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Of Time and the City - by Terence Davies (2008) Movies

Posted by alexov85 at July 5, 2012

Of Time and the City - by Terence Davies (2008)

Terence Davies (1945- ), filmmaker and writer, takes us, sometimes obliquely, to his childhood and youth in Liverpool. He's born Catholic and poor; later he rejects religion. He discovers homo-eroticism, and it's tinged with Catholic guilt. Enjoying pop music gives way to a teenage love of Mahler and Wagner. Using archival footage, we take a ferry to a day on the beach. Postwar prosperity brings some positive change, but its concrete architecture is dispiriting. Contemporary colors and sights of children playing may balance out the presence of unemployment and persistent poverty. Davies' narration is a mix of his own reflections and the poems and prose of others.

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Of Time and the City (2008) Movies

Posted by fekmax at Nov. 19, 2016

Terence Davies (1945- ), filmmaker and writer, takes us, sometimes obliquely, to his childhood and youth in Liverpool. He's born Catholic and poor; later he rejects religion. He discovers homo-eroticism, and it's tinged with Catholic guilt. Enjoying pop music gives way to a teenage love of Mahler and Wagner.

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Three Colors / Trois couleurs (1993-1994) [The Criterion Collection] [REPOST] Movies

Posted by Notsaint at June 19, 2013

This boldly cinematic trio of stories about love and loss, from Krzysztof Kieślowski was a defining event of the art-house boom of the 1990s. The films are named for the colors of the French flag and stand for the tenets of the French Revolution—liberty, equality, and fraternity—but that hardly begins to explain their enigmatic beauty and rich humanity. Set in Paris, Warsaw, and Geneva, and ranging from tragedy to comedy, Blue, White, and Red (Kieślowski’s final film) examine with artistic clarity a group of ambiguously interconnected people experiencing profound personal disruptions. Marked by intoxicating cinematography and stirring performances by such actors as Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy, Irène Jacob, and Jean-Louis Trintignant, Kieślowski’s Three Colors is a benchmark of contemporary cinema.

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Three Colors (1993-1994) Movies

Posted by RSU75 at Oct. 4, 2017

Three Colors (1993-1994) [Criterion Collection, Spine #587 - #590]
Blu-Ray | BDMV | AVC, 1920x1080, ~35.0 Mbps | 1hr 38mn + 1hr 31mn + 1hr 39mn | 38,1 GB + 43,1 GB + 45,2 GB
French: DTS-HD Master Audio, 2 ch, 2046 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery, Comedy, Romance

The three colors are blue, white and red. They are the colors of the French flag, of course, and they are appropriated by director Krzysztof Kieslowski along with the themes of the motto they more or less represent: liberty, equality, fraternity. But the films Three Colors: Blue (1993), Three Colors: White (1993), and Three Colors: Red (1994) are not hymns to patriotism or national identity and the Polish Kieslowski hasn’t any predisposition to making a statement at France. It’s better to think of this trilogy in similar terms as his The Decalogue, ten short films in which he reflects upon the Ten Commandments in terms more suggestive than literal. They are about morality in terms of life in Poland in 1989 and it is that vast collage of life experience in that time and place that is so powerful.

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Krzysztof Kieslowski's Trois Couleurs (Three Colors) [3 DVD9] [2003] Movies

Posted by evaristegalois at Sept. 8, 2010

Even though one can view each segment of Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors trilogy on its own, it seems absurd to do so; why buy the slacks instead of the entire suit? Created by Kieslowski and his writing partner Krzysztof Piesiewicz for France's bicentennial, the titles–and the themes of the films–come from the three colors of the French flag representing liberty, equality, and fraternity. Blue examines liberation through the eyes of a woman (Juliette Binoche) who loses her husband and daughter in an auto accident, and solemnly starts anew. White is an ironic comedy about a befuddled Polish husband (Zbigniew Zamachowski) who takes an odd path of revenge against his ex-wife (Julie Delpy). A Swiss model (Irène Jacob) strikes up a friendship with a retired judge (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who eavesdrops on his neighbors in Red. The trilogy is a snapshot of European life at a time of reconstruction after the Cold War, reflected through Kieslowski's moralist view of human nature and illumined by each title's palate color.

