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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Welt am Draht (1973) aka World on a Wire
Title: Welt am Draht (1973) aka World on a Wire
Director/Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder/Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Daniel F. Galouye, and Fritz Müller-Scherz
Cast: Klaus Löwitsch, Barbara Valentin, Mascha Rabben, Karl Heinz Vosgerau, Wolfgang Schenck, Günter Lamprecht, Ulli Lommel, etc.
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
Duration: 205 minutes
Languages: German, with soft English subtitles.
Description: From Amazon.com's product description: "... Simulacron 1 is a highly advanced project, designed to elevate conventional computer technology to a new level by creating a virtual reality inhabited by computer-generated people or 'identity units'. When the head of the project dies mysteriously after showing signs of mental disturbance, Dr Stiller becomes his successor. However, Stiller also begins to behave bizarrely. He speaks of people disappearing whom no one else knows, believes someone is trying to murder him and has nausea attacks. As he begins to probe deeper into Simulacron, the line between the real and virtual world becomes increasingly blurred and his own existence is questioned. Fassbinder's 2-part TV production is a science-fiction classic that explores the notion of a computer-generated other world, pre-dating The Matrix by 26 years. Since its original broadcast in 1973 it has rarely been shown and following increasing demand the Fassbinder Foundation has restored this remarkable film under the artistic direction of the film's renowned cinematographer Michael Ballhaus."
[Part 1] Source: DVDRip, taken from Daeron's torrent @ KG.
File size: 1.09GB | Resolution: 640 x 480 (1.333:1)
Video: 1461kbps XviD 25fps
Audio: 48kHz 77kbps 1-channel Mono MP3
[Part 2] Source: DVDRip, taken from Daeron's torrent @ KG.
File size: 1.09GB | Resolution: 640 x 480 (1.333:1)
Video: 1432kbps XviD 25fps
Audio: 48kHz 77kbps 1-channel Mono MP3
Screenshot Folder @ TinyPic
[Screenshots mirrored from Daeron's torrent description.]
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U465BCE5
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=I2B67R14
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=P0LF41LM
Director/Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder/Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Daniel F. Galouye, and Fritz Müller-Scherz
Cast: Klaus Löwitsch, Barbara Valentin, Mascha Rabben, Karl Heinz Vosgerau, Wolfgang Schenck, Günter Lamprecht, Ulli Lommel, etc.
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
Duration: 205 minutes
Languages: German, with soft English subtitles.
Description: From Amazon.com's product description: "... Simulacron 1 is a highly advanced project, designed to elevate conventional computer technology to a new level by creating a virtual reality inhabited by computer-generated people or 'identity units'. When the head of the project dies mysteriously after showing signs of mental disturbance, Dr Stiller becomes his successor. However, Stiller also begins to behave bizarrely. He speaks of people disappearing whom no one else knows, believes someone is trying to murder him and has nausea attacks. As he begins to probe deeper into Simulacron, the line between the real and virtual world becomes increasingly blurred and his own existence is questioned. Fassbinder's 2-part TV production is a science-fiction classic that explores the notion of a computer-generated other world, pre-dating The Matrix by 26 years. Since its original broadcast in 1973 it has rarely been shown and following increasing demand the Fassbinder Foundation has restored this remarkable film under the artistic direction of the film's renowned cinematographer Michael Ballhaus."
[Part 1] Source: DVDRip, taken from Daeron's torrent @ KG.
File size: 1.09GB | Resolution: 640 x 480 (1.333:1)
Video: 1461kbps XviD 25fps
Audio: 48kHz 77kbps 1-channel Mono MP3
[Part 2] Source: DVDRip, taken from Daeron's torrent @ KG.
File size: 1.09GB | Resolution: 640 x 480 (1.333:1)
Video: 1432kbps XviD 25fps
Audio: 48kHz 77kbps 1-channel Mono MP3
Screenshot Folder @ TinyPic
[Screenshots mirrored from Daeron's torrent description.]
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U465BCE5
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=I2B67R14
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=P0LF41LM
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Title: Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Director/Writers: Erle C. Kenton/Waldemar Young, Philip Wylie, and H.G. Wells
Cast: Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Bela Lugosi, Kathleen Burke, Arthur Hohl, Stanley Fields, etc.
Genre: Horror
Duration: 90 minutes
Languages: English; optional English subtitles packaged in the MKV.
Description: From Criterion's website: "A twisted treasure from Hollywood’s pre-Code horror heyday, Island of Lost Souls is a cautionary tale of science run amok, adapted from H. G. Wells’s novel The Island of Dr. Moreau. In one of his first major movie roles, Charles Laughton is a mad doctor conducting ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor (Richard Arlen) who finds himself trapped there. This touchstone of movie terror, directed by Erle C. Kenton, features expressionistic photography by Karl Struss, groundbreaking makeup effects that have inspired generations of monster-movie artists, and the legendary Bela Lugosi in one of his most gruesome roles."
