Shot in the bars and seedy hotels of East L.A, this film is about the inner life of a prostitute imprisoned for killing her pimp.

Magdalena.Viraga.1986.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 30 min
Size: 	2.12 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	770x576 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	3 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.282
Audio
#1:  	English 1.0ch AC-3 @ 224 kb/s (Main Audio)
#2:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 112 kb/s (Commentary with Nina Menkes)

https://nitro.download/view/A026CA46318F596/Magdalena.Viraga.1986.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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A young, orthodox Jewish woman is alienated from her Jerusalem community and drawn into the world of spirit. Surrounded by dark sounds of the “Other Side,” she moves into remote and increasingly desolate regions of Arab lands. Her journey, like a mystical quest through her own inner landscapes, culminates in her return to Jerusalem. There, indelibly marked, she confronts her deeper loneliness and a devastating sense of exile.

The.Great.Sadness.of.Zohara.1983.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	39 min 34 s
Size: 	945 MiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	770x576 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	3 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.282
Audio
#1:  	English 1.0ch AC-3 @ 224 kb/s (Main Audio)
#2:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 112 kb/s (Commentary with Nina Menkes)

https://nitro.download/view/0D368956145AD38/The.Great.Sadness.of.Zohara.1983.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):None
Subtitles:English

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Filmed on location in Las Vegas, QUEEN revolves around the life of an alienated blackjack dealer. Starring Tinka Menkes as the intense, damaged dealer, the film was named one of the Year’s Ten Best by the Los Angeles Times and Film Comment.

“QUEEN OF DIAMONDS may become for America in the 90’s what JEANNE DIELMAN was for Europe in the 70’s—a cult classic using a rigorous visual composition to penetrate the innermost recesses of the soul.” –Berenice Reynaud

“QUEEN OF DIAMONDS, THE LATEST JEWEL IN THE CROWN OF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER NINA MENKES, MAY BECOME FOR AMERICA IN THE ’90’S WHAT JEANNE DIELMAN WAS FOR EUROPE IN THE 70’S–A CULT CLASSIC USING A RIGOROUS VISUAL COMPOSITION TO PENETRATE THE INNERMOST RECESSES OF THE SOUL.” —The Chicago Reader

“THE FILM’S POWER STEMS FROM THE PALPABLE AURA OF REPRESSED RAGE AND DESPAIR WHICH TINKA MENKES GIVES THE MAIN CHARACTER. HER PORTRAYAL IS SPHINX-LIKE, SLOW, WEIGHTED, LIKE A WOUNDED BUT STILL DANGEROUS ANIMAL. ONE OF THE THREE BEST FILMS AT SUNDANCE.”
Atlanta Art Papers

“TAXING, SHIMMERING, HYPNOTIC, QUEEN OF DIAMONDS DEMANDS BEING SEEN MORE THAN ONCE TO FULLY ABSORB ITS BEAUTY AND MEANING-ONE OF THE YEAR’S TOP TWO FILMS.”
Los Angeles Times

1.71GB | 1h 15m | 960×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/E0DC853AC45C560/Queen.of.Diamonds.1991.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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Loosely inspired by Dostoevsky’s CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, ‘DISSOLUTION’ combines an almost surreal fairy-tale energy with brutal black and white realism to explore the condition of violence which permeates contemporary Israeli society. Shot in Jaffa-the predominantly Arab area of Tel Aviv- the movie follows the moral collapse and first glimmer of redemption of a young Israeli Jew, played brilliantly by non-actor, Didi Fire. This is a deeply personal work about one man’s inner journey, but can also be read as an allegory about Israel’s moral responsibility…as well as a portrayal of male violence towards a devalued feminine.

+Commentary with Nina Menkes

2.15GB | 1h 32m | 1022×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/395F5849CDB3523/Dissolution.2010.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Hebrew
Subtitles:English

The post Nina Menkes – Hitparkut aka Dissolution (2010) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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PHANTOM LOVE is a surreal, highly visual drama about an enmeshed family, in which violence and trauma are steadily percolating, just beneath the surface.

The lead character is LULU (Marina Shoif): a very beautiful, but angry and isolated woman, who lives alone, and works in a casino in Korea-town, Los Angeles. Lulu’s lover is much younger than herself-the relationship is charged but emotionally disconnected. Lulu’s younger sister, NITZAN (Juliette Marquis), is in the midst of a psychotic breakdown, caused in part by prescription medication. Lulu feels emotionally invaded by her mother, who wants to come to town and stay in Lulu’s apartment in order to try and help the younger sister-but this feels like a further intense invasion, and Lulu refuses.

PHANTOM LOVE weaves these various elements together into a strange but archetypal story, revealing the interior processes by which Lulu manages to see, and therefore begin to release herself, from the violence which surrounds her.

Like all Nina Menkes’s work, PHANTOM LOVE positions an alienated woman against a harsh, inhospitable landscape-this time, within a family. Stylistically, the film combines fairy-tale elements and a dreamy, mystical quality with a gritty, hyper-real, and sometimes almost documentary style, shooting everything on location and often using non-actors (“real” people) in the non-major roles.

Structured like Chinese boxes, with each scene opening onto another, still deeper inside, PHANTOM LOVE is a powerful document about one woman’s descent into self.

+Commentary with Nina Menkes

2.02GB | 1h 26m | 1024×552 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/38F23733B234993/Phantom.Love.2007.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

The post Nina Menkes – Phantom Love (2007) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Storyline
A young, orthodox Jewish woman is alienated from her Jerusalem community and drawn into the world of spirit. Surrounded by dark sounds of the “Other Side,” she moves into remote and increasingly desolate regions of Arab lands. Her journey, like a mystical quest through her own inner landscapes, culminates in her return to Jerusalem. There, indelibly marked, she confronts her deeper loneliness and a devastating sense of exile.

1.53GB | 39m 27s | 1440×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/8945BEEE347F368/The_Great_Sadness_of_Zohara_1983_1080p_WEB-DL.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:English

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