Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) ( The Years Are So Long ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, Blu-Ray, Reg.B Import - United Kingdom ]

Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) ( The Years Are So Long ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, Blu-Ray, Reg.B Import - United Kingdom ] Review

United Kingdom released, Blu-Ray/Region B : it WILL NOT play on regular DVD player, or on standard US Blu-Ray player. You need multi-region Blu-Ray player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White, Booklet, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Barkley and Lucy Cooper (Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi) are a couple in their late 60s who have fallen on hard times and have been given the bad news that the bank is foreclosing on their house. Barkley and Lucy turn to their five children for help, but none are willing or able to do much for them; their son George (Thomas Mitchell) says that Lucy can stay with him and his wife Anita (Fay Bainter), while Nellie (Minna Gombell) and her husband Harvey (Porter Hall) can take in Barkley, but neither couple have the space or the means to house them both. Living with their children and their new families proves stressful for everyone involved, and Lucy decides to take up residence in a home for older women. She and Barkley realize that this will probably mean a permanent separation for the two of them, and they try to enjoy one last outing together before they part. Remarkably, Beulah Bondi was only 46 years old when this film was made, making her less then ten years older than several of her on-screen children; make-up wizard Wally Westmore used his bag of tricks to age her the appropriate two decades for the role. ...Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) ( The Years Are So Long )

Under the Sun of Satan ( Sous le soleil de Satan ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ]

Under the Sun of Satan ( Sous le soleil de Satan ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] Review

United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.66:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Alternative Footage, Anamorphic Widescreen, Booklet, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Deleted Scenes, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Short Film, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Positioned somewhere between Bresson's immortal Journal d'un curé de campagne and Dieterle's The Devil and Daniel Webster, Maurice Pialat's staggering Sous le soleil de Satan [Under the Sun of Satan] addresses the torrent of spiritual and intellectual turmoil unloosed among the denizens of a little country parish. It is a film by turns calm and violent, buoyant upon the tears of mercy and gurgling with the blood of the Lamb. Gérard Depardieu (Loulou, Le Garçu) is the self-abasing curate tortured by questions about his role in God's plan - before an encounter with a material Satan touches off a powerful revelation. At the crux of his vision is Sandrine Bonnaire (A nos amours., Police), the madly profligate brewer's daughter whose fate ruptures in a blast of gunpowder and the slash of a razor. As events unfurl, Maurice Pialat himself provides witness as the seasoned cleric who pronounces the words: 'God wears us down.' One of the great films of faith made by a non-believer, Sous le soleil de Satan left an indelible mark on spectators from the very moment of its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 1987 - where it won the Palme d'Or for Best Film. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Cannes Film Festival, ...Under the Sun of Satan ( Sous le soleil de Satan )

The Discovery of Heaven (2001) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ]

The Discovery of Heaven (2001) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] Review

United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Deleted Scenes, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: God wants the original Ten Commandments back. But no Angel is allowed to travel to earth to get them. The Angels have to 'create' a human being smart enough to find the Stone Tablets, and willing to sacrifice his or her life in order to return the Tablets to Heaven. The Angels design an ingenious and at the same time merciless plan to achieve their goal. The plan shapes up when two men on earth meet each other apparently by coincidence. One is Onno Quist (Stephen Fry), an eccentric linguist and son of a former Prime Minister. The other is Max Delius (Greg Wise), son of a Nazi father and a Jewish mother. The two men become friends. Only one person can intrude into the intimacy of their friendship: Ada Brons (Flora Montgomery), a young cello player. Ada becomes pregnant. She doesn't know whether Max or Onno is the father. The boy born, Quinten, rapidly develops as a very special and very gifted child. Is he the chosen one? Will he be capable to complete the Angels task? SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Catalonian International Film Festival, ...The Discovery of Heaven (2001)

The Assassination (1964) ( Ansatsu ) ( The Assassin ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ]

The Assassination (1964) ( Ansatsu ) ( The Assassin ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] Review