Again, MKV instead of the usual AVI container.
Source: DVDRip from Bootleg DVD. Taken from Duat's torrent @ CG.
File size: 1.31GB | Resolution: 704 x 480 (1.33:1)
Video: 2300kbps H.264 23.976fps
Audio: 48kHz 384kbps 2-channel Dolby AC3
Screenshot Folder @ TinyPic
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CBUHFR0E
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UC2YN7M3
Director/Writers: Erle C. Kenton/Waldemar Young, Philip Wylie, and H.G. Wells
Cast: Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Bela Lugosi, Kathleen Burke, Arthur Hohl, Stanley Fields, etc.
Genre: Horror
Duration: 90 minutes
Languages: English; optional English subtitles packaged in the MKV.
Description: From Criterion's website: "A twisted treasure from Hollywood’s pre-Code horror heyday, Island of Lost Souls is a cautionary tale of science run amok, adapted from H. G. Wells’s novel The Island of Dr. Moreau. In one of his first major movie roles, Charles Laughton is a mad doctor conducting ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor (Richard Arlen) who finds himself trapped there. This touchstone of movie terror, directed by Erle C. Kenton, features expressionistic photography by Karl Struss, groundbreaking makeup effects that have inspired generations of monster-movie artists, and the legendary Bela Lugosi in one of his most gruesome roles."
Again, MKV instead of the usual AVI container.
Source: DVDRip from Bootleg DVD. Taken from Duat's torrent @ CG.
File size: 1.31GB | Resolution: 704 x 480 (1.33:1)
Video: 2300kbps H.264 23.976fps
Audio: 48kHz 384kbps 2-channel Dolby AC3
Screenshot Folder @ TinyPic
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CBUHFR0E
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UC2YN7M3
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (1970) aka Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Title: Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (1970) aka Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Director/Writers: Elio Petri/Elio Petri and Ugo Pirro
Cast: Gian Maria Volonté, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio, Orazio Orlando, Sergio Tramonti, Arturo Dominici, etc.
Genre: Crime/Drama/Satire
Duration: 110 minutes
Languages: Italian, with soft subtitles available in English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Brazilian Portuguese.
Description: Taken from an accurate, though negative, short review @ Time Out: "Citizen Beneath Contempt is more like it. In the opening scene police chief Volonté cuts his girlfriend's throat and strews the crime scene with clues pointing to his own guilt. Why? Because he knows he can get away with it, because power corrupts and because you'd expect a police chief in a Petri movie to be an aspiring Übermensch. The tone is interesting, more parable than realistic narrative, and most people will have thought of Kafka long before the closing quotation from The Trial. Except this is reverse angle Kafka: Authority at its most nightmarish as seen through the eyes of a torturer. Morricone's jaunty score and Florinda Bolkan's cheerfully erotic presence are the only positively enjoyable elements in this gruelling little sermon."
MKV, as opposed to the usual AVI container.
Source: DVDRip. wolfy13's release.
File size: 1.30GB | Resolution: 720 x 390 (1.778:1)
Video: 1500kbps H.264 25fps
Audio: 48kHz 192kbps 2-channel Dolby AC3
Screenshot Folder @ TinyPic
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=39KYPOZ7
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=M2MJUT8Y
Director/Writers: Elio Petri/Elio Petri and Ugo Pirro
Cast: Gian Maria Volonté, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio, Orazio Orlando, Sergio Tramonti, Arturo Dominici, etc.
Genre: Crime/Drama/Satire
Duration: 110 minutes
Languages: Italian, with soft subtitles available in English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Brazilian Portuguese.
Description: Taken from an accurate, though negative, short review @ Time Out: "Citizen Beneath Contempt is more like it. In the opening scene police chief Volonté cuts his girlfriend's throat and strews the crime scene with clues pointing to his own guilt. Why? Because he knows he can get away with it, because power corrupts and because you'd expect a police chief in a Petri movie to be an aspiring Übermensch. The tone is interesting, more parable than realistic narrative, and most people will have thought of Kafka long before the closing quotation from The Trial. Except this is reverse angle Kafka: Authority at its most nightmarish as seen through the eyes of a torturer. Morricone's jaunty score and Florinda Bolkan's cheerfully erotic presence are the only positively enjoyable elements in this gruelling little sermon."
MKV, as opposed to the usual AVI container.
Source: DVDRip. wolfy13's release.
