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Early Summer (1951) - (The Criterion Collection - #240) [DVD9] [2004] Movies

Posted by evaristegalois at April 22, 2011

The Mamiya family is seeking a husband for their daughter, Noriko, but she has ideas of her own. Played by the extraordinary Setsuko Hara, Noriko impulsively chooses her childhood friend, at once fulfilling her family’s desires while tearing them apart. A seemingly simple story, Early Summer is one of Yasujiro Ozu’s most complex works—a nuanced examination of life’s changes across three generations. The Criterion Collection is proud to present one of the director’s most enduring classics.

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Drowning by Numbers (1988) [Japanese Edition] [Re-UP] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at April 28, 2015

Tired of her husband's philanderous ways, the mother of two daughters drowns her husband. With the reluctant help of the local coroner, the murder is obscured. Her daughters are having similar problems with relationships, and tend to follow their mother's example, and the coroner becomes reluctantly duplicitous. As the plot progresses, visual and spoken numbers appear in the scenes, counting from one to 100.

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Dawn of the Dead (1978) - Ultimate Edition [4 DVD9] [2004] Movies

Posted by evaristegalois at Nov. 7, 2011

George Romero's 1978 follow-up to his classic Night of the Living Dead is quite terrifying and gory (those zombies do like the taste of living flesh). But in its own way, it is just as comically satiric as the first film in its take on contemporary values. This time, we follow the fortunes of four people who lock themselves inside a shopping mall to get away from the marauding dead and who then immerse themselves in unabashed consumerism, taking what they want from an array of clothing and jewelry shops, making gourmet meals, etc. It is Romero's take on Louis XVI in the modern world: keep the starving masses at bay and crank up the insulated indulgence. Still, this is a horror film when all is said and done, and even some of Romero's best visual jokes (a Hare Krishna turned blue-skinned zombie) can make you sweat.

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Jean Renoir - 3-Disc Collector's Edition (1925-1962) [Re-UP] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at April 23, 2015

Lionsgate proudly releases the Jean Renoir Collector’s Edition Box Set featuring seven films from one of the greatest geniuses of the French cinema. The collection includes completely re-mastered classics such as four of Renoir’s earliest movies – La Fille de l’eau, Nana, Sur un air de Charleston and La Petite marchande d’allumettes – a release from his political period – La Marseillaise – and two of his last movies – Le Testament du Docteur Cordelier and Le Caporal Epingle. The set also includes the documentary “Jean Renoir: An Auteur to Remember.” This documentary, created specifically for this box set, features…..

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Touch of Evil (1958) [50th Anniversary Edition] [ReUp] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Feb. 28, 2015

A wonderfully offhand genesis (Welles adopting and adapting a shelved Paul Monash script for B-king Albert Zugsmith without ever reading the novel by Whit Masterson it was based on) marked this brief and unexpected return to Hollywood film-making for Welles. And the result more than justified the arrogance of the gesture. A sweaty thriller conundrum on character and corruption, justice and the law, worship and betrayal, it plays havoc with moral ambiguities as self-righteous Mexican cop Heston goes up against Welles' monumental Hank Quinlan, the old-time detective of vast and wearied experience who goes by instinct, gets it right, but fabricates evidence to make his case. Set in the backwater border hell-hole of Los Robles, inhabited almost solely by patented Wellesian grotesques, it's shot to resemble a nightscape from Kafka.

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Gone with the Wind - 70th Anniversary Edition (1939) Movies

Posted by edi1967 at Nov. 5, 2011

Gone with the Wind - 70th Anniversary Edition (1939)
BluRay Full 1:1 | m2ts | VC-1 | 1920x1080 | 18399 Kbps | 23.976 fps | 16:9 | 03:53:14 | 5% Recovery | 44.4 GB
Audio: English Dolby TrueHD Audio 5.1 @ 1251 Kbps; French, Italian, German, Spanish Dolby Digital Audio 5.1 @ 384 Kbps;
English Dolby Digital Audio 2.0 @ 192 Kbps; English, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish Dolby Digital Audio 1.0 @ 192 Kbps
Subtitle: English, Italian, Spanish, German, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Japanese, Portuguese
Genre: Drama, War, Romance | Won 8 Oscars, 7 Wins , 5 Nominations

Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave…

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Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years of the Master of Suspense (2007) Movies

Posted by angus77 at May 30, 2015

Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years of the Master of Suspense (2007)
3 Disc Collector's Edition
2xDVD9 + DVD5 | Untouched | ISO | NTSC 4:3 720x480 VBR | 444 mn | 18.89 GB
Audio: English AC-3 Stereo @ 192 kbps 48.0 kHz | Subtitles: English Closed Captioned, Spanish
Genre: Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Romance, Tragicomedy, Drama, Classics | Country: USA

The first master pieces of Alfred Hitchcock. "The Ring" - A local prizefighter loses everything after being defeated by a champion in the ring and embarks on a quest to set up a rematch… and revenge. "The Manxman" - After mistaken reports of a young sailor's death who drives his fiancee into the arms of his best friend, the sailor returns home to face those who betrayed him. "Murder!" - An actress is sentenced to death after being convicted of murder, but an unconvinced juror sets out to find the real killer in time to save the innocent woman. "The Skin Game" - A poor family must resort to blackmail to get their land back after a wealthy land developer buys the family estate at an auction. "Rich And Strange" - A newly rich couple with marital problems find themselves stranded at sea after being swindled and must rekindle their love to survive the trip home.

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The Maltese Falcon (1941) [3-Discs Special Edition] [ReUp] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Oct. 25, 2012

The Maltese Falcon [3-Discs Special Edition]
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / The Maltese Falcon (1931) / Satan Met a Lady (1936)
2xDVD9 + DVD5 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 4:3 | 100 + 80 + 74 mins | 6,35 Gb + 6,60 Gb + 3,44 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, French, Spanish | Scans (6 JPGs)
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

Deluxe 3-Disc Edition of one of the greatest movie mystery yearns of all time. Enjoy all 3 Warner Bros. screen versions, especially John Huston's 1941 masterpiece that shot Humphrey Bogart to stardom, restored and digitally remastered.
Hard-drinking private eye Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) sleuths the backyard of San Francisco in search of an elusive black bird statuette while evading the setups of three disparate miscreants: the duplicitous Brigid, the perfumed Mr. Cairo, and the scheming Fat Man. John Huston's brilliant directorial debut is aided by first-rate performances, excellent camera work, as well as the director's acute attention to detail while shooting the film. Based on the crime novel by Dashiell Hammett.

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Frankenstein (1931) [75th Anniversary Edition] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at April 28, 2013

Dr. Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) and his dwarf assistant, Fritz (Dwight Frye), assemble a creature (Karloff) with stitched-together body fragments stolen from graveyard corpses, then bring it to life with jolts of electric current. Unknowingly, they've given their man a criminal's brain, and when the sadistic Fritz mistreats the addled monster, it goes on a killer rampage. Now available as a stand-alone title, this 75th Anniversary two-disc edition of "Frankenstein" adds new commentary and documentaries about the making of the film and its principal actor, the legendary Boris Karloff.

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Bronenosets Potemkin (1925) [Kino Ultimate Edition] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Dec. 18, 2013

Odessa, 1905. Enraged with the deplorable conditions on board the armored cruiser Potemkin and raising the red flag of revolution, the sailors' revolt becomes the rallying point for a Russian populace ground under the boot hells of the Czar's Cossacks. When ruthless White Russian cavalry arrives to crush the rebellion on the sandstone Odessa Steps, the most famous and most quoted film sequence in cinema history is born.

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