SUNRISE 'A Song of Two Humans' a.k.a. "Aurora" (1927) Dir. by F.W. Murnau | VIDEO (ISO)

Synopsis :
Considered by many to be the finest silent film ever made by a Hollywood studio, F.W. Murnau's Sunrise represents the art of the wordless cinema at its zenith. Based on the Hermann Sudermann novel A Trip to Tilsit, this "Song of Two Humans" takes place in a colorful farming community, where people from the city regularly take their weekend holidays. Local farmer George O'Brien, happily married to Janet Gaynor, falls under the seductive spell of Margaret Livingston, a temptress from The City. He callously ignores his wife and child and strips his farm of its wealth on behalf of Livingston, but even this fails to satisfy her. One foggy evening, O'Brien meets Livingston at their usual swampland trysting place. She bewitches him with stories about the city -- its jazz, its bright lights, its erotic excitement. Thrilled at the prospect of running off with Livingston, O'Brien stops short: "What about my wife?" Drawing ever closer to her victim, Livingston murmurs "Couldn't she just...drown?" (the subtitle bearing these words then "melts" into nothingness). In his delirium, the husband agrees. The plan is to row Gaynor to the middle of the lake, then capsize the boat. Gaynor will drown, while O'Brien will save himself with some bulrushes that he'd previously hidden in the boat; thus, the murder will look like an accident. The next day, the brooding O'Brien begins slowly rowing his unsuspecting wife across the lake. Halfway to shore, he makes his intentions clear, but is unable to go through with it. As his wife cringes in terror, O'Brien rows to the other side of lake. Once ashore, she runs away from him in terror, as he stumbles after her, trying to apologize. Gaynor boards a streetcar bound for the city, with O'Brien climbing aboard a few seconds afterward. Upon reaching the city (a renowned set design), O'Brien continues trying to make amends to his wife. They sit disconsolately at a table in a restaurant, unable to eat the plate of cake that is set before them. Slowly, Gaynor begins overcoming her fear. The couple wander into a church, where a wedding is taking place. Breaking down in sobs, O'Brien begins repeating the wedding vows, thereby convincing Gaynor that she has nothing to fear. Together again, the couple embraces in the middle of a busy street, oblivious to the honking horns and irate motorists. Anxious to prove to each other that all is well, the husband and wife spend a delightful afternoon having their pictures taken and "dolling up" in a posh barber shop. They cap their unofficial second honeymoon at a joyous festival in an outsized amusement park. More in love with each other than ever before, O'Brien and Gaynor head back across the lake in the dark of night. Suddenly, a storm arises. Pulling out the bulrushes with which he'd planned to save himself, O'Brien straps them onto Janet, telling her to swim to shore. The storm passes. Washing up on shore, the unconscious O'Brien is brought home. But Gaynor is nowhere to be found, and it is assumed that she has died in the storm. Half-insane, O'Brien strikes out at Livingston, the instigator of the murder plan. Just as he is about to throttle the treacherous temptress, he is summoned home; his wife is alive! As Livingston stumbles out of the village, O'Brien and Gaynor cling tightly to one another, watching the sun rise above their now-happy home. Together with Seventh Heaven, Sunrise earned Janet Gaynor the first-ever Best Actress Academy Award, while Charles Rosher and Karl Struss walked home with the industry's first Best Photography Oscar. The film itself was also in the Oscar race, but lost out to the more financially successful Wings. Hal Erickson

Title :  Sunrise 'A Song of Two Humans' (1927)
Directed by F.W. Murnau
Duration : 95 min.
Subtitles : French Spanish / Cards in English 
Genres : Drama, Romance  
Countries : USA

FREAKS = a.k.a. "Monstros" (1932) Dir. Tod Browning | VIDEO (ISO)

Synopsis :
In a circus of bizarre attractions, Cleopatra (Olga Baclanova) is a beautiful trapeze artist who is courted by a dwarf. She doesn't respond to his advances until she discovers that he is heir to a fortune. She then devises a plan with her lover Hercules (Henry Victor), to marry the dwarf and then despise and poison him. But on her wedding day, Cleopatra repudiates her future husband's circus friends, calling them disgusting and dirty. The freaks come together to take revenge on Cleopatra, transforming her into a person who is half woman, half chicken, without legs and almost blind.

A bela trapezista de um circo concorda em se casar com o líder dos artistas do show paralelo, mas seus amigos deformados descobrem que ela só se casará com ele por causa de sua herança.

