SYNOPSIS: “Harvey’s transition from editor to director is a brilliantly spare, edgy adaptation of LeRoi Jones’ play, basically a two-hander set on a New York subway train: a grim duel between cat and mouse as a rangily sexy white woman (Shirley Knight) circles a young black (Al Freeman Jr.) sitting alone, deliberately teasing, taunting, flaunting herself in a perverse attempt to break his control. Resentment and attraction crackle through the dialogue (and the superb performances) in an almost orgiastic expression of provocation and desire, until she wins and the black is goaded into retaliation. It ends, of course, in violence: a devastating acknowledgment that this is just about the only ground on which black and white can meet. The film’s one minor flaw is when the camera eventually pulls back from the duo to reveal that the carriage has filled with commuters studiously minding their own business; true to life, perhaps, but it comes over as a facile trick.”

825MB | 54m 22s | 716×537 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/30040FB823474C5/Dutchman.1967.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:None

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A group of fishermen on a precariously balanced platform fight over a trunk.

112MB | 7m 40s | 702×526 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/09B0D4BAF532159/Balance.1989.DVDRip.x264.mkv

Language:No linguistic content
Subtitles:None

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This is a compilation film consisting exclusivley of archive footage. Rather not the usual sort of film you get from Tinto Brass.

Trivia from IMDB:
“This film was scheduled for the second New York Film Festival (1964), but was withheld by authorities in Italy and thus deprived of a showing. In 1971, the film was re-titled and released in the USA as “Thermidor” (after the 11th month of the French Revolutionary calendar), with a new English narration, and with some attempt at updating made by its American distributor.”

Wikipedia:
“Ça ira – Il fiume della rivolta, also released internationally as Thermidor, is an Italian collage film of documentary film and drama film genres directed by Tinto Brass. Taking its name from the popular revolutionary song Ça ira, the film is a critical narrative of 20th century revolutions from 1900 to 1962 and their legacy.

The first film directed by Brass, Ça ira – Il fiume della rivolta was produced in 1962 but it could be premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September 1964, to see theatrical release in December.”

This is a very bad copy, mainly as a means to get english subtitles.

329MB | 1h 24m | 486×360 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/9114D56A4A4DE84/1964_-_Ca_Ira_-_Il_Fiume_Della_Rivolta_(Tinto_Brass).mkv

Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:None

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