Rapt, also released under the names ‘The Kidnapping’ and ‘Magic Mountain’, is a simple drama set in the enchanting Swiss Alps. Two agrarian villages are separated by the mountains; they are idyllic but each is wary of the village on the other side. Bucolic life is disturbed when a young maiden, Dita Parlo, is stolen from her side of the mountain.

The director Dimitri Kirsanoff, “considered part of the French Impressionist movement in film”, is mostly known for his thoughtfully edited and photographed short films. Rapt is not the only full-length feature he made, but it seems to be the one that really features his poetic style.

1.45GB | 1h 18m | 762×572 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/39989B09488B3CB/Kirsanoff__1934__Rapt.mkv

Language:French, German
Subtitles:English, Portuguese

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A lighthouse keeper and his son are stranded by the storm in a lighthouse.

Poor quality screener of this rare film, clearly trumpable.

166MB | 1h 10mn | 320×240 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/3D5461213631DA9/Gardiens_de_Phare.mkv
http://nitroflare.com/view/33F8CC6563A78BC/Gardiens_de_Phare.srt

Language:French intertitles
Subtitles:English

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On his first feature, Monteiro analyzes a family: the relationships between father and daughter, husband and wife, and also the relationship between the head of the family and his wife’s parents. The pressure to build a standard family, results in an ominosity transmitted through texts by, among others, James Joyce and André Breton.

1.12GB | 1h 17mn | 730×548 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/F1F16BB92D1EDEE/Fragmentos.de.um.Filme.Esmola.A.Sagrada.Familia.1972.APH.DVDRip.x264-MaZ.mkv

Language:Portuguese
Subtitles:Portuguese, English, French

The post João César Monteiro – Fragmentos de um Filme-Esmola: A Sagrada Família AKA Fragments of an Alms-Film (1972) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Recently restored (in 2001) by Centrimage for ZZ Productions, Maldone is one of the great achievements of French silent cinema. It was the first genuine masterpiece from Jean Grémillon and is also a very good example of the documentary style of film from this period. It was released in October 1928 but was not a great success, bringing and end to Charles Dullin’s film production ambitions (Dullin also stars in the film as Maldone).

An extraordinary work, Maldone manages to presage so many of the dominant themes in French cinema of the following decade. The cinematography, which includes a great deal of location work, is predominantly neo-realist in style, whilst the narrative has strong elements of poetic realism. As in many of Grémillon’s later films, Maldone alternates between moments of great dramatic intensity and moments of calm, poignant reflection. On each occasion, Grémillon uses some remarkable photography to evoke a reaction in the audience and often his originality is quite breath taking. The best example of this is the swirling camera movements in the dizzying ball scene, conveying the drunken and emotional intoxication of Maldone when he realises he is in love with Zita.

The realist documentary style of much of the photography makes a strange but effective contrast with Grémillon’s almost surrealist attempts to show on screen Maldone’s inner thoughts and emotions. Denied the luxury of sound dialogue, Grémillon, like many of the great silent film directors, was compelled to develop more ingenious ways of telling a story, and Maldone shows the director at his most creative and eloquent.

1.09GB | 1:21:53 | 640×480 | avi

http://nitroflare.com/view/A3D0758351216F3/Maldone_%28Jean_Gremillon%2C_1928%29.part1.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/1345D7A4EB7D4E5/Maldone_%28Jean_Gremillon%2C_1928%29.part2.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/4D150B7BABFAE1E/MaldoneENG.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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