Original title : Freaks  (1932)
Directed :  Tod Browning
Artists : Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova
Legends : English, Spanish, Português 
Duration :  1h 2min
Genre : Drama
Country  : USA
Note : This video contains only a short intro due to YouTube's restriction on its content.

Ugetsu Monogatari (Ugetsu) a.k.a. 'Contos da Lua Vaga' (1953) Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi | VIDEO (ISO)

Synopsis :
Presented in a manner as eerie as it is heartbreaking, this film is a gorgeous supernatural fable about the folly of men with dreams larger than their abilities, and the women who suffer as a result. In 16th century Japan, Genjuro (Masayuki Mori) is a potter who longs for wealth and luxury, while Tobei (Sakae Ozawa), a farmer, dreams of the glories of the samurai to the point of ignoring his wife (Mitsuko Mito). Though a war rages around them, they venture to town to sell their wares. Genjuro becomes bewitched by a beautiful yet vengeful ghost (Machiko Kyo), while his wife (Kinuyo Tanaka) is murdered by a soldier; Tobei becomes a noted warrior, while his wife descends into prostitution after being raped while searching for her husband. Jonathan Crow
Title : Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)  
Directed : Kenji Mizoguchi
Duration : 94 min.
Subtitles : English, Portuguese
Audio in Japanese (Mono)
Genres : Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, War   
Countries : Japan 

Brief Encounter a.k.a. 'Desencanto' (1945) Dir. David Lean | VIDEO (ISO)

Synopsis :
Based on Noël Coward's play "Still Life," Brief Encounter is a romantic, bittersweet drama about two married people who meet by chance in a London railway station and carry on an intense love affair. Sentimental yet down-to-earth and set in pre-World War II England, the film follows British housewife Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson), who is on her way home, but catches a cinder in her eye. By chance, she meets Dr. Alec Harvey (Trevor Howard), who removes it for her. The two talk for a few minutes and strike immediate sparks, but they end up catching different trains. However, both return to the station once a week to meet and, as the film progresses, they grow closer, sharing stories, hopes, and fears about their lives, marriages, and children. One day, when Alec's train is late, both become frantic that they will miss each other. When they finally find each other, they realize that they are in love. But what should be a joyous realization is fraught with tragedy, since both care greatly for their families. Howard and Johnson give flawless performances as two practical, married people who find themselves in a situation in which they know they can never be happy. Don Kaye
Title :  Brief Encounter (1945)  
Directed by David Lean
Duration : 86 min.
Subtitles : Portuguese, Spanish
Genres : Drama, Romance
Countries :  United Kingdom

The General a.k.a. 'A General' (1926) Dir Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton (Short-Bonus) 'Cops, 1922' | VIDEO (ISO)

Synopsis :
Buster Keaton plays Johnny Gray, a Southern railroad engineer who loves his train engine, The General, almost as much as he loves Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack). When the opening shots of the Civil War are fired at Fort Sumter, Johnny tries to enlist -- and he is deemed too useful as an engineer to be a soldier. All Johnny knows is that he's been rejected, and Annabelle, thinking him a coward, turns her back on him. When Northern spies steal the General (and, unwittingly, Annabelle), the story switches from drama and romance to adventure mixed with Keaton's trademark deadpan humor as he uses every means possible to catch up to the General, thwart the Yankees, and rescue his darling Annabelle -- for starters. As always, Keaton performs his own stunts, combining his prodigious dexterity, impeccable comic timing, and expressive body language to convey more emotion than the stars of any of the talkies that were soon to dominate cinema. Emru Townsend
Title : The General (1926)
Directed : Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton
Duration : 79 min.
Subtitles : English, Spanish, Portuguese
Card : English
BONUS - Cops 18 min.
Genres : Comedy, Romance, Action, Adventure, War  
Countries : United Kingdom, United States

 

L'Inferno a.k.a. 'Inferno' (1911) Dir. Giuseppe de Liguoro | VIDEO (ISO)

Synopsis :
L'INFERNO (1911), the first known full-length Italian feature film. Based on Dante's INFERNO and Gustave Dore's haunting images, this elaborate and imaginative epic took more than three years to produce. Eerie images of bodies contort in agony while being tormented by laughing horned devils, and a screaming man holding his own decapitated head aloft make this pre-World War I phantasmagoria truly seem like something from another world. The visage of Lucifer himself remains one of the most effective ever recorded on film.
Original title : L'Inferno  (1911)
Directed : Giuseppe de Liguoro,  
Duration : 70 min.
Subtitles : Portuguese, Spanish, Germain, Italian
Genre : Drama
Country : Italia 

