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Fellini Satyricon (1969) [Criterion Collection]  Movies

Posted by RSU75 at June 15, 2020
Fellini Satyricon (1969) [Criterion Collection]

Fellini Satyricon (1969) [Criterion Collection, Spine #747]
DVD Video, 2 x DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 | 720x480 | 2hr 09mn | 7.65 Gb + 6.88 Gb
Italian (Italiano): AC3, 1 ch, 384 kbps \ English (commentary): AC3, 1 ch, 192 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, History | Director: Federico Fellini

A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first century Rome.

Fellini Satyricon (1969) [Criterion Collection]  Movies

Posted by RSU75 at Dec. 22, 2020
Fellini Satyricon (1969) [Criterion Collection]

Essential Fellini. Disc 10/15. Fellini Satyricon (1969) [Criterion Collection]
BDRip 1080p | MKV | AVC, 1920x812, ~ 3.7 Mbps | 2hr 09mn | 3.92 GB
Italian (Italiano): AC3, 1 ch, 448 kbps \ English: AC3, 1 ch, 192 kbps
BDRip 720p | MKV | AVC, 1280x540, ~ 2.5 Mbps | 2hr 09mn | 2.66 GB
Italian (Italiano): AC3, 1 ch, 256 kbps \ English: AC3, 1 ch, 192 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, History | Director: Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini’s career achieved new levels of eccentricity and brilliance with this remarkable, controversial, extremely loose adaptation of Petronius’s classical Roman satire, written during the reign of Nero. An episodic barrage of sexual licentiousness, godless violence, and eye-catching grotesquerie, Fellini Satyricon follows the exploits of two pansexual young men—the handsome scholar Encolpius and his vulgar, insatiably lusty friend Ascyltus—as they move through a landscape of free-form pagan excess. Creating apparent chaos with exquisite control, Fellini constructs a weird old world that feels like science fiction.

Fellini Satyricon (1969) [Criterion Collection]  Movies

Posted by RSU75 at Dec. 26, 2020
Fellini Satyricon (1969) [Criterion Collection]

Essential Fellini. Disc 10/15. Fellini Satyricon (1969) [Criterion Collection]
Blu-Ray | BDMV | AVC, 1920x1080, ~25.9 Mbps | 2hr 09mn | 43.2 GB
Italian (Italiano): LPCM Audio, 1 ch, 1152 kbps \ English: AC3, 1 ch, 192 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, History | Director: Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini’s career achieved new levels of eccentricity and brilliance with this remarkable, controversial, extremely loose adaptation of Petronius’s classical Roman satire, written during the reign of Nero. An episodic barrage of sexual licentiousness, godless violence, and eye-catching grotesquerie, Fellini Satyricon follows the exploits of two pansexual young men—the handsome scholar Encolpius and his vulgar, insatiably lusty friend Ascyltus—as they move through a landscape of free-form pagan excess. Creating apparent chaos with exquisite control, Fellini constructs a weird old world that feels like science fiction.
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.
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.

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.
Wim Wenders: The Road Trilogy (1974-1976) [Criterion Collection]

Wim Wenders: The Road Trilogy (1974-1976) [Criterion Collection, Spine #813]
DVD Video, 4 x DVD9, Collector's Set | NTSC 16:9 | 720x480 | 2hr 10mn | 27,5 Gb
German: Dolby AC3, 6 ch / Dolby AC3, 2 ch / Dolby AC3, 1 ch
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

In the 1970s, Wim Wenders was among the first true international breakthrough artists of the revolutionary New German Cinema movement, a filmmaker whose fascination with the physical landscapes and emotional contours of the open road proved to be universal. In the middle of that decade, Wenders embarked on a three-film journey that took him from the wide roads of Germany to the endless highways of the United States and back again. Each starring Rüdiger Vogler as the director’s alter ego, Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move, and Kings of the Road are dramas of emotional transformation that follow their characters’ searches for themselves, all rendered with uncommon soulfulness and visual poetry.
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.
The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs (1986-1995) [Criterion Collection]

The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs (1986-1995) [Criterion Collection, Spine #1082]
DVD Video, 3 x DVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 720x480 | 58+55+10+8+80+38+87 | ~ 22.1 Gb
English: AC3, 2 ch | Subtitles: English
Genre: Documentary, Short

There has never been a filmmaker like Marlon Riggs: an unapologetic gay Black man who defied a culture of silence and shame to speak his truth with resounding joy and conviction. An early adopter of video technology, Riggs employed a bold mix of documentary, performance, poetry, and music in order to confront the devastating legacy of racist stereotypes, the impact of AIDS on his community, and the very definition of what it means to be Black. Bringing together Riggs’s complete films—including his controversy-inciting queer landmark Tongues Untied and Black Is . . . Black Ain’t, the deeply personal swan song that was completed after his death at the age of thirty-seven—The Signifyin’ Works of Marlon Riggs traces the artistic and political evolution of a transformative filmmaker whose work is both an electrifying call for liberation and an invaluable historical document.
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.