year 2024 A.D. The world had been devastated by nuclear war seventeen years ago, and the surface of the Earth is turned into desert, roamed by various drifters in search of food, drink and shelter. One of them is Vic (played by a very young and rosy-cheeked Don Johnson), eighteen-year-old boy whose only companion is Blood (voice by Tim McIntire), dog with whom he has telepathic connection. Blood's instincts, wisdom, knowledge experience help Vic in his everyday search for food, but so far Vic can't find the only thing on his mind - a girl. Finally, two of them stumble on a girl in the form of young Quilla June Holmes (played by Susan Benton) and rescue her from homicidal rapists and mutants. After a night of passionate love Quilla disappears and Vic, against Blood's better judgement, goes looking for her in the underground, where some remnants of civilisation survived and turned into grotesque version of ultraconservative America...

BD50 | 1080p AVC | 01:30:36 | 32.3 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Director: L.Q. Jones
Cast: Don Johnson, Jason Robards, Susanne Benton
Country: USA
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Trailer Trauma (2016) Blu-Ray

Why bother whiling away an afternoon watching one or two grindhouse flicks when, in the space of a couple hours and change, you can gawk at hordes of flesh-eating mummies, a gaggle of Santa Clauses getting savagely butchered, a bunch of mobsters skewered by a power drill, undead kids who can melt their parents with a touch, a horned demon rocking a pair of sais, and a cyborg warrior on tank treads? Where else can you see Mr. T, Jean Seberg, Klaus Kinski, James Mason, Jean Claude Van Damme, Smokey Robinson, Harvey Keitel, and Edwige Fenech brought together for the first time? TRAILER TRAUMA delivers all the gruesome, sticky, sleazy, and unrepentantly batshit insane highlights from dozens of drive-in flicks.

There are other movie preview compilation discs out there, but only TRAILER TRAUMA contains the ultra-rare titles that you absolutely will not find anywhere else. Prepare yourselves, connoisseurs of cult cinema: TRAILER TRAUMA is going to hurt... but it hurts so good!

BD25 | 1080p AVC | 02:17:05 | 23 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none

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Fanchon the Cricket (1915) Blu-Ray Flicker Alley

A young wild girl Fanchon ( Mary Pickford ) lives in a forest with her eccentric grandmother who is suspected by the villagers of being a witch. The unkempt Fanchon suffers from her grandmother's sorceress reputation. One day the girl rescues a boy from drowning and they fall in love...

Fanchon the Cricket was filmed on location in Delaware Gap, Pennsylvania. A natural, sensual and uninhibited Pickford breaks through today s stereotype of her as the girl with the curls. It is also the only surviving film in which both siblings Jack Pickford and Lottie Pickford are featured alongside their sister.

BD25 | 1080p AVC | 01:14:59 | 21 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English intertitles
Subtitles: none

Director: James Kirkwood
Cast: Mary Pickford, Jack Standing, Lottie Pickford
Country: USA
Genre: Drama
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Science Is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painleve (1928-1960) 3 x DVD9 Criterion Collection

Jean Painleve was a film director, critic, theorist, and animator, yet his interests and studies also extended to mathematics, medicine, and zoology. Amazingly, all these disparate strands came together in a groundbreaking, decades-spanning artistic career. Operating under the credo: Science is fiction, Painleve forged his own unique cinematic path, creating countless short films for both the viewing public and the scientific community. Moreover, he was also one of the first filmmakers to take his camera underwater. Surreal, otherworldly documents of marine life, these films transformed sea horses, octopi, and mollusks into delicate dancers in their own floating ballets.

3xDVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 313 minutes | 22.1 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Francais
Subtitles: English
Genre: Documentary, Short

The three-disc Criterion DVD set Science Is Fiction: 23 Films By Jean Painleve contains a 90-minute program of assorted Painleve footage backed by a Yo La Tengo live performance, along with a three-hour documentary about Painleve and the 23 unadulterated films cited in the title. It's those originals that are the set's real selling-point.
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The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) 2xDVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

The Magnificent Ambersons is based on Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer Prize–winning 1918 novel of the same name. It tells the story of the downfall of the titular upper-class family. Isabel Amberson (Dolores Costello) is being courted by inventor Eugene Morgan (Joseph Cotten) but an embarrassing incident turns Isabel away into the arms of stick-in-the-mud Wilbur Minafer, who she soon marries.

Jumping forward a number of years, the now widower Eugene comes back to town and attends a party put on by the Ambersons where he meets Isabel's spoiled son George (Tim Holt), who is approaching adulthood and instantly falls for Eugene's daughter Lucy (Anne Baxter). She finds George's arrogance strangely endearing and the two begin a hesitant relationship, but all the while George becomes increasingly unhappy with the attention Eugene is giving his mother, particularly after his father dies. Indeed, Eugene and Isabel begin to rekindle their old flame, much to George's anger.

The insolent young man does his best to intervene over the years, but, in the meantime, the Amberson family stock begins to decline whilst the Morgan family fortunes rapidly increase as the industrialisation of the town (and country) develops.
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The Phantom of the Opera (1925, 1929) 2 x Blu-Ray Kino Lorber

Lon Chaney, the man of a thousand faces, stars in this original film adaptation of Gaston Leyroux's celebrated novel The Phantom of the Opera. From his home in the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera House, the disfigured Phantom haunts the operagoers and becomes legend. When the Phantom falls in love with the beautiful young singer Christine Daae (Mary Philbin) whom he trains from afar before finally building the courage to approach her, he takes her down to his world below the opera house and professes his love. But upon seeing his face, she rebuffs him, afraid of what he is, and the Phantom sends her back to the world above, warning her she must keep singing, but to stay away from her lover Raoul de Chagny (Norman Kerry), which she fails to do. It leads to tragic consequences.

This edition presents the 1929 theatrical version, restored from archival 35mm elements. The film is presented at two different historically-accurate projection speeds, each with two different soundtrack options. Also included is the 1925 theatrical version, which survives only in poor-quality prints, but contains scenes that were removed from the 1929 release version.

Directors: Rupert Julian, Lon Chaney, Ernst Laemmle, Edward Sedgwick
Cast: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry
Country: USA
Genre: Horror
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