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The Glacier Fox is an exciting documentary filmed in the frozen regions of Northern Japan. Director Korey Kurahara, who apparently was weaned on Disney’s True Life Adventures, strikes just the right balance between reality and artifice. His “cast” consists of a family of wild foxes, each with his or her own distinct personality. The film explores the foxes’ efforts to survive the elements and their ever-threatening environment. The Glacier Fox runs 90 minutes, and “runs” is just the right word to describe the breathless pace of this movie. — Hal Erickson

Glacier.Fox.1978.DVDRip.mkv

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Runtime: 	1h 56mn
Size: 	4.10 GiB
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https://nitro.download/view/F75B3D965695566/Glacier.Fox.1978.DVDRip.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English here

Many thanks to @Evan for this copy

The post Koreyoshi Kurahara – Kita-kitsune monogatari aka The glacier fox (1978) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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An alien virus’s brief pit stop in the new American West, starkly documented by Michael Crichton and Robert Wise. A satellite crashes in a New Mexico burg, soon the place is filled with bodies whose circulatory systems have turned to powder — these are the best sequences, full of hushed dread and unnerving use of widescreen dead spaces (the camera focuses on the placid, dusty face of a fallen villager, then tilts up to frame a couple of researchers approaching in hazmat suits and a helicopter whirring against a cobalt sky). The scientific team is rounded up: Exposition-dispenser Arthur Hill, surgeon James Olson (who gets a crush on the computer’s female voice), splenetic researcher Kate Reid, and veteran doctor David Wayne (“A hippie! He’s going to a love-in,” his suspicious wife cries as he packs for the secret mission). As befits a biological procedural, the already ponderous pace slows down to a crawl as the quartet makes its way through level after level of sterilization at an underground Nevada laboratory. (All the plodding repetition is worth it for Reid’s double-take as she learns that the coat of chalk covering her body is the charred remains of her outer skin layer.) The only contaminated survivors are a soused old man (George Mitchell) and a bawling baby, the interplanetary visitor is identified as an olive spatter which dilates into molecular origami patterns on an animated screen. All too clearly the bridge between The Day the Earth Stood Still and Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the picture handles the material too literally: Covert germ warfare is dutifully alluded (“Establishment gonna go boom,” Reid snaps), yet Wise settles for Olson dodging laser beams instead of noticing, like Burroughs did, that “language is a virus from space.” Bringing Vietnam into the equation is a job for Romero (The Crazies), though the film nevertheless manages to close on a disquieting note, with Douglas Trumbull’s ominous solarized abstractions suggesting a sort of computer-age lettrism.

+Commentary by film critic Bryan Reesman

2.38GB | 2h 10m | 854×362 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/7A1E7B32215D469/The.Andromeda.Strain.1971.Remastered.480p.AAC.BluRay.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:English

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Mike Locken is one of the principal members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the C.I.A. and while on a case for them, one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to protect someone, goes down in flames. He is nearly crippled, but with braces is able to again become mobile. For revenge as much as anything else, Mike goes after his ex-friend.

Sam Peckinpah - (1975) The Killer Elite.mkv

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Runtime: 	2 h 3 min
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#2:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Commentary by Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons and Nick Redman)

https://nitro.download/view/8F03648A01D071E/Sam_Peckinpah_-_(1975)_The_Killer_Elite.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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