Harakiri Seppuku (1962) [the Criterion Collection #302] [reup]

Che (2008) + Extras [The Criterion Collection]  Movies

Posted by Helladot at March 1, 2021
Che (2008) + Extras [The Criterion Collection]

Che (2008) + Extras
Part One: The Argentine + Part Two: The Guerilla
BDRip 1080p | MKV | 1920 x 1080 | x264 @ 14,0 Mbps | 2h 14mn + 2h 15mn | 16,75 Gb + 16,76 Gb
Audio: Español DTS HD-MA 5.1 @ 3631 Kbps + Commentary track | Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, War | Director: Steven Soderbergh | Extras: 3,91 Gb

Far from a conventional biopic, Steven Soderbergh’s film about Che Guevara is a fascinating exploration of the revolutionary as icon. Daring in its refusal to make the socialist leader into an easy martyr or hero, Che paints a vivid, naturalistic portrait of the man himself (Benicio del Toro, in a stunning, Cannes-award-winning performance), from his overthrow of the Batista dictatorship to his 1964 United Nations trip to the end of his short life. Composed of two parts, the first a kaleidoscopic view of the Cuban Revolution and the second an all-action dramatization of Che’s failed campaign in Bolivia, Che is Soderbergh's most epic vision.

Daisies / Sedmikrásky (1966) [The Criterion Collection]  Movies

Posted by RSU75 at Nov. 2, 2022
Daisies / Sedmikrásky (1966) [The Criterion Collection]

Daisies / Sedmikrásky (1966) [The Criterion Collection, Spine #1157]
BDRip 720p | MKV | AVC, 988x720, ~ 2,6 Mbps | 1hr 16mn | 1.64 GB
Czech: AC3, 1 ch, 256 kbps \ English: AC3, 1 ch, 192 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Comedy

If the entire world is bad, why shouldn’t we be? Adopting this insolent attitude as their guiding philosophy, a pair of hedonistic young women (Ivana Karbanová and Jitka Cerhová), both named Marie, embark on a gleefully debauched odyssey of gluttony, giddy destruction, and antipatriarchal resistance, in which nothing is safe from their nihilistic pursuit of pleasure. But what happens when the fun is over? Matching her anarchic message with an equally radical aesthetic, director Věra Chytilová, with the close collaboration of cinematographer Jaroslav Kučera, unleashes an optical storm of fluctuating film stocks, kaleidoscopic montages, cartoonish stop-motion cutouts, and surreal costumes designed by Ester Krumbachová, who also cowrote the script. The result is Daisies, the most defiant provocation of the Czechoslovak New Wave, an exuberant call to rebellion aimed squarely at those who uphold authoritarian oppression in any form.

The Seventh Victim (1943) [The Criterion Collection]  Movies

Posted by MirrorsMaker at Oct. 23, 2024
The Seventh Victim (1943) [The Criterion Collection]

The Seventh Victim (1943)
BDRip 1080p | MKV | 1920x1080 | x264 @ 5760 Kbps | 71 min | 3,10 Gb
Audio: English AC3 1.0 @ 96 Kbps + 2 Commentary tracks | Subtitles: English
Genre: Horror, Mystery

“Death is good” is how producer Val Lewton summarized the message of his films, a credo that received its most explicit expression in this strikingly nihilistic shocker, the first film directed by regular Lewton editor Mark Robson. Kim Hunter makes her film debut as a young boarding-school student who, in search of her missing sister (proto-goth icon Jean Brooks), travels to New York’s bohemian Greenwich Village, where she uncovers a sinister shadow world of devil-worshippers and murder. And what about that mysterious room furnished with nothing but a chair and a hangman’s noose? With its daring treatment of depression and queerness, The Seventh Victim has haunted the margins of cinema for decades, its radical bleakness undiminished by time.

Onibaba (1964) [The Criterion Collection]  Movies

Posted by RSU75 at Jan. 1, 2022
Onibaba (1964) [The Criterion Collection]

Onibaba (1964) [The Criterion Collection, Spine #226]
BDRip 720p | MKV | AVC, 1280x536, ~ 2.5 Mbps | 1hr 42mn | 2.11 GB
Japanese: AC3, 1 ch, 448 kbps \ Japanese (commentary): AC3, 1 ch, 192 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Horror

Deep in the windswept marshes of war-torn medieval Japan, an impoverished older woman and her daughter-in-law murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for the most meager of sustenance. When a bedraggled neighbor returns from battle, lust, jealousy, and rage threaten to destroy the trio’s tenuous existence, before an ominous, ill-gotten demon mask seals their horrifying fate. Driven by primal emotions, dark eroticism, a frenzied score by Hikaru Hayashi, and stunning images both lyrical and macabre, Kaneto Shindo’s chilling folktale Onibaba conjures a nightmarish vision of humankind’s deepest desires and impulses.

The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982) [The Criterion Collection]  Movies

Posted by Helladot at Nov. 28, 2024
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982) [The Criterion Collection]

The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982)
BDRip 720p | MKV | 1280 x 720 | x264 @ 2560 Kbps | 1h 46mn | 2,02 Gb
Audio: English AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English (embedded)
Genre: Western | Director: Robert M. Young

Forced to run from the Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in desperate flight, evading a massive manhunt on horseback for days. Producer-star Edward James Olmos, seeking to shed new light on a historical incident that had been enshrined in a corrido (folk song), enlisted director Robert M. Young, a longtime practitioner of socially engaged realism, to helm this trailblazing independent film, a landmark of Chicano cinema. Shifting its perspective between the pursuers and the pursued, The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez is a thrilling chase film and a nuanced procedural that peels away the layers of prejudice and myth surrounding Cortez, uncovering the true story of an ordinary man persecuted by the law and transfigured by legend.

