David Bowie performs in Vancouver on September 12th 1983, during his Serious Moonlight Tour.

Setlist:
1. Introduction
2. Look Back in Anger
3. Heroes
4. What in the World
5. Golden Years
6. Fashion
7. Let’s Dance
8. Breaking Glass
9. Life on Mars?
10. Sorrow
11. Cat People
12. China Girl
13. Scary Monsters
14. Rebel Rebel
15. White Light/White Heat
16. Station to Station
17. Cracked Actor
18. Ashes to Ashes
19. Space Oddity
20. Young Americans
21. Fame/End Credits

David.Bowie.Serious.Moonlight.1983.DVDRip.x264.mkv

General
Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 27mn
Size:	1.71 GiB
DXVA:	Compatible
Minimum settings:	Met
Video
Codec:	x264
Resolution:	680x572
Aspect ratio:	5:4
Frame rate:	25.000 fps
Bit rate:	2 282 Kbps
Audio
5.1ch AC-3 @ 448 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/FB5327F06DC9D5B/David.Bowie.Serious.Moonlight.1983.DVDRip.x264.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

The post David Mallet – David Bowie: Serious Moonlight (1983) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Though undeniably an exercise in style over substance from the opening frames, Tony Scott’s languid exercise in gothic vampirism may disappoint those with little patience for arty overindulgence, though those with a taste for slow-burning decay may find The Hunger an involving study in the desperation for love and eternal youth. Vampire enthusiasts and Ann Rice followers drawn to the more romantic aspects of the mythology will likewise succumb to Catherine Deneuve’s seductive menace and David Bowie’s otherworldly charismatic performance, with Susan Sarandon offering a compelling turn as a doctor drawn in to the dark underworld while attempting to halt the vampiric Bowie’s rapidly accelerated aging process. The distinctly seductive trio certainly makes for an interesting screen presence if nothing else, and despite frequent long stretches in which little is happening in terms of action, they are consistently compelling to watch. The scenes in which Bowie withers away into old age are rendered especially chilling given not only the actor’s slowed and cautious mannerisms, but in some effectively convincing make-up by Dick Smith and co. In his feature directorial debut, Tony Scott had yet to develop a fully realized sense of storytelling, though by throwing out most preconceived notions of vampirism and focusing on the intense eroticism often merely hinted at in the majority of mainstream efforts, his inexperience actually benefits the film in terms of providing an eerily disconnected tone. Though the film does include an ample amount of bloodletting, the action here nevertheless flows like frozen molasses, a fact that may well leave many viewers with a hunger of their own.

The Hunger (1983) Tony Scott - 1080p.mp4

General
Container:  	MPEG-4
Runtime: 	1h 36mn
Size: 	1.84 GiB
Video
Codec: 	isom
Resolution: 	1920x808 
Aspect ratio:  	2.39:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	2 500 kb/s
BPP: 	0.067
Audio
#1:  	2.0ch AAC LC @ 224 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/7A0B76980BE423F/The_Hunger_(1983)_Tony_Scott_-_1080p.mp4

https://rapidgator.net/file/cf64db7d0df9e90a413d834ce6729b8c/The_Hunger_(1983)_Tony_Scott_-_1080p.mp4

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

Many thanks to @Marcio for this copy.

The post Tony Scott – The Hunger (1983) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A cinematic odyssey exploring David Bowie’s creative and musical journey. From visionary filmmaker Brett Morgen, and sanctioned by the Bowie estate.

Moonage.Daydream.2022.576p.BR.x264.SDR.AC3-KG.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2 h 14 min
Size: 	3.42 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x576 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	2 915 kb/s
BPP: 	0.206
Audio
#1:  	English 5.1ch AC-3 @ 640 kb/s (English 5.1)

https://nitro.download/view/D3C2B6070289E20/Moonage.Daydream.2022.576p.BR.x264.SDR.AC3-KG.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, Castillian, Finnish, Parisian French, Canadian French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Dutch, Polish, European Portuguese, Brazilian Protuguese, Romanian

The post Brett Morgen – Moonage Daydream (2022) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Here’s a movie that is even stranger than it was intended to be. “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” is about a clash between two cultures (British and Japanese) and two styles of military service (patriotic and pragmatic). That would be enough for any movie, and there are scenes when it is enough, and the movie works pretty well.