Die Austernprinzessin (The Oyster Princess) a.k.a. 'A Princesa das Ostras' (1919) Dir. Ernst Lubitsch | VIDEO (ISO)

Synopsis :
The daughter of an oyster king wants to marry a prince, but her attempts to make the union a reality do not go as planned.
Title : The Oyster Princess (1919)
Original Title : Die Austernprinzessin
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Duration : 47 min.
Subtitles : English, Français, Portuguese, Spanish + 5 more languages
Original version Deutsch
Genres : Drama, Romance, Comedy  
Countries : Germany

Schloß Vogelöd (The Haunted Castle) a.k.a. "O Castelo Vogelöd" (1921, Dir. F.W. Murnau) VIDEO (Mp4)

Synopsis :
In the castle Vogeloed, a few aristocrats are awaiting baroness Safferstätt. But first count Oetsch invites himself.. Everyone thinks he murdered his brother, baroness Safferstat's first husband, three years ago. So he is rather undesirable. But Oetsch stays; arguing he is not the murderer and will find the real one...
Title : The Haunted Castle
Original title : Schloss Vogelöd
Ano : 1921
Directed : F.W. Murnau
Duration : 75 min.
Country : Germany

The German The Haunted Castle (Schloss Vogelrod) has been described as director F.W. Murnau's "warm-up" for his subsequent Nosferatu. At this point in his career, Murnau was more interested in effects than in story or characterization, but those effects were among the best within the boundaries of Germany's "Caligari School." The cast included Paul Hartmann, Arnold Korff, Paul Bildt and Olga Tschenova. Hal Erickson

Vredens dag (Day of Wrath) a.k.a. "Dias de Ira" (1943, Dir. by Carl Theodor Dreyer) VIDEO (ISO)

Synopsis :
Filmed during the Nazi occupation of Denmark, Carl Dreyer’s Day of Wrath (Vredens dag) is a harrowing account of individual helplessness in the face of growing social repression and paranoia. Anna, the young second wife of a well-respected but much older pastor, falls in love with her stepson when he returns to their small seventeenth-century village. Stepping outside the bounds of the village’s harsh moral code has disastrous results. Exquisitely photographed and passionately acted, Day of Wrath remains an intense, unforgettable experience. criterion.com
Title : Day of Wrath (1943)   
Original Title : Vredens dag
Directed : Carl Theodor Dreyer
Duration : 97 min.
Subtitles : English, Spanish, Portuguese
Audio Monoaural in Danish
Genres : Drama
Countries : Denmark

Finis Terræ (a.k.a."Os Pescadores de Sargaços") (1929, Dir. Jean Epstein) VIDEO (ISO)

Synopsis :
With a structure similar to an organic poem, "FINIS TERRAE" transcends the linear narrative of a mere documentary. Filmed in 1929, in the midst of the French avant-garde movement, this experimental work was created by Epstein, who mixed the rhythm of cleverly decorated images with some techniques from German expressionist cinema, presenting precious images, in "heaven and earth are protagonists" . A social documentary with bold experiments in the field of visual anthropology.
The film is the first in a trilogy that portrays island life off the coast of Brittany.
The following works,
"MOR VRAN" in 1931
"L'OR DES MERS" in 1932 complete the series.
Original Title : Finis Terrae (1929)
Directed : Jean Epstein
Duration : 1 h 48 min
Card in French / Subtitles : Portuguese
Genre : Documentary
Country : France

Die Bergkatze (The Wildcat = The Mountain Cat) a.k.a. "Beijos que se Vendem = A Gata Selvagem" (1921, Dir. Ernst Lubitsch) VIDEO (ISO)

The Wildcat, subtitled 'A Grotesque in Four Acts',
Synopsis :
A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained.
Title : The Wildcat (1943)   
Original Title : Die Bergkatze
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Duration : 82 min.
Card in German | Subtitles : English, Spanish, Portuguese, Français, Italian
Genres : Comedy, Romance, Drama
Countries : Germany 

PHANTOM | a.k.a. "Fantasma" (1921, Dir. F.W. Murnau) VIDEO (ISO)

