The Lady Eve (1941) DVD9 Criterion Collection

Barbara Stanwyck is Jean Harrington, a grifter who travels the world with her father (Charles Coburn), bilking the "sucker sapiens." She meets Charles "Hopsie" Pike (Henry Fonda), heir to the Pike's Pale ale fortune and snake-enthusiast returning from a year's expedition up the Amazon.
To get home, he boards the cruise ship Southern Queen, setting off quite a stir, especially among all the women on board who hope to catch his eye and marry into his fortune. Jean and her father and mentor, "Colonel" Harrington, immediately set their sights on Hopsie. He hasn't seen a woman in six months and quickly falls for Jean. But when she attempts to seduce Hopsie in order to fleece him develops into real love.

DVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:33:48 | 7.13 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English (Dolby AC3, 1 ch)
Subtitles: English
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance

Director: Preston Sturges
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest
Country: USA
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Peeping Tom (1960) DVD9

Mark Lewis works as a focus puller at a movie studio, moonlights as a pornographic photographer in a room tucked behind a newsstand and spends his free time endlessly watching black and white home movies. Lewis is afflicted with scoptophilia, the morbid desire to gaze. But watching is not enough for Lewis. He finds his greatest satisfaction filming and then murdering a succession of beautiful women with a dagger hidden in his camera's tripod legs.

His first victim is a prostitute, his second a film actress, and his third a model. In the course of these murders, Mark meets Helen Stephens and her blind mother, and the two women rent a flat in his house. One day he shows Helen some film depicting his father's experiments on himself; the film both fascinates and repels Helen. Learning that Mark is the son of the notorious Dr. Lewis, the police put Mark under surveillance. The truth is revealed when Helen accidentally switches on Mark's projector and views the murder of the actress.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 (720x576) VBR | 01:37:43 | 7.33 Gb + 3% rec
English (Dolby AC3, 2 ch) | Subtitles: none
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller

Director: Michael Powell
Actors: Karlheinz Bohm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer, Esmond Knight, Michael Goodliffe
Country: UK
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Aurora (2010) DVD9

Inside a non-descript apartment kitchen, a man and a woman discuss the inconsistencies in Little Red Riding Hood, their voices hushed, mindful of waking the little girl sleeping in the next room. Behind a line of abandoned trailers, on the outskirts of Bucharest, the same man waits for something or someone to arrive. At a metallurgical factory, he collects two hand-made firing pins secretly prepared by a coworker. The man's name is Viorel. He is 42 years old, divorced, a father of two young girls, and today he will carry out a plan that will bring order to his world.

Romanian filmmaker Cristi Puiu ("The Death of Mr. Lazarescu") is the writer-director of this three-hour experimental crime drama that turns out to be an intriguing philosophical character study of an ordinary man we follow for about one and a half days and try to piece together from the little back story supplied why this supposedly good citizen is driven to commit a premeditated murder of four people in such a cold-blooded manner.

DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 (720x480) VBR | 03:03:47 | 7.72 Gb + 3% rec
Romanian (Dolby AC3, 6 ch), Romanian (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

Director: Cristi Puiu
Actors: Cristi Puiu, Clara Voda, Catrinel Dumitrescu, Luminita Gheorghiu, Valentin Popescu
Country: Romania, France, Switzerland, Germany
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Battle of Britain (1969) DVD9

The movie covers a very specific event in the history of World War II. An event that marked a turning point in the war and one that was incredibly dramatic because of its unbelievably narrow outcome. After NAZI-Germany had managed to conquer most of Europe the next logical and strategic step was to take Britain.
As a prelude, the German Luftwaffe mounts immense flights of fighters and bombers designed to knock out British air bases and destroy the planes of the R.A.F. Fighter Command. The latter is under the general direction of Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding with the front line defenses of 11 Group in southeastern England commanded by Air Vice Marshall Keith Park. As the summer progresses and multiple German attacks arrive every day, many German planes are shot down, but British losses of planes and particularly pilots become critical. Then on September 15, 1940, the Germans launch their largest attack so far.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 02:06:56 | 5.75 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Russian (Dolby AC3, 6 ch)
Subtitles: English, Russian
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War

Director: Guy Hamilton
Cast: Harry Andrews, Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Curd Jurgens, Ian McShane, Kenneth More, Laurence Olivier, Christopher Plummer, Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, Robert Shaw, Susannah York, Edward Fox
Country: UK
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The Cheyenne Social Club (1970) DVD9

Whilst working as a ranch hand in Texas John O'Hanlan (James Stewart - The Rare Breed) receives a letter telling him he has inherited some property in Cheyenne following his brother's death. Along with his long time riding budding Harley Sullivan (Henry Fonda - Firecreek), they head to Cheyenne to discover what sort of property it is John now owns. And what a shock John gets when he discovers that the Cheyenne Social Club which he owns is in fact a whore house. As a man of standards John decides to close it down but soon discovers that his decision is not only unpopular with the locals but also ends up getting him into a barrel load of trouble with an angry local and his family.

DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 (720x480) VBR | 01:42:07 | 5.07 Gb + 3% rec
English, Francais (Dolby AC3, 1 ch, 192Kbps)
Subtitles: English, Francais, Espanol
Genre: Comedy, Western

Director: Gene Kelly
Actors: James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Shirley Jones, Sue Ane Langdon, Elaine Devry, Robert Middleton, Arch Johnson
Country: USA
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Agnes de ci de la Varda / Agnes Varda Here and There (2011) 2 x DVD9

This documentary series episodes took place in Paris, Berlin, Sete (the location of her first feature), Nantes and Portugal. Notably we get to rummage around in Chris Marker's atelier, with the man himself (unseen of course) sitting amongst a Gordian knot of cables downloading Al Jazeera TV, updating his virtual reality site, showing off his collection of Time magazines, with the infamous Bin Laden crossed out in red cover with matching versions of Hitler and Japan post Hiroshima. Here the hunter gets captured by the game when Agnes Varda becomes Audio Visual and romps around in Marker's computer game staring at a virtual sea. On to Nantes for a moving celebration of Jacques Demy by family members and Anouk Aimee strolling through Lolaville. Finally to the strains of Amalia Rodriguez we look up Manuel De Oliveira who at 102 seems sprightlier than many half his age. Again quarry turns predator when Manuel pinches Varda's camera and turns it on her while she does a little dance. Due to a lack of expertise with focus pulling Manny manages to create a fetching little pointillist number on Agnes with the raindrops on the lens pin sharp.. We are left with the clip from Angelique of the dead girl's smile and of course, as in her dance, Varda neatly sidesteps back to Marker and La Jetee in a blink of an eye.

After a trip to Berlin, Agnes lingers in the beautiful chaos of the workshop by Chris Marker. She walks in Second Life where the director who "pushes the discretion to secrecy" leads a parallel life. Then she takes the train to Nantes where we "celebrated" the twentieth anniversary of the death of Jacques Demy and fifty years of Lola: flash-mob, moving planes of the face of Anouk Aimee Pommeraye, detour construction sites where naval snort now gigantic marine mechanical and relaxing holiday, the Museum of Fine Arts. In Lieu Unique, which exhibits a current Pierrick Sorin against the grain on a 33-turns or spewing stubbornly on a screen, Agnes Varda pushes to its limits this artist who admits to "make love mariole, but a little depressed mariole". The filmmaker then went to Portugal, where Manuel de Oliveira snatched her camera and improvises a dance, before exploring one of his favorite obsessions: what has happened before and after a photo?

2 x DVD9 | PAL 16:9 (720x576) VBR | 5x45min | 7.67 Gb + 5.22 Gb + 3% rec
Francais (Dolby AC3, 2 ch) | Subtitles: English, Francais
Genre: Documentary

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Calabuch / The Rocket from Calabuch (1956) DVD5

A wanderer, who eventually is revealed as a famed atomic scientist seeking sanctuary in village from an explosively modern world that is searching for him, has found the peace and companionship he craves among the people of Calabuch. And the happy idyl comes to an end when, in making a rocket for the townspeople that wins a competition, his picture is published and he is "discovered."
The story is basically a thin one, but the director and a cast, headed by Edmund Gwenn, as the aged, gentle and happy scientist; Valentina Cortesa, as the local schoolteacher who yearns for love and an escape from the monotonous existence of Calabuch; Franco Fabrizi, as the light of her life and the expert Jack-of-all-trades; Juan Calvo, as a splenetic police chief, and supporting, unbilled, uninhibited village types have injected natural fun into a variety of incidents that continuously crop up along the way.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 (720x576) VBR | 01:42:59 | 4.16 Gb + 3% rec
Espanol (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: English
Genre: Comedy

Director: Luis Garcia Berlanga
Cast: Edmund Gwenn, Valentina Cortese, Juan Calvo, Franco Fabrizi, Felix Fernandez
Country: Spain, Italy
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