Saturday, August 28, 2010
Re: Recent Sternberg Boxset.
Another programming note: The previous releases for The Docks of New York and Underworld have been upgraded to ones sourced from the recent Criterion DVDs. A similar release for The Last Command - the third film included in the boxset - will be up soon enough.
Der freie Wille (2006) aka The Free Will
Title: Der freie Wille (2006) aka The Free Will
Director/Writers: Matthias Glasner/Judith Angerbauer, Matthias Glasner, and Jürgen Vogel
Cast: Jürgen Vogel, Sabine Timoteo, André Hennicke, Manfred Zapatka, Judith Engel, Anna Brass, Anne-Kathrin Golinsky, etc.
Genre: Drama
Duration: 163 minutes
Languages: German and French, with soft English subtitles.
Description: Excessive praise from Allmovie: "Stylistically and thematically, The Free Will combines the poetic realistic redemption films of the Dardenne brothers with the more cynical sensibility of Lars von Trier. The film opens like a horror film, with the graphic and brutally impassive depiction of an assault and capture of serial rapist Theo (Jürgen Vogel). The scene is a warning and a scar through which the remainder of the film is filtered. After spending nine years in a rehabilitation program, Theo is released and begins the difficult process of assimilating back into society. He becomes involved with another troubled soul, Nettie (Sabine Timoteo) and, with shades of Beauty and the Beast, the film suggests that Theo may be reformed. Despite the painstakingly slow developments, Vogel's amazingly nuanced performance infuses Theo's every action with terrific suspense. (He also co-wrote the screenplay.) The hand-held camera seemingly floats on the same deceptively still waters of Theo's emotional facade, further aggravating the terrific uncertainty that drives the action. The film is so finely and delicately sketched in documentary style that unbelievable moments, like the occasionally overwrought yelp from Nettie, disturb like a speedboat's wake. But there are very few of these moments. What results is a powerful and at times very intense tragedy documenting the psychological limits of self-transformation."
Bright Lights has more even-handed write-up about this one ... aaand Academic Hack begs to differ.
Uncut version. It's pretty rough sledding - especially the first 15 minutes. Consider yourself warned.
[CD1] Source: DVDRip. Not mine.
File size: 698MB | Resolution: 640 x 352 (1.818:1)
Video: 1245kbps XviD 25fps
Audio: 48kHz 121kbps 2-channel Joint stereo MP3
[CD2] Source: DVDRip. Not mine.
File size: 700MB | Resolution: 640 x 352 (1.818:1)
Video: 923kbps XviD 25fps
Audio: 48kHz 121kbps 2-channel Joint stereo MP3
Screenshot Folder @ TinyPic
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TXUOMEOP
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6VRO6FPN
Director/Writers: Matthias Glasner/Judith Angerbauer, Matthias Glasner, and Jürgen Vogel
Cast: Jürgen Vogel, Sabine Timoteo, André Hennicke, Manfred Zapatka, Judith Engel, Anna Brass, Anne-Kathrin Golinsky, etc.
Genre: Drama
Duration: 163 minutes
Languages: German and French, with soft English subtitles.
Description: Excessive praise from Allmovie: "Stylistically and thematically, The Free Will combines the poetic realistic redemption films of the Dardenne brothers with the more cynical sensibility of Lars von Trier. The film opens like a horror film, with the graphic and brutally impassive depiction of an assault and capture of serial rapist Theo (Jürgen Vogel). The scene is a warning and a scar through which the remainder of the film is filtered. After spending nine years in a rehabilitation program, Theo is released and begins the difficult process of assimilating back into society. He becomes involved with another troubled soul, Nettie (Sabine Timoteo) and, with shades of Beauty and the Beast, the film suggests that Theo may be reformed. Despite the painstakingly slow developments, Vogel's amazingly nuanced performance infuses Theo's every action with terrific suspense. (He also co-wrote the screenplay.) The hand-held camera seemingly floats on the same deceptively still waters of Theo's emotional facade, further aggravating the terrific uncertainty that drives the action. The film is so finely and delicately sketched in documentary style that unbelievable moments, like the occasionally overwrought yelp from Nettie, disturb like a speedboat's wake. But there are very few of these moments. What results is a powerful and at times very intense tragedy documenting the psychological limits of self-transformation."
Bright Lights has more even-handed write-up about this one ... aaand Academic Hack begs to differ.
Uncut version. It's pretty rough sledding - especially the first 15 minutes. Consider yourself warned.
[CD1] Source: DVDRip. Not mine.
File size: 698MB | Resolution: 640 x 352 (1.818:1)
Video: 1245kbps XviD 25fps
Audio: 48kHz 121kbps 2-channel Joint stereo MP3
[CD2] Source: DVDRip. Not mine.
File size: 700MB | Resolution: 640 x 352 (1.818:1)
Video: 923kbps XviD 25fps
Audio: 48kHz 121kbps 2-channel Joint stereo MP3
Screenshot Folder @ TinyPic
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TXUOMEOP
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6VRO6FPN
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