The Silent Hour

The Pornographer / Der Pornograph (2001) [Re-UP] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Nov. 30, 2015

Jacques Laurent made pornographic films in the 1970's and '80's, but had put that aside for 20 years. His artistic ideas, born of the '60's counter-culture, had elevated the entire genre. Older and paunchier, he is now directing a porno again. Jacques's artistry clashes with his financially-troubled producer's ideas about shooting hard-core sex. Jacques has been estranged from his son Joseph for years, since the son first learned the nature of the family business. They are now speaking again. Joseph and his friends want to recapture the idealism of 1968 with a protest. Separated from his wife, Jacques strives for personal renewal with plans to build a new house by himself…

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Jigoku / The Sinners of Hell (1960) [The Criterion Collection #352] [ReUp] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at March 22, 2015

Shocking, outrageous, and poetic, Jigoku (Hell, a.k.a. The Sinners of Hell) is the most innovative creation from Nobuo Nakagawa, the father of the Japanese horror film. After a young theology student flees a hit-and-run accident, he is plagued by both his own guilt-ridden conscience and a mysterious, diabolical doppelgänger. But all possible escape routes lead straight to hell - literally. In the gloriously gory final third of the film, Nakagawa offers up his vision of the underworld in a tour de force of torture and degradation. A striking departure from traditional Japanese ghost stories, Jigoku, with its truly eye-popping (and -gouging) imagery, created aftershocks that are still reverberating in contemporary world horror cinema.

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Carlos Reygadas – Stellet licht / Silent Light / Luz silenciosa (2007) Movies

Posted by newland at May 9, 2010

Johan and Esther have been married for years, and live with their children in a Mennonite community from the north of Mexico. Against the law of God and man, Johan falls in love with another woman.

I was amazed by Silent Light – the setting, the language, the delicacy of the interactions between the people on screen, the drama of redemption. And most of all by Carlos Reygadas's extraordinarily rich sense of cinema, evident in every frame. A surprising picture, and a very moving one as well. — Martin Scorsese

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La Roue (1923) Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Nov. 26, 2011

Sisif (Severin-Mars) is the kindly railroad engineer who adopts the orphan girl Norma (Ivy Close). He raises her as his own along with his son Elie (Pierre Magnier). When they are grown, Elie and Herson (Gabriele de Gravvone) are compelled to fight to the death on a mountain top over the love of Norma. Elie dies when he falls after losing his grip on a tree branch, and Norma is turned out by Sisif who blames her for the death of his only son. She marries Herson but is left a widow within the year. Sisif becomes a blind recluse and visits the sight of his son's death on the one-year anniversary. He arrives with the help of his guide dog. Norma returns to help Sisif but is again turned away by the bitter father. She secretly helps the old man until he dies in this sentimental melodrama.

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Jos Stelling - The Waiting Room (1995 / first film) Movies

Posted by alexov85 at Nov. 7, 2009

Jos Stelling - The Waiting Room (1995 / first film)

"The Waiting room" - Stelling visually shows that it is sexual motives govern human behavior. In his film is not a single replica - only looks and gestures. However, they concealed a lot more than in the most lengthy dialogues. Luggage patiently waits for peeping virtuous husband, left for half an hour unattended doting wife in the station waiting room. His thoughts and feelings spill out, when, as if from heaven, down she cherished. Half an hour of contemplation turn into five minutes of silent action, the absence of any background sound - a sign of impeccable taste, but the film itself - one of the best silent shorts…

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The Tiger of Eschnapur / Der Tiger von Eschnapur (1959) [The Masters of Cinema Series #107] [REPOST] Movies

Posted by Notsaint at Oct. 12, 2013

The Tiger of Eschnapur first strikes one as being breathtakingly exotic, and then remarkably juvenile. Dashing hero Harald Berger bops two troublesome Gurkha soldiers together like sticks of wood, and charms the beautiful Seetha with schoolboy manners and other pure-of-heart gestures. The action is hearty and direct. There are beautiful scenes shot in India with real tigers, matched with wonderfully naive shots of men in tiger costumes!

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The Indian Tomb / Das Indische Grabmal (1959) [The Masters of Cinema Series #107] [REPOST] Movies

Posted by Notsaint at Oct. 12, 2013

A jealous Maharajah discovers that the girl he loves is in love with a visiting German architect, captures her, and threatens to bury her alive as punishment.

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Queen Kelly (1929) [Re-UP] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at July 23, 2015

Queen Kelly (1929)
A Film by Erich von Stroheim
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 01:40:46 | 7,11 Gb
Score AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps with English intertitles and Spanish subs
Genre: Drama, Classics

In 1928, after years of struggles within the studio system, Erich von Stroheim found the opportunity to create his crowning achievement: a storybook romance of intoxicating beauty, counterbalanced with a frightfully grim tale of moral corruption. Gloria Swanson stars as an innocent convent girl who falls under the spell of a handsome prince (Walter Byron) on the eve of his marriage to a diabolical queen (Seena Owen).

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Dr Mabuse the Gambler - Fritz Lang (1922) [2 DVD9s] [2004] Movies

Posted by mook45 at Sept. 15, 2009

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André Rieu / Andre Rieu - Home for the Holidays (2012) Movies

Posted by RSU75 at Jan. 13, 2014

Andre Rieux (André Rieu / Andre Rieu) and the Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra will fill your house holiday concert Home for the Holidays. This is not just a concert - it's a costume musical show, filmed in the castle town of Maastricht, the home of the maestro, a fantastic spectacle with amazing sound …

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