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Philips Classics - Mozart on Tour (1991) Movies

Posted by Polik88 at Feb. 4, 2015

Originally released by Philips Classics on VHS and Laserdisc in 1991, the 13-part Mozart on Tour series chronicles the journeys of the child, adolescent and adult Mozart across Europe, in what was ultimately to prove a futile pursuit of fame and fortune. Each episode is centred on a different European city and combines travelogue-style narration with musical excerpts and period re-enactment.

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[Romantic melodrama] Elvira Madigan (Sweden, 1967). Directed by Bo Widerberg. Movies

Posted by seventh_art at Aug. 29, 2007

In late 19th century Sweden, a beautiful teenage circus performer falls in love with a married aristocratic army officer, and they run away together. Count Sparre (Widerberg regular Thommy Berggren) abandons family and career for true love and delirious passion with young Elvira (Pia Degermark, named best actress at Cannes for her performance), but the enormous social pressures arrayed against the pair lead ultimately to tragic consequences. The couple's rejection of stifling Victorian strictures for a romp-in-the-grass idyll in nature, the emphasis on individual happiness over the oppressive forces of conformity, had great resonance in the Summer-of-Love 60s. Rendered with ravishing colour, sun-dappled light, soft focus, and the occasional schmaltzy (and much-parodied) slo-mo sequence, set to the strains of Mozart's Piano Concert No. 21 (2nd movement), Elvira Madigan has been called a "candidate for the prettiest pic ever award" (Time Out). Some critics have compared the painterly cinematography to the art of Renoir and Bonnard. "Elvira Madigan is a tranquil film, an elegiac film, its textural grace tinctured with Scandinavian premonitions of death" (Peter Cowie).

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The Magic School Bus Movies

Posted by grafitti at Oct. 26, 2007

The Magic School Bus - 21 Episodes
Each episode average specs: DivX Avi / MPG | VCD quality | 480 x 250 | 800kbps | 30:00 | 150MB

In a small grade school, one class has a unique way of learning about the world with their teacher, Ms. Frizzle. To illustrate the science concepts they discuss, they always on a field trip on the Magic Schoolbus, a magic vehicle that can literally go anywhere and be anything as the class explores space, the arctic, the human body in order to have a first hand experience of the principles of science.

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The Illustrated Man (1969) Movies

Posted by aleutian at Feb. 4, 2008

This is a set of chilling tales that come to life on the body of the title character. They are the vehicle. They express his pain and his despair. Once he is tattooed, he loses control of the effect of the stories. They are the stories. The one that has stayed with me the longest is the day after the end of the world tale, which has the saddest of conclusions. Some have even said this is a sick story. What would we do to prevent pain? What would we do to show our love? How could we go on with what we have done? These questions float over this episode. Ray Bradbury loves to take fantasy/scifi above the typical and integrate it with romance (not romantic love). He must have absorbed every ounce of his surroundings during his childhood. Here, Rod Steiger brings these tales to life and makes us think.

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Majid Majidi - Beed-e majnoon AKA The Willow Tree (2005) Movies

Posted by kharmok at Sept. 12, 2008

"Threatened by a deadly disease, Yussef, a blind Iranian university professor, goes to Paris for treatment. Before his departure, he made a pledge to God, asking that his life be spared. During this trip, Yussef experiences a life-changing event. Back home, the confrontation between his memories and the real world unleashes from within, primal fears and secret desires. The course of events will bring him to back face to face with another reality."

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Porgy and Bess (1959) [ReUp] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Nov. 27, 2014

In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina, Bess - a woman with a disreputable history - tries to break free from her brutish lover Crown after he becomes wanted for murder. The only person willing to overlook her past and offer her shelter is the crippled Porgy. Their relationship is threatened by the disapproval of the townspeople, the presence of her old drug supplier Sportin' Life - and the threatened return of Crown.

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Mary Poppins (1964) Movies

Posted by MirrorsMaker at Nov. 19, 2013

Mary Poppins (1964)
720p BluRay Rip | MKV | 1200 x 720 | x264 @ 5200 Kbps | 139 min | 6,91 Gb
Audio: English DTS 5.1 @ 1509 Kbps | Subs: English, French, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy

The movie combines songs, color and sequences of live action blended with the movements of animated figures. Mary Poppins is a kind of Super-nanny who flies in with her umbrella in response to the request of the Banks children and proceeds to put things right with the aid of her rather extraordinary magical powers.

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PBS - The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (2013) Movies

Posted by Polik88 at Dec. 10, 2013

Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. recounts the full trajectory of African-American history in his groundbreaking new six-part series. Written and presented by Professor Gates, the series explores the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and social perspectives they developed — forging their own history, culture and society against unimaginable odds. Commencing with the origins of slavery in Africa, the series moves through five centuries of remarkable historic events right up to the present — when America is led by a black president, yet remains a nation deeply divided by race.

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BBC - Louis Theroux: Life on the Edge (2020) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Oct. 2, 2020

Louis Theroux reflects on 25 years of documentaries, featuring brand new conversations between him and his most memorable contributors.

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The Kingdom (1997) Riget [Season 2] Movies

Posted by MirrorsMaker at Oct. 15, 2017

The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science. A rash of uncanny occurrences, however, begins to weaken the staff's faith in science–a phantom ambulance pulls in every night, but disappears; voices echo in the elevator shaft; and a pregnant doctor's fetus seems to be developing much faster than is natural. At the goading of a spiritualist patient, some employees work to let supernatural forces rest.

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