The Adventures of Tintin (1991–1992) 6 x DVD9 The Complete Collection (Seasons One, Two, Three)

One of the most popular European classic comic strips of all time tells stories of the heroic escapades of youthful reporter Tintin and his loyal canine companion Snowy. From a comic that first appeared in 1929 by Belgian artist Herge, these delightful adventures were spun into books, magazines, TV series, radio programs and theater productions. The television series The Adventures Of Tintin (1991-1993) follows Tintin and Snowy in solving mysteries closely related to the much-loved original stories. A colorful cast of characters is along for the ride, including the salty Captain Haddock, handy Professor Calculus and clumsy Thomson & Thompson. Exploring the globe, solving mysteries and searching for truth and justice, Tintin and crew inspire the adventurer in all of us!

Each episode is faithful to the times, set during the 20th century despite some wondrous events, the world Tintin inhabits is quite realistic and covers some major historical moments including Cuba's overthrow, Japan's Manchurian invasion and many more...

6 x DVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 900 minutes | 41.7 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Espanol
Subtitles: none
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Crime, Family, Mystery

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45 Years (2015) Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

Kate (Charlotte Rampling) and Geoff Mercer (Tom Courtenay) are a mature couple who live their quiet lives in a quaint British community. Their daily routine includes Kate walking the dog in the morning and Geoff reading. They are approaching their 45th wedding anniversary and a big party is going to be held to commemorate the event. As the week leading up to the celebration begins, Geoff receives a mysterious letter. Nearly 50 years ago, Geoff and his then girlfriend Katya, had been hiking in the Alps, when Katya fell to her death. Now, all of these years later, her body has been found under the ice.

This letter rekindles deep-held emotions, and the relationship comes under strain as Geoff is clearly troubled and Kate struggles to understand why. As they discuss it and Kate finds further background it becomes clear that the ancient relationship was no mere tryst for Geoff. Is he being entirely honest with her about it, or does it threaten to taint their trusting relationship? As we see preparations for the 45th anniversary party coming to a head we are taken deep into the couple's emotions, their insecurities and their feelings for one another.

Director: Andrew Haigh
Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine James
Country: UK
Genre: Drama, Romance
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Pistolary! Films and Videos by Peggy Ahwesh (1989-2003) 3 x DVD5

Peggy Ahwesh's films, videos and found-footage manipulations are among the most complex, alluring, irreverent and pleasurable objects in women's experimental moving image-making. Since the 1980s Ahwesh has produced works encompassing ethnography, melodrama, science fiction, horror, documentary, pornography and virtual reality, each realized through the aesthetic particularities of different formats (including 16mm, Super-8, digital video and PixelVision), her physical uses of cameras, and her 'ornate, complicated pastiche' relationship with processes of editing.1 Aesthetically, formally and structurally Ahwesh's practice is 'slippery', associative and, above all, extraordinarily heterogeneous.

Over the last two decades, Peggy Ahwesh has produced one of the most heterogeneous bodies of work in experimental film and video. Drawing from horror films, psychoanalysis, and the writings of Bataille, her films and videos are sublime studies of culturally complex subjects: sexual pleasure, relationships, and notions of the self. With playfulness and humor, she investigates cultural and gender identities, the role of the subject, language and representation.

This 3-disc DVD collection features nine works by maverick film and video maker Peggy Ahwesh.
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Drei Tage Liebe / Three Days of Love (1931) DVD5

This is the story of the unhappy maid Lena, who falls in love with the furniture mover Franz. But Franz' former girlfriend Karla is jealous of Lena and starts an intrigue against the couple, suggesting that Franz would leave Lena because of her poverty and shabby clothes. So Lena steals a ring and brings it to the pawnshop in order to get some money to buy something more attractive. However, when Franz finds out he throws her out, and Lena only sees one way to end her misery....

A rather impressive and atmospheric early Weimar sound film. This was the debut film by director Heinz Hilpert, whose name isn't exactly well known today and who only directed a handful of films.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:32:00 | 4.08 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Deutsch
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Heinz Hilpert
Cast: Hans Albers, Kathe Dorsch, Trude Berliner
Country: Germany
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Mildred Pierce (1945), Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star (2002) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

Told in flashback, "Mildred Pierce" opens with a murder and a trip to police headquarters, where we learn that Mildred was a self-sacrificing middle class woman, whose every decision was motivate by her blind lover of her children, particularly her daughter Veda (Ann Blyth).
To give Veda all the best things in life, Mildred becomes a successful restaurateur the hard way, by starting out as a lowly waitress and then working almost continuously to better her position in the industry. Mildred even wrecks her own love life for her daughter's sake, and only after doing so does she discover the depth of Veda's ungratefulness.

"Mildred Pierce" is a stark and intriguing film noir from hard boiled novelist James M. Cain and stalwart director of the time Michael Curtiz, whose name seems to be forgotten today. Joan Crawford won her only Oscar for her whirlwind and emotional performance.

BD50 + 2xDVD9 | 1080p AVC, NTSC | 01:51:00 | 44.4 Gb + 13 Gb
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance

Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden
Country: USA
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Science Fiction Theatre (1955–1957) 8 x DVD9 The Complete Series

Blending the discoveries of factual science with the limitless frontiers of fantasy, Science Fiction Theatre offered Atomic Age television viewers an intriguing look at the possibilities science could provide us in the near future as well as the immediate present. Airing from 1955 to 1957 and hosted by Truman Bradley, Science Fiction Theatre's seventy-eight episodes presented its intelligent and fantastic stories in an anthology format, pre-dating The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits.

The series speculated on such things as visitors from other planets, UFO incidents, space fight, espionage technology, and miracle drugs that could cure all ills. Stories of crackpots, who turn out to be visionaries, and eyewitnesses to the fantastic, fighting to be believed. The show also utilized experts as consultants to help keep the show within the known realm of the scientific possibilities speculated at the time.

Guest stars on this unique program feature a roster of actors well-known to any lover of classic film and television, including DeForest Kelley ("Star Trek"), Hugh Beaumont ("Leave It To Beaver"), Barbara Hale ("Perry Mason"), Gene Barry (The War of the Worlds, "Burke's Law"), Macdonald Carey, Edmund Gwenn (Miracle on 34th Street), Beverly Garland, Basil Rathbone, June Lockhart ("Lost In Space"), and the great Vincent Price.
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The Lupino Collection: No Lady (1931), Her First Affaire (1932), Shipmates o’Mine (1936) DVD9

No Lady (1931)
Stars: Lupino Lane, Renee Clama, Sari Maritza
Lane directs and stars as henpecked Mr Pog, who takes his wife and stepchildren on holiday to Blackpool. He is mistaken for an international criminal mastermind and drawn into a series of adventures that climaxes in a glider race which a foreign power aims to win by fair means or foul. Lovely shots of 1930s Blackpool.

Her First Affaire (1932)
Stars: Ida Lupino, George Curzon, Diana Napier
Ida Lupino stars in her first film aged just 18 and plays an impetuous teenager, who, much to the consternation of her boyfriend (Arnold Riches), becomes infatuated with a famous novelist (Curzon). The boyfriend and the writer's wife (Napier) join forces to deter her, and he decides an early marriage is the best cure.

Shipmates O'Mine (1936)
Stars: John Garrick, Jean Adrienne, Wallace Lupino
A through-the-years story with songs and sentiments. A sailor rises from first officer to captain, gets married and has a son, but loses his command when his ship is rammed and the vessel is abandoned to save passengers. For years he lives in the countryside. Then his son, now grown, contacts his father's old shipmates and eventually their ship is put back into commission with its old skipper in command.
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