United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Japanese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Anamorphic Widescreen, Booklet, Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Remastered, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Assasination (or Ansatsu) marked Masahiro Shinoda's first attempt at a period film, and is widely considered to be his finest achievement. Previously gaining fame and status alongside Nagisa Oshima and Kiju Yoshida, challenging established Japanese cinema with tales of reckless youth, The Dry Lake (1960) and the seminal yakuza drama Pale Flower (1964) Shinoda graduated from Shochiku, where his grounding was working as an assistant to Yasujiro Ozu. The story of Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political maneuvering that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. At a time when assassination had become a disturbing political tool, Shinoda's film follows Hachiro Kiyokawa (Tetsuro Tamba), an ambitious, masterless samurai whose allegiances drift dangerously between the Shogunate and the Emperor. Filmed in richly stylish black and white 'Scope by cinematographer Masao Kosugi, Shinoda's film explores the character of Kiyokawa as he singlehandedly attempts, against a backdrop of betrayal and abrupt violence, to prevent the outbreak of civil war. With an award-winning score by Toru Takemitsu (Pitfalll, The Face of Another) and a deft, twisting narrative structure, Assassination's profound nihilism has a striking contemporary resonance which fiercely displays the director's skill and individual vision. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Assassination for the first time on home video in the West. ...The Assassination (1964) ( Ansatsu ) ( The Assassin )

Kenji Mizoguchi Collection - 8-DVD Box Set ( Akasen chitai / Yôkihi / Chikamatsu monogatari / Uwasa no onna / Sanshô dayû / Gion bayashi / Ugetsu monogatari / Oyû-sama ) ( Street o [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ]

Kenji Mizoguchi Collection - 8-DVD Box Set ( Akasen chitai / Yôkihi / Chikamatsu monogatari / Uwasa no onna / Sanshô dayû / Gion bayashi / Ugetsu monogatari / Oyû-sama ) ( Street o [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] Review

Kenji Mizoguchi Collection - 8-DVD Box Set ( Akasen chitai / Yôkihi / Chikamatsu monogatari / Uwasa no onna / Sanshô dayû / Gion bayashi / Ugetsu monogatari / Oyû-sama ) ( Street o [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] Feature

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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Japanese ( Mono ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Booklet, Box Set, Commentary, Interactive Menu, Multi-DVD Set, Remastered, Scene Access, Teaser(s), Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Street of Shame (1956) Five prostitutes work at Dreamland, in Tokyo's Yoshiwara district. As the Diet considers a ban on prostitution, the women's daily dramas play out. Each has dreams and motivations. Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955) Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi directed Princess Yang Kwei Fei. When first we see her, the "princess" (Machiko Kyo) is a mere servant girl. The reigning princess dies, and the emperor chooses the servant as his wife. Jealousy and back-stabbing doom this union from the start. The Crucified Lovers (1954) In 17th century Kyoto, Osan is married to Ishun, a wealthy miserly scroll-maker. When Osan is falsely accused of having an affair with the best worker, Mohei, the pair flee the city and declare their love for each other. Ishun orders his men to find them, and separate them to avoid public humiliation. The Woman in the Rumor (1954) Hatsuko Umabuchi is a widow who runs a prosperous geisha house in present day Kyoto. Her daughter Yukiko returns from Tokyo following a failed suicide attempt, after her lover found out about her mother's profession. Sansho the Bailiff (1954) In mediaeval Japan a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression. A Geisha (1953) In the post-war Gion district of Kyoto, the geisha Miyoharu agrees to apprentice the 16 y...Kenji Mizoguchi Collection - 8-DVD Box Set ( Akasen chitai / Yôkihi / Chikamatsu monogatari / Uwasa no onna / Sanshô dayû / Gion bayashi / Ugetsu monogatari / Oyû-sama ) ( Street o

Meet Danny Wilson [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ]

Meet Danny Wilson [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] Review

Meet Danny Wilson [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] Feature

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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Frank Sinatra shines as a gifted, but quick tempered, up and coming lounge singer Danny Wilson who makes a meagre living singing in dive bars and hustling pool with best friend Mike Ryan (Alex Nicol). Even with a set of golden tonsils, "Easy Street" isn't so easy for Danny to find. One night, by chance, they meet entertainer Joy Carroll (Shelley Winters), who gets them a job at gangster Nick Driscoll's well-to-do nightclub. But Nick (Raymond Burr), seeing the future potential in Danny's career, wants a high price - 50% of all Danny's future earnings! Soon Danny's career takes off, and with success comes love, money and... complications! A messy love triangle emerges, with Danny falling head over heels for Joy, the club's star singer, who in turn is smitten with his pianist and best friend Mike.

