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Assuming he is incapable of winning, all of the members of a prestigious Madison Avenue advertising firm accidentally vote to appoint the company’s only black executive, Putney Swope, as chairman of the board. His unexpected win behind him, Swope changes the company’s name to ‘Truth and Soul, Inc,’ fires nearly all of its elderly white employees, and focuses solely on creating subversive, outlandish, and shocking campaigns. As the company is catapulted to new heights of success, Swope finds that he has drawn the ire of the U.S. President, who seeks to declare him and his renegade staff a threat to national security.

Considered one of the masterpieces of late 60s counterculture cinema, Robert Downey Sr.’s (Greaser’s Palace) PUTNEY SWOPE remains a vital cinematic satire on race, politics and pop culture. Featuring a supporting performance from character actor Allen Garfield (Nashville) alongside a cameo from Mel Brooks, Vinegar Syndrome is proud to present the world Blu-ray debut of PUTNEY SWOPE in a stunning new 4k restoration created by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and The Film Foundation.

Putney Swope.1969.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 25 min
Size: 	1.85 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	790x576 
Aspect ratio:  	1.372
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	2 500 kb/s
BPP: 	0.229
Audio
#1:  	English 1.0ch AC-3 @ 224 kb/s (Mono)
#2:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Commentary features writer/director Robert Downey.)
#3:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Commentary features film critic Sergio Mims.)

https://nitro.download/view/C7369292F24606F/Putney_Swope.1969.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English, English SDH, Russian

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Mega-promoter Colin Beverly plans to sabotage the New Year’s 1983 concert of small-time operator Max Wolfe. Wolfe’s assistants Neil Allen and Willie Loman find romance while trying to save the drugs, violence, and rock and roll from Beverly’s schemes.

+Commentary by Director Allan Arkush, Filmmaker Eli Roth and Filmmaker/Historian Daniel Kremer

2.49GB | 1h 32m | 1024×552 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/E2FBCB0C089B0A3/Get.Crazy.1983.576p.BluRay.AC3.x264.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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The Director of a large anonymous corporation (uncredited Duvall) asks surveillance expert Harry Caul (improbably pacamac-ed hero, Hackman) to record a young couple’s private conversation. The film opens with Caul and assistants (including John Cazale) endeavouring to capture the said exchange in a busy square with an assortment of concealed mics.

Haunted by the bloody consequences of an earlier assignment, Caul becomes convinced that his ingenious invasions of privacy will put the young couple’s lives at risk. The tapes contain the phrase “He’d kill us if he had the chance”, and it is this which Harry obsesses over. Finally, in taking action to prevent further bloodshed, he shatters his own deeply private world.

Shot between two “Godfathers”, it is the work of a film maker at the height of his creativity. In contrast to the breadth of Coppola’s mob sagas, “The Conversation” is an intricate and unsettlingly subtle character study, with a very strong performance from Hackman.

In latter-day films it’s hard to find protagonists as ambiguous as Harry Caul, but the questions raised about the ethics of surveillance are as relevant as ever. Hackman’s character in “Enemy of the State” had shades of Caul, down to his cage-like workspace and total paranoia.

Like Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” it is also a study of cinematic voyeurism, differing in its concern with eavesdropping rather than watching, and with the added edge that the voyeur is implicated in the killings.

+Commentary with Director Francis Ford Coppola
+Commentary with Editor Walter Murch

2.45GB | 1h 53mn | 718×480 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/CDC609CB559EC85/The.Conversation.1974.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:English

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Fresh from the tangled dramas of two temporarily halted film productions—including his collaboration with Coppola—Wenders used the cinematic quagmires as fodder for a film about filmmaking. Patrick Bauchau, a Wenders-like German arthouse director, is in the midst of making a black-and-white existential science-fiction feature called The Survivors in Portugal when his funding from a US studio is suddenly cut. The lull in production allows the cast and crew—which features Viva, Robert Kramer and Samuel Fuller—to ponder their relationships to the film and indulge in philosophical rambles and wandering detours, biding their time as needs, both creative and practical, float to the surface. Austerely zooming in and out of narrative focus, with an eye on both Hollywood noir and European arthouse, The State of Things meditatively and wryly captures little truths of cinema’s strange dimension. As Fuller’s cinematographer states, “Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.”

Bonus Features
Feature-length audio commentary by director Wim Wenders (German)
Deleted Scenes (27:47)
Interview with Roger Willemsen (German) (17:21)
Theatrical Trailer (3:33)

3.51GB | 2h 01mn | 956×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/042E7FAFB41CD48/The_State_of_Things__+Extras_.part1.rar https://nitro.download/view/DDDC679CB31A3B9/The_State_of_Things__+Extras_.part2.rar https://nitro.download/view/CDA62F60A65B4DD/The_State_of_Things__+Extras_.part3.rar https://nitro.download/view/C11BD69B7167B03/The_State_of_Things__+Extras_.part4.rar https://nitro.download/view/7A63BD8AAFDD185/The_State_of_Things__+Extras_.part5.rar

Language:English with some French+commentary
Subtitles:German

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The Brink’s Job tells the real-life story of a group of small-time, working-class robbers in Boston, who came together and pulled off the largest robbery in US history, taking the Brink’s security company for $2.8 million in 1950. Peter Falk plays the ringleader. He tells his wife (Gena Rowlands): “All that money is in there, and it’s being held prisoner, it’s just screaming to me through the walls… Well I’m going in there, and I’m gonna get it out.” The film follows the group’s task (and their environment, and their pursuers) with an eye to the pragmatic, but it’s not so procedural (in the sense of Friedkin’s earlier Sorcerer or French Connection) as to hamper the movie’s broad purpose: reanimating an old news headline, into a fun sort of ensemble heist folktale.

2.84GB | 1 h 43 min | 1024×554 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/26EE537FA5FABFE/The_Brink%27s_Job_%281978%29_576p_BDRip.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/8123CF9F99EA5DA/The_Brink%27s_Job_%281978%29_576p_BDRip.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/47DE2088066ABA8/The_Brink%27s_Job_%281978%29_576p_BDRip.part3.rar

Language(s):English, +Commentary
Subtitles:English

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