Title: Alle Anderen (2009) aka Everyone Else
Director/Writer: Maren Ade
Cast: Birgit Minichmayr, Lars Eidinger, Hans-Jochen Wagner, Nicole Marischka, Mira Partecke, Atef Vogel, etc.
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Duration: 119 minutes
Languages: German (and some Italian?), with soft English subtitles.
Description: A short, but succinct overview from Cineuropa: "The little rituals, secrets and frustrations of a couple over the course of one summer. The film centres on Gitti and Chris, whose holidays take a different turn when they meet another, apparently perfect couple. The comparison and imitation completely upset the balance of their relationship."
English subtitles in the RAR were done by pinel777, I believe. Second audio track is commentary, which is in German with no subtitles.
Source: DVDRip, taken from EceAhyan's torrent @ KG.
File size: 1.75GB | Resolution: 704 x 384 (1.833:1)
Video: 1428kbps XviD 25fps
[Primary] Audio: 48kHz 448kbps 6-channel Dolby AC3
[Commentary] Audio: 48kHz 224kbps 2-channel Dolby AC3
Screenshot Folder @ TinyPic
[Didn't feel like making my own, so I've mirrored poe's screens.]
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SPG1PW0B
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1KRD2JUG
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Always for Pleasure (1978)
Title: Always for Pleasure (1978)
Director/Writer: Les Blank
Cast: Professor Longhair, the Wild Tchoupitoulas, the Neville Brothers, etc.
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 58 minutes, not including extra footage.
Languages: English; no subtitles.
Description: Short review from Time Out London: "Les Blank continues to map the USA's rich heritage of regional cultures, bringing to New Orleans street parades, jazz funerals, and the Mardi Gras itself, the same kind of effusively enthusiastic documentary sensibility that has turned portraits of the lifestyles surrounding blues, Cajun, and Tex-Mex music into full-blooded celebrations. Good-time film-making, ethnography with rhythm: the title says all you need to know about Blank's unique movie on the tributaries of rock'n'roll."
Bundled with an extra video which, according to Blank's website, "contains an additional 24 minutes of bonus footage of Professor Longhair, the Wild Tchopitoulas with the Neville Brothers, Blue Lu and Danny Barker and Art Ryder's second line band."
[Feature] Source: DVDRip. From psichronic's torrent @ SC.
File size: 697MB | Resolution: 640 x 480 (1.333:1)
Video: 1501kbps XviD 23.976fps
Audio: 48kHz 192kbps 2-channel Joint stereo MP3
[Bonus] Source: DVDRip. From psichronic's torrent @ SC.
File size: 306MB | Resolution: 640 x 480 (1.333:1)
Video: 1483kbps XviD 23.976fps
Audio: 48kHz 192kbps 2-channel Joint stereo MP3
Screenshot Folder @ TinyPic
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PCVKOUC9
Director/Writer: Les Blank
Cast: Professor Longhair, the Wild Tchoupitoulas, the Neville Brothers, etc.
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 58 minutes, not including extra footage.
Languages: English; no subtitles.
Description: Short review from Time Out London: "Les Blank continues to map the USA's rich heritage of regional cultures, bringing to New Orleans street parades, jazz funerals, and the Mardi Gras itself, the same kind of effusively enthusiastic documentary sensibility that has turned portraits of the lifestyles surrounding blues, Cajun, and Tex-Mex music into full-blooded celebrations. Good-time film-making, ethnography with rhythm: the title says all you need to know about Blank's unique movie on the tributaries of rock'n'roll."
Bundled with an extra video which, according to Blank's website, "contains an additional 24 minutes of bonus footage of Professor Longhair, the Wild Tchopitoulas with the Neville Brothers, Blue Lu and Danny Barker and Art Ryder's second line band."
[Feature] Source: DVDRip. From psichronic's torrent @ SC.
File size: 697MB | Resolution: 640 x 480 (1.333:1)
Video: 1501kbps XviD 23.976fps
Audio: 48kHz 192kbps 2-channel Joint stereo MP3
[Bonus] Source: DVDRip. From psichronic's torrent @ SC.
File size: 306MB | Resolution: 640 x 480 (1.333:1)
Video: 1483kbps XviD 23.976fps
Audio: 48kHz 192kbps 2-channel Joint stereo MP3
Screenshot Folder @ TinyPic
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PCVKOUC9
Chicken Real (1970)
Title: Chicken Real (1970)
Director/Writer: Les Blank
Cast: -
Genre: Short/Documentary
Duration: 23 minutes
Languages: English; no subtitles.