But then the movie makes another contrast that doesn’t work so well, a contrast between basic views of theatrical acting styles. British tradition suggests that, everything else being equal, actors should behave as if they were real people in a real situation. The Japanese tend toward a more overwrought acting style, made of screams and grimaces, histrionics and dramatizations.

Each tradition works well enough in a movie where it is the only tradition. But in a movie where British and Japanese are on the screen at the same time and are apparently sharing the same reality, the results look odd, and eventually undermine the film. We wonder, in some small irreverent corner of our minds, whether the soft-spoken British notice that the Japanese rant and rave over everything, including the weather, and whether the Japanese, in turn, find the British catatonic.

The movie is by Nagisa Oshima, the best-known of the younger Japanese directors, whose notorious “In the Realm of the Senses” (1976) began with a love affair between a businessman and a geisha and ended in a bloodbath of castration and suicide. He is clearly fascinated by relationships between authorities and victims and that’s the subject here.

The time is 1942, in a Japanese prison camp on Java, and the story concentrates on two pairs of officers. The British are Celliers (David Bowie), very upper crust, duty-bound, guilt-ridden, and Lawrence (Tom Conti), sensitive, bilingual, trying to translate not only the words but the values of the two races.

The Japanese are Yonoi (Ryuichi Sakamoto) of the warrior class, filled with pride and glory, and Hara (Takeshi), a sort of Japanese Falstaff with a streak of sadism. How these two pairs get along together will determine the fate of the British (which is complicated by their nominal leader, a blustering bully played by Jack Thompson). The movie develops the situation in a series of scenes that owe something to “Bridge Over the River Kwai.” Rules are made, forgotten, broken, then strictly enforced. Enemies admit at weak moments that they are all human beings, after all. But then there’s a breach of protocol and a crackdown from the top. The most rigid officers on each side (Celliers and Yonoi) have a sort of admiration for each other, which turns into a contest of wills.

This is interesting material, especially since Oshima plunges a little more deeply into the psychology of his characters than your average prisoner-of-war movie is likely to. There are hints of a homosexual attraction between Celliers and Yonoi, eventually leading to one of the movie’s most awkward moments — a parting in which the British soldier actually seems to be saying that both sides were right in the war and both sides were wrong.

It’s awkward, not because of the subject matter, but because of the contrasting acting styles. Here are two men trying to communicate in a touchy area and they behave as if they’re from different planets. The overstatement in the Japanese acting ruins the scene. It’s strange: Japanese acting styles never bother me in all Japanese movies (especially not when they’re modulated, as in the contemporary films of Kurosawa). It’s only when you have actors who are clearly on different wavelengths that the Japanese histrionics become distracting. What this movie needed was a diplomatic acting coach.

review by Roger Ebert on September 16, 1983

Merry.Christmas.Mr.Lawrence.1983.480p.BluRay.x264.AC3.mkv

General
Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	2h 3mn
Size:	2.00 GiB
DXVA:	Compatible
Minimum settings:	Met
Video
Codec:	x264
Resolution:	854x462
Aspect ratio:	1.85:1
Frame rate:	23.976 fps
Bit rate:	1 856 kb/s
Audio
English 5.1ch AC-3 @ 448 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/2BF4CF84029B483/Merry.Christmas.Mr.Lawrence.1983.480p.BluRay.x264.AC3.mkv

Language(s):English, Japanese
Subtitles:English,Chinese

The post Nagisa Ôshima – Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A 16-year-old girl is given 13 hours to solve a labyrinth and rescue her baby brother when her wish for him to be taken away is granted by the Goblin King.

Quote:
Perhaps most notable as a post-Howard the Duck movie that George Lucas was involved with and didn’t manage to anally rape, Labryinth combines the writing talents of Monty Python alumnus Terry Jones, the creative direction of Jim Henson, the character designs of fantasy artist Brian Froud, and some of the best puppeteering since the latest MTV Music Awards.

How was that for a run-on sentence?

