Hold On! (1966) DVD5

When the children of American astronauts vote to name a new spaceship after Herman's Hermits, NASA assigns scholarly Edward Lindquist to follow the British singing group to ascertain if they are worthy of such recognition. Included among the thousands of screaming young girls pursuing the Hermits is Cecilie Bannister, a publicity-minded movie starlet. In Los Angeles, Herman and his group slip away from the protective Lindquist for an evening of fun at an amusement park. There Herman meets attractive Louisa Page, who invites him to a lawn party her mother is giving for charity. The affair nearly turns into a riot when the Hermits begin to sing and Cecilie and a swarm of teenagers crash through the police gates. The Hermits' concert at the Rose Bowl is such a huge success that NASA decides to name a spaceship after them.

DVD5 | NTSC 16:9 | 01:26:07 | 4.10 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Musical, Comedy

Director: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Herman's Hermits, Shelley Fabares, Sue Ane Langdon
Country: USA
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De jurk / The Dress (1996) DVD9

An intriguing, smart, and witty movie from the Netherlands, Alex van Warmerdam's The Dress follows in the footsteps of such movies as Julien Duvivier's Tales of Manhattan (1942), Luis Bunuel's The Phantom of Liberty (1974), and Richard Linklater's Slacker (1991). The movie starts as a dressmaker's girlfriend leaves him, and he creates a pattern for a new dress.
A bright and jaunty leaf-motif dress, designed in fury and fashioned from a swath of fabric conceived in anger, has a strange and tragic effect on everyone who comes into contact with it, especially the women who wear it. An aloof artist, a virginal school girl, an unfulfilled maid, a lowly train conductor and a broken business executive, all become involuntary players in a macabre game of tag. No one who comes in contact with the dress can escape its dramatic, shocking and hilarious consequences.

DVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:38:33 | 5.53 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Nederlands, Russian
Subtitles: English, Russian
Genre: Comedy, Drama

Director: Alex van Warmerdam
Cast: Henri Garcin, Ingeborg Elzevier, Khaldoun Elmecky
Country: Netherlands
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Sedmikrasky / Daisies (1966), Cesta: Portret Vdery Chytilove / Journey: A portrait of Famed Czech New Wave Film Director Vera Chytilova (2004) DVD9

A truly original film yet a distinctly dated product of its time and place, Czech director Vera Chytilova's mid-sixties cause celebre follows the non-linear adventures of two young girls through a series of nihilistic, absurdist episodes randomly sequenced in a quasi-experimentalist stream-of-consciousness, breathing the satirical tradition of Bohemian literature into utterly modern pop-art and subversive aesthetics.

Full of arch optical tricks, surrealist/collagist non-sequiturs and a simultaneous fascination and derision for transgression, Daisies could not have been made at any other place or time other than in the mid-1960s Czechoslovakia.

DVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 01:12:52 | 7.37 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Czech(Ceske)
Subtitles: English
Genre: Comedy, Drama

Director: Vera Chytilova
Cast: Ivana Karbanova, Jitka Cerhova, Marie Ceskova
Country: Czechoslovakia
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Belphegor ou Le fantome du Louvre / Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre (1965) 4 x DVD5

Belphegor is a mini series directed by Claude Barma in 1965 based on Arthur Bernede's 1927 novel of the same name. It follows the story of a mysterious 'ghost' appearing in the Louvre at night, and the people around it who try to solve the mystery. The main characters are Yves Renier as Andre Bellegarde, Christine Delaroche as Colette Menardier, Rene Dary as Commissioner Menardier, as well as Juliette Greco as Laurence. Andre is a young university student, who, interested with the mystery of the ghost, takes it upon himself to lead his own little investigation. Colette is the commissioner's daughter, and she finds herself in love with Andre. As for the commissioner, he is the head of the official investigation, given the fact that there was a murder, presumably done by Belphegor. As for Laurence, she is that femme fatale who gets involved with Andre, but we learn almost from the get-go that she is also connected to the whole ghost shindig.

4 x DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 290 minutes | 12.2 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Francais
Subtitles: English
Genre: Mystery, Thriller

Director: Claude Barma
Country: France
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Abadan (2004) DVD5

A woman (Fatemeh Motamed Arya) runs sobbing and hysterical to her exasperated estranged husband (Ehsan Amani) and begs him to find her missing elderly father (Dariush Asadzadeh). Reluctantly, he takes off in the company of his best friend (Shahrokh Foroutanian), reminiscing about the past and pondering the future as they scour the streets of Tehran for his father-in-law.
The senile old man has taken it into his head to fulfil a lifelong dream and visit the once rich, now desolate Abadan, which was destroyed in the war with Iraq. But first he must deliver a package to his old comrade Jamal, a task complicated by the fact that he doesn't recall precisely where Jamal lives...

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:21:27 | 3.60 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Persian
Subtitles: English hardcoded
Genre: Drama

Director: Mani Haghighi
Cast: Ehsan Amani, Farzaneh Arastoo, Dariush Asadzade
Country: Iran
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Volver a empezar / To Begin Again / Begin the Beguine (1982) Blu-Ray

Film tells of a gentle, decent, distinguished man who, as is made known during the course of the story, is also dying. Just after having received the Nobel Prize for Literature, he returns to his native Spain, where he has not been since the Civil War, to visit with a boyhood friend, rekindle a romance with an old sweetheart, and generally retrace his past...

BD25 | 1080i MPEG-2 | 01:27:43 | 22.3 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Espanol
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

Director: Jose Luis Garci
Cast: Antonio Ferrandis, Encarna Paso, Jose Bodalo
Country: Spain
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A Room with a View (1985) Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

Faithfully adapted from E.M. Forster's 1908 lushly romantic novel contrasting Edwardian England's repressive upper-class with "improper" British free-spirits and unpretentious working-class Italians, A Room with a View (1985) was not the first Merchant-Ivory production (the company dates back to the early-1960s) but its unexpected international success established the company's esteemed reputation worldwide. Produced on a modest budget of about $3 million, the film caught the fancy of American viewers, grossing nearly $21 million in the United States alone and ultimately winning three of its eight Academy Award nominations.

The film begins in Florence, where young upper middle-class Lucy Honeychurch is touring with her irritating chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett. Among the other English tourists staying at their pensione are freethinking socialist Mr. Emerson and his son George, who are a rung or two down the social ladder from Lucy. When George's growing interest in Lucy leads to a stolen kiss, she flees in confusion. Back in England, she must wrestle with her inner romantic longings to choose between the passionate George and the priggish but socially suitable Cecil...

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