Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen (2003) aka The Forest for the Trees

Title: Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen (2003) aka The Forest for the Trees
Director/Writer: Maren Ade
Cast: Eva Löbau, Daniela Holtz, Jan Neumann, etc.
Genre: Drama
Duration: 83 minutes.
Languages: German, with soft English subtitles.
Description: A recent college graduate on her first teaching assignment finds her initial optimism quickly dashed due to the indifference of her students and the bitter cynicism of her fellow educators. Melanie (Eva Löbau) is a fresh-faced teacher who's eager to get in the classroom and share her enthusiasm for learning, but in order to get her career off the ground she'll first have to leave all of her loved ones in the country and establish herself in the city. Despite being exceptionally well-read on all the latest educational theory, however, Melanie quickly finds herself caught up in a hopeless wave of loneliness after arriving at the high school and getting a harsh dose of reality; not only are her students more unruly than she could have ever imagined, but the worn-down staffers seem intent on ensuring that she is dragged directly down to their level of misery and general malaise. Later, Melanie attempts to strike up a relationship with her neighbor Tina (Daniela Holtz), only to find herself unable to abide by the strict social codes of her strange new surroundings.

Source: DVDRip. Pulled from the eMule network.
File size: 1.36GB | Resolution: 656 x 368 (41:23 or 1.783)
Video: 2262kbps XviD 29.970fps
Audio: 48kHz 168kbps 2-channel Joint stereo mp3

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Mr. Hoover and I (1989)

Title: Mr. Hoover and I (1989)
Director/Writer: Emile de Antonio
Cast: John Cage, Emile de Antonio, Nancy de Antonio.
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 86 minutes.
Languages: English; no subtitles.
Description: This autobiographical swansong (released only months before his death) captures de Antonio's political voice via a personal profile, and simultaneously assaults the legacy of J. Edgar Hoover, who compiled a 10,000-page FBI dossier on the filmmaker. Gone are his predilections for archival compilation, interviews with powerbrokers, and the emphasis on montage. Instead the film is constructed largely from simple pieces of direct cinema that alternate with De Antonio's direct address to the camera as he reflects on his life and its curious entangling with Hoover's pathological police state. Mr. Hoover and I, he wrote in 1989, "is made of poor means but it is ambitious, more ambitious than Batman."

Source: DVDRip.
File size: 694MB | Resolution: 512 x 384 (4:3 or 1.333)
Video: 1035kbps XviD 23.976fps
Audio: 48kHz 102kbps 2-channel Joint stereo mp3

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