Ghost World (2001) [The Criterion Collection]  Movies

Posted by MirrorsMaker at Oct. 12, 2023
Ghost World (2001) [The Criterion Collection]

Ghost World (2001)
BDRemux 1080p | MKV | 1920x1080 | x264 @ 34,7 Mbps | 111 min | 29,95 Gb
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 @ 3529 Kbps + Commentary track
Subtitles: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Comedy, Drama

Terry Zwigoff’s first fiction film, adapted from a cult-classic comic by Daniel Clowes, is an idiosyncratic portrait of adolescent alienation that is at once bleakly funny and wholly endearing. Set during the malaise-filled months following high-school graduation, Ghost World follows the proud misfit Enid (Thora Birch), who confronts an uncertain future amid the cultural wasteland of consumerist America. As her cynicism becomes too much to bear even for her best friend, Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson), Enid finds herself drawn to an unlikely kindred spirit: a sad-sack record collector many years her senior (Steve Buscemi). With its parade of oddball characters, quotable, Oscar-nominated script, and eclectic soundtrack of vintage obscurities, Ghost World is one of the twenty-first century’s most fiercely beloved comedies.
The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs (1986-1995) [Criterion Collection]

The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs (1986-1995) [Criterion Collection, Spine #1082]
DVD Video, 3 x DVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 720x480 | 58+55+10+8+80+38+87 | ~ 22.1 Gb
English: AC3, 2 ch | Subtitles: English
Genre: Documentary, Short

There has never been a filmmaker like Marlon Riggs: an unapologetic gay Black man who defied a culture of silence and shame to speak his truth with resounding joy and conviction. An early adopter of video technology, Riggs employed a bold mix of documentary, performance, poetry, and music in order to confront the devastating legacy of racist stereotypes, the impact of AIDS on his community, and the very definition of what it means to be Black. Bringing together Riggs’s complete films—including his controversy-inciting queer landmark Tongues Untied and Black Is . . . Black Ain’t, the deeply personal swan song that was completed after his death at the age of thirty-seven—The Signifyin’ Works of Marlon Riggs traces the artistic and political evolution of a transformative filmmaker whose work is both an electrifying call for liberation and an invaluable historical document.
The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs (1986-1995) [Criterion Collection]

The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs (1986-1995) [Criterion Collection, Spine #1082]
Blu-Ray | BDMV | AVC, 1920x1080, ~33.1 Mbps | 58+55+10+8+80+38+87 mn | 44,0 GB + 45,1 GB
English: LPCM Audio, 2 ch, 2304 kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Documentary, Short

There has never been a filmmaker like Marlon Riggs: an unapologetic gay Black man who defied a culture of silence and shame to speak his truth with resounding joy and conviction. An early adopter of video technology, Riggs employed a bold mix of documentary, performance, poetry, and music in order to confront the devastating legacy of racist stereotypes, the impact of AIDS on his community, and the very definition of what it means to be Black. Bringing together Riggs’s complete films—including his controversy-inciting queer landmark Tongues Untied and Black Is . . . Black Ain’t, the deeply personal swan song that was completed after his death at the age of thirty-seven—The Signifyin’ Works of Marlon Riggs traces the artistic and political evolution of a transformative filmmaker whose work is both an electrifying call for liberation and an invaluable historical document.
The Great Chase (1962) + The Love Goddesses (1965) + Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979) [Criterion Collection]

The Great Chase (1962) + The Love Goddesses (1965) + Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979) [Criterion Collection]
DVD Video | NTSC 4:3 | 720x480 | 1hr 20mn + 0hr 29mn + 1hr 18mn | 7.51 Gb
English: Dolby AC3, 1 ch | Subtitles: English
Genre: Documentary

In these three delightful documentaries—The Great Chase, a rollicking compendium of the greatest hits of silent-cinema chase sequences, The Love Goddesses, a look at cinema's most alluring female sex symbols, and Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist, an Oscar-winning remembrance of the ground-breaking American stage and screen star—director Saul J. Turell pays tribute to the movies in engaging, eclectic ways.

Eclipse Series 02: The Documentaries of Louis Malle (1962-1986)  Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Feb. 9, 2021
Eclipse Series 02: The Documentaries of Louis Malle (1962-1986)

Eclipse Series 02: The Documentaries of Louis Malle (1962-1986)
4xDVD9 + 2xDVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | Complete Scans | 818 mins | Total: 37,22 Gb
Audio: Français (original mono) and English on last two | Subtitles: English
Genre: Documentary | The Criterion Collection

Over the course of a nearly forty-year career, Louis Malle forged a reputation as one of the world’s most versatile cinematic storytellers, with such widely acclaimed, and wide-ranging, masterpieces as Elevator to the Gallows, My Dinner with Andre, and Au revoir les enfants. At the same time, however, with less fanfare, Malle was creating a parallel, even more personal body of work as a documentary filmmaker. With the discerning eye of a true artist and the investigatory skills of a great journalist, Malle takes us from a street corner in Paris to America’s heartland to the expanses of India in his astonishing epic Phantom India. These are some of the most engaging and fascinating nonfiction films ever made.