File size: 1.30GB | Resolution: 720 x 390 (1.778:1)
Video: 1500kbps H.264 25fps
Audio: 48kHz 192kbps 2-channel Dolby AC3
Screenshot Folder @ TinyPic
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=39KYPOZ7
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=M2MJUT8Y
Monday, October 17, 2011
A ciascuno il suo (1967) aka We Still Kill the Old Way
Title: A ciascuno il suo (1967) aka We Still Kill the Old Way
Director/Writers: Elio Petri/Jean Curtelin, Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro, and Leonardo Sciascia
Cast: Gian Maria Volonté, Irene Papas, Gabriele Ferzetti, Salvo Randone, Luigi Pistilli, Laura Nucci, etc.
Genre: Crime/Thriller/Mystery
Duration: 99 minutes
Languages: Italian, with English subtitles.
Description: From an IMDB user - and calqued from Italian, it would seem: "Paolo Laurana is a kind of leftist intellectual who chances to be intrigued by a mysterious double murder in the Sicily of mid Sixties. In his personal detection for murder's instigators, he will run into a plot in which both politicians and mafia racketeers are involved. So curiosity will become a very dangerous affair. Taken from a novel by Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989), A ciascuno il suo (1967) is a film where high rank acting is at its top. Cast (Gianmaria Volonté, Irene Papas, Gabriele Ferzetti, Salvo Randone, Luigi Pistilli. Mario Scaccia, Leopoldo Trieste) is perfect and well-combined, direction (Elio Petri, 1929-1982) is powerful and impressive. If compared to the novel, Elio Petri's film (written with Ugo Pirro) may seem short of that illuministic pessimism that breathes through Sciascia's books, but Laurana's rationalistic search for truth retains that `bitter taste of intelligence' which is one of the major feature of Sciascia's characters. A key film to understand historical condition of Italy in the Sixties."
Subtitles provided by merlin and various others who've rather tackily noted their contributions in the film's subtitles.
Source: DVDRip. Taken from marx's torrent @ KG.
File size: 1.16GB | Resolution: 720 x 384 (1.875:1)
Video: 1752kbps XviD 25fps
Audio: 44.1kHz 122kbps 2-channel Joint Stereo MP3
Screenshot Folder @ TinyPic
[Screenshots mirrored from marx's torrent description @ KG.]
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V6UW2JM2
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FJBYZ27F
Director/Writers: Elio Petri/Jean Curtelin, Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro, and Leonardo Sciascia
Cast: Gian Maria Volonté, Irene Papas, Gabriele Ferzetti, Salvo Randone, Luigi Pistilli, Laura Nucci, etc.
Genre: Crime/Thriller/Mystery
Duration: 99 minutes
Languages: Italian, with English subtitles.
Description: From an IMDB user - and calqued from Italian, it would seem: "Paolo Laurana is a kind of leftist intellectual who chances to be intrigued by a mysterious double murder in the Sicily of mid Sixties. In his personal detection for murder's instigators, he will run into a plot in which both politicians and mafia racketeers are involved. So curiosity will become a very dangerous affair. Taken from a novel by Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989), A ciascuno il suo (1967) is a film where high rank acting is at its top. Cast (Gianmaria Volonté, Irene Papas, Gabriele Ferzetti, Salvo Randone, Luigi Pistilli. Mario Scaccia, Leopoldo Trieste) is perfect and well-combined, direction (Elio Petri, 1929-1982) is powerful and impressive. If compared to the novel, Elio Petri's film (written with Ugo Pirro) may seem short of that illuministic pessimism that breathes through Sciascia's books, but Laurana's rationalistic search for truth retains that `bitter taste of intelligence' which is one of the major feature of Sciascia's characters. A key film to understand historical condition of Italy in the Sixties."
Subtitles provided by merlin and various others who've rather tackily noted their contributions in the film's subtitles.
Source: DVDRip. Taken from marx's torrent @ KG.
File size: 1.16GB | Resolution: 720 x 384 (1.875:1)
Video: 1752kbps XviD 25fps
Audio: 44.1kHz 122kbps 2-channel Joint Stereo MP3
Screenshot Folder @ TinyPic
[Screenshots mirrored from marx's torrent description @ KG.]
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V6UW2JM2
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FJBYZ27F
Thursday, October 13, 2011
The Rapture (1991)
Title: The Rapture (1991)
Director/Writer: Michael Tolkin
Cast: Mimi Rogers, Darwyn Carson, Patrick Bauchau, Marvin Elkins, David Duchovny, Stéphanie Menuez, etc.
Genre: Drama/Fantasy/Horror
Duration: 100 minutes
Languages: English; no subtitles.
Description: From Allmovie: "... The Rapture is a contemporary fantasy that keeps its feet unnervingly planted in reality even as reality starts to collapse. Mimi Rogers ... stars as Sharon, a telephone operator who spends her off-hours engaging in casual group sex to blot out her boredom. By chance, she becomes aware of a small Christian sect whose members believe that they have found a child with the gift of prophecy who has seen the upcoming end times. [...] The film neither supports nor scoffs at Sharon's views, and the ... performances add immeasurably to a film that presents the unbelievable (and unthinkable) at face value, making it seem oddly plausible in the process. Michael Tolkin has also written and/or directed such films as The Player, directed by Robert Altman, and The New Age, both of which also skewer contemporary American society as shallow, materialistic, and desperate for something authentic to believe in."