Much like The Dark Crystal (Henson’s earlier foray into a fantastical world populated by realistic puppets), Labyrinth is one of those films that will never age thanks to the aesthetic efforts involved. Just think how this film would be done today…nevermind if most of the effects could be easily done in realtime and at half the cost…if done today, everything down to David Bowie’s little ball-juggling trick (not the one involving Mick Jagger, mind you) would be done via CGI. All hail JAR-JAR, Unholy God of CGI!

The rather simplistic story is an ode to fairy tales…Alice in Escherland, if you will. Sarah (Connelly) is the flighy Alice type, following her kidnapped baby brother down the rabbit hole to Wonderland. Except that this wonderland has a Bog of Eternal Stench that makes pooting noises (I’m guessing this was Lucas’ contribution), jive-talking Orange things that can sing and remove their heads, hands that make faces and talk, and talking dogs that saddle up other dogs. Stay away from the brown tab acid indeed…

At the center of all of this is a truly astonishing labryinth (duh) and a gravity-defying room full of staircases that would make M.C. Escher giddier than J. Edgar Hoover in a candy striper dress. Sarah must navigate this labyrinth in 13 hours, or else the Goblin King (David Bowie) will keep her baby brother captive forever, and will either turn him into a Goblin or sell him to one of Kathy Lee Gifford’s sweatshops, I can’t remember which.

Some weak points of the film are perhaps Jennifer Connelly’s performance, which was somewhat inadequate for such an important role (this is where Bowie and the supporting cast pick up the slack nicely)…Her breas, er, abilities just weren’t DEVELOPED enough at this point in her career. There is a little padding in the film in the way of pointless meanderings and dream-within-a-dream sequences, but not nearly as extreme as the padding in David Bowie’s unecessarily tight spandex. Given his Ziggy Stardust past, it looks like Bowie could regress into glam rock mode at any time, but I guess it works in making his character seem other-worldly and magical, as if he could change into an owl at any moment. Speaking of Bowie, his soundtrack is perhaps the only thing that could date Labryinth, but given his retro appeal and songcrafting abilities, this won’t turn into, say, Alan Parson’s horrid soundtrack for ‘Ladyhawk’. If you’re going to hire a rockstar to craft music for your movie, it’s probably a better idea to hire the rocker familiar with themes and stage performance than the progressive rocker who wants to be Vangelis.

None of this will matter much to you, though, as you’re swept up into the world that Henson and Brian Froud have intricately woven. This is one movie that was difficult for me to objectively review as it was a childhood favorite of mine that never wore thin. Amongst the dreck that’s shoved down kids’ throats today, however, I have to say that Labyrinth’s magic still holds up, and it has what so many modern kiddie movies lack: HEART.

2,57GB | 1h 41m | 1024×428 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/75CB77218665253/Labyrinth.1986.BDRIP.4K.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:None

The post Jim Henson – Labyrinth (1986) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes’ novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world. So Colin gets involved with a pop promoter and tries to crack the big time. Meanwhile, racial tension is brewing in Colin’s Notting Hill housing estate…

2.15GB | 1h 47m | 1024×440 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/442FC55872FFABE/Julien_Temple_-_(1986)_Absolute_Beginners.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

The post Julien Temple – Absolute Beginners (1986) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
‘After the First World War a young shell-shocked Prussian officer returns to Berlin. He finds that the life he knew there has vanished for ever; he cannot adjust to the new times. He drifts along without direction until finally he becomes a gigolo employed by Baroness von Semering.’
– BFI

1.46GB | 1h 41mn | 1021×552 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/2E7F991E46FEA16/Schoner.Gigolo.armer.Gigolo.1978.DVDRip.x264.AC3.mkv
https://nitroflare.com/view/CDFAB539171E6A1/Schoner.Gigolo.armer.Gigolo.1978.DVDRip.x264.AC3.idx
https://nitroflare.com/view/7003808B6F9668F/Schoner.Gigolo.armer.Gigolo.1978.DVDRip.x264.AC3.sub

Language(s):English
Subtitles:Spanish, Portuguese (idx/sub)

The post David Hemmings – Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo AKA Just a Gigolo (1978) first appeared on Cinema of the World.