Wise Blood (1979) [the Criterion Collection #470]

Tess (1979) [The Criterion Collection]  Movies

Posted by RSU75 at Aug. 16, 2021
Tess (1979) [The Criterion Collection]

Tess (1979) [The Criterion Collection, Spine #697]
Blu-Ray | BDMV | AVC, 1920x1080, ~18.6 Mbps | 2hr 51mn | 45.4 GB
English: DTS-HD Master Audio, 6 ch, 3267 kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Romance

This multiple-Oscar-winning film by Roman Polanski is an exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl (Nastassja Kinski, in a gorgeous breakthrough) is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge, which Polanski unfolds with deliberation and finesse. With its earthy visual textures, achieved by two world-class cinematographers—Geoffrey Unsworth (Cabaret) and Ghislain Cloquet (Au hasard Balthazar)—Tess is a work of great pastoral beauty as well as vivid storytelling.

Tess (1979) [The Criterion Collection]  Movies

Posted by RSU75 at July 28, 2021
Tess (1979) [The Criterion Collection]

Tess (1979) [The Criterion Collection, Spine #697]
BDRip 1080p | MKV | AVC, 1920x804, ~ 3.7 Mbps | 2hr 51mn | 6.27 GB | English: DTS, 6 ch, 1510 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Romance

This multiple-Oscar-winning film by Roman Polanski is an exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl (Nastassja Kinski, in a gorgeous breakthrough) is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge, which Polanski unfolds with deliberation and finesse. With its earthy visual textures, achieved by two world-class cinematographers—Geoffrey Unsworth (Cabaret) and Ghislain Cloquet (Au hasard Balthazar)—Tess is a work of great pastoral beauty as well as vivid storytelling.
The Complete Lady Snowblood (1973-1974) [The Criterion Collection #790 and #791]

The Complete Lady Snowblood
Lady Snowblood (1973) + Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (1974)
2xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | 01:37:07 + 01:29:16 | 7,65 Gb + 5,95 Gb
Audio: Japanese (日本語) AC3 1.0 @ 384 Kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller | The Criterion Collection #790 and #791

A young woman (Meiko Kaji), trained from childhood as an assassin and hell-bent on revenge for the murders of her father and brother and the rape of her mother, hacks and slashes her way to gory satisfaction in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Japan. Rampant with inventive violence and spectacularly choreographed swordplay, Toshiya Fujita’s pair of influential cult classics Lady Snowblood and Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance are bloody, beautiful extravaganzas composed of one elegant widescreen composition after another. The first Lady Snowblood was a major inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill saga, and both of Fujita’s films remain cornerstones of Asian action cinema.

I Am Curious... (The Criterion Collection #179, #180, #181)  Movies

Posted by Someonelse at March 17, 2024
I Am Curious... (The Criterion Collection #179, #180, #181)

I Am Curious…
I Am Curious - Yellow (1967) / I Am Curious - Blue (1968)
2xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 02:02:03 + 01:47:32 | 7,45 Gb + 7,31 Gb
Audio: Svenska AC3 1.0 @ 128 Kbps | Subtitles: English | Covers + Booklets
Genre: Art-house, Drama | The Criterion Collection #179, #180, #181

Seized by customs upon entry to the United States, subject of a heated court battle, banned in cities across the United States, Vilgot Sjöman’s I Am Curious - Yellow is one of the most controversial films of all time. This landmark document of Swedish society during the sexual revolution has been declared both obscene and revolutionary. It tells the story of Lena (Lena Nyman), a searching and rebellious young woman, and her personal quest to understand the social and political conditions in 1960s Sweden, as well as her bold exploration of her own sexual identity. Shattering taboos as it freely traverses the lines between fact and fiction, I Am Curious - Yellow is presented here for the first time with its companion piece I Am Curious - Blue, a parallel film featuring the same characters and in which the lines between documentary and fiction are even further blurred.
The Golden Age of Television (1958) [The Criterion Collection #495 - Out Of Print]

The Golden Age of Television (1958)
3xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | Cover | 478 mins | 22,55 Gb
Audio: English AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English SDH
Genre: Classics | The Criterion Collection #495