Description: An industrial short made for the world's second-largest poultry producer, Chicken Real incorporates some subversive satire in its promotion of the modern assembly-line approach to mass-manufacturing food. Music recorded by Les Blank in North Carolina, of a local group playing all the chicken songs they knew.
Source: Don't know. From MusclyBarbarian's torrent @ SC.
File size: 199MB | Resolution: 464 x 352 (1.318:1)
Video: 1105kbps XviD 23.976fps
Audio: 48kHz 104kbps 2-channel Joint stereo MP3
Screenshot Folder @ TinyPic
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=W32MBSR8
Director/Writer: Les Blank
Cast: -
Genre: Short/Documentary
Duration: 23 minutes
Languages: English; no subtitles.
Description: An industrial short made for the world's second-largest poultry producer, Chicken Real incorporates some subversive satire in its promotion of the modern assembly-line approach to mass-manufacturing food. Music recorded by Les Blank in North Carolina, of a local group playing all the chicken songs they knew.
Source: Don't know. From MusclyBarbarian's torrent @ SC.
File size: 199MB | Resolution: 464 x 352 (1.318:1)
Video: 1105kbps XviD 23.976fps
Audio: 48kHz 104kbps 2-channel Joint stereo MP3
Screenshot Folder @ TinyPic
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=W32MBSR8
Cigarette Blues (1985)
Title: Cigarette Blues (1985)
Directors/Writers: Les Blank & Alan Govenar
Cast: Sonny Rhodes, she of the cigarette and swiveling hips, etc.
Genre: Short/Documentary
Duration: 5 minutes
Languages: English, with hard-coded English subtitles during the titular blues theme.
Description: A microcosmic Les Blank film in which Oakland bluesman Sonny Rhodes simultaneously addresses three of the filmmaker's long-standing obsessions: death, cigarette smoking and the nature of the blues.
Source: Don't know. From MusclyBarbarian's torrent @ SC.
File size: 30.5 MB | Resolution: 464 x 352 (1.318:1)
Video: 743kbps XviD 23.976fps
Audio: 48kHz 104kbps 2-channel Joint stereo MP3
Screenshot Folder @ TinyPic
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VULNOC7A
Directors/Writers: Les Blank & Alan Govenar
Cast: Sonny Rhodes, she of the cigarette and swiveling hips, etc.
Genre: Short/Documentary
Duration: 5 minutes
Languages: English, with hard-coded English subtitles during the titular blues theme.
Description: A microcosmic Les Blank film in which Oakland bluesman Sonny Rhodes simultaneously addresses three of the filmmaker's long-standing obsessions: death, cigarette smoking and the nature of the blues.
Source: Don't know. From MusclyBarbarian's torrent @ SC.
File size: 30.5 MB | Resolution: 464 x 352 (1.318:1)
Video: 743kbps XviD 23.976fps
Audio: 48kHz 104kbps 2-channel Joint stereo MP3
Screenshot Folder @ TinyPic
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VULNOC7A
Wavelength (1967)
Title: Wavelength (1967)
Director/Writer: Michael Snow
Cast: Hollis Frampton, Lyne Grossman, Naoto Nakazawa, Roswell Rudd, Amy Taubin, Joyce Wieland, Amy Yadrin, etc.
Genre: Experimental
Duration: 43 minutes
Languages: A little English. Otherwise, there's no dialogue.
Description: Fernando Croce writes good descriptive criticism, so I'll just swipe his review [n.b. spoilers upcoming, I suppose]: "Michael Snow's motivation is purely transformative, a space-dismantling sweep across an empty Manhattan atelier -- a tracking shot would be too smooth for the deductionist goal, so the imperceptibly implacable zoom is brought from Welles's Othello. The flattening which comes from taking a closer look without actually moving closer is part of the journey, which robs a room of one of its dimensions and in the process makes you realize that before Snow you never really saw a loft, like you never really saw a kitchen or a sofa or a haircut before Warhol filmed them. The bull's eye (and the punchline) towards which the camera reaches is the drawing pinned to the opposite wall centered among four vertical windows, getting there is all the fun, and, despite Snow's obsessive severity, it's a work as full of deconstructive sensory pleasure as Chuck Jones' Duck Amuck. A cabinet is brought into the studio at the outset, along the way Hollis Frampton totters into the frame and keels over, a murder has taken place so Amy Taubin grabs a phone and reports it, blankly; traffic noises give way to the aural distortion, "Strawberry Fields Forever" wheezing out of a radio and an electronic hum that gradually heightens into a shriek. People may come and go and get killed, but the zoom is locked in its trajectory, interrupted by sudden jars, fierce episodes of abstract flares, atomized negative shifts; the outside world exists tangibly yet illusorily, when marquee signs and the tops of passing trucks materialize on opaque glass panes it's a magical effect. Manny Farber perceptively saw elements from Blow-Up in it, and both works follow the artist's perception of the universe through an elusive image, which comes to float on ether as Snow draws nearer, then turns granular as the camera loses itself in its pixels. Hardcore structuralism, grueling, euphoric, bound to turn up in the darndest of places -- Kubrick curtained The Shining with the most straightforward tribute, though Leone already had Gabriele Ferzetti yearning for the ocean waves within an oil painting in Once Upon a Time in the West, Lester in The Bed-Sitting Room mutated Ralph Richardson into a plummy suite."