Synopsis :
Alfred Abel plays a store clerk who is nearly driven to insanity when he sees an apparition of a girl driving a team of white horses. He is sentenced to 20 years in jail when he is convicted of stealing to raise money for a prostitute who looks life the ghost girl. Lil Dagover, Aud Egede Nissen, and Lya de Putti star in this feature directed by legendary filmmaker F.W. Murnau. Dan Pavlides
Title :  Phantom (1921)
Original title : Phantom
Directed : F.W. Murnau
Duration : 125 min.
Subtitles : Portuguese & Enclish card
Genres : Horror, Drama, Thriller
Country : Germany

Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (The Golem) a.k.a. "O Golem" (1920, Dir. by Paul Wegener) VIDEO (ISO)

Synopsis :
In Prague, Czech Republic, in the 16th century, a rabbi creates a giant creature made of clay known as the Golem. Bringing the creature to life through sorcery, he hopes that the Golem will protect the city's Jews who are being persecuted, but the giant's gentle and compassionate personality gradually turns into madness.
Title : The Golem (1920)
Original title :  Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam
Directed : Paul Wegener
Duration : 1 h 16 min
Subtitles : English, Spanish, Português
Genre : Fantasy, Terror
Country : Germany

Chelovek s kino-apparatom (Man With a Movie Camera) a.k.a. "Um Homem com uma Câmera" (1929, Dir. by Dziga Vertov) VIDEO (ISO)

Two versions of Dziga Vertov's fascinating montage of life in Moscow are included on this tape. The first is the original silent version, with music by the Alloy Orchestra. The second version includes a commentary by Yuri Tsivian, Russian silent cinema historian. Vertov makes innovative early use of dissolves, split screen, slow motion and freeze frames in this fascinating document of life in Twenties Russia. amazon

 Synopsis :
Soviet director Dziga Vertov's experimental film grew out of his belief, shared by his editor, Elizaveta Svilova (who was also his wife), and his cinematographer, Mikhail Kaufman (also his brother), that the true goal of cinema should be to present life as it is lived. To that end, the filmmakers offer a day-in-the-life portrait of a city from dawn until dusk, though they actually shot their footage in several cities, including Moscow, Kiev, and Odessa. After an opening statement, there are no words in the film (neither voice-over nor titles), just dazzling imagery, kinetically edited - as a celebration of the modern city with a marked emphasis on its buildings and machinery. The Image Entertainment DVD edition of the film offers a musical score composed from notes left by the director, which adds greatly to the impact of the film. Tom Wiener
Title : Man With a Movie Camera (1929)
Original Title :  Chelovek s kino-apparatom
Directed : Dziga Vertov  
Duration : 68 min.
Subtitles : English, Spanish, Germany, Portuguese
Countries : Russia

CHARLIE BYRD · HERB ELLIS · TAL FARLOW : Great Guitars of Jazz In Concert (2002) VIDEO (ISO)

Herb Ellis, Tal Farlow and Charlie Byrd exemplify the breadth of American jazz. These elder statesmen of the instrument have well over a century of combined knowledge and experience, and their styles cover a vast spectrum of the music, from straight-ahead swing, to be-bop, to bossa nova and beyond. Herb Ellis established an impeccable standard for swinging, mainstream jazz guitar through his extensive work in concert and on record with numerous great jazz instrumentalists including Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Harry Edison and singer Ella Fitzgerald. Tal Farlow's nimble and innovative playing with the Red Norvo Trio is considered pure genius, and few guitarists have matched his unusual dexterity and sense of harmony. Charlie Byrd pioneered the use of the classical guitar in jazz and introduced America to the beauty of Brazilian bossa nova. Billed as the Great Guitars, the playing of this remarkable group is a short course in the history of jazz guitar.

Charlie Byrd is recognized as a music giant throughout the world. The role of the guitar bridging classical and popular music forms is a matter of history, but the emergence of a guitarist equally at ease in both classical and jazz idioms is an event of singular exception. Born in Chuckatuck, Virginia on September 16, 1925, Byrd learned the basic of guitar from his father and began to perform regularly with local bands. While in Paris during the war, he had occasion to meet and hear the great gypsy guitarist Django Reingardt, one of the founding fathers of the very concept of jazz guitar. That encounter served as the inspiration for Byrd's decision to enroll in the Harnett National Music School in New York to study jazz composition and theory. By the late 1940's, Charlie Byrd had become an established figure in the East Coast jazz scene, but he felt the need for a new direction. He decided to pursue a career as a concert guitarist. In 1950, Byrd moved to the Washington, DC area to begin the study of classical guitar with Thomas Simmons and Sophocles Papas, and subsequently traveled to Italy as the pupil of Andres Segovia. While he did not consciously synthesize his jazz and classical training into a new form of music, the subtleties of both began to have their inevitable effects, with the result that Byrd reached new performance levels and created a new sound-- jazz played on an acoustic (classical) guitar without using a pick or electronics. After a tour of South America sponsored by the United States Department of State, his interest in Latin music intensified. The next year, 1962, along with Stan Getz, Byrd recorded Jazz Samba and, according to Leonard Feather, "the entire bossa nova craze in the United States may be said to have spring directly from this album." Amazon

The tread that binds these radically different players is their debt to Charlie Christian, the first electric jazz guitarist who inspired their lifelong dedication to musical excellence. Billed s the Great Guitas, the playing of this remarkable group is a short course in the history of jazz guitar.
Tracklist  :
1. Seven Come Eleven
Composed By – Benny Goodman, Charlie Christian
Guitar – Charlie Byrd, Herb Ellis, Tal Farlow
2. Georgia (On My Mind)
Composed By – Earl K. Brent, Matt Dennis
Guitar – Charlie Byrd, Herb Ellis, Tal Farlow
3. Angel Eyes
Composed By – Earl K. Brent, Matt Dennis
Guitar – Charlie Byrd, Herb Ellis, Tal Farlow
4. Air Mail Special
Composed By – Benny Goodman, Charlie Christian
Guitar – Charlie Byrd, Herb Ellis, Tal Farlow
5. Blue Skies
Composed By – Irving Berlin
Guitar – Charlie Byrd, Herb Ellis, Tal Farlow
6. Deed I Do
Composed By – Fred Rose, Walter Hirsch
Guitar – Charlie Byrd, Herb Ellis, Tal Farlow
7. Embraceable You
Composed By – George & Ira Gershwin
Guitar – Charlie Byrd, Herb Ellis, Tal Farlow
8. Undecided
Composed By – Charlie Shavers, Sid Robin
Guitar – Charlie Byrd, Herb Ellis, Tal Farlow
9. Corcovado
Composed By – Antonio Carlos Jobim
Guitar – Charlie Byrd, Herb Ellis, Tal Farlow
10. Cottontail
Composed By – Duke Ellington
Guitar – Charlie Byrd, Herb Ellis, Tal Farlow
11. So Danco Samba
Composed By – Antonio Carlos Jobim
Guitar – Charlie Byrd, Herb Ellis, Tal Farlow
12. Things Ain't Like They Used To Be
Composed By – Mercer Ellington, Ted Persons
Guitar – Charlie Byrd, Herb Ellis, Tal Farlow
13. Bernie's Tune
Composed By – Bernie Miller, Leiber & Stoller
Guitar – Charlie Byrd, Herb Ellis, Tal Farlow
Notes :
A live jazz performance from Herb Ellis, Tal Farlow, and Charlie Byrd, featuring 13 tracks recorded in Manchester, 1997.
From the back of the DVD box:
Herb Ellis, Tal Farlow and Charlie Byrd exemplify the breadth of American jazz. These elder statesmen of the instrument have well over a century of combined knowledge and experience, and their styles cover a vast spectrum of the music, from straight-ahead swing, to be-bop, to bossa nova and beyond.
Herb Ellis established an impeccable standard for swinging, mainstream jazz guitar through his extensive work in concert and on record with numerous great jazz instrumentalists, including Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Harry Edison and singer Ella Fitzgerald. Tal Farlow's nimble and innovative playing with the Red Norvo Trio is considered pure genius, and few guitarists have matched his unusual dexterity and sense of harmony. Charlie Byrd pioneered the use of the classical guitar in jazz and introduced America to the beauty of Brazilian bossa nova.
The thread that binds these radically different players is their debt to Charlie Christian, the first electric jazz guitarist who inspired their lifelong dedication to musical excellence. Billed as the Great Guitars, the playing of this remarkable group is a short course in the history of jazz.
Recorded at the Manchester Craftmen's Guild, 1997. Discogs.com
Running time: 80 minutes. Color.
A 24-page comprehensive booklet featuring biographical material, rare photographs and details on the tunes performed on this DVD can be accessed and downloaded from www.guitarvideos.com/dvd/pdf.htm

Orlacs Hände (The Hands of Orlac) a.k.a. "As Mãos de Orlac" (1924, Dir. by Robert Wiene) VIDEO (ISO)

The Hands of Orlac is a 1924 Austrian horror silent film directed by Robert Wiene and starring Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina and Fritz Kortner. It is based on the novel Les Mains d'Orlac by Maurice Renard.
Título original : Orlacs Hände (1924) 1 h 32 min
The Hands of Orlac
Direção : Robert Wiene
Artistas : Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina, Fritz Strassny

A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he doesn't know they once belonged to a murderer. IMDb

Sumurun (One Arabian Night) a.k.a. "Sumurun" (1920, Dir. by Ernst Lubitsch) VIDEO (ISO)

Synopsis :
A company of travelling performers arrive at a fictional oriental city. It includes the beautiful dancer Yannaia, the hunchback clown Yeggar who is lovesick for Yannaia and the Old Lady who loves Yeggar. The slave trader Achmed wants to sell Yannaia to the Sheik for his harem. At the Palace, the Sheik finds out that his favourite, Sumurun, is in love with Nur-Al Din, the handsome clothes merchant. He wants to condemn her to death but his son obtains her pardon. After seeing Yannaia dancing, the Sheik is keen to buy her. Yeggar is desperate and takes a magic pill which makes him look dead. His body is hidden in a chest. The women from the harem come to Nur-Al Din's shop and hide him in a chest so that he can be brought into the Palace. The chest containing Yeggar's body is also brought to the Palace and the Old Lady manages to revive him. The Sheik finds Yannaia making love to his son and kills both of them. He then finds Sumurun making love to Nur-Al Din and wants to kill them but he is stabbed in the back by Yeggar wiki
Title :  Sumurun (a.k.a. One Arabian Night) is a 1920 German silent film directed by Ernst Lubitsch based on a pantomime by Friedrich Freksa.
Running time : 103 min.
Subtitles : English, French, Spanish, Portuguese
Languages : Silent (German intertitles)
English intertitles (U.S. release)

Blade af Satans bog (Leaves from Satan's Book) a.k.a. "Páginas do Livro de Satã" (1920, Dir. C.T. Dreyer) VIDEO (ISO)

Synopsis :
Satan has been cast out of Hell and banished to Earth under decree of Heaven. He can return only after overseeing a series of temptations. However, for every soul who gives in to his tempting, one hundred years are added to his sentence. For every soul who resists, one thousand years are subtracted from his sentence. The film follows Satan throughout much of recorded history, focusing mainly on four short episodes. First he tempts Judas to betray Jesus, then he goes on to influence the Spanish Inquisition, spark the French Revolution and finally he causes the Finnish Civil War of 1918 to occur. wiki
Title : Leaves Out of the Book of Satan
Original title : Blade af Satans bog (1920)
Directed : Carl Theodor Dreyer
Duration : 2 h 47 min
Genre : Drama
Country : Denmark
Languages : Silent

Vampyr | a.k.a. "O Vampiro" (1932, Dir by C.T. Dreyer) VIDEO (ISO)

Synopsis :
Vampyr ranks in many circles as one of the greatest horror films of all time. Inspired by Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla, the story concerns a mysterious series of killings, committed by a crone of a female vampire (Henriette Gerard). The story is told through the eyes of a holiday reveller (Julian West), who at first scoffs at the notion of a supernatural murderer, but who is eventually forced to believe that there are more things in heaven and earth. Dreyer offers few explanations of the phenomena he presents on screen: the strange and frightening happenings just happen, as casually as any everyday occurrence. As was his custom, Dreyer mostly uses nonprofessionals in his cast. Vampyr is available in a wide variety of severely edited and duped versions. Hal Erickson
Title :  Vampyr
Ano : 1932
Directed :  Carl Theodor Dreyer
Duration : 71 min.
Original card : English
Subtitles : Spanish, Portuguese
Genres : Mystery, Fantasy, Horror  
Country : Germany, Denmark, France, United States  

The Spiders (Die Spinnen) a.k.a. "As Aranhas" (1919, Dir. by Fritz Lang) VIDEO (ISO)

Synopsis :
A film buff's dream, Spiders is comprised of two episodes from an unfinished silent serial from Fritz Lang. Filled with excitement and adventure, it tells the story of a brave explorer who is questing for the fabulous Incan diamond. To get it though, he must keep ahead of the powerful Spider cult, who want it for their own evil purposes. The episodes were originally titled "The Golden Lake" and "The Diamond Ship." Many of the techniques and production designs Lang experimented with in this aborted series, he later refined in his classic Dr. Mabuse films. Sandra Brennan
Title : The Spiders (1919)
Original title : Die Spinnen
Directed : Fritz Lang
Duration : 137 min.
Card titles : English
Subtitles : English, Spanish, Portuguese
Genres : Adventure
Countries : Germany