Both trifles and structure are tossed out the door by director Ken Russell in this film. Here, historical content matters not so much as metaphors, feelings, emotions, and interpretations, and pay close attention, as every word and frame is intended to be important. The film takes place on a single train ride, in which the sickly composer Gustav Mahler and his wife, Alma, confront the reasons behind their faltered marriage and dying love. Each word seems to evoke memories of past, and so the audience witnesses events of Mahler’s life that explain somewhat his present state. Included are his turbulent and dysfunctional family life as a child, his discovery of solace in the “natural” world, his brother’s suicide, his [unwanted] conversion from Judaism to Catholicism, his rocky marriage and the death of their young child. The movie weaves in and out of dreams, flashbacks, thoughts and reality as Russell poetically describes the man behind the music.

Mahler.1974.WEBRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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Two boys at school in the 1950s. Two professional men in their dubious prime today. Two Sundays and two crises. What have they to do with each other and which child is father of the man?

834MB | 57m 14s | 748×576 | mkv

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Castaway (1986)

A sexy, stimulating, often brilliant film, with wild edges and dangerous poetry… LA Times

Castaway.1986.576p.BluRay.x264-PTP.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 57 min
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#2:  	English 2.0ch AAC LC @ 57.5 kb/s (Commentary by film historians Troy Howarth, Eugenio Ercolani, and Nathaniel Thompson)
#3:  	English 2.0ch AAC LC @ 62.6 kb/s (Commentary by film critic David Flint)

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