The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive “teleplays” constituted an artistic high for the medium, bringing Broadway-quality drama to all of America. The award-winning programs included in this box set – originally curated for PBS in the early 1980s as the series The Golden Age of Television, featuring recollections from key cast and crew members – were conceived by such up-and-comers as Rod Serling and John Frankenheimer and star the likes of Paul Newman, Mickey Rooney, Rod Steiger, Julie Harris, and Piper Laurie.
3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman [2013] [The Criterion Collection ##672-675]

3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman [2013]
Stromboli (1950) / Europe '51 (1952) / Journey to Italy (1954)
5xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 305 minutes | 14,95 Gb + 15,06 Gb + 7,51 Gb
Audio: English or Italian - AC3 1.0 @ 384 Kbps (see below) | Subs: English
Genre: Drama, Classics | The Criterion Collection #672

In the late 1940s, the incandescent Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman found herself so stirred by the revolutionary neorealist films of Roberto Rossellini that she sent the director a letter, introducing herself and offering her talents. The resulting collaboration produced a series of films that are works of both sociopolitical concern and metaphysical melodrama, each starring Bergman as a woman experiencing physical dislocation and psychic torment in postwar Italy. It also famously led to a scandalous affair and eventual marriage between filmmaker and star, and the focus on their personal lives in the press unfortunately overshadowed the extraordinary films they made together. Stromboli, Europe ’51, and Journey to Italy are intensely moving portraits that reveal the director at his most emotional and the glamorous actress at her most anguished, and that capture them and the world around them in transition.
Chantal Akerman in the Seventies (1972-1978) [The Criterion Collection, Eclipse Series 19]

Chantal Akerman in the Seventies (1972-1978) [The Criterion Collection, Eclipse Series 19]
DVD Video, 2 x DVD9 + DVD5 | 127 mn + 86 mn + 85 mn + 62 mn + 11 mn | NTSC 4:3 | 720x480 | 19,1 Gb
French: Dolby AC3, 2 ch | Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Documentary, Short | Director: Chantal Akerman

Over the past four decades, Belgian director Chantal Akerman (Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles) has created one of cinema’s most distinctive bodies of work—formally daring, often autobiographical films about people and places, time and space. In this collection, we present the early films that put her on the map: intensely personal, modernist investigations of cities, history, family, and sexuality, made in the 1970s in the United States and Europe and strongly influenced by the New York experimental film scene. Bold and iconoclastic, these five films pushed boundaries in their day and continue to have a profound influence on filmmakers all over the world.
Eclipse Series 23: The First Films of Akira Kurosawa (1943-1945) [The Criterion Collection]

Eclipse Series 23: The First Films of Akira Kurosawa (1943-1945)
Sanshiro Sugata / The Most Beautiful / Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two / The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
4xDVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 305 min | 15,96 Gb
Audio: Japanese (日本語) AC3 1.0 @ 384 Kbps | Subs: English
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama | The Criterion Collection

Years before Akira Kurosawa changed the face of cinema with such iconic works as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, and Yojimbo, he made his start in the Japanese film industry with four popular and exceptional works, created as World War II raged. All gripping dramas, those rare first films - Sanshiro Sugata; The Most Beautiful; Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two; and The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail - are collected here and include a two-part martial arts saga, a portrait of female volunteers helping the war effort, and a kabuki-derived tale of deception. These captivating films are a glorious introduction to a peerless career.

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.
Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas (1949-1955) [The Criterion Collection, Eclipse Series 27]

Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas (1949-1955) [The Criterion Collection, Eclipse Series 27]
DVD Video, 4 x DVD5 | 4 x ~ 1hr 35mn | NTSC 4:3 | 720x480 | 4 x ~ 4.2 Gb
Italian (Italiano): Dolby AC3, 1 ch | Subtitles: English
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance | Director: Raffaello Matarazzo

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, film critics, international festivalgoers, and other studious viewers were swept up by the tide of Italian neorealism. Meanwhile, mainstream Italian audiences were indulging in a different kind of cinema experience: the sensational, extravagant melodramas of director Raffaello Matarazzo. Though turning to neorealism for character types and settings, these haywire hits about splintered love affairs and broken homes, all starring mustachioed matinee idol Amedeo Nazzari and icon of feminine purity Yvonne Sanson, luxuriate in delirious plot twists and overheated religious symbolism. Four of them are collected here, chronicles of men and women on long and serpentine roads to redemption, each less restrained and more wildly fun than the last.