Le grand jeu [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ]

Le grand jeu [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] Review

Le grand jeu [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] Feature

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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White, Booklet, Interactive Menu, Remastered, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: A marvellous rediscovery from the golden age of French cinema, Jacques Feyder's Le Grand jeu is a tragic doppelgänger romance, steered by the fate of the tarot card, and set against the dizzying exoticism of 1930s Morocco. When scandalous Parisian playboy Pierre Martel is forced by his family to leave France and his adored lover Florence (Marie Bell), he begins a new life in the Foreign Legion as Pierre Muller. Drowning his regrets in camaraderie, whores, and hell-raising, he is astonished at meeting Irma (also Marie Bell), a prostitute with an uncanny resemblance to his beloved, and begins a fitful scheme to allow her escape. An early benchmark of poetic realism and a fascinating precursor to both Duvivier's Pépé le Mokoand Hitchcock's Vertigo, Feyder's fluid, masterful storytelling make this a unique classic of the screen: vividly forceful yet subtle, acutely observed yet fantastic, world-weary yet tender. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Venice Film Festival,

The Lady Without Camelias ( La signora senza camelie ) ( La dame sans camélia (Camille Without Camelias) ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, Blu-Ray, Reg.B Import - United Kingdom ]

The Lady Without Camelias ( La signora senza camelie ) ( La dame sans camélia (Camille Without Camelias) ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, Blu-Ray, Reg.B Import - United Kingdom ] Review

The Lady Without Camelias ( La signora senza camelie ) ( La dame sans camélia (Camille Without Camelias) ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, Blu-Ray, Reg.B Import - United Kingdom ] Feature

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United Kingdom released, Blu-Ray/Region B : it WILL NOT play on regular DVD player, or on standard US Blu-Ray player. You need multi-region Blu-Ray player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Italian ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White, Booklet, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Interactive Menu, Remastered, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Signora Senza Camelie (Lady without Camelias or Camille without Camelias) was the third feature-length directorial effort by Michelangelo Antonioni. It is possible that the director invested a great deal of himself in the story's central character, a film producer played by Gino Cervi. Turning shopgirl Clara Manni (Lucia Bose) into a major movie star, Ercole "Ercolino" (Cervi) caps this Svengalilike action by marrying the girl. Her head in the clouds, Clara demands that her husband star her in an "artistic" production, rather than the sexy vehicles in which she's previously appeared. When the film bombs, so does the marriage. The film ends with a backhanded paean to "public taste," a commodity Antonioni seldom bothered himself with in his future films.

The Mouth Agape ( La gueule ouverte ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ]

The Mouth Agape ( La gueule ouverte ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] Review

The Mouth Agape ( La gueule ouverte ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] Feature

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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: 2-DVD Set, Anamorphic Widescreen, Booklet, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Commentary, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Short Film, Special Edition, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: When cancer strikes the mother of the family in this French film, everyone in the family expresses a previously invisible caring and tolerance of the others. The father has always been a bit of a drunk, and is forever chasing younger women. Despite that, he and his wife care for each other, and he tends attentively to her in her last days while remaining unchanged in character. The son and daughter-in-law, whose marriage is somewhat sterile, have similarly penetrating interactions with the dying mother.

Funeral Parade of Roses ( Bara no soretsu ) ( Funeral Procession of Roses ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ]

Funeral Parade of Roses ( Bara no soretsu ) ( Funeral Procession of Roses ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] Review

Funeral Parade of Roses ( Bara no soretsu ) ( Funeral Procession of Roses ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] Feature

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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Japanese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White, Booklet, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Commentary, Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Remastered, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: This violent dramatic bloodbath concerns a love triangle in a gay bar in Tokyo. Eddie (Peter) and the transvestite Leda (Osamu Ogasawara) both have sexual designs on bar manager and drug dealer Gonda (Yoshio Tsuchiya). Gonda fears Leda will expose him to the police if he does not give in to his/her advances. When Leda commits suicide, Eddie and Gonda are free to engage in their homosexual yearnings for each other. When Gonda discovers he is Eddie's father, he kills himself with a knife. A distraught Eddie then uses the same knife to cut his own eyes out.

