The tragedy of the death of Empedocles, philosopher in Ancient Greece. Hölderlin’s work adapted to cinema by Straub and Huillet.

The.Death.of.Empedocles.1987.WEBRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2 h 13 min
Size: 	3.00 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	768x576 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	3 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.283
Audio
#1:  	German 2.0ch AC-3 @ 224 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/98A88D34EAF7374/The.Death.of.Empedocles.1987.WEBRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English, Italian, French, Spanish

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Synopsis
Featuring a justly infamous, even startling opening sequence with a tilted camera pointed out the window of a moving car that keeps driving and driving around a famous traffic circle (forget the name) in Paris for 10 odd minute – a continual 360 that never catches a glimpse of its axis, too perfect – TOO EARLY, TOO LATE is a singular meditation and extended visual metaphor on the theme of revolution (get it??) shot in a variety of locations and cities with a Marxist voice-over reading from famous selections on the subject. Quite unlike anything else you’ll see and while obviously not what you’d call entertainment, some of the shooting once you get outside the city is breathtakingly beautiful. Are they trying to implicate us in this collective indifference to social ills by growing absorbed in the natural beauty of the surroundings? I’m not sure, but certainly Straub/Huillet’s subtle avant-garde combo filmwork is among the most underappreciated in German and, indeed, international cinema.

Trop.tot-Trop.tard.AKA.Too.Early-Too.Late.1982.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DD+2.0.H.264-Cinefeel.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 45 min
Size: 	7.40 GiB
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Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	1440x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	10 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.268
Audio
#1:  	German 2.0ch E-AC-3 @ 224 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/C7CC68914AFF753/Trop.tot-Trop.tard.AKA.Too.Early-Too.Late.1982.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DD+2.0.H.264-Cinefeel.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/EAF6657140528B3/Trop.tot-Trop.tard.AKA.Too.Early-Too.Late.1982.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DD+2.0.H.264-Cinefeel.srt

Language(s):German,English
Subtitles:English

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Europa 2005 – 27 octobre

Shot in Clichy Sous Bois, cauldron of the suburban riots that burned the winter of 2005, and composed of two panoramic shots of the substantion where Bouna and Zyed were killed whilst being pursued by the police. There is no voiceover and only one title to be translated for entire duration of this short: :Chambre a Gaz, Chaise Electrique” or “Gas Chamber, Electric Chair”. These shots and movements are repeated five times.

The Italian producer Enrico Ghezzi commissioned the movie to Straub and Huillet to celebrate Roberto Rossellini’s centenary. Asked to imagine a moment in the life or the death of Ingrid Bergman’s character in Europa ’51 (1952), their reading of Rossellini yielded this political pamphlet about the death of two Parisian youngsters who, chased by the police, hid in a high-voltage electric transformer and burned to death. Less than three weeks later, the banlieus were burning.

74MB | 10m 28s | 320×240 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/73B43DF85DA74AF/Cinetract__Danieele_Huillet,_Jean-Marie_Straub__-_EUROPA_2005_-_27_octobre_(2006).mpeg

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Subtitles:None

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This short movie came out of the alternative takes of a scene of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s previous film, Gente da Sicília (1999) and consists of a dialogue between an old woman and a man.

79.9MB | 4m 39s | 698×550 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/9A9AAD972921B8D/Il.Viandante.2001.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English,French

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This short movie came out of the alternative takes of a scene of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s previous film, Gente da Sicília (1999) and consists of a dialogue between a grinder and a foreigner.

123MB | 7m 01s | 762×572 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/E8715388A558975/L.Arrotino.2001.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English,French

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Quote:
Based on an unknown Schönberg opera from 1929, From Today Until Tomorrow explores one night in a not-quite loveless marriage. A husband and wife return from a party where she has flirted with another man, while he has cast an appraising eye toward an attractive, fashionably dressed acquaintance of his wife’s. Though each dreams, briefly, of leaving the marriage for the excitement and mystery of a new lover, in the end they decide stability and comfort are more important than the fleeting thrill of new romance. Directors Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, who previously collaborated on two other films about music (The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, 1968, and Moses and Aaron, 1975), rely on long fixed shots in austere black-and-white so that the focus remains on the musical brilliance of Schönberg’s atonal score, performed here by 70 musicians. That Schönberg would choose such a relatively lighthearted message for his newly discovered musical language remains a mystery, especially since the conclusion reached by the husband and wife—to stick with the tried and true—seems directly at odds with Schönberg’s own philosophy of composing. It is just this juxtaposition, however, coupled with Straub and Huillet’s faithful presentation, that makes the opera a compelling addition to the Schönberg canon—and the film such a challenging and intriguing experience.

878MB | 1h 1s | 712×534 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/E0BC0FD27314BD3/From_Today_Until_Tomorrow_(1997)_–_Daniele_Huillet,_Jean-Marie_Straub.mkv

Language:German
Subtitles:English, French (muxed)

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Quote:
The caustic, satirical tone of Machorka-Muff is immediately evident, but successive viewings will reward spectators as they become more familiar with the nuances of Böll’s text—to which the film owes a great deal of its incisiveness—and will be more able to appreciate the precise orchestration executed by Straub and Huillet of the relations between sound and image, of tensions between voice, gesture, tempo, and action. The film’s opening—combining, in barely 48 seconds, extreme concision, lucid insight, and brutal parody—offers us an excellent example of this.

— Cristina Álvarez López, Mubi

1.78GB | 18m 04s | 1432×1080 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/BD773C3560779D8/Machorka.Muff.1963.BDRip.1080p.x264.AC3.mkv

Language:German
Subtitles:English

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