Synopsis: A series of unrelated amorous lovers are connected by a chain of desire.

Chain of Desire is a provocative chronicle of contemporary sexual mores, featuring Linda Fiorentino, Elias Koteas, Assumpta Serna, Seymour Cassel and Malcolm McDowell among others. The film was the American entry in competition at the 1992 Montreal World Film Festival.

Chain of Desire captures New York City and modern urban America in a powerfully truthful way, years before others portrayed sex in the big apple. It is not so much about sensual desire but the hopes and dreams of each character and how only other people can help to forward these dreams. Meanwhile as characters pursue their dreams the strength of sexuality, sex, perhaps a dark desire or perhaps a gift from heaven descends on the characters caught in a more dangerous time. Today desire is considered wrong.

The film takes you through human drama with reflections of greek comedy and tragedy that touches intense feelings and untamed moments. Linda Fiorentino, now famous but then just becoming known, gives a clear performance magically transforming her character above a torch song singer.

Eyes Wide Shut was also drawn from the same European theater roots as Chain of Desire, but Temi Lopez shows us a realist possible life whereas Kubrick makes a film more unbelievable than 2001. Stylish, seductive, vibrant, provocative, intelligent describe the film.

Chain of Desire (1992) Temístocles López.mkv

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Sonny lives with his intellectually disabled older brother and works as a bellhop at a second-rate hotel. This changes when Monique, a beautiful and suicidal nutcase, checks in. Sonny is offered a part in a heist that goes wrong.

This film is based on the book A Swell-Looking Babe by Jim Thompson.

Hit Me.mkv

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Subtitles:English, Spanish

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As he investigates the case of a mysterious eyeless, hermaphroditic dead body Thomas Dagget, a former priest who has lost his faith and is now working as a detective, is thrust into the midst of an earthly war between angels. A fallen angel Gabriel is trying to create a new Heaven and seeks the soul of a Korean War colonel accused of human sacrifice. The colonel’s soul has been transplanted into the body of a young Indian girl for protection and Thomas must fight to protect her as Gabriel comes after her.

1.76GB | 1h 38mn | 1024×440 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/691B07A81417A5D/The.Prophecy.1995.576p.BluRay.x264.mkv
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https://fikper.com/865DIaD7gt/The.Prophecy.1995.576p.BluRay.x264.mkv.html

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis:
While his name was known to only the more obsessive of film fans during the course of his career, Val Lewton produced a sequence of low-budget genre movies in the 1940’s that had a revolutionary impact.

Working within a special production unit at RKO Pictures, Lewton’s films were mood pieces that created an atmosphere of anxiety rather than aiming for blunt shocks, and used shadowy camerawork and careful pacing to infer more than the audience actually saw. Several of Lewton’s productions became hits, most notably ‘Cat People’, and a number of others (including ‘Isle of the Dead’, ‘I Walked with a Zombie’, ‘Curse of the Cat People’, ‘The Seventh Victim’ and ‘The Body Snatcher’) are cult favorites to this day.

Lewton also discovered a number of directors who would become major players later on, including Robert Wise, Mark Robson and Jacques Tourneur, but Lewton’s efforts to move on tobigger budget projects fared poorly, and poor health claimed his life in 1951, six years after his last picture for RKO.

Film critic and archivist Kent Jones traces the story of Val Lewton’s life and career while paying homage to the films that made his name in the documentary ‘Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows’, which features highlights from Lewton’s best films while sharing the memories of those who knew and worked with him. Originally produced for the Turner Classic Movies cable network, the documentary is narrated by filmmaker and lifelong film fan Martin Scorsese.

Review:
Writer and director Kent Jones helms this compelling documentary that is narrated with great feeling and authority by Martin Scorsese. It plays out as a well-deserved homage to producer Val Lewton. He was known as the man behind the scenes who turned cheapie B-films into works of art; they were highly imaginative, made with integrity and always set an intelligently reflective mood.

Lewton was born in 1904 in Yalta, Russia; his family emigrated to Germany and then to America soon afterwards. His mom Nina left Lewton’s German father in Germany, and when in America raised Val as an Episcopalian. Originally the family was Jewish, but converted to Russian Orthodox for convenience sake while living in a bigoted Russia.

Val graduated from Columbia, wrote several successful pulp novels and through his mom’s connections got a job as a researcher and right-hand man with the demanding film mogul David O’ Selznick, where he learned how to make films. He was then hired by RKO to produce low-budget horror films and in the 1940s with his team of the French director Jacques Tourneau, director Mark Robson, editor and director Robert Wise and writer Dewitt Bodeen he produced some of the greatest horror pics of the 1940s. It started with the Cat People in 1942, which was made for $130,00 but made a profit of over a million dollars. The horror was suggestive, and it told a good story. That was followed in 1943 with the captivating moody film I Walked With A Zombie.

The film traces Lewton’s battles with the studio bosses to make a quality film over a bottom-line film (after RKO came Paramount, MGM and Univeral). Lewton died in 1950 at the age of 46 from a heart attack. Some of the other outstanding horror films he left as his legacy were The Seventh Victim (1943), The Body Snatcher (1945), Isle of the Dead (1945) and Bedlam (1946). If the studio didn’t mess up his film, what you got with a Lewton produced film was an A-film that was made on a B-film budget. He was someone who knew how to use the conventions of the horror film to allow him entrance to the dark side of life. His psychological films blurred reality where things appear real but strange, in a gray zone where dreams and real life come face to face. His name on a film was enough for me to want to see it.
— Dennis Schwartz (Ozus’ World Movie Reviews)

Val.Lewton.The.Man.In.The.Shadows.2007.VOSTFR.DVDRip.x264.AC3-KINeMA.mkv

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Language(s):English
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A very personal film by Martin Scorsese about the role of films Elia Kazan for the American cinema and for him personally.
Additionally, attending twenty-minute interviews with the actors who starred in Kazan’s movies, and his wife.

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Subtitles:English, spanish & french (idx/sub)

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