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The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs (1986-1995) [Criterion Collection]

The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs (1986-1995) [Criterion Collection, Spine #1082]
BDRip 1080p | MKV | AVC, 1920x1080, ~ 4.1 Mbps | 58+55+10+8+80+38+87 mn | 10,6 GB
English: AC3, 2 ch, 448 kbps | 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evolution of a transformative filmmaker whose work is both an electrifying call for liberation and an invaluable historical document.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.
The Great Chase (1962) + The Love Goddesses (1965) + Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979) [Criterion Collection]

The Great Chase (1962) + The Love Goddesses (1965) + Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979) [Criterion Collection]
DVD Video | NTSC 4:3 | 720x480 | 1hr 20mn + 0hr 29mn + 1hr 18mn | 7.51 Gb
English: Dolby AC3, 1 ch | Subtitles: English
Genre: Documentary

In these three delightful documentaries—The Great Chase, a rollicking compendium of the greatest hits of silent-cinema chase sequences, The Love Goddesses, a look at cinema's most alluring female sex symbols, and Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist, an Oscar-winning remembrance of the ground-breaking American stage and screen star—director Saul J. Turell pays tribute to the movies in engaging, eclectic ways.

Old Joy (2006) [Criterion Collection]  Movies

Posted by RSU75 at March 24, 2020
Old Joy (2006) [Criterion Collection]

Old Joy (2006) [Criterion Collection, Spine #1008]
DVD Video | NTSC 16:9 | 720x480 | 1hr 13mn | 7.21 Gb
English: Dolby AC3, 2 ch | Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

Two old pals reunite for a camping trip in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.

Tess (1979) [The Criterion Collection]  Movies

Posted by RSU75 at Aug. 16, 2021
Tess (1979) [The Criterion Collection]

Tess (1979) [The Criterion Collection, Spine #697]
Blu-Ray | BDMV | AVC, 1920x1080, ~18.6 Mbps | 2hr 51mn | 45.4 GB
English: DTS-HD Master Audio, 6 ch, 3267 kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Romance

This multiple-Oscar-winning film by Roman Polanski is an exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl (Nastassja Kinski, in a gorgeous breakthrough) is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge, which Polanski unfolds with deliberation and finesse. With its earthy visual textures, achieved by two world-class cinematographers—Geoffrey Unsworth (Cabaret) and Ghislain Cloquet (Au hasard Balthazar)—Tess is a work of great pastoral beauty as well as vivid storytelling.

Tess (1979) [The Criterion Collection]  Movies

Posted by RSU75 at July 28, 2021
Tess (1979) [The Criterion Collection]

Tess (1979) [The Criterion Collection, Spine #697]
BDRip 1080p | MKV | AVC, 1920x804, ~ 3.7 Mbps | 2hr 51mn | 6.27 GB | English: DTS, 6 ch, 1510 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Romance

This multiple-Oscar-winning film by Roman Polanski is an exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl (Nastassja Kinski, in a gorgeous breakthrough) is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge, which Polanski unfolds with deliberation and finesse. With its earthy visual textures, achieved by two world-class cinematographers—Geoffrey Unsworth (Cabaret) and Ghislain Cloquet (Au hasard Balthazar)—Tess is a work of great pastoral beauty as well as vivid storytelling.

Old Joy (2006) [Criterion Collection]  Movies

Posted by RSU75 at Dec. 14, 2019
Old Joy (2006) [Criterion Collection]

Old Joy (2006) [Criterion Collection, Spine #1008]
BDRip 1080p | MKV | AVC, 1920x1080, ~ 4.1 Mbps | 1hr 13mn | 2.31 GB | English: AC3, 2 ch, 448 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

Two old pals reunite for a camping trip in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.
100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012. Episode 26 (2017) [Criterion Collection]

100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012. Episode 26 (2017) [Criterion Collection, Spine #900]
BDRip 1080p | MKV | AVC 1920x800, ~ 3.7 Mbps | 2h 36mn | 4.49 GB
Japanese (日本語): AC3, 1 ch, 448 kbps
BDRip 720p | MKV | AVC 1280x532, ~ 2.5 Mbps | 2h 36mn | 2.99 GB
Japanese (日本語): AC3, 1 ch, 256 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Documentary, Sports

Spanning fifty-three movies and forty-one editions of the Olympic Games, 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012 is the culmination of a monumental, award-winning archival project encompassing dozens of new restorations by the International Olympic Committee.
Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas (1949-1955) [The Criterion Collection, Eclipse Series 27]

Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas (1949-1955) [The Criterion Collection, Eclipse Series 27]
DVD Video, 4 x DVD5 | 4 x ~ 1hr 35mn | NTSC 4:3 | 720x480 | 4 x ~ 4.2 Gb
Italian (Italiano): Dolby AC3, 1 ch | Subtitles: English
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance | Director: Raffaello Matarazzo

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, film critics, international festivalgoers, and other studious viewers were swept up by the tide of Italian neorealism. Meanwhile, mainstream Italian audiences were indulging in a different kind of cinema experience: the sensational, extravagant melodramas of director Raffaello Matarazzo. Though turning to neorealism for character types and settings, these haywire hits about splintered love affairs and broken homes, all starring mustachioed matinee idol Amedeo Nazzari and icon of feminine purity Yvonne Sanson, luxuriate in delirious plot twists and overheated religious symbolism. Four of them are collected here, chronicles of men and women on long and serpentine roads to redemption, each less restrained and more wildly fun than the last.
Up All Night with Robert Downey Sr.(1964-1975) [The Criterion Collection, Eclipse Series 33]

Up All Night with Robert Downey Sr. (1964-1975) [The Criterion Collection, Eclipse Series 33]
DVD Video, 2 x DVD9 | 5 x ~ 1hr 00mn | NTSC 4:3 | 720x480 | 7,72 Gb + 7,80 Gb
English: Dolby AC3, 1 ch | Subtitles: English
Genre: Comedy | Director: Robert Downey Sr.

Rarely do landmark works of cinema seem so … wrong. Robert Downey Sr. emerged as one of the most irreverent filmmakers of the New York underground of the sixties, taking no prisoners in his rough-and-tumble treatises on politics, race, and consumer culture. In his midnight-movie mainstay Putney Swope, an advertising agency is turned on its head when a militant black man takes over. like Swope, Downey held nothing sacred. Presented here are five of his most raucous and outlandish films, dating from 1964 to 1975, each a unique mix of the hilariously crude and the fiercely experimental.