Volveras / You’ll Be Back (2002) DVD5

"Volveras" tells the story of two brothers, Ignacio and Carlos, who had lost contact with each other for some six long years and suddenly meet by chance on a Catalonian night. Carlos is in serious trouble: he's a gambler that owes lots of money and his former girlfriend has just kicked him out. Ignacio truly wants to help Carlos, but it so happens that in five days he's due in Los Angeles to finish his University studies.
During these five days Ignacio enters into Carlos's world, a world without limits, full of risks and challenges. These meetings end up changing Ignacio's personal and family life and putting them in danger, but when he tries to free himself from his brother's influence he finds it is not so easy to backtrack.

DVD5 | PAL 16:9 | 01:38:18 | 4.20 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Espanol, Catalan
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

Director: Antonio Chavarrias
Cast: Tristan Ulloa, Unax Ugalde, Elizabeth Cervantes
Country: Spain, Mexico
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Quadrophenia (1979) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

In the early 1960s, there were two cultures competing for the hearts and minds of London's youths. The first were the Mods. They were stylish, wearing well-kept suits, and listened to soul and R&B tracks. They also did a lot of speed and rode around on scooters. Their mortal enemies were the Rockers, who were rude, crude, drove motorbikes, and listened to American rock 'n' roll. Clashes between the two groups were frequent and often violent. Declaring allegiance to one group meant the near-constant threat of retribution from the other.

Loosely based on the 1973 double album of the same title by The Who, Quadrophenia is a gritty, dour slice of kitchen-sink alienation set against the early-'60s conflict between rival teenage gangs in England. The protagonist is Jimmy (Phil Daniels), a rather unremarkable young man who attempts to find an outlet for his working-class teenage rage by identifying with the Mods, a British youth subculture associated with Italianate fashion, R&B, and motor-scooters. As the film's title—which is simultaneously a riff on the idea of split personalities (incorrectly attributed to schizophrenia) and four-track sound recording—suggests, Jimmy is internally divided among multiple selves, constantly torn in different directions and therefore incapable of deciding what he wants in life. For him there is no peace, only constant stimulation and turmoil, which he enhances with a steady diet of amphetamine pills and conflict with Rockers, the Mods' leather jacket-clad, motorcycle-riding opponents.

Jimmy spends much of his time with his Mod friends Chalky (Philip Davis), Dave (Mark Wingett), and Spider (Gary Shail). He has a day job, working in the mailroom at an advertising firm, but he resents his lowly station in life, which is reinforced by his own lack of ambition and interpersonal confusion. He is attracted to and semi-involved with Steph (Leslie Ash), a pretty local girl who moves in and out of his various circles. One day in a bathhouse he runs into Kevin (Ray Winstone), an old friend who has left the army and is now running with the Rockers, thus complicating the comfortably simplistic us-versus-them mentality that helps Jimmy make sense of his world. At home, he is in constant conflict with his parents (Kate Williams and Michael Elphick), who don't understand him and his apparent aimlessness. Thus, everything in Jimmy's life contributes directly to his alienation, fueling his sense of social and personal estrangement even as he reaches desperately for some kind of connection, which he imagines might be found in Ace Face (Sting), the unofficial leader of the Mods in whom he sees an ideal self.
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The Guard / Karaul / Караул (1990) DVD5

This is a very bleak look into the life of soldiers that work on a Soviet prison train. Most stories about prison brutality are set among the prisoners. This unusual feature follows the initiation period of a new guard who has come onto a train taking prisoners to forced labor camps. Each day, the train travels farther from "civilization," and each day, the brutal treatment the guards mete out to the prisoners and the rough games they play on each other grow in ferocity and barbarity. The new guard somehow bears the progressive dehumanization of himself and his fellow guards, until something happens and he loses all control...