Just a warning: You should probably know what you're getting into before you watch this. If the film's IMDB page is any judge, a rather large percentage of people who sit down to watch this movie end up loathing it. "Worse than ... a kidney stone", though? Doubtful.
Source: TVRip, taken from fitz's torrent @ KG.
File size: 700MB | Resolution: 640 x 496 (1.290:1)
Video: 2160kbps XviD 25fps
Audio: 44.1kHz 112kbps 2-channel Joint stereo MP3
Screenshot @ TinyPic
[Not much point in posting more than one screenshot.]
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GYE8O5Z8
Director/Writer: Michael Snow
Cast: Hollis Frampton, Lyne Grossman, Naoto Nakazawa, Roswell Rudd, Amy Taubin, Joyce Wieland, Amy Yadrin, etc.
Genre: Experimental
Duration: 43 minutes
Languages: A little English. Otherwise, there's no dialogue.
Description: Fernando Croce writes good descriptive criticism, so I'll just swipe his review [n.b. spoilers upcoming, I suppose]: "Michael Snow's motivation is purely transformative, a space-dismantling sweep across an empty Manhattan atelier -- a tracking shot would be too smooth for the deductionist goal, so the imperceptibly implacable zoom is brought from Welles's Othello. The flattening which comes from taking a closer look without actually moving closer is part of the journey, which robs a room of one of its dimensions and in the process makes you realize that before Snow you never really saw a loft, like you never really saw a kitchen or a sofa or a haircut before Warhol filmed them. The bull's eye (and the punchline) towards which the camera reaches is the drawing pinned to the opposite wall centered among four vertical windows, getting there is all the fun, and, despite Snow's obsessive severity, it's a work as full of deconstructive sensory pleasure as Chuck Jones' Duck Amuck. A cabinet is brought into the studio at the outset, along the way Hollis Frampton totters into the frame and keels over, a murder has taken place so Amy Taubin grabs a phone and reports it, blankly; traffic noises give way to the aural distortion, "Strawberry Fields Forever" wheezing out of a radio and an electronic hum that gradually heightens into a shriek. People may come and go and get killed, but the zoom is locked in its trajectory, interrupted by sudden jars, fierce episodes of abstract flares, atomized negative shifts; the outside world exists tangibly yet illusorily, when marquee signs and the tops of passing trucks materialize on opaque glass panes it's a magical effect. Manny Farber perceptively saw elements from Blow-Up in it, and both works follow the artist's perception of the universe through an elusive image, which comes to float on ether as Snow draws nearer, then turns granular as the camera loses itself in its pixels. Hardcore structuralism, grueling, euphoric, bound to turn up in the darndest of places -- Kubrick curtained The Shining with the most straightforward tribute, though Leone already had Gabriele Ferzetti yearning for the ocean waves within an oil painting in Once Upon a Time in the West, Lester in The Bed-Sitting Room mutated Ralph Richardson into a plummy suite."
Just a warning: You should probably know what you're getting into before you watch this. If the film's IMDB page is any judge, a rather large percentage of people who sit down to watch this movie end up loathing it. "Worse than ... a kidney stone", though? Doubtful.
Source: TVRip, taken from fitz's torrent @ KG.
File size: 700MB | Resolution: 640 x 496 (1.290:1)
Video: 2160kbps XviD 25fps
Audio: 44.1kHz 112kbps 2-channel Joint stereo MP3
Screenshot @ TinyPic
[Not much point in posting more than one screenshot.]
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GYE8O5Z8
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