Money (1928) ( L'argent ) ( Jazz-Bank ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ]

Money (1928) ( L'argent ) ( Jazz-Bank ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] Review

Money (1928) ( L'argent ) ( Jazz-Bank ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] Feature

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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Silent ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Silent ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: 2-DVD Set, Black & White, Booklet, Documentary, Interactive Menu, Making Of, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Adapted from Émile Zola's novel of the same name, Marcel L'Herbier's L'Argent [Money] is an opulent classic of late-silent era cinema. Filmed in part on location at the Paris stock exchange, it reveals a world of intrigue, greed, decadence, and ultimately corruption and scandal when business dealings and amorous deceit combine. Business tycoons Saccard and Gunderman lock horns when the former attempts to raise capital for his faltering bank. To inflate the price of his stock, Saccard concocts a duplicitous publicity stunt involving the unwitting aviator Hamelin and a flight across the Atlantic to drill for oil, much to the dismay of his wife Line. While Hamelin is away, the lascivious Saccard attempts to seduce Line, whose own temptation by the allure of money puts herself and her husband in danger pawns in a high-stakes chess game played out by unscrupulous speculators. With an all-star cast (Brigitte Helm and Alfred Abel, fresh from Fritz Lang's Metropolis, alongside Pierre Alcover, Yvette Guilbert, and luminary of the French avant-garde Antonin Artaud) and a mammoth budget, L'Argent is comparable in period and scale with other celebrated epics of the silent era, such as Abel Gance's Napoléon. With its use of portable cameras that literally descend into the Bourse and revolve around its lavish contours, L'Argent represents a type of cinematic Impressionism distinctive to the silent art a poetry that would change forever with the coming of sound. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to pres

The Discovery of Heaven (2001) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ]

The Discovery of Heaven (2001) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] Review

The Discovery of Heaven (2001) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] Feature

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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Deleted Scenes, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: God wants the original Ten Commandments back. But no Angel is allowed to travel to earth to get them. The Angels have to 'create' a human being smart enough to find the Stone Tablets, and willing to sacrifice his or her life in order to return the Tablets to Heaven. The Angels design an ingenious and at the same time merciless plan to achieve their goal. The plan shapes up when two men on earth meet each other apparently by coincidence. One is Onno Quist (Stephen Fry), an eccentric linguist and son of a former Prime Minister. The other is Max Delius (Greg Wise), son of a Nazi father and a Jewish mother. The two men become friends. Only one person can intrude into the intimacy of their friendship: Ada Brons (Flora Montgomery), a young cello player. Ada becomes pregnant. She doesn't know whether Max or Onno is the father. The boy born, Quinten, rapidly develops as a very special and very gifted child. Is he the chosen one? Will he be capable to complete the Angels task? SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Catalonian International Film Festival,

The Faithful Heart ( Coeur Fidèle ) ( Coeur fidèle (The Faith ful Heart) ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, Blu-Ray, Reg.B Import - United Kingdom ]

The Faithful Heart ( Coeur Fidèle ) ( Coeur fidèle (The Faith ful Heart) ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, Blu-Ray, Reg.B Import - United Kingdom ] Review

The Faithful Heart ( Coeur Fidèle ) ( Coeur fidèle (The Faith ful Heart) ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, Blu-Ray, Reg.B Import - United Kingdom ] Feature

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United Kingdom released, Blu-Ray/Region B : it WILL NOT play on regular DVD player, or on standard US Blu-Ray player. You need multi-region Blu-Ray player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Silent ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), Silent ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio ), English ( Subtitles ), French ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White, Booklet, Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Jean Epstein's Coeur Fidèle (True Heart) established the great French filmmaker as one of the most inventive directors of the (then still silent) art form. A pared-down tale of a barmaid oppressed by an exploitative foster family who attempt to push her into the arms of an unscrupulous regular-about-town, Marie's heart (exuberantly vivified by Gina Marès) belongs, as far as she's concerned, to the tenderly blank Jean (Léon Mathot)... Coeur Fidèle drives its simple story (which, with its infamous and exhilarating "carousel sequence", helped pave the way for he narrative tradition of such Murnau masterworks as Sunrise and City Girl) on into the realm of what might be considered an early incarnation of French poetic realism - all while still anticipating Epstein's magical, post-surrealist, later works.

Humanity and Paper Balloons ( Ninjo kami fusen ) ( Ballad of the Paper Balloons ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ]

Humanity and Paper Balloons ( Ninjo kami fusen ) ( Ballad of the Paper Balloons ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] Review

Humanity and Paper Balloons ( Ninjo kami fusen ) ( Ballad of the Paper Balloons ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] Feature

