Gory remake of the Gaston Leroux classic story, only this time, the phantom is not disfigured, but a man who was raised by rats deep under the Paris Opera House.

Il.fantasma.dell'opera.1998.BDRip.AVC.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 44 min
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#2:  	Italian 5.1ch AC-3 @ 384 kb/s (Original)

https://nitro.download/view/2E0317477243E4E/Il.fantasma.dell’opera.1998.BDRip.AVC.mkv

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

The post Dario Argento – Il fantasma dell’opera AKA The Phantom of the Opera (1998) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

In Rome, Cora is a waitress at a club, walks people’s dogs, sleeps with various men, kips with pals, and has a salty tongue. She also has a bruised history: her mother’s suicide, her brother’s mental illness. Ada, a dog-owning client, hires her to follow Ada’s aged and courtly father every day. The dad, a retired philology professor, has a touch of dementia, sometimes forgetting where he is; Cora is to keep him in sight, phoning Ada if the professor has difficulties. On the third day, he takes a train out of Rome, and Cora follows on what proves to be a journey into her best and worst selves. She becomes his traveling companion, but what does he become to her? (IMDb)

Traveling Companion.DVDRip.x264.mkv

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Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 44mn
Size:	694 MiB
DXVA:	Compatible
Minimum settings:	Met
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2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/BDE45417034A164/Traveling_Companion.DVDRip.x264.mkv

Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English

The post Peter Del Monte – Compagna di viaggio AKA Traveling Companion (1996) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Spiritual disciplines span the spectrum from quiet personal self-reflection to physically militant offensives against the ego that tyrannizes us all. Writer/Director Bertrand Bonello’s latest film On War deals with the latter.

On War is a film about purging—the purging of self, of attachment to the world, and of attachment to assumptions about one’s self in the world. As the characters in the film suggest, it is only through this purging that a person may fully release into the immediacy of joy and pleasure. And it is joy and pleasure, things real and authentic, that our protagonist Bertrand (Mathieu Amalric) is searching for.

On War opens with Bertrand, a filmmaker researching his latest work who, while onsite at a local funeral parlor, convinces the storeowner to allow him to stay beyond closing hours in order to get a better feel for the location. Alone in the store, Bertrand lays in a coffin, which accidentally closes on him and locks. The next morning he is let out by the owner, and, clearly shaken from the experience, which he describes as something akin to resignation into clarity, quickly leaves the store and begins to reevaluate his life. The following night Bertrand meets a mysterious man who, having listened to Bertrand’s description of his experience, invites him to a mansion in the country where investigations into what is required to experience true unfiltered spiritual, mental, and physical pleasure are the main objective.

With the exception of a brief stint back in the world, Bertrand remains at the mansion. From here the film follows Bertrand as he dives deeper into his psyche. People come to take him “home.” People dance. People swim naked. People wear masks. People get shot. At the mansion people both live and die.

The matriarch/patriarch of the mansion is the androgynous Uma played by the forever decadently delicious Asia Argento. In addition to being a spiritual guide for the mansion’s inhabitants she also plays a mean analog synthesizer, the avant-garde music from which she pipes into the forest on the property via speakers hung from trees facilitating meditative states for those soaking up its frequencies. The people living at the mansion are there to change, and while Uma plays the role of mother and father, she too struggles with balancing her role as the leader of a spiritual army, her own femininity, and actually feeling anything when there is a death on the commune. But war, Uma’s chosen path, inevitably leads to death, and Bonello’s latest film deals with death in both its religious and physical dimensions, subject matter that does not always sit well with a passive audience. […]

Although On War does give the viewer quiet a bit to see (a few guns, some raw emotion, some nudity, some blood) so much of the film happens in the gaps, the “What could that be referring to?” moments of the film. You see, On War is not without its Charlie Kaufman qualities. For instance, what is Bertrand reading at the beginning of the film, and why does he keep referring to it? Why does Bertrand, a filmmaker, share the same first name as the filmmaker of On War? Who is the man who introduces Bertrand to the mansion? What’s with the voice over lifted from Apocalypse Now? What’s with all the masks? What’s with that giant dog? All of these questions allow the film’s greatest moments to play out not on the screen (though there are many during the entire 2 plus hours of film), but rather in your mind and in the conversations you will no doubt be having after seeing the piece.

Bertrand Bonello - (2008) De la querre.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2h 6mn
Size: 	1.94 GiB
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https://nitro.download/view/4589C8B3E39C267/Bertrand_Bonello_-_(2008)_De_la_querre.mkv

Language(s):French, English
Subtitles:English (optional)

The post Bertrand Bonello – De la guerre AKA On War (2008) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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In 2000, Argento released “Scarlet Diva,” a movie that she wrote and directed. In the film, a heavyset producer corners Anna, the character played by Argento, in a hotel room, asks her for a massage, and tries to assault her. After the movie came out, women began approaching Argento, saying that they recognized Weinstein’s behavior in the portrayal. “People would ask me about him because of the scene in the movie,” she said. Some recounted similar details to her: meetings and professional events moved to hotel rooms, bathrobes and massage requests, and, in one other case, forced oral sex.

Weinstein, according to Argento, saw the film after it was released in the U.S., and apparently recognized himself. “Ha, ha, very funny,” Argento remembered him saying to her. But he also said that he was “sorry for whatever happened.” The movie’s most significant departure from the real-life incident, Argento told me, was how the hotel-room scene ended. “In the movie I wrote,” she said, “I ran away.”

Scarlet Diva.2000.BDRip-AVC msltel.KG.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 30 min
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https://nitro.download/view/823ED2FCD00EA13/Scarlet_Diva.2000.BDRip-AVC_msltel.KG.mkv

Language(s):English, Italian, French
Subtitles:English for the non-English parts, English SDH, Russian

The post Asia Argento – Scarlet Diva (2000) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A serial killer who preys on prostitutes sets his sights on Diana. As he pursues her, he causes a car crash in which she is blinded and 10-year-old Chin’s entire family dies. Despite her blindness, Diane resolves to take the boy in. But the killer is still on the loose…

2.35GB | 1h 25m | 1024×428 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/7D6485FDA52E29E/Occhiali_neri_AKA_Dark_Glasses_(2022).576p.BDRip.Italy_KG.mkv

Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English

The post Dario Argento – Occhiali neri AKA Dark Glasses (2022) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A fashion film written & directed by Asia Argento for Antonio Grimaldi Couture Collection A/W 2020/21.

143MB | 08mn 19s | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/861E4AAEF4785EE/Elektra.2020.Dir.Asia.Argento.WEB-DL.KG.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

The post Asia Argento – Ælektra (2020) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man’s obsession.

6.35GB | 1 h 59 min | 1280×688 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/BB8553ACC370579/La.sindrome.di.Stendhal.1996.REM.Bluray.720p.x264-KG.mkv

Language:Italian
Subtitles:English, Spanish, Portuguese

The post Dario Argento – La sindrome di Stendhal AKA The Stendhal Syndrome (1996) (HD) first appeared on Cinema of the World.