Rendez-vous a Bray / Appointment in Bray / Rendezvous at Bray (1971) DVD9 + DVD5

1917, Paris. Julien Eschenbach, a young pianist and musical journalist, receives a telegram from his composer friend Jacques Nueil – now fighting in the air force – inviting him to a rendezvous at the latter's house, La Fougeraie, in Bray. A mysterious woman greets him at the house, announces that Jacques hasn't yet arrived, and serves him tea in the sitting room. On the piano, he finds an unfinished nocturne composed by Jacques and dedicated to himself, which he plays; when the lights flicker out, the woman brings in a candelabra and explains that they are only twelve kilometers from the front. After trying unsuccessfully to phone Paris, Julien recalls a quarrel with Jacques about concealing his job as a cinema pianist and a later piano recital arranged by Jacques at the home of the wealthy M. and Mme. Hausmann, during which the latter tried to seduce him.
Fearing his friend dead, Julien relives their relationship, stimulated by erotic yearnings that span past (the friend's girl, Ogier) and present (the housekeeper), conjuring ghostly shadows of guilt...

DVD9 + DVD5 | PAL 16:9 | 01:25:29 | 6.40 Gb + 4.19 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Francais (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: English, Francais, Nederlands
Genre: Drama, Music, War, Mystery

Director: Andre Delvaux
Cast: Anna Karina, Mathieu Carriere, Roger Van Hool, Bulle Ogier
Country: France, Belgium, West Germany
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Dawn of the Mummy (1981) DVD9 Widescreen and Fullscreen (Open Matte) versions

Seferaman Egyptian king was mummified and entombed 3,000 years ago. A batty priestess places a curse upon the tomb, ensuring that anyone disturbing Seferaman's slumber will feel the wrath of his resurrection. After a trio of thieves disturb the ancient resting place of Sefaraman, they unwittingly unleash the mummy's curse upon the land! ...
Their search is interrupted, however, by the arrival of a group of Americans out on a fashion shoot in the Egyptian desert. The glare and heat of the camera lights combined with the noise made by the trespassers soon causes the evil, mummified Safiraman to awaken from his eternal slumber in order to kill those who have dared disturb his sacred resting place. Soon Safiraman's undead, flesh-craving servant's also rise from their graves deep beneath the desert sands and together the evil mummy and his zombie minions take their horrifying revenge as they descend on a nearby village, killing and devouring all whom they encounter.

DVD9 | PAL | 01:28:14 | 7.86 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English DTS 5.1 (widescreen only), English DD 5.1, English DD 2.0
Subtitles: none
Genre: Horror

Director: Frank Agrama
Cast: Brenda Siemer Scheider, Barry Sattels, George Peck, John Salvo, Joan Levy
Country: USA, Egypt, Italy
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A Warning to the Curious and Lost Hearts: Two Ghost Stories by M.R. James (2010) DVD5

Two classic spine chillers from the master of the English ghost story, based on Nunkie Theatre Company's thrilling stage show of the same name.

Lost Hearts features one of M R James's most memorable black magicians, the predatory scholar Mr. Abney. It is paired here with one of his most poignant and personal works, A Warning to the Curious in which a young archaeologist is haunted and hunted by the guardian of an ancient treasure.

The English seaside has never looked so menacing.

Performed by Robert Lloyd Parry

Reviews here: http://nunkie.co.uk/reviews_warning.html

DVD5 | PAL 16:9 | 00:45:27 + 00:29:16 | 3.21 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: none
Genre: Performance

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A Further Gesture / The Break / Un gesto mas (1997) DVD5

Rea is Dowd, whom we meet in the first scene during a prison visit with his long-suffering girlfriend, played by Maria Doyle Kennedy. She wants to wait faithfully for him to get out of jail, but Dowd knows that, even if he were to be released, he'd have nothing to offer her in the form of a new life. On the way back to his cell after the visit, Dowd is caught in the middle as several other prisoners initiate a daring escape. There's a fight with a guard, a gun slides across the floor, and he picks it up. In a split second, he, too, decides to take it on the lam.
Dowd begins a new life in New York, but he might as well be in prison again - until he strikes up a friendship with co-worker Tulio (Molina) and gets to know his close group of Guatemalan exiles. A bond with Monica (Rosana Pastor) seals his acceptance among the exiles, and Dowd learns the dark truth behind their presence in the US.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:37:09 | 4.25 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Espanol (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: Espanol
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller

Director: Robert Dornhelm
Cast: Stephen Rea, Alfred Molina, Rosana Pastor, Brendan Gleeson, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Sean McGinley, Richard Dormer
Country: UK, Spain, Germany, Ireland, Japan
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A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923) DVD9

A Woman of Paris (1923) was the first film Chaplin made for United Artists Film Corporation, which he founded with his friends Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith. It was Charlie Chaplin's dramatic film debut, an attempt to prove he could do more than comedy and didn't need to star in a film to appeal to his audience. The sophisticated melodrama stars Chaplin's onetime lover, Edna Purviance, as Marie St. Clair.

The film opens with Marie planning to escape suffocating parents and her provincial village for Paris with her betrothed, Jean Millet (Carl Miller). But the sudden death of Jean's father keeps him from meeting Marie at the train station. The deeply wounded Marie boards the train for Paris alone. By the next scene, a year later, Marie has become the mistress of the city's wealthiest bachelor - and most notorious rake Pierre Revel (Adolphe Menjou) who lavishes Marie with material things, but is promised in marriage to an heiress.

A year later she accidently meets Jean, who has come to Paris with his mother to study art. Suddenly, Jean re-enters her life, and Marie must choose between her lost true love and the lifestyle she has become accustomed to.

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David Holzman’s Diary (1967) DVD9

Shot in 1967, David Holzman's Diary is a milestone in contemporary film history. Brilliantly conceived and executed, it manages to simultaneously be very much of its time and very many years ahead of its time. The film tells the story of David Holzman, a young man infatuated with film and film-making. David Holzman's Diary purports to be a committed New York film student's attempt to achieve the cinema dream he thinks happens all the time with his director heroes Luchino Visconti and Vincente Minnelli -- he'll just film his own life as it happens and wait for the multileveled truth of his life to reveal itself. Staged to seem like a documentary of a real person's life, Holzman's filming of his life starts to take over his life.

DVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 01:13:01 | 6.81 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: none
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Documentary

Director: Jim McBride
Cast: L.M. Kit Carson, Eileen Dietz, Louise Levine, Lorenzo Mans, Fern McBride
Country: USA
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Orhim le-rega / Off-White Lies (2011) DVD5

After years of living in the USA with her mother and step-father, sharp-witted teenager Libby returns to Israel to get to know her father, Shaul. Unfortunately, her arrival coincides with the onset of the second Lebanon war. Libby quickly discovers that the irrepressible Shaul is an infantile eccentric, and that he is "in between apartments", in other words, homeless. Shaul comes up with a creative plan to put a roof over their heads. They pose as refugees from the bombarded northern region of Israel and are taken in by a well-off family in Jerusalem. Finally in a "normal" household, Shaul and Libby begin to build their father-daughter relationship, but their false identities can't last forever... Especially as Libby releases her teenage fury at the lies permeating her life.

DVD5 | PAL 16:9 | 01:28:59 | 4.36 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Hebrew (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: English, Francais, Hebrew
Genre: Comedy, Drama

Director: Maya Kenig
Cast: Gur Bentwich, Elya Inbar, Tzah Grad, Arad Yeni, Salt Achi-Miriam
Country: Israel, France
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