CineFile Video

The loveable limeys in jolly old Londontowne have been releasing some amazing movies on DVD’s.  Here is the newest batch of digital bliss from across the pond, both for rental and for sale.  Bear in mind, these are all region-coded, PAL format discs, so you have to have a hacked player to watch ‘em.  If you do, though, Christmas came early for you.  By about three days. 

British import DVD’s:
3 by Luis Bunuel:
-The Exterminating Angel
-The Great Madcap
-Ascent to Heaven (aka Mexican Bus Ride)
3 by Mikio Naruse:
-Flowing
-Repast
-Sound of the Mountain
3 by Ingmar Bergman:
-Three Strange Loves
-Prison
-Music in Darkness
2 by Luchino Visconti:
-L’innocente (The Innocent)
-Ludwig
2 by Max Ophuls:
-(The Earrings of) Madame de…
-Le Plaisir
2 by Jacques Rivette:
-Celine and Julie Go Boating
-Paris Nous Appartient
Jean Renoir’s Toni
John Ford’s The Prisoner of Shark Island
Satyajit Ray’s Abhijan (The Expedition)
Emir Kusturica’s Black Cat White Cat
Samira Makhmalbaf’s At Five in the Afternoon
Masahiro Shinoda’s Assassination
Jack Cardiff’s Sons & Lovers
Toshio Matsumoto’s Funeral Parade of Roses
Free Cinema (Lindsay Anderson, Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson, Allan Tanner)
Ken Loach’s The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Winner of the 2006 Palme d’Or at Cannes; starring Cillian Murphy)
Death of a President (Fake documentary of the fictional assassination of the W.  Yes, that W.)
Avenge But One of My Two Eyes (Documentary on the Isreali-Palestinian conflict, shot in the Occupied Territories)
Don’t Open ‘Till Christmas (A killer targets department store Santas.)
Mighty Boosh Live (The Stage Show)

Just to keep up national pride, though, here’s a bunch of grade-A, prime-cut, American-made (well, probably outsourced to some foreign country or other, but they work on American players, goddammit) DVD’s for your viewing pleasure, from a variety of labels.  America.  Fuck yeah. 

American DVD’s:
Ceasefire (Iranian romantic comedy)
The Charles Bukowski Tapes (Barbet ‘Barfly’ Schroeder’s 4 hour interview with Hank Chinaski)
42nd Street Forever: The Deuce (The second volume of vintage Grindhouse trailers from the heyday of sleazy New York theatres)
Christmas Evil (Director’s Cut w/Commentary by Lewis Jackson and John Waters)
3 films by Mark Savage, Australian Artsploitationist:
-Sensitive New Age Killer
-Defenceless: A Blood Symphony
-Marauders
Monsters, The Complete Series (Eighties syndicated horrorshow)
Splatter: Naked Blood (Japanese ultragore)
Futurekill (Frat boys vs. cyborg gangbangers)
The Vampire Collection (2 Mexican horror films from the 50’s):
-El Vampiro
-The Vampire’s Coffin
The Most Beautiful Wife (Ornella Muti’s debut film, an Italian gangland revenge film directed by Damiano Damiani, with music by Ennio Morricone)
Bullet on a Wire (Indie film featuring Jesus Lizard’s David Yow)
 

SEXY STUFF:
Once Upon a Girl (Incredibly weird cartoon smut with a Mother Goose milieu)
Under the Carp Banner (Japanese pink film directed by Kazuhiro Sano)
Snake Dancer (The true story of Glenda Kemp, South African stripper with a python)
2 by Jess Franco:
-Macumba Sexual
-Mansion of the Living Dead
Giovannona Long-Thigh
Lady Libertine
Love Circles
Christina
Black Venus
The Irving Klaw Classics (4 Disc set featuring 50’s bondage loops, sexy dancin’, women wrasslin’, and Bettie Page)

and, last and most American, Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center

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