Synopsis:
Less ambitious than his previous Golgotha, Julien Duvivier’s La Bandera is nonetheless more entertaining. A Foreign Legion yarn, La Bandera downplays spectacular battle scenes in favor of a romantic triangle. Accused of murder, Pierre (Jean Gabin) joins the Legion, with detective Lucas (Robert Le Vigan) hot on his trail. Both Pierre and Lucas fall in love with beautiful Bedouin girl Aischa (Annabella), which only intensifies their hatred of one another. The two antagonists are eventually forced to bury the hatchet when fighting shoulder to shoulder against uprising natives. The ending is rather startling, inasmuch as the audience was expected the actor with the best screen billing to get the girl.
— Hal Erickson (New York Times).

La Bandera (1935) -- Julien Duvivier.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/4B6E2D80152F769/La_Bandera_(1935)_–_Julien_Duvivier.mkv
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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English (muxed, srt)

The post Julien Duvivier – La bandera AKA Escape from Yesterday (1935) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
René Clair, the most distinguished of the French motion-picture directors, is one of the great men of the cinema. His triumphant photoplays, Sous les toits de Paris, Le Million and, the finest of them all, A nous la liberté, stand among the genuine classics of the films. Now M. Clair, who has tried cheerful sentiment in Sous les toits, farce in Le Million, and brilliant social satire in A nous la liberté, gives up some of his adventurousness and returns to the quiet romantic mood of his earliest success in the new work called Quatorze juillet (“Fourteenth of July”). It is true that the latest of the Clair offerings is not being particularly courageous in its efforts. Instead of going in for the new and exciting field of scornful social criticism, it plays reasonably safe and once more tries out the mood of amiable sentimentality. Its story of the romance between a flower girl and a handsome taxi-driver is managed directly and sincerely, without any sophisticated pretense at mockery. In addition, there is a certain formlessness about the film, wherein it darts back and forth between comedy and drama.

Noticing these two widely separated moods and the apparently careless way in which the film wanders about between them, skeptics have suggested that M. Clair has lost all sense of form. Realizing that the story involved is a slight one, and that it possesses nothing of the significant import of A nous la liberté, critics have declared that the eminent Frenchman was falling back on mere simplicity, where he should have been going ahead with witty profundity.

In answer to the first charge it should be said that the director has not lost his sense of unity. The only thing is that Paris, rather than a dramatic mood, supplies the central unity of the work. In reply to the latter attack, it should be said that the work, even if it is not as ambitious as it should be, is one of the loveliest, most enchanting motion-pictures of its time.

That, in addition to the delightful playing of the heroine, Annabella, and the beautiful villainess, Pola Illery, is enough to make a screen play which will bring joy even to those who are not so sure that they are French enthusiasts.

Rating: AAAA (outstanding)

Quatorze.Juillet.AKA.July.14.1933.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 32 min
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https://nitro.download/view/44A3BEBB4CB63AA/Quatorze.Juillet.AKA.July.14.1933.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, Japanese

The post René Clair – Quatorze juillet AKA Bastille Day (1933) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
One day Hélène, happily married to Alain, sees her husband reading a telegram signed by a mysterious “Minou”. Soon Alain goes on a business trip to London and brings back his young and pretty relative named Michèle. Tormented by jealousy but still uncertain about the nature of Michèle and Alain’s relationships, Hélène tries to insinuate herself into the girl’s life, – with unforeseen consequences.

Jeanne Moreau’s film debut.

Dernier.amour.1949.DVDRip.x264.AC3.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 37mn
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https://nitro.download/view/1D7149863476E9D/Dernier.amour.1949.DVDRip.x264.AC3.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/B388EB90242FAE8/Dernier.amour.1949.DVDRip.x264.AC3.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Jean Stelli – Dernier amour AKA Last Love (1949) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

An impoverished painter and his rival engage in a race across Paris to recover a jacket concealing a winning lottery ticket.

1.25GB | 1h 21m | 650×468 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/5750977EC5F609D/Le.Million.1931.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv
or
https://fikper.com/ixgPhMNxWi/Le.Million.1931.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:English

The post René Clair – Le million (1931) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Vienna as a light, modern city and a place that encourages improvisation of the mind. The jobless Hans Schmidt and Ann Berger become true champions in the city. However, setbacks and false interpretations underlie their attempts at economic stability. Hans gets involved in a serious accident, which renders him unable to work. Anna alone can’t the bill for the taxi. The community helps her. Hans and Anna become a part of Socialist Vienna.

As a bonus there is “Maifest Wien 1932” which documents the 1. May festival games of the Viennese working class.

1.26GB | 1h 23m | 640×480 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/A273CA5BA56A6BB/1933_-_Sonnenstrahl.mkv https://nitro.download/view/6618FBFF47B90B5/1932_-_Maifest_Wien.mkv

Language:German
Subtitles:English

The post Pál Fejös – Sonnenstrahl AKA Ray of Sunshine [+ Maifest Wien 1932] (1933) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Filmmaker Anatole Litvak was still one year away from his “breakthrough” picture Mayerling when he co-wrote and directed L’Equipage (The Crew). Charles Vanel and Annabella star respectively as a daring WW I aviator and his loving but neglected wife. Ostracized by the other pilots because of his recklessness and standoffishness, Vanel nonetheless befriends a young flyboy (Jean-Pierre Aumont). It is therefore a great source of consternation for Aumont when he discovers that the woman with whom he’s fallen in love is none other than Vanel’s wife Annabella.
This untenable situation is resolved…
Spoiler
during an airborne skirmish with the enemy, resulting in the death of one of the two male protagonists — and a finale that belongs in the Self-Sacrificial Hall of Fame.
Spoiler

Aumont and Annabella were reunited in Marcel Carne’s “Hôtel du Nord” but that time,they were out-shadowed by the supporting cast,Arletty and Louis Jouvet.

Based on a story by Josef Kessel, L’Equipage was remade by Litvak in Hollywood as The Woman I Love (1937), with Paul Muni (complete with Charles Vanel’s beard!), Miriam Hopkins and Louis Hayward as the romantic triangle

1.15GB | 1h 38mn | 640*480 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/3DD8AA3CF0787D9/Anatole_Litvak_-_L’equipage.avi
https://nitro.download/view/3749305C15B61E6/Anatole_Litvak_-_L’equipage.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Anatole Litvak – L’Équipage aka Flight into darkness (1935) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The last film made by legendary French director Abel Gance, Bonaparte et la révolution (1971) was also his final attempt to release the Napoleonic biopic he had begun in the 1920s. Napoléon, vu par Abel Gance (1927) was over nine hours long, but represented only the first of a planned six-film series. Having failed to get funding for the remaining episodes, Gance revamped his silent film as Napoléon Bonaparte (1935) – adding newly-shot scenes and dubbing his decade-old footage. After other abortive attempts to resurrect part or all of his biopic in the 1950s, Gance gained funding from Claude Lelouch to release Bonaparte et la revolution in 1971. This last version recycles footage from the films of 1927 and 1935, as well as material from his television work of the 1960s. The result is a bizarre mishmash of old and new images, performances, and voices – less a coherent film than a document embodying the whole of Gance’s 45-year involvement with his eternally incomplete project.

https://nitro.download/view/5BF84B37B92D25D/Bonaparte_et_la_revolution_(1971)_-_part_1.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/C89093B955C8547/Bonaparte_et_la_revolution_(1971)_-_part_2.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:None

The post Abel Gance – Bonaparte et la révolution (1972) first appeared on Cinema of the World.