Saturday, August 29, 2009

Images (1972)

Title: Images (1972)
Director/Writers: Robert Altman/Robert Altman & Susannah York
Cast: Susannah York, René Auberjonois, Marcel Bozzuffi, Hugh Millais, Cathryn Harrison, etc.
Genre: Horror/Fantasy
Languages: English; no subtitles.
Duration: 100 minutes.
Description: A woman walks a razor's edge between reality and madness in this impressionistic drama written and directed by Robert Altman. Cathryn is a woman who begins to suspect that her marriage to Hugh is falling apart after receiving a mysterious phone call from a friend who tells her Hugh has been having an affair. Cathryn herself has not been happy with Hugh, and years before she took a lover, Rene, though he died some time ago in a plane crash. Thinking they both need to get away, Hugh takes Cathryn to their house in the country, where Hugh indulges in his hobbies, hunting and photography, and Cathryn works on a book of fantasy tales for children. Before long, Cathryn begins to see apparitions of the late Rene around the house, much to her consternation; while confronting her feelings about the late Rene and the wandering Hugh, Marcel, a friend of the couple who makes little secret of his attraction to Cathryn, arrives for a visit, with his daughter Susannah in tow. As Rene's appearances become more vivid and Cathryn reaches the end of her tether, she begins to drift deeper into a fantasy world, where it's difficult to tell what is real and what is imagined. Beautifully shot on striking locations in Ireland by Vilmos Zsigmond, Images earned Susannah York an award as Best Actress at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.

Source: DVDRip. Ripped by smokey888.
File size: 697MB | Resolution: 608 x 256 (19:8 or 2.375)
Video: 855kbps XviD 23.976fps
Audio: 48kHz 93kbps 1-channel Mono mp3

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Red River (1948)

Title: Red River (1948)
Directors: Howard Hawks and Arthur Rosson
Writers: Borden Chase and Charles Schnee
Cast: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, John Ireland, etc.
Genre: Western
Languages: English; no subtitles.
Duration: 133 minutes.
Description: In his first collaboration with John Wayne, Howard Hawks examines capitalism and dueling masculinities in the rousing context of a Western cattle drive. A Mutiny on the Bounty for Big Sky country, Red River features a challenge between Montgomery Clift's Matthew Garth and Wayne's Tom Dunson that becomes a contest between new and old models of Western manhood -- a clash enhanced by the different performance styles of ambiguous, Method-acting, proto-rebel Clift and stolidly imposing star Wayne. Young and adaptable, Garth sees the necessity of finding new markets and cooperating with a community, including such potential adversaries as John Ireland's gun-loving Cherry, while Dunson's Old West individualism becomes an inflexible, economically ruinous monomania. The unsympathetic Dunson challenged the traditional Wayne persona, presaging the disturbed Western heroes that proliferated in the 1950s and 1960s, including Wayne's later role as psychotic Ethan Edwards in John Ford's The Searchers (1956) and in the films that Red River writer Borden Chase wrote for director Anthony Mann. Powered by Russell Harlan's dynamic yet moody black-and-white cinematography and Dimitri Tiomkin's score, Red River became a substantial hit, confirming Clift's star quality in his film debut and earning Oscar nominations for Chase and action editor Christian Nyby; it still stands as one of Hawks's top Westerns.

Source: DVDRip. ARKOMA release.
File size: 1.37GB | Resolution: 512 x 384 (4:3 or 1.333)
Video: 1356kbps XviD 23.976fps
Audio: 48kHz 105kbps 2-channel Joint stereo mp3

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