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The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg (1964) [The Criterion Collection #716] Movies

Posted by Efgrapha at Oct. 8, 2014

Jacques Demy's 1964 masterpiece is a pop-art opera, or, to borrow the director's own description, a film in song. This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher (Nino Castelnuovo), a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery (a luminous Catherine Deneuve), an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant (Marc Michel, reprising his role from Demy's masterful debut, Lola). A completely sung movie, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is closest in form to a cinematic opera. Composer Michel Legrand composed the score, modeling it around the patterns of everyday conversation.

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Whisper of the Heart (1995) [The Studio Ghibli Collection] [Re-UP] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at June 14, 2015

Whisper of the Heart follows the story of teenage bookworm Shizuku who is struggling to find out who she is as she approaches the last summer of junior high school. Energetic and free-spirited, she harbours ambitions to write. But Shizuku is a voracious reader and plans on using the library to read away the summer vacation. When she finds that the same mystery borrower has got to every book before her, she meets Seiji, a trainee violin-maker who challenges her to stop reading and start writing.

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Georges Melies: First Wizard of Cinema (1896-1913) [2008] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at March 1, 2014

Georges Méliès built the world's first movie studio in 1896 near Paris; from it cascaded fantastic magic films, dream films, historical reconstructions, imaginary journeys, melodramas, slapstick comedies – even erotic films. Examples of all are here, with many still retaining power to astonish and charm. This monumental thirteen hour collection on five DVDs gathers for the first time nearly all the surviving films of Georges Méliès from his first, Card Party (1896) to his last, The Voyage of the Bouririchon Family (1913), bracketing more than 170 others. Included are the celebrated and famous journey films, among them A Trip to the Moon, The Impossible Voyage, The Kingdom of Fairies, The Merry Frolics of Satan, The Palace of the Arabian Nights, and The Conquest of the Pole…..

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Mysteries of Lisbon / Mistérios de Lisboa (2010) [Repost] Movies

Posted by ETRU at July 26, 2014

Raul Ruiz's masterful adaptation of the eponymous nineteenth-century Portuguese novel (by Camilo Castelo Branco) evokes the complex intertwined narratives of Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens. The core story centers on Joao, the bastard child of an ill-fated romance between two members of the aristocracy who are forbidden to marry, and his quest to discover the truth of his parentage. But this is just the start of an engrossing tale that follows a multitude of characters whose fates conjoin, separate and then rejoin again over three decades in Portugal, Spain, France and Italy.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy (Special Extended Edition) (2004) Movies

Posted by edi1967 at Sept. 1, 2014

The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy (Special Extended Edition) (2004)
Il Signore degli Anelli Trilogia
A Film by Peter Jackson
12xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL Area 2 | 2,35:1 | 16:9 | 720x576 | 11:59:42 | 5% Recovery | 90.9 Gb
Languages Available: Italian DTS ES 6.1; Italian, English Dolby Digital EX 5.1 AC3 | Subtitle: Italian, English
Extra: Menù, Scene Selection, Photo Gallery, Documentaries, Exclusive Scenes,
Feauturettes, Backstage, Deleted Scenes, Interviews, Making Of, Trailers, Full Scans
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy | Won 17 Oscars. Another 352 wins & 287 nominations

The Lord of the Rings is a film series consisting of three epic fantasy adventure films directed by Peter Jackson. They are based on the novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. The films are subtitled The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002) and The Return of the King (2003). They were distributed by New Line Cinema. Considered to be one of the biggest and most ambitious film projects ever undertaken, with an overall budget of $281 million (some sources say $310 million-$330 million), the entire project took eight years, with the filming for all three films done simultaneously and entirely in New Zealand…

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The Sacrifice / Offret (1986) [Remastered Edition] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at April 2, 2016

Famed Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky's final masterpiece, The Sacrifice is a haunting vision of a world threatened with nuclear annihilation that inspired Andrew Sarris (The Village Voice) to proclaim, "You may find yourself moved as you have never been moved before". As a wealthy Swedish family celebrates the birthday of their patriarch Alexander (Erland Josephson, Cries and Whispers), news of the outbreak of World War III reaches their remote Baltic island - and the happy mood turns to horror. The family descends into a state of psychological devastation, brilliantly evoked by Tarkovsky's arresting palette of luminous greys washing over the bleak landscape around their home.

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The Best of Zagreb Vol 1 - 5 Movies

Posted by Anim8 at Aug. 11, 2009

The Best of Zagreb Vol 1 - 5
No Language | 300 mins | DivX | DVD-Rip | 2.7GB | 720x576 | 4:3 | PAL | 256kpbs
Genre: Animation Shorts

5 DVDs of Animated Shorts by Zagreb Film (Republic of Yugoslavia).

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A Taste Of Honey (1961) [Re-UP] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Dec. 11, 2016

Black and white, gay and straight, mothers and daughters, class, and coming of age. Jo is working class, in her teens, living with her drunk and libidinous mother in northern England. When mom marries impulsively, Jo is out on the streets; she and Geoffrey, a gay co worker who's adrift himself, find a room together. Then Jo finds herself pregnant after a one night stand with Jimmy, a Black sailor. Geoffrey takes over the preparations for the baby's birth, and becomes, in effect, the child's father. The three of them seem to have things sorted out when Jo's mother reappears on the scene, assertive and domineering. Which "family" will emerge?

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Mysteries of Lisbon (2010) [ReUp] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Sept. 29, 2012

Mysteries of Lisbon / Mistérios de Lisboa (2010)
2xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 16:9 | 04:15:49 | 6,55 Gb + 7,59 Gb
Audio: #1 Portuguese-French (original) AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | #2 French (dubbed) AC3 5.1 @ 384 Kbps
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese
Genre: Drama, Mystery

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Seven Samurai (1954) [The Criterion Collection #2] [REISSUE] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at April 10, 2013

Farmers are stingy, foxy, blubbering, mean, stupid and murderous! God damn! That's what they are! But then, who made them such beasts? You did! You samurai did it! You burn their villages! Destroy their farms! Steal their food! Force them to labor! Take their women! And kill them if they resist! So what should farmers do?
Kikuchiyo, Seven Samurai

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