Odd, ambitious curio. Rosenbaum ain't impressed, though.
Source: DVDRip. Not mine.
File size: 695MB | Resolution: 560 x 288 (1.944:1)
Video: 837kbps XviD 23.976fps
Audio: 48kHz 128kbps 2-channel Stereo MP3
Screenshot Folder @ TinyPic
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VCQIVFFW
Director/Writer: Michael Tolkin
Cast: Mimi Rogers, Darwyn Carson, Patrick Bauchau, Marvin Elkins, David Duchovny, Stéphanie Menuez, etc.
Genre: Drama/Fantasy/Horror
Duration: 100 minutes
Languages: English; no subtitles.
Description: From Allmovie: "... The Rapture is a contemporary fantasy that keeps its feet unnervingly planted in reality even as reality starts to collapse. Mimi Rogers ... stars as Sharon, a telephone operator who spends her off-hours engaging in casual group sex to blot out her boredom. By chance, she becomes aware of a small Christian sect whose members believe that they have found a child with the gift of prophecy who has seen the upcoming end times. [...] The film neither supports nor scoffs at Sharon's views, and the ... performances add immeasurably to a film that presents the unbelievable (and unthinkable) at face value, making it seem oddly plausible in the process. Michael Tolkin has also written and/or directed such films as The Player, directed by Robert Altman, and The New Age, both of which also skewer contemporary American society as shallow, materialistic, and desperate for something authentic to believe in."
Odd, ambitious curio. Rosenbaum ain't impressed, though.
Source: DVDRip. Not mine.
File size: 695MB | Resolution: 560 x 288 (1.944:1)
Video: 837kbps XviD 23.976fps
Audio: 48kHz 128kbps 2-channel Stereo MP3
Screenshot Folder @ TinyPic
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VCQIVFFW
Macario (1960)
Title: Macario (1960)
Director/Writers: Roberto Gavaldón/B. Traven, Emilio Carballido, and Roberto Gavaldón
Cast: Ignacio López Tarso, Pina Pellicer, Enrique Lucero, Mario Alberto Rodríguez, José Gálvez, José Luis Jiménez, etc.
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
Duration: 91 minutes
Languages: Spanish, with English subtitles.
Description: Someone's program note: "The talents of top director Roberto Gavaldón (La Escondida), novelist B. Traven (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre), and cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa combined to produce this gentle fable on human mortality. The title is the name of a young peasant, despondent over his inability to provide for his family; on the Day of the Dead, he meets Death, disguised as another peasant, who trades him the power to cure the dying for a portion of a turkey. Macario's fame soon spreads around the country, and he soon has a flourishing business ... Macario beautifully captures the magical atmosphere of a fairy tale."
Not the greatest picture quality and the subtitle timings are slightly wonky, but it's completely watchable. (Although MPC refused to play the file with the enclosed subtitles, which I didn't expect.)
Source: DVDRip. Not mine.
File size: 705MB | Resolution: 708 x 478 (1.317:1)
Video: 894kbps XviD 29.970fps
Audio: 48kHz 192kbps 2-channel Dolby AC3
Screenshot Folder @ TinyPic
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FRRFJ7TQ
Director/Writers: Roberto Gavaldón/B. Traven, Emilio Carballido, and Roberto Gavaldón
Cast: Ignacio López Tarso, Pina Pellicer, Enrique Lucero, Mario Alberto Rodríguez, José Gálvez, José Luis Jiménez, etc.
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
Duration: 91 minutes
Languages: Spanish, with English subtitles.
Description: Someone's program note: "The talents of top director Roberto Gavaldón (La Escondida), novelist B. Traven (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre), and cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa combined to produce this gentle fable on human mortality. The title is the name of a young peasant, despondent over his inability to provide for his family; on the Day of the Dead, he meets Death, disguised as another peasant, who trades him the power to cure the dying for a portion of a turkey. Macario's fame soon spreads around the country, and he soon has a flourishing business ... Macario beautifully captures the magical atmosphere of a fairy tale."
Not the greatest picture quality and the subtitle timings are slightly wonky, but it's completely watchable. (Although MPC refused to play the file with the enclosed subtitles, which I didn't expect.)
Source: DVDRip. Not mine.
File size: 705MB | Resolution: 708 x 478 (1.317:1)
Video: 894kbps XviD 29.970fps
Audio: 48kHz 192kbps 2-channel Dolby AC3
Screenshot Folder @ TinyPic
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FRRFJ7TQ
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