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

Posted by Someonelse at April 10, 2013
Seven Samurai (1954) [The Criterion Collection #2] [REISSUE]

Seven Samurai (1954) [The Criterion Collection #2 REISSUE]
A Film by Akira Kurosawa
3xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 03:26:42 | Covers + Booklet | 7,20 Gb + 7,60 Gb + 7,44 Gb
Audio: Japanese AC3 2.0/1.0 @ 192/192 Kbps + 2 English Commentary tracks | Subtitles: English
Genre: Adventure, Drama

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
Story of a Prostitute / Shunpu den (1965) [The Criterion Collection #299] [ReUp]

Story of a Prostitute (1965)
A Film by Seijun Suzuki
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 2.35:1 | Cover + Booklet | 96 mins | 7,87 Gb
Audio: Japanese AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English, French, Chinese
Genre: Art-house, Drama, War | The Criterion Collection #299

Volunteering as a “comfort woman” on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita’s direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki’s Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi’s eyes.
8½ (1963) Criterion Collection [Fellini's Eight and a Half] + Extras

8½ (1963) Criterion Collection [Fellini's Eight and a Half] + Extras
BDRip | 139min | MKV | 1920x1040 | x264 -> 4000kbps | E-AC3 1.0 256kbps
Drama-Fantasy | Language: Italian | Subtitles: English | 4.22GB

Master director Federico Fellini moved into the realm of self-reflexive autobiography with Marcello Mastroianni as Fellini's alter ego Guido Anselmi, a film director who, overwhelmed by the large-scale production he has undertaken, plunges into an interior world where fantasy and memory impinge on reality. Fellini jumbles narrative logic by freely cutting from flashbacks to dream sequences to the present until it becomes impossible to pry them apart, creating both a psychological portrait of Guido's interior world and the surrealistic, circus-like exterior world that came to be known as "Felliniesque."

Mulholland Drive (2001) Criterion Collection  Movies

Posted by Sartre at Feb. 12, 2016
Mulholland Drive (2001) Criterion Collection

Mulholland Drive (2001) Criterion Collection
BDRip | MKV | 2hr 27mn | 1920x1036 | x264 -> 4500kbps | DTS 5.1 768 kbps | 5.41 GB + Extras
Drama-Mystery-Thriller | Language: English | Subtitles: ENG | NitroFlare/1Fichier

After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality. David Lynch wrote and directed this look at two women who find themselves walking a fine line between truth and deception in the beautiful but dangerous netherworld of Hollywood. David Lynch originally conceived Mulholland Drive as the pilot film for a television series; after the ABC television network rejected the pilot and declined to air it, the French production film StudioCanal took over the project, and Lynch reshot and re-edited the material into a theatrical feature. The resulting version of Mulholland Drive premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where David Lynch shared Best Director honors with Joel Coen.
Jean Renoir's Stage & Spectacle (The Criterion Collection) [3 DVD9s]

Jean Renoir's Stage & Spectacle (The Criterion Collection) [3 DVD9s]
Classics | 1.33:1 | Colour | French Dolby Digital | English Subtitles
3 Full Original DVD Image3 (.ISO) + 400dpi Scans = 22.07GBs | 400MB RARs | FSo/FSe/NL
Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953) [The Criterion Collection #110]

Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953) [The Criterion Collection #110]
A film by Jacques Tati - Part of "The Complete Jacques Tati - The Criterion Collection #729"
2xDVD9 | Untouched | ISO+MDS | NTSC 1.37:1 4:3 720x480 VBR 29.97 fps | 87 mn | 5.95 GB + 7.32 GB
Audio: French & English AC-3 Dolby Digital Mono @ 192 kbps 48.0 kHz | Subtitles: English
Extras: Menu, Scene Selection, Special Features | Genre: Comedy | Country: France

Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati’s masterpiece of gentle slapstick is a series of effortlessly well-choreographed sight gags involving dogs, boats, and firecrackers; it was the first entry in the Hulot series and the film that launched its maker to international stardom.
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.

Polyester (1981) [The Criterion Collection LaserDisc #210] [ReUp]  Movies

Posted by Someonelse at March 17, 2015
Polyester (1981) [The Criterion Collection LaserDisc #210] [ReUp]

Polyester (1981)
A Film by John Waters
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 86 mins | 4,27 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps + Commentary tracks (see below)
Genre: Art-house, Comedy | The Criterion Collection LaserDisc #210

After making a name for himself with such underground gross-out epics as Pink Flamingos and Desperate Living, director John Waters made a bid for somewhat wider acceptance with this black comedy, which is sedate only by the standards of his previous work. Francine Fishpaw (Divine) is a housewife whose life has become a living hell. Her husband Elmer (David Samson) runs a porno theater (currently showing the classic My Burning Bush) and is having an affair with secretary Sandra (Mink Stole), a vision of sleaze in Bo Derek-style cornrow braids who informs Elmer, "Children would only get in the way of our erotic lifestyle!" Francine has two teenage children, Dexter (Ken King), who likes to sniff glue and stomp on women's feet, and Lulu (Mary Garlington), a brazen slut who hangs out with overage juvenile delinquent Bobo (Stiv Bators) and gleefully anticipates her next abortion.

The Confession (1970) Criterion Collection  Movies

Posted by Sartre at March 11, 2016
The Confession (1970) Criterion Collection

The Confession (1970) Criterion Collection
BDRip | MKV | 2hr 18mn | 1792x1080 | AVC | 5000kbps | DTS 1.0 255 kbps | 5.09GB + 1.05GB
Drama-Thriller | Language: French | Subtitles: English | NitroFlare/1Fichier

This Costa-Gavras thriller stars Yves Montand as an East European government functionary, inexplicably imprisoned by his Communist superiors. He is not told why he has been arrested, nor has his wife (Simone Signoret) been informed of his fate. He never knows the whys and wherefores of the whole affair – nor does the audience. The Confession was based on the true story of loyal Communist Arthur London's unjustified purge trial of 1951. Despite the film's confusion, Costa-Gavras' Kafkaesque view of the world, in which the individual is overwhelmed by events that he can't possibly begin to understand, struck a responsive chord in the chaotic early '70s.

Trafic (1971) [The Criterion Collection #439]  Movies

Posted by angus77 at Aug. 15, 2015
Trafic (1971) [The Criterion Collection #439]

Trafic (1971) [The Criterion Collection #439]
a Film by Jaques Tati - Part of "The Complete Jaques Tati - The Criterion Collection #729"
DVD9 | Untouched | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 720x480 VBR | 97 mn | 7.42 GB
Audio: French AC-3 Mono @ 384 kbps 48.0 kHz | Subtitles: English
Genre: Comedy | Country: France & Italy

In Jacques Tati’s Trafic, the bumbling Monsieur Hulot, kitted out as always with tan raincoat, beaten brown hat, and umbrella, takes to Paris’s highways and byways. In this, his final outing, Hulot is employed as an auto company’s director of design, and accompanies his new product (a “camping car” outfitted with absurd gadgetry) to an auto show in Amsterdam. Naturally, the road there is paved with modern-age mishaps. This late-career delight is a masterful demonstration of the comic genius’s expert timing and sidesplitting knack for visual gags, and a bemused last look at technology run amok.