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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.
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.
7 Films by Maurice Pialat [2 Criterion DVD9s & 12 Masters of Cinema PAL DVD9s]

7 Films by Maurice Pialat [2 Criterion DVD9s & 12 Masters of Cinema PAL DVD9s]
Drama/Art-House | OCR | Colour | French Dolby Digital | English Subtitles
14 Full Original DVD Images (.ISO) + 600dpi Scans = >90.9GBs | 1GB RARs | NL/FSe/FSo

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.
David Lean Directs Noël Coward [The Criterion Collection #603] [ReUp]

David Lean Directs Noël Coward [The Criterion Collection #603]
Brief Encounter / In Which We Serve / This Happy Breed (1944) / Blithe Spirit
4xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 407 mins | Total: 30,7 Gb
Audio: English AC3 1.0 @ 384 Kbps | Subs: English SDH
Genre: Romance, Drama, War, Fantasy

In the 1940s, the wit of playwright Noël Coward and the craft of filmmaker David Lean melded harmoniously in one of cinema’s greatest writer-director collaborations. With the wartime military drama sensation In Which We Serve, Coward and Lean (along with producing partners Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan) embarked on a series of literate, socially engaged, and enormously entertaining pictures that ranged from domestic epic (This Happy Breed) to whimsical comedy (Blithe Spirit) to poignant romance (Brief Encounter). These films created a lasting testament to Coward’s artistic legacy and introduced Lean’s visionary talents to the world.
By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume One (1954-2001) [The Criterion Collection #184] [ReUp]

By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume One (1954-2001)
2xDVD9 | ISO | NTSC 4:3 | Cover + Booklet | 243 mins | 7,27 Gb + 6,61 Gb
Audio: English AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitless: None | Color, Black and White
Genre: Art-house | The Criterion Collection #184

Working completely outside the mainstream, the wildly prolific, visionary Stan Brakhage made more than 350 films over a half century. Challenging all taboos in his exploration of “birth, sex, death, and the search for God,” he has turned his camera on explicit lovemaking, childbirth, even autopsy. Many of his most famous works pursue the nature of vision itself and transcend the act of filming. Some, including the legendary Mothlight, were made without using a camera at all, as he pioneered the art of making images directly on film, by drawing, painting, and scratching. Criterion is proud to present twenty-six masterworks by Stan Brakhage.
Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara (1962-1966) [The Criterion Collection #392] [Re-UP]

Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara (1962-1964)
Pitfall / Woman In The Dunes / The Face Of Another
4xDVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 4:3 | Complete Scans | 521 mins | 30 Gb
Audio: Japanese AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Art-house | The Criterion Collection #392

One of the most acclaimed Japanese directors of all time, Hiroshi Teshigahara distinguished himself in the sixties with a series of sinuous, atmospheric, and daring films. Teshigahara found his spiritual partner in novelist and screenwriter Kobo Abe, with whom he collaborated on these Kafkaesque portraits of identities in peril, films that captivated mainstream audiences while also touching the edges of the Japanese avant-garde. The existential ghost story Pitfall (Otoshiana), the shocking, erotic fable Woman in the Dunes (Sunna no onna), and the sci-fi–tinged nightmare The Face of Another (Tanin no kao) are among cinema’s enduring enigmas and rarest pleasures.
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World (1963) [The Criterion Collection #692] [ReUp]

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
General Release Version + Extended Version
3xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | 02:43:15 + 03:17:20 | 22,6 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subtitles: English SDH
Genre: Adventure, Comedy | The Criterion Collection #692

Stanley Kramer followed his Oscar-winning Judgment at Nuremberg with this sobering investigation of American greed. Ah, who are we kidding? It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, about a group of strangers fighting tooth and nail over buried treasure, is the most grandly harebrained movie ever made, a pileup of slapstick and borscht-belt-y one-liners performed by a nonpareil cast, including Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Spencer Tracy, Jonathan Winters, and a boatload of other playing-to-the-rafters comedy legends. For sheer scale of silliness, Kramer’s wildly uncharacteristic film is unlike any other, an exhilarating epic of tomfoolery.