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
Thursday, October 13, 2011
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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