Synopsis
O Espectador Espantado is a documentary-essay about spectatorship, mixing interviews with staged actions in cinema theaters and other sites where we presently can watch moving images.
(imdb)

O Espectador Espantado (Edgar Pera, 2016) 1080p.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 10 min
Size: 	1.28 GiB
Video
Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	1920x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	2 475 kb/s
BPP: 	0.048
Audio
#1:  	Portuguese 2.0ch AAC LC @ 128 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/7F64785659D13DE/O_Espectador_Espantado_(Edgar_Pera,_2016)__1080p.mkv

Language(s):Portuguese
Subtitles:English

The post Edgar Pêra – O Espectador Espantado AKA The Amazed Spectator (2016) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
A documentary in 17 movements, in which testimonies and the guitar define the genius, the bravery and the modesty of Carlos Paredes. In PERPETUAL MOVEMENTS ‚ A TRIBUTE TO CARLOS PAREDES a dialog is established between a guitar and a SP8 camera, in an aesthetic which evocates the memory of old family pictures, full of intimacy, revealed in the sharing of simple stories of life. The Carlos Paredes’s concert in Auditório Carlos Alberto, in Oporto, 1984, is the starting point for the unfolding of prison stories, resistance, success and amateurism, stories marked by simplicity and passion. Here we learn about how Paredes plays a song for the hotel’s receptionist, who mourns about not being able to attend to the concert that has just taken place. Or the way he uses a comb to exercise the guitar when he was in prison. The testimony of friends and colleagues lets us understand a bit more about who this man was, a man who, in spite of the privations, would never complaint, and who as left us a genius work of incontestable value, not only for the beauty of his compositions and his interpretation, but also for the dimension that it gave to the Portuguese Guitar – raising it to the class of an autonomous instrument in place of being a mere accompaniment for others – and transforming it into a symbol of Portuguese music beyond-frontiers. Remains the sensation of liberation that his art is capable to produce, and the mystics of the work he has left, full of deep enthusiasm and nostalgia for the future.

0.98GB | 1 h 11 min | 762×572 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/3005AF9B2A41894/Movimentos.Perpetuos.Cine.Tributo.a.Carlos.Paredes.2006.APH.DVDRip.x264-MaZ.mkv

Language(s):Portuguese
Subtitles:English

The post Edgar Pêra – Movimentos Perpétuos: Cine-Tributo a Carlos Paredes AKA Perpetual Movements: A Cine Tribute to Carlos Paredes (2006) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Centred in the two thousand year old city of Guimarães, three renowned directors, Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway and Edgar Pêra, explore 3D and its evolution in the world of cinema. How does 3D affect the audience and their perceptions?

No surprise that the festival’s most brilliant movie was Jean-Luc Godard’s The Three Disasters, an 18-minute 3-D piece that unfortunately is embedded in the 3-D triptych 3x3D, the other two parts of which, by directors who shall remain nameless, are unwatchable. Largely a found-footage collage, it would be no different from the many short spin-offs from Histoire(s) du cinéma that Godard has made over the past 15 years, except that it is in 3-D as you have never seen it before… [Amy Taubin – Film Comment]

Greenaway and Godard have made Greenaway and Godard films with a z-axis dropped in, which makes their contributions feel simultaneously familiar and revitalizing… Not only is this interlude [in the Godard] disorientingly handsome, it also introduces a phenomenologicalcoup de technique that could have been lifted straight out of Michael Snow’s playbook, in which the image slotted into the right side of our glasses becomes momentarily flipped. [Blake Williams – Cinema Scope]

http://nitroflare.com/view/D9BD9F3279834FF/3_x_3D.mkv

warning: this is the 2D version of the movie

Language(s):French, English, Portuguese
Subtitles:Italian hardsubs

The post Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, Edgar Pêra – 3x3D (2013) first appeared on Cinema of the World.