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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Japanese ( Mono ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Booklet, Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Remastered, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Widely regarded as Yamanaka's greatest achievement, Humanity and Paper Balloons [Ninjo kami fusen] was, tragically, his last film, and only one of three that survive today. In a short, six year, 22 film career Yamanaka quickly earned a reputation for exceptionally fluid editing and a beautiful visual form likened to the paintings of Japanese masters.The story develops in the Tokugawa era of the 18th century, in a poor district of Tokyo, where impoverished samurai live from hand to mouth among equally poor people of lower social classes. One such ronin (masterless samurai) Matajuro, spends his day looking for work whilst his wife, Otaki, makes cheap paper balloons at home. One rainy night, Shinza, a barber, and equally penniless, impulsively abducts the daughter of a wealthy merchant, hiding her at Matajuro's home. Their desperate plan has grave consequences when a ransom attempt backfires. The film, which starts and ends with suicide, is deeply pessimistic, insisting that life in feudal Japan was hellish and short for those at the foot of the social ladder. Humanity and Paper Balloons premiered the day Yamanaka was drafted to the frontline at the start of WWII. He died in Manchuria, 1938, aged just 29.

Graduate First ( Passe ton bac d'abord ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ]

Graduate First ( Passe ton bac d'abord ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] Review

Graduate First ( Passe ton bac d'abord ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] Feature

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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.66:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Anamorphic Widescreen, Booklet, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Documentary, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: The world sometimes seems divided into two camps: those who recall their teenage years as having been an exhilarating dream, and those who remember them as having been an infernal, nightmarish hell. With all this in mind, it might do to describe Passe Ton Bac D'Abord as Maurice Pialat's "The Best Years Of Our Lives", while bearing in mind all that such a description might suggest. It's an elastic, unsparing portrait of teenage life in the suburbs of France from an era when the phrase "sixteen candles" still might have conjured the image of flames. A group of young actors including several local unknowns - Philippe Marlaud, Bernard Tronczyk, Patrick Lepczynski and Sabine Haudepin (once the little girl of Truffaut's Jules et Jim), among others - make up the cluster of friends adrift beneath the twilight of their school years. There's drama, violence, and pot-induced laughs - group holidays, indiscriminate sex, advances from teachers twenty-five years their seniors, attempted moves to Paris, and few prospects of passing the bac, the final set of exams French students take before embarking into the world to... do what? Marking the last work of Pialat's turbulent cycle of films made in the 1970s, Passe Ton Bac D'abord... is the brilliant spiritual sequel to the great filmmaker's feature-debut L'Enfance-nue - picked up again from a vantage ten years on from the lives of the earlier film's protagonists.

Fantastic Planet (1973) ( La planète sauvage ) ( Divoká planeta (The Savage Planet) ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, Blu-Ray, Reg.B Import - United Kingdom ]

Fantastic Planet (1973) ( La planète sauvage ) ( Divoká planeta (The Savage Planet) ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, Blu-Ray, Reg.B Import - United Kingdom ] Review

Fantastic Planet (1973) ( La planète sauvage ) ( Divoká planeta (The Savage Planet) ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, Blu-Ray, Reg.B Import - United Kingdom ] Feature

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United Kingdom released, Blu-Ray/Region B : it WILL NOT play on regular DVD player, or on standard US Blu-Ray player. You need multi-region Blu-Ray player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio ), French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), French ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.66:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Booklet, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Documentary, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Short Film, SYNOPSIS: A French/Czech co-production, the dream-like La Planete Sauvage concerns the degradation of the Oms, human-like creatures on the futuristic planet Yagam. The Oms are kept as pets and beasts of burden by the Draggs, 39-foot beings who comprise Yagam's ruling class. The status quo is upset when Terr, one of the Oms, accidentally receives an education, whereupon he organizes the other Oms to demand equality with the Draggs. Based on Stefen Wul's novel Ems En Serie, Fantastic Planet was the winner of a 1973 Cannes Film Festival grand prize. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Cannes Film Festival,

House ( Hausu ) ( Ei ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ]

House ( Hausu ) ( Ei ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] Review

House ( Hausu ) ( Ei ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] Feature

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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Japanese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Anamorphic Widescreen, Booklet, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Interactive Menu, Remastered, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Oshare (Gorgeous) is excited about spending summer vacation with her father, until she finds out that his beautiful, freakishly serene girlfriend Ryouko would be going as well. Oshare decides she will be going to her aunt's house in the country instead. She brings with her her friends from school - Fanta (who likes to take pictures, and daydreams a lot), KunFuu (who has very good reflexes), Gari/Prof (who is a major nerd), Sweet (who likes to clean), Mac (who eats a lot), and Melody (a musician). However, the girls are unaware that Oshare's aunt is actually dead and the house is actually haunted. When they arrive at the house, crazy events take place and the girls disappear one by one while slowly discovering the secret behind all the madness.