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The Flame of New Orleans (1941) [Re-UP] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Oct. 20, 2015

The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
A Film by René Clair
DVD5 | ISO | PAL 4:3 | DVD Scan | 01:16:04 | 4,21 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs (11): English, German, French,
Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish
Genre: Comedy, Romance

French farce comes to the New World in 1840 as Claire Ledoux convinces the middle-aged banker who is her fiance that she is two different women – a deception made necessary by the arrival of a man acquainted with the swath she cut across Europe. Giraud has been about to foreclose on a $150 loan made to a sea captain who needed the funds to court Claire. Get Claire's "cousin" out of New Orleans before the wedding, Giraud tells the sea captain and the debt will be paid.

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National Geographic - The Shape of Life: Complete Journey (2001) Movies

Posted by notbanned at April 25, 2015

The Shape Of Life tells the gripping and magnificent tale of the beginnings of all animal life. Using innovative camera techniques to capture rarely seen creatures and breathtaking computer animation to reveal stunning detail, this digital high definition series tells the stories of the revolutionary findings and scientific breakthroughs in biology, genetics and paleontology that are rewriting the book of life. The series celebrates the splendors and struggles of evolution, unveiling eight biological designs that are the underpinnings of nearly all animal life.

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The Guns of Navarone: 50th Anniversary Edition (1961) Movies

Posted by edi1967 at Oct. 18, 2011

The Guns of Navarone: 50th Anniversary Edition (1961)
I Cannoni di Navarone - Die Kanonen von Navarone - Los cañones de Navarone - ナヴァロンの要塞
BluRay Full 1:1 | m2ts | AVC | 1920x1080 | 23689 Kbps | 23.976 fps | 16:9 | 02:40:53 | 5% Recovery | 45.6 GB
Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio @ 2154 Kbps; English, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish Dolby Digital Audio 5.1 @ 448 Kbps;
English Dolby Digital Audio 2.0 @192 Kbps
Subtitle: English, Danish, Finnish, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Extra: The Resistance Dossier, Memories of Navarone, Epic Restoration, Documentary, Audio Commentary, Featurettes
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BluRayrip 720p | x264 MKV | V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC | 1280x544 | 6335 Kbps | 23.976 fps | 16:9 | DTS / AC3 Dolby Digital 5.1 | 02:40:53 | 9.32 GB
Audio: English DTS @ 1510 Kbps; Italian Dolby Digital Audio 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subtitle: Italian, English
Genre: War | 4 Wins, 10 Nominations

At the height of World War II, the German army has placed two devastatingly powerful guns in a practically bomb-proof cave on the island of Navarone, overlooking a seaway leading to the vital island of Keros in the Aegean Sea. The guns are preventing passage to Keros where thousands of British troops have been stranded and who find…

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National Geographic - The Shape of Life: Complete Journey (2001) [Repost] Movies

Posted by Tutorial at March 9, 2017

The Shape Of Life tells the gripping and magnificent tale of the beginnings of all animal life. Using innovative camera techniques to capture rarely seen creatures and breathtaking computer animation to reveal stunning detail, this digital high definition series tells the stories of the revolutionary findings and scientific breakthroughs in biology, genetics and paleontology that are rewriting the book of life. The series celebrates the splendors and struggles of evolution, unveiling eight biological designs that are the underpinnings of nearly all animal life. A Co-Production of Sea Studios Foundation and National Geographic Television.

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No Blade of Grass (1970) [Re-UP] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at May 24, 2015

An environmental catastrophe destroys civilization. Thousands are starving. Millions are dead. Resources are used up, poisoned and polluted. Found among the survivors are the Custance clan. Led by father John (Nigel Davenport) and mother Ann (Cornel Wilde’s spouse and frequent collaborator Jean Wallace), the Custance clan sets out on a quest for safety in a savage world that may just end up turning them into the very thing they are fleeing…..

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