Four-part adaptation of Iain Banks’s blackly humorous novel. Student Prentice McHoan carries out his recently deceased grandmother’s request to find out what happened to his Uncle Rory, who disappeared seven years before. The chance discovery of a novel that Rory had begun working on at the time of his disappearance takes Prentice and his childhood friend Ashley on a complex journey through his family history.

The.Crow.Road.E1.Prentice.PAL.DVD.DD2.0.x264-MJ.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	57 min 9 s
Size: 	1.16 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	696x460 ~> 736x460
Aspect ratio:  	16:10
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
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Audio
#1:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Stereo)
#2:  	English 2.0ch AAC LC @ 96.0 kb/s (Commentary)

Extras
Commentary by Bradley Adams (Producer), Gavin Millar (Director) and Bryan Elsley (writer) on episode one only.
Interview with Iain Banks, author of the novel.

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https://nitro.download/view/BFCF8B897306031/The.Crow.Road.E2.Kenneth.PAL.DVD.DD2.0.x264-MJ.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/3AB367D54030433/The.Crow.Road.E3.Fergus.PAL.DVD.DD2.0.x264-MJ.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/6FD84986CAB5A56/The.Crow.Road.E4.Rory.PAL.DVD.DD2.0.x264-MJ.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/AA5A3CA7299E448/The.Crow.Road.EX.Iain.Banks.Interview.PAL.DVD.DD2.0.x264-MJ.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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Quote:
Dreamchild: A Film Essay by Elwin Cotman

Dreamchild, directed by Gavin Millar: “What was that name that Lewis Carroll used to call you?”

“That’s right. Dreamchild.”

That is a beautiful movie poster. Made doubly so by the fact that, in the movie, the moment it illustrates most likely didn’t happen. Dreamchild, the first film made by the Jim Henson Creature Shop without the auteur’s input, is a film about memory. What happened, what we wish had happened, what we wish we could take back. It is also, like the poster, beautiful.

In college I worked at the University of Pittsburgh’s Hillman Library. I was in the stacks department. We put books back where they belonged. I believe the department was famous for having Pitt’s longest-serving employee, a cantankerous old man who headed stacks for 30 or 40 years and always talked about his trips to the “piture show.” It was a job anybody could do and, accordingly, we were paid nothing. But it was comfortable, so comfortable it never occurred to me to secure an internship or some kind of real job at any point during my three years of undergrad. For two years I pushed around carts and tried not to fall asleep while shelf reading.

A great part of shelving books was the opportunity to lollygag and dillydally. I got plenty of reading done when I was hidden among those metal shelves. A particular favorite place to waste time was the magazine section, an impressive collection of hardbound magazines. I would dive into the old issues of Cinefantastique, the greatest ever journal devoted to speculative film. It was like having a time machine. I wiled away the hours reading articles about classic movies from before they came out. On-the-set reports from Temple of Doom and Conan the Barbarian. Reviews of Dragonslayer and Krull. Interviews with Joe Dante and Tobe Hooper during the height of Spielberg’s media ascendance.

One issue previewed a small English movie with an intriguing title: Dreamchild (1985). An intriguing title with an intriguing premise, based on true events: the 80-year-old Alice Hargreaves (née Liddell), the inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s Alice, journeys to America to receive an honorary degree from Columbia University, in honor of the author’s centennial. In Depression-era New York City, she has several fantasy sequences involving characters from the novel, designed by the Jim Henson Creature Shop.

Let me repeat that.

Jim Henson. Doing Alice in Wonderland.

3.19GB | 1h 34mn | 1024×552 | mkv

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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Cream in My Coffee is a television drama by Dennis Potter, broadcast on ITV on 2 November 1980 as the last in a loosely connected trilogy of plays exploring language and betrayal. A juxtaposition between youth and old age, the play combines a non-linear narrative with the use of popular music to heighten dramatic tension, a feature of much of Potter’s work. Cream in My Coffee was awarded the Prix Italia for best drama in 1981 and Peggy Ashcroft gained a BAFTA Best Actress award in 1981. The play’s title is taken from the popular song “You’re the Cream in My Coffee”, from the 1929 Broadway musical Hold Everything!

Cream in My Coffee was the third play of an intended series of nine dramas produced by Potter and Kenith Trodd’s own production company Pennies From Heaven Ltd. to be broadcast on ITV in 1980 and 1981. Commissioned by Michael Grade and distributed through London Weekend Television, six of the plays would be written by Potter while the remaining three were to be shared between Jim Allen and an undisclosed writer. In the event, budget cuts and scheduling problems led to only three plays being produced: Blade on the Feather, Rain on the Roof and Cream in My Coffee.

1.35GB | 1h 33mn | 716×537 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/74F8D9B7FBA7411/Cream_in_My_Coffee_(Dennis_Potter_-_Gavin_Millar_1980).mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:English

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Alan, the assistant manager of the Rocket electrical store, is finally given a chance to prove
himself when he is left in charge on a busy bank holiday. What he wasn’t counting on,
however, was Frank, a sixty year old trainee who knows nothing about the retail, or
electrical, businesses…

703MB | 48mn 55s | 640×480 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/1119BDC9032C3B6/King_of_Fridges.avi

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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