Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy (2010) [the Criterion Collection] [repost]

Eclipse Series 25: Basil Dearden’s London Underground (1959-1962) [The Criterion Collection] [REPOST] Movies

Posted by Notsaint at July 4, 2013

After mastering the mix of comedy, suspense, and horror that helped define the golden age of British cinema, Basil Dearden (along with his producing partner Michael Relph) left the legendary Ealing Studios and struck out on his own. In the late fifties and early sixties, he created a series of gripping, groundbreaking, even controversial films that dealt with racism, homophobia, and the lingering effects of World War II, noir-tinged dramas that burrowed into corners of London rarely seen on-screen. This set of elegantly crafted films brings this quintessential figure of British cinema out of the shadows.

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Tiny Furniture (2010) [The Criterion Collection #597] [Re-UP] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at May 17, 2015

Lena Dunham got her start making YouTube videos, but she emerged as a major talent thanks to the breakthrough success of this exceptionally sharp comedy, which garnered the twenty-four-year-old writer-director-actor comparisons to the likes of Woody Allen. Dunham plays Aura, a recent college graduate who returns to New York and moves back in with her mother and sister (played by the filmmaker’s real-life mother and sister). Though Aura is gripped by stasis and confusion about her future, Dunham locates endless sources of refreshing humor in her plight. As painfully confessional as it is amusing, Tiny Furniture is an authentic, incisive portrait of a young woman at a crossroads.

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Copie Conforme / Certified Copy (2010) [The Criterion Collection #612] Movies

Posted by Rare-1 at Sept. 7, 2014

James Miller has just written a book on the value of a copy versus the original work of art. At a book reading, a woman gives him her address, and the next day they meet and take a country-side drive to a local Italian village. Here, they discuss various works of art found in the town, and also the nature of their relationship - which gets both more revealed and concealed as the day progresses.

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And Everything Is Going Fine (2010) [The Criterion Collection #617] [Re-UP] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at May 22, 2015

After the death in 2004 of American theater actor and monologist Spalding Gray, director Steven Soderbergh pieced together a narrative of Gray’s life to create the documentary And Everything Is Going Fine. Brilliantly and sensitively assembled entirely from footage of Gray, taken from interviews and one-man shows from throughout his career, it is a rich, full portrait - an autobiography of sorts - of a figure who was never less than candid but retained an air of mystery.

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Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales (1963-1972) [The Criterion Collection ] [REPOST] Movies

Posted by Notsaint at Sept. 15, 2013

The multifaceted, deeply personal dramatic universe of Eric Rohmer has had an effect on cinema unlike any other. One of the founding critics of the history-making Cahiers du cinema, Rohmer began translating his written manifestos to film in the sixties, standing apart from his New Wave contemporaries, like Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, with his patented brand of gently existential, hyperarticulate character studies set against vivid seasonal landscapes.

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I pugni in tasca / Fists in the Pocket (1965) [The Criterion Collection] [Repost] Movies

Posted by yorkiez at March 10, 2015

A young man takes drastic measures to rid his dysfunctional family of its various afflictions.

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Eclipse Series 10: Silent Ozu - Three Family Comedies (1931-1933) [The Criterion Collection] [Repost] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at July 19, 2011

In the late twenties and early thirties, Yasujiro Ozu was working steadily for Shochiku studios, honing his craft on dozens of silent films in various genres, from romantic melodramas to college comedies to gangster pictures—and, of course, movies about families. In these three droll domestic films—Tokyo Chorus, I Was Born, But … , and Passing Fancy, presented here with all-new scores by renowned silent-film composer Donald Sosin—Ozu movingly and humorously depicts middle-class struggles and the resentments between children and parents, establishing the emotional and aesthetic delicacy with which he would transform the landscape of cinema.

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L'Avventura (1960) [The Criterion Collection] [Repost] Movies

Posted by edi1967 at Feb. 14, 2013

L'Avventura (1960) [The Criterion Collection]
A Film by Michelangelo Antonioni
DVD9+DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | ISO | NTSC | 1.77:1 | 4:3 | 720x480 | 02:23:11 | 5% recovery | 10.9 GB
Languages Available: Italian, English (Audio Commentary) 1.0 AC3 | Subtitle: English
Extra: Scene Selection, Menù, Interviews, Documentary, Trailer, Commentary, Scans
Genre: Mistery, Drama | Nominated for 2 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 5 wins & 6 nominations

Durante una sosta sull'isolotto deserto di Lisca Bianca in occasione di una gita in barca alle isole Eolie, Anna (Lea Massari), una giovane donna che aveva dato ripetuti segni di insofferenza, scompare nel nulla. Il suo compagno, l'architetto Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti), e una delle sue amiche, Claudia (Monica Vitti), vanno alla sua ricerca, seguendo labili…

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Eclipse Series 09: The Delirious Fictions of William Klein (1966-1977) [The Criterion Collection] [REPOST] Movies

Posted by Notsaint at July 9, 2013

William Klein's explosive New York street photography made him one of the most heralded artists of the sixties. An American expatriate in Paris, Klein has also been making challenging cinema for more than forty years, yet with the exception of his acclaimed documentary Muhammad Ali, the Greatest, his film work is barely known in the United States. In his three fiction features—Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?, Mr. Freedom, and The Model Couple—he skewers the fashion industry, American imperialism, and governmental mind control with hilarious, cutting aplomb. Today Klein's politically galvanizing social critiques seem even more acute than the works of the more famous New Wavers. These are colorful, surreal antidotes to all forms of social oppression.

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Naked Lunch (1991) The Criterion Collection [Repost] Movies

Posted by Efgrapha at Sept. 30, 2014

This cinematic/literary hybrid fuses motifs from Beat writer William S. Burroughs's novel of the same name with elements of the author's biography and plenty of the cerebral alienation and biomorphic special effects fans of creepy cult director David Cronenberg have come to expect. Bill Lee (Peter Weller) wants to write, but he exterminates bugs to pay the bills. His wife, Joan (Judy Davis), becomes addicted to Bill's bug powder dust, and soon he joins her in a world of unorthodox hallucinogens; he visits the kindly yet sinister Dr. Benway (Roy Scheider) and walks away with his first dose of the black meat – a narcotic made from the flesh of the giant aquatic Brazilian centipede. Soon, monstrous beetles are whispering conspiracy theories in Bill's ears and his nebbish writer friends Hank (Nicholas Campbell) and Martin (Michael Zelniker) are sleeping with Joan under his nose.

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