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:36:46 | 4.01 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

Director: Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Cast: Aleksey Buldakov, Sergey Kupriyanov, Aleksey Poluyan
Country: Soviet Union
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The Interview (1998) DVD5

Eddie Fleming sits relaxing in a chair in his unassuming home when, suddenly, his life is turned upside down. Suddenly, police break down his door, throw him to the floor and accuse him of crimes they refuse to name. Frightened and confused, he is dragged away to be interviewed. In a dark, featureless room, Detective Sergeant Steele - a man of uncompromising authority and ruthless determination - controls Eddie's interrogation with an iron fist and the passion that comes from many years on the job, too many criminals, too many lies. Steele is going to get his man, and he's convinced that Eddie is exactly who he's looking for. The truth must come out, regardless of the methods - and regardless of whether or not Eddie is telling the truth.

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:40:03 | 4.37 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Russian
Subtitles: none
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama

Director: Craig Monahan
Cast: Hugo Weaving, Tony Martin, Aaron Jeffery
Country: Australia
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The Films of Su Friedrich Collection (1978 – 2005) 6 x DVD5

Su Friedrich is an American avant-garde filmmaker. Her films have won many awards, including the Grand Prix at the Melbourne Film Festival and Outstanding Documentary at Outfest. Friedrich is the recipient of the Cal Arts Alpert Award in the Arts and has received fellowships from the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations, as well as numerous grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Independent Television Service, and the Jerome Foundation.

Her films and videos are widely screened in the United States, Canada and Europe and have been the subject of retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Stadtkino in Vienna, the Pacific Cinematheque in Vancouver, the National Film Theater in London, and many others.

Friedrich's work is part of the collection at the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Royal Film Archive of Belgium, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the National Library of Australia. Friedrich is the writer, cinematographer, director and editor of all her films, with the exception of Hide and seek, which was co-written by Cathy Quinlan and shot by Jim Denault.

Digitally re-mastered from the original 16mm negatives, this collection of 14 films is essential for every library, media center, as well as women and cinema studies programs.

Since the 1970's, Friedrich's skillful mix of experimental narrative and documentary forms, filled with provocative feminist and lesbian themes, has made her a groundbreaking member of the avant-garde film community and a pivotal force in the establishment of Queer Cinema. This collection of DVDs includes the filmmaker's classic works such as SINK OR SWIM, HIDE AND SEEK, THE TIES THAT BIND, DAMNED IF YOU DON'T, and THE ODDS OF RECOVERY, as well as EIGHT BONUS FILMS.

Special features: Digitally Remastered from the original 16mm negatives, 8 Bonus Films, Multiple Languages (on selected titles), Scene Selections, Filmography, and Production Credits.

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Les chants de Mandrin / Mandrin’s Songs / Smugglers’ Songs (2011) DVD9

A Gallic Robin Hood, Louis Mandrin was a folk-hero outlaw in 18th-century France. After his brother's hanging, Mandrin began military-style operations, trafficking contraband from outside France's borders, thus thwarting and enraging the state's vicious, widely despised tax collectors. Mandrin was eventually executed in 1755, an event described at the start of Ameur-Zaimeche's film.
The highwayman himself never appears here. Instead we follow his organization's surviving members as they stage "one last campaign" in his memory.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:32:58 | 5.80 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Francais
Subtitles: English
Genre: Adventure

Director: Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche
Cast: Jacques Nolot, Christian Milia-Darmezin, Kenji Levan
Country: France
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The Hideous Sun Demon (1959) DVD5

Sunblock can't save you from the solar-powered monster in this sci-fi cult item. Dr. Gilbert McKenna (Robert Clarke) is a research scientist who is exposed to dangerously radioactive materials during a visit to an atomic power plant. The radiation causes McKenna to mutate into a strange and murderous half-man, half-reptile when he comes into contact with the rays of the sun. The isotopes also have another effect on him; he begins to forget about his loyal girlfriend Ann Russell (Patricia Manning) and starts taking up with blonde bombshell Trudy Osborne (Nan Peterson), who brings out the beast in him as surely as the sun...

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:14:38 | 3.82 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Robert Clarke, Tom Boutross
Cast: Robert Clarke, Patricia Manning, Nan Peterson
Country: USA
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