49th Parallel / The Forty-Ninth Parallel / The Invaders (1941) 2 x DVD9 The Criterion Collection

The Invaders (49th Parallel in the UK) is an excellent war drama from British director Powell, co-scripted by his longtime collaborator Pressburger. Filmed mostly in Canada, the film opens as a U-37 German submarine surfaces in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It is obliterated by RCAF bombers, but six Germans survive and march to a Hudson Bay trading post. Constructed in episodic fashion, the story shows them wandering through Canada to avoid detection. Along the way, they meet Johnnie (Olivier), a trapper filled with contempt for the Nazis; a group of German Hutterites living on a Christian collective headed by Peter (Walbrook); and Philip Armstrong Scott (Howard), a decadent novelist living in a teepee while writing about the Blackfoot Indians. With each meeting, the number of "invaders" diminishes; some are captured, others killed...

2 x DVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 02:02:01
7.49 Gb + 5.89 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English (Dolby AC3, 1 ch)
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, War, Thriller

Director: Michael Powell
Actors: Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Richard George, Eric Portman, Anton Walbrook, Glynis Johns, Peter Moore
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Little Sparrows (2010) DVD9

The film tells the simple story of a mom (Susan) whose cancer has returned and spread and she knows she doesn't have much time left. She wishes for a happy family get-together at Christmas, which may be the last Christmas she is able to see, certainly the last Christmas she'll be home for. Her husband James, an actor who has put his work first over the years, is the first to receive the news. As he confronts his own sadness and is told by Susan to keep it together for the sake of their daughters, they begin plans for Christmas, when the three daughters and their grandchildren will be home, and the news that will need to be shared. The film shifts and we then get the stories of each daughter, sometimes speaking directly to the camera but mostly told in reenactment. The film jumps in time between the Christmas party and the separate lives of the women, and it shifts perspective on a few events that bring excellent insight into how all three deal with the situation of their mom and her cancer.

DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 | 01:28:42 | 6.19 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: none
Genre: Drama

Director: Yu-Hsiu Camille Chen
Cast: Nicola Bartlett, James Hagan, Nina Deasley, Melanie Munt (Lyons), Arielle Gray, Scott Jackson, Simon Lockwood
Country: Australia
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Jane Eyre / Джейн Эйр (1944) DVD9

"Jane Eyre" is a dramatic and entertaining version of the Charlotte Bronte classic.
The story takes place in England, during the 19th century. Jane Eyre (Fontaine) is orphaned at a young age. Raised in a dismal charity school, her only friend is Helen (Elizabeth Taylor, in a very early role). She is bullied by obsessive puritan headmaster Brocklehurst (Henry Daniell, whom you might recognize from "The Great Dictator"). Coming of age, after years of suffering and abuse, she becomes the governess at Thornfield Hall, a gloomy estate presided over by the imposing Edward Rochester. Jane falls in love with Rochester, but there is a secret hidden behind the locked walls of the estate...

DVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:36:18 | 7.48 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Francais, Russian
Subtitles: English, Espanol
Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Robert Stevenson
Actors: Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien, Peggy Ann Garner, John Sutton
Country: USA
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A Taste of Honey (1961) DVD5

During a holiday at Blackpool, Jo, the 17-year-old illegitimate daughter of impoverished and promiscuous Helen, is rejected by her mother's lecherous suitor, Peter. For solace Jo turns to Jimmy, a black sailor enjoying brief shore leave. They make love and Jimmy's ship departs. Indifferent to Jo's feelings, Helen, evicted from her Salford flat, moves in with Peter. Her deserted daughter gets a job as a shoe clerk and rents a room, which she shares with the gentle Geoffrey, a penniless homosexual. Upon discovering that she is pregnant, Jo is disconsolate, but Geoffrey is delighted. Enthusiastically preparing for the baby's arrival, he sews a layette, visits a clinic for instruction in child care. Geoffrey even willing to marry her, but the would-be family is disrupted by the addition of Helen, who by now has broken up with Peter.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:36:31 | 3.83 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: English, Italiano, Espanol, Portugues, Greek
Genre: Drama

Director: Tony Richardson
Actors: Rita Tushingham, Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens, Murray Melvin, Paul Danquah
Country: UK
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Viudas / Widows (2011) DVD5

Widows will tell the story that begins when a Elena (Graciela Borges), a renowned documentary filmmaker, receives a call that tells about the terrible accident suffered by her husband. In desperation, the lady comes to the scene and found her husband dying in the arms of a much younger woman. Her husband, on the verge of dying, asks to look after her. Elena's not interested in comforting the distraught much-younger woman, yet she's ultimately forced to take her into her home after Adela tries slitting her wrists.

DVD5 | NTSC 16:9 | 01:43:24 | 4.20 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Espanol (Dolby AC3, 2 ch), Espanol (Dolby AC3, 6 ch)
Subtitles: English, Espanol
Genre: Drama

Director: Marcos Carnevale
Cast: Graciela Borges, Valeria Bertuccelli, Rita Cortese, Martin Bossi
Country: Argentina
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Flash Gordon – Space Soldiers (1936) DVD9

Planet Mongo is hurtling through space threatening to destroy Earth. Flash Gordon - Space Soldiers and Dale Arden join Doctor Zarkov on his rocket ship in an attempt to reach the planet and divert it from it's course.
Landing in Mongo, Flash Dale and Zarkov fall into the clutches of the merciless Emperor Ming, who imprisons Zarkov in his laboratory and then determined to win the beautiful Dale for his bride, condemns Flash to fight for his life.
Can Flash save the Earth? Will he overcome the evil Emperor Ming? Will Dale find love in the arms of her hero?
Watch the answers unfold in these 13 gripping episodes of Flash Gordon - Space Soldiers.

Crabbe is the quintessential Flash in this 13-episode saga which was made for a then-expensive $350,000, setting a new "adult" standard for the usually more cheaply-made, kiddie-oriented movie serials of the 1930's. Flash's next incarnation was in a 1953 television series. Contains all 13 episodes!

DVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 04:05:26 | 7.80 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English (Dolby AC3, 1 ch)
Subtitles: none
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi

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Bir ses boler geceyi / A Noise in the Night (2012) DVD9

Suha (Cem Davran) is a middle aged man who is a lecturer at a university. He travels to village an Alevi in Anatolia as part of an academic study. On a lonely country road at night, Suha loses control of his jeep. He hits the brakes, but the car crashes into the wall of the village cemetery. When he opens his eyes, he finds himself inside the cemetery, where he will take a harrowing journey towards both Turkey's and his own past.
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Ahmet Umit.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:37:18 | 6.73 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Turkish
Subtitles: English, Deutsch
Genre: Drama, Thriller

Director: Ersan Arsever
Cast: Riza Akin, Cem Davran, Merve Dizdar, Mufide Inselel, Ali Surmeli
Country: Turkey
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