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My Dinner With Andre (1981) [The Criterion Collection #479] [Re-UP] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at June 3, 2015

In Louis Malle’s captivating and philosophical My Dinner with André, actor and playwright Wallace Shawn sits down with friend and theater director André Gregory at an Upper West Side restaurant, and the two proceed into an alternately whimsical and despairing confessional on love, death, money, and all the superstition in between. Playing variations on their own New York–honed personas, Shawn and Gregory, who also wrote the screenplay, dive in with introspective, intellectual gusto, and Malle captures it all with a delicate, artful detachment. A fascinating freeze-frame of cosmopolitan culture, My Dinner with André remains a unique work in cinema history.

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The Killers (1946 & 1964) (The Criterion Collection) [2 DVD9s] Movies

Posted by mook45 at Oct. 8, 2010

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HIGH AND LOW (1963) - (The Criterion Collection - #24) [2 DVD9] [2008] Movies

Posted by evaristegalois at Jan. 19, 2010

Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in Akira Kurosawa’s highly influential High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku). Adapting Ed McBain’s detective novel King’s Ransom, Kurosawa moves effortlessly from compelling race-against-time thriller to exacting social commentary, creating a penetrating portrait of contemporary Japanese society. Criterion is proud to present High and Low in an all-new high-definition digital transfer.

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David Lean Directs Noël Coward [The Criterion Collection #603] [ReUp] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Jan. 25, 2014

David Lean Directs Noël Coward [The Criterion Collection #603]
Brief Encounter / In Which We Serve / This Happy Breed (1944) / Blithe Spirit
4xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 407 mins | Total: 30,7 Gb
Audio: English AC3 1.0 @ 384 Kbps | Subs: English SDH
Genre: Romance, Drama, War, Fantasy

In the 1940s, the wit of playwright Noël Coward and the craft of filmmaker David Lean melded harmoniously in one of cinema’s greatest writer-director collaborations. With the wartime military drama sensation In Which We Serve, Coward and Lean (along with producing partners Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan) embarked on a series of literate, socially engaged, and enormously entertaining pictures that ranged from domestic epic (This Happy Breed) to whimsical comedy (Blithe Spirit) to poignant romance (Brief Encounter). These films created a lasting testament to Coward’s artistic legacy and introduced Lean’s visionary talents to the world.

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Breaking the Waves (1996) [Criterion Collection] Movies

Posted by RSU75 at Oct. 18, 2017

Breaking the Waves (1996) [Criterion Collection, Spine #705]
DVD Video, 2 x DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 | 720x480 | 2hr 39mn | 7.76 Gb + 6.32 Gb
English: Dolby AC3, 6 ch
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Romance

Oilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.

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Rebecca (1940) [Criterion Collection] Movies

Posted by RSU75 at April 23, 2018

A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife.

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Il Gattopardo / The Leopard (1963) [Criterion Collection #235][REPOST] Movies

Posted by Notsaint at Jan. 4, 2014

The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860's Sicily.

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Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project [2013] [Criterion Collection] Movies

Posted by MirrorsMaker at Jan. 15, 2016

Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project [2013]
6xDVDRip | MKV | 624 x 464 | x264 @ ~1700 Kbps | 590 min | 9,43 Gb
Audio: Various (see below) AC3 1.0 @ 384 Kbps | Subs: English (idx/sub)

Established by Martin Scorsese in 2007, the World Cinema Project expands the horizons of moviegoers everywhere. The mission of the WCP is to preserve and present marginalized and infrequently screened films from regions generally ill equipped to preserve their own cinema history. This collector’s set brings together six superb films from countries around the globe, including Senegal (Touki bouki), Mexico (Redes), India and Bangladesh (A River Called Titas), Turkey (Dry Summer), Morocco (Trances), and South Korea (The Housemaid). Each is a cinematic revelation, depicting a culture not often seen by outsiders on-screen.

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Trafic (1971) [The Criterion Collection #439] Movies

Posted by angus77 at Aug. 15, 2015

In Jacques Tati’s Trafic, the bumbling Monsieur Hulot, kitted out as always with tan raincoat, beaten brown hat, and umbrella, takes to Paris’s highways and byways. In this, his final outing, Hulot is employed as an auto company’s director of design, and accompanies his new product (a “camping car” outfitted with absurd gadgetry) to an auto show in Amsterdam. Naturally, the road there is paved with modern-age mishaps. This late-career delight is a masterful demonstration of the comic genius’s expert timing and sidesplitting knack for visual gags, and a bemused last look at technology run amok.

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Mon Oncle (1958) [The Criterion Collection #111] Movies

Posted by angus77 at Aug. 15, 2015

Slapstick prevails again when Jacques Tati’s eccentric, old- fashioned hero, Monsieur Hulot, is set loose in Villa Arpel, the geometric, oppressively ultramodern home of his brother-in-law, and in the antiseptic plastic hose factory where he gets a job. The second Hulot movie and Tati’s first color film, Mon oncle is a supremely amusing satire of mechanized living and consumer society that earned the director the Academy Award for best foreign-language film.

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