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PBS - World Science Festival: Series 2 (2018) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Aug. 16, 2019

The World Science Festival is an annual highlight, bringing together a just-right mix of star power from various scientific disciplines and further-flung fields. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future.

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he Great Silence / Il grande silenzio (1968) [Repost] Movies

Posted by Notsaint at Oct. 21, 2012

The late, great Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci (Django, Companeros) directed and co-wrote this western in 1968. Bounty killers led by Loco (Klaus Kinski) prey on outlaws hiding out in the snowbound Utah mountains. After an innocent becomes Loco s latest victim, his wife hires a gunman for revenge. Silence, mute since his throat was cut as a child after witnessing the murder of his parents, decides to take justice into his own hands.

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Quartet (1948) + Trio (1950) + Encore (1951) Movies

Posted by Notsaint at Feb. 6, 2014

Quartet (1948) + Trio (1950) + Encore (1951)
1xDVD9, 2xDVD5 | PAL | VIDEO_TS | 4:3 | 720x576 | 8000 kbps (Quarter), 5600 kbps (Trio), 5900 kbps (Encore) | 14.7Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
Full time: 288 minutes | UK | Drama, Romance

Three sets of adaptations of Somerset Maugham's short stories, all introduced by Maugham himself and featuring a host of famous acting talent. Features Quartet (Annakin, Crabtree, French and Smart, 1948), Trio (Annakin & French, 1950) and Encore (Jackson, Pelissier & French, 1951)

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The Great Silence (1968) Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Dec. 3, 2011

On an unforgiving, snow swept frontier, a group of bloodthirsty bounty hunters, led by the vicious Loco (Klaus Kinski Nosferatu, For a Few Dollars More) prey on a band of persecuted outlaws who have taken to the hills. As the price on each head is collected one-by-one, only a mute gunslinger named Silence (Jean-Louis Trintignant The Conformist) stands between the innocent refuges and the greed and corruption that the bounty hunters represent. But, in this harsh, brutal world, the lines between right and wrong aren't always clear and good doesn't always triumph. Featuring superb photography and a haunting score from maestro Ennio Morricone, director Sergio Corbucci's (Django) bleak, brilliant and violent vision of an immoral, honorless west is widely considered to be among the very best and most influential Euro-Westerns ever made.

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Decadence - The Meaninglessness of Modern Life. Episode 6 - God Movies

Posted by crossver at Jan. 8, 2009

The nature of religion and religion in the West is looked at. The growing number of irreligious people in Western countries is considered and it is asked whether this has any effect on our happiness or morals.

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Lolita (1997) [Re-Up] Movies

Posted by Efgrapha at July 27, 2016

Adapted from the novel by Vladimir Nabokov (previously filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962), Lolita stars Jeremy Irons as Humbert Humbert, a college literature professor. In early adolescence, Humbert fell hopelessly and tragically in love with a girl his own age, and, as he grew into adulthood, he never lost his obsession with "nymphets," teenagers who walk a fine line between being a girl and a woman. While looking for a place to live after securing a new teaching position, he meets Charlotte Haze (Melanie Griffith), a pretentious and annoying woman who seems desperately lonely and is obviously attracted to Humbert. Humbert pays her little mind until he meets her 13-year-old daughter Lolita (Dominique Swain), the image of the girl that Humbert once loved. Humbert moves into the Haze home as a boarder and eventually marries Charlotte in order to be closer to Lolita.

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Olympia (1938) [Complete 2 parts] [Re-UP] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Sept. 26, 2015

Olympia (1938) [Complete 2 parts]
Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker + Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit
2xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 4:3 | 01:55:01 + 01:28:29 | 7,12 Gb + 6,54 Gb
Audio: German AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Art-house, Documentary, Sports

After being commissioned by the 1936 Olympic Committee to create a feature film of the Berlin Olympics, Riefenstahl shot a documentary that celebrates the human body by combining the poetry of bodies in motion with close-ups of athletes in the heat of competition. The production tends to glorify the young male body and, some say, expresses the Nazi attitude toward athletic prowess. Miss Riefenstahl captures the grace of athletes during field hockey, soccer, bicycling, equestrian, aquatic and gymnastic events. Highlights are the Pentathlon and the Decathlon, which was won by American Glenn Morris; it ends with the triumphant conclusion of the games.

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E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Movies

Posted by Someonelse at June 11, 2011

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) [2-disc Limited Collector's Edition]
A Film by Steven Spielberg
2xDVD9 (VIDEO_TS) | NTSC 16:9 (720 x 480) | disc 1 - 01:59:56; disc 2 - 01:54:29 | 7,92 Gb + 7,90 Gb
Disc 1 - Audio: English DTS 5.1 @ 768 Kbps and DD 5.1 @ 448 Kbps; French DD 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: English, Spanish
Disc 2 - Audio: English DTS 5.1 @ 768 Kbps and DD 5.1 @ 448 Kbps; French, Spanish - DD 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, Spanish
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi | Won 4 Oscars + 38 wins | USA

Steven Spielberg's 1982 hit about a stranded alien and his loving relationship with a fatherless boy (Henry Thomas) struck a chord with audiences everywhere, and it furthered Spielberg's reputation as a director of equally strong commercial sensibilities and classical leanings. Henry Thomas gives a strong, emotional performance as E.T.'s young friend, Robert MacNaughton and Drew Barrymore make a solid impression as his siblings, and Dee Wallace is lively as the kids' mother. The special effects almost look a bit quaint now with all the computer advancements that have occurred since, but they also have more heart behind them than a lot of what we see today.

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Che (2008) [The Criterion Collection #496] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Dec. 4, 2011

Che (2008) [The Criterion Collection #496]
A Film by Steven Soderbergh
2xFull BluRay + 3xDVD9 NTSC | part 1: 134 mins + part 2: 135 mins | Booklet -> 23 Mb | 93,96 Gb + 22,23 Gb
Audio: Spanish (for details see below) + English Commentary track | Subtitles: English
Genre: Biography, Drama, History | 4 wins | Spain, France, USA

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.

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Good Morning... and Goodbye! (1967) Movies

Posted by Someonelse at April 6, 2011

Good Morning… and Goodbye! (1967)
DVDRip | English | MKV | 698 x 574 | x264 @ 2363 Kbps | AC3 @ 224 Kbps | 01:18:17 | 1,33 Gb
Genre: Drama, Exploitation | USA

Good Morning… and Goodbye! is one of the movies from Russ Meyer's soap opera period. It isn't really a comedy as such; it's more of an extremely over-the-top melodrama. It's basically about a rich but impotent husband (Stuart Lancaster from various Meyer vehicles) and his sexually dissatisfied wife (Alaina Capri from Common Law Cabin) who, due to the lack of sexual fireworks at home, takes a blue collar lover. She does not hide this fact from her husband at all. This leads to all manner of confrontations where men and women talk harshly